Katie Olliffe Fryer
Katie - Doula, Birth and Baby Sleep Consultant
Birth and postnatal doula, family and relationship based practitioner. Baby, toddler behaviour and sleep consultant.Supporter of all humans to reach their parenting goals.*Connected and Compassion* 💜
The area I cover
Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Peterborough, St Neots and will consider Bedford if within an hours travel time.
Getting in touch
More about me
I’m Katie,
I’m a proud birth and postnatal doula. I completed my doula prep training in 2012 with Developing Doulas. I have been collecting and keeping stories of birth and parenting ever since. Compassion is at the core of my being. You can often find me drinking tea, contemplating life, with my 3 labradors, in my field on the outskirts of Huntingdon. I am mother to 2 humans that I grew. Partner to Rich. I am also mother to a patchwork family, Richs 3 lovely children. I completed my own doula mentoring journey through the DUK mentoring scheme and have been lucky enough to be guided by some amazing mentors.
My interests and specialisms focus on connected families, relationships (Becoming Us practitioner) and conflict resolution or compassionate communication (NVC). I am also very interested in baby behaviour (Brazelton), realistic expectations, childrens brain development, toddler behaviour (CalmFamily) and normal infant sleep development (CalmFamily, BASIS – Prof Helen Ball and Lyndsey Hookway). I’m a breastfeeding peer supporter (2017) and supported our local IBCLC in her clinic for a year (2016) so have observed and experienced many tongue tie divisions. I am thoroughly passionate about supporting, nurturing and scaffolding humans to reach their goals on a personal level and parenting level.
Since 2019 I have been blessed to be part of Developing Doulas, facilitating doula preparation courses. I am a DUK mentor and now very happy to be offering Companionship through the DD Companions scheme.
Additionally to my interests above I offer one off companionship in particular around supporting vulnerable families (Cambs Doulas Access Fund), safeguarding, domestic abuse including coercive control and navigating family court, separation and single parenting, full spectrum doula support including loss and abortion, supporting teenage pregnancy and parenting, and supporting doulas who withess unexpected poor outcomes including loss.
If you’d like to connect to have a chat about the support I can offer please do get in touch. I cant wait to meet you.
