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      <image:caption>Hi, I'm Amanda.  I support women and couples during their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey as a Doula, Ka Huna massage therapist and Pilates instructor.  I'm Based in Sydney and would love to help you.  Please check out my Top 10 Tips for the best possible birth experience here.  I'd love to meet you for an obligation free interview to see if you feel we're the right fit.  Contact me here. Thanks, Amanda x</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dr Sarah Buckley author of Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering endorses birth and postpartum doula support during covid-19 pandemic - shared by Amanda Bernstein, Sydney Doula</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Doula Network Australia is the professional body for doulas locally, of which Amanda Bernstein from Sydney in Bondi Junction is a member of the association for doulaing.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>top tips to sleep better during your pregnancy from sleep expert for amanda the doula for birth and postpartum support in sydney east</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sleep expert mira rakicevic from disturbmenot shares her best tips for better sleep during your pregnancy with birth and postpartum doula Amanda</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Best tips for sleep during pregnancy by a sleep expert for birth and postpartum doula in Sydney bondi junction eastern suburbs randwick</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda the Sydney birth doula and for postpartum support attended an OMP Optimal Maternal Positioning workshop and mentorship exchange program in China to learn how to help support women to have the best and smoothest birth.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The participants and hospital staff from our OMP mentorship experience in China, using Optimal Maternal Positioning strategies to help mothers have better birth outcomes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney based birth and postpartum doula and her Team 4 at the Optimal Maternal Positioning mentorship exchange program in China in Gui Yang, with birth photographer Heather Clayton and doula Gaia from Taiwan</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney vbac mum and birth doula holding a baby in china at the OMP mentorship exchange program for OMP Ambassador growth</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda using pelvic mobility OMP techniques with a labouring woman on the mentorship program in china - optimal maternal positioning is a step beyond spinning babies to help women have the best birth experience possible</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Optimal Maternal Positioning: my journey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Amanda using OMP techniques to apply pressure to the tailbone with a labouring woman on the mentorship program in china - optimal maternal positioning is a step beyond spinning babies to help women have the best birth experience possible</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum doula Amanda is applying Optimal Maternal Positioning OMP techniques to help a woman in labour have a better birth experience. Pushing on the sacrum opens the outlet of the pelvis</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Optimal Maternal Positioning: my journey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Doula support is about more than OMP, sometimes a woman just needs someone to be there just for her. In this moment, it was deemed that this woman needed a cesarean and so I was helping hold the space so she could cry and let go</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum Doula at supporting women to have the best birthing jouurney with OMP skills</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Optimal Maternal Positioning: my journey</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum Doula at supporting women to have the best birthing jouurney with optimal maternal positioning and spinning babies skills</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum doula Amanda vbac mum supporting women in china have a better birth while on the optimal maternal positioning course, it’s like spinning babies on steroids</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum Doula, vbac waterbirth mum in Bondi is supporting women to have the best birthing jouurney with OMP skills</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>squat toilet in china for omp mentorship program - great for upright birthing positions and pelvic mobility - birth doula and midwife program</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-11-11</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Why I LOVE leggings with pockets!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Amanda the Sydney based birth and postpartum Doula from Essential Me shares why she loves leggings with pockets. Check out La Sculpte activewear that gives your tummy a little supprt when you need it most, and your lifestyle the convenience it needs by wearing leggings with pockets.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Why I LOVE leggings with pockets!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Here’s a sneak peak at the post birth recovery garmet samples currently being developed by la sculpte and shared with amanda the doula from sydney for birth and postpartum support</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-11-02</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Sydney Maroubra based Kinesiologist Zoe Jack from Zode Kinesiology shares her suggestions and thoughts about the best ways you can be emotionally and physically supported during your pregnancy, conception and postpartum journey.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Zoe Jack, a Kinesiologist in Maroubra Sydney, shares her top tips for conception, pregnancy and postpartum, and how kinesiology can help you.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2020-11-13</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Hospital Bag: what to take to your birth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Amanda the Birth Doula in Sydney, Bondi Junction, writes a list of what to pack in your hospital bag for birth</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Here are some bags one of my birthing Doula clients had ready to go to the RHW Randwick Birth Centre. A bag for her, for her husband and bubba to share, for their snacks, and her toiletries too.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Post birth refresher spray - yep! I make this for my birthing doula clients. It can help you to feel fresh, clean, and all round amazing! So important to feel good and give back to yourself with a newborn... this is an easy way - use after every shower or wee by first patting dry, then spraying and then blow drying your vagina on a cool setting.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-07-16</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - How To Dress Your Post Baby Body</image:title>
      <image:caption>Personal stylist and shopper Antoinette Stonham shares her top tips to dress your post baby body with Amanda the Sydney based birth and postpartum doula.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - How To Dress Your Post Baby Body</image:title>
      <image:caption>Personal styling expert shows a sydney based birth and postpartum doula what to wear after having a baby</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - How To Dress Your Post Baby Body</image:title>
      <image:caption>sydney doula for birth and postpartum, and vbac mum, shares All About Style’s top tips on how to dress your post baby body</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - How To Dress Your Post Baby Body</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wondering what will look good on your body while you’re breastfeeding and recovering from having a baby? Personal Stylist Antoinette shares her top tips with Amanda the Doula from Essential Me in Sydney</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - How To Dress Your Post Baby Body</image:title>
      <image:caption>Antoinette from All About Style shares with Amanda the Essential Me Birth and Postpartum Sydney Doula, her top tips on how to dress after having a baby - look after yourself and your postpartum body.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2019/6/11/questions-to-ask-an-obstetrician-before-you-hire-them</loc>
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    <lastmod>2021-06-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Questions to ask an obstetrician before you hire them</image:title>
      <image:caption>Looking for an obstetrician in Sydney? Want to know what to ask them before you hire them? Here are a list of questions that can help you to think about the sorts of questions to ask to help decide if they are the right fit for you. Written by two sydney doulas Amanda and Samantha</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2019/06/03/whats-inside-my-doula-bag</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-06-03</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - BIRTH KIT: what's inside my Doula bag?</image:title>
      <image:caption>The many items in my Sydney Birth Doula bag that come with me to every birth - waterbirth, vbac, homebirth, home birth, hospital, hospital bag. What’s inside my kit. Secret tools.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-04-13</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>My emergency c-section following the cascade of intervention with an induction. I was naive, uneducated and am sharing my story from this vulnerable place during international cesarean awareness month, as well as how it is part of my journey today to become a Sydney based birth and postpartum Doula.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2019/03/18/expressed-breastmilk-rule-of-3</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-03-18</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Sydney birth and postpartum doula shares guide to Expressed Breastmilk Rule of 3 - free download save image</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2019/02/15/baby-and-child-cpr-first-aid-allergy-tips</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-02-15</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>heidi young registered nurse, child AND baby cpr, first aid, newborn specialist shares top tips with birth sydney doula vbac expert amanda</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Keeping your new bundle safe + CPR tips</image:title>
      <image:caption>heidi young registered nurse child baby cpr first aid newborn birth sydney doula vbac</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2019/01/30/pregnancy-pelvic-floor-health</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-01-30</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Anna Scammell, women’s health physio in Bondi shares her top tips to look after your pelvic floor in pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Enjoy! -Amanda from Essential Me, birth and postpartum doula in sydney, vbac specialist.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Anna Scammell is a womens health physio and pelvic floor specialist in sydney, working with birth doula Amanda, a vbac mother</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2019-01-08</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Mothercraft Nurse Beth Barclay shares her top 7 tips for caring for 2 children under 2 years age. Blog written for Amanda the Doula from Essential Me, offering birth and postpartum doula services in Sydney, Ka Huna Massage in Bondi Junction, and a mobile Pilates service too.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beth Barclay of Mothercraft for Babies guest writes a blog for Essential Me birth and postpartum Doula services, Sydney Ka Huna massage and mobile Pilates.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-12-27</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Amanda the Doula shares her book review of the ABA (Australian Breastfeeding Association) book “Breastfeeding Naturally”. Essential Me offers birth doula, postpartum doula, ka huna massage and pilates services in Sydney. Based in Bondi Junction, services are offered across Sydney including Randwick RHW, Camperdown RPA, North Shore and Southern Sydney suburbs.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda the Doula shares her book review of the ABA (Australian Breastfeeding Association) book “Breastfeeding Naturally”. Essential Me offers birth doula, postpartum doula, ka huna massage and pilates services in Sydney. Based in Bondi Junction, services are offered across Sydney including Randwick RHW, Camperdown RPA, North Shore and Southern Sydney suburbs. Massage services and Pilates classes are also available, and Amanda specialises in VBAC support.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Book Review: Breastfeeding Naturally</image:title>
      <image:caption>Amanda, a Sydney based Doula, shares her book review of the ABA (Australian Breastfeeding Association) book “Breastfeeding Naturally”. Essential Me offers birth doula, postpartum doula, ka huna massage and pilates services. Originally in Bondi Junction, services are offered across Sydney for both home and hospital. Massage services and Pilates classes are also available, and Amanda specialises in VBAC support.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda the Doula shares her book review of the ABA (Australian Breastfeeding Association) book “Breastfeeding Naturally”.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Book Review: Breastfeeding Naturally</image:title>
      <image:caption>Essential Me offers birth doula, postpartum doula, ka huna massage and pilates services in Sydney. Based in Bondi Junction, services are offered across Sydney including Randwick RHW, Camperdown RPA, North Shore and Southern Sydney suburbs.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Book Review: Breastfeeding Naturally</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sydney Birth Doula Amanda also offers Massage services and Pilates classes. Amanda specialises in VBAC support and waterbirth.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-12-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Helping women overcome self-doubt during birth</image:title>
      <image:caption>The Sydney Morning Herald and smh.com.au sydney doula birth and postpartum amanda interviewed</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Helping women overcome self-doubt during birth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sydney Birth and Postpartum Doula is interviewed for an article in the SMH about how she helps women during birth including around pain relief</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-11-28</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>The legal side of having a baby including legalities, maternity leave, super, divorce, wills, naming your baby and more. Family Law expert highlights the essentials</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - What about the legal side of having a baby?</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kylie Mangan Family Law helps you with wills, trusts, supers, divorce, estate planning, lawyer doula sydney</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Lyndon Burke Family Law helps you with wills, trusts, supers, divorce, estate planning, lawyer doula sydney</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2018/11/15/preparing-your-toddler-for-a-new-baby</loc>
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    <lastmod>2018-11-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Prepare toddler for new baby: 7 ways</image:title>
      <image:caption>Prepare toddler for new baby - Child behavioural specialist Stephanie Wicker tells us her top tips and suggestions for preparing your toddler or older child for a new baby. Looking for some free advice? see here and links below.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Prepare toddler for new baby: 7 ways</image:title>
      <image:caption>Stephanie Wicker-Campbell Simply Kids Behaviour Specialist birth coach, how to prepare your toddler or youngster for a new baby in your family</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.essentialme.com.au/blog/2018/11/2/birth-snacks</loc>
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    <lastmod>2019-02-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - Birth snacks: what to prepare and pack</image:title>
      <image:caption>Food, drinks and snacks to take to your birth, hospital birth, home birth, waterbirth, vbac or any other kind of work. prepare and pack these suggestions from a sydney doula</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-10-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - The Sleep Coach's great hacks for new parents</image:title>
      <image:caption>sleeping tips and hacks for your new baby from cheryl the sleep coach in Sydney Doula Australia, birth postpartum services, amanda is here for you from Bondi Junction</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Essential Me | Blog - The Sleep Coach's great hacks for new parents</image:title>
      <image:caption>cheryl the sleep coach, sydney doula services and collaboration with other providers, tips and hacks for new parents to sleep with a newborn baby</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2018-10-11</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Amanda on the Optimal Maternal Positioning mentorship exchange program in China in November and December 2019 - in this photo she is using Side Lying Release to relax the pelvic floor and allow room for baby to move through the pelvis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda on the Optimal Maternal Positioning mentorship exchange program in China in November and December 2019 - in this photo Amanda is helping the mother change the orientation and modification of the pelvis to help labour progress more smoothly.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda on the Optimal Maternal Positioning mentorship exchange program in China in November and December 2019 - in this position, Amanda is pushing on the tailbone to help open the inlet of the pelvis to allow baby to fully engage and descend - sydney birth doula supporting woman in china - ask for more details</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Amanda on the Optimal Maternal Positioning mentorship exchange program in China in November and December 2019 - in this photo, Amanda is pushing on the Sacrum to help open the outlet of the pelvis - this is birth doula support on a whole new level now available to you in Sydney.</image:caption>
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