Companionship

Birth Companionship

Birth Companions work as part of small teams to offer emotional support, practical guidance, and a nurturing presence to women and birthing people who might otherwise give birth alone.

Our Birth Companions:

Provide one-to-one support from the third trimester of pregnancy and during birth
Work with parents to prepare for birth and develop an individualised birth plan
Advocate to ensure clients’ voices are heard in the decisions that impact their birth experience

Postnatal Companionship

Our Postnatal Companions work as part of a team to support and nurture
parents’ physical and emotional recovery from birth. They help ease the transition to parenthood by ensuring parents are rested, nourished, able to bond with and comfortably feed their baby.

Our Postnatal Companions:

Help with infant feeding
Assist with domestic tasks like cooking or tidying
Enable parents to rest and recover
Ensure parents are well-nourished
Facilitate connections with other parents

Parent Support

Parent Supporters offer emotional and practical support to our clients during late pregnancy and the early postpartum period.

Parent Supporters play a vital role in strengthening our companionship services by helping clients with specific tasks that birth or
postnatal companions do not have capacity to fulfil.

Our parent supporters:

Provide practical support during pregnancy or following birth (e.g., dropping off donated baby items, preparing the home to welcome a new baby, stocking the fridge)
Offer emotional support and/or advocacy at antenatal or postnatal appointments

Our work in action

Volunteer Profile: Angelina Edwin

When Angelina Edwin arrived in Glasgow from Sri Lanka, she didn’t know that her experience would see her support new parents as they found their own feet in a new country.

Volunteer Profile: Morag Riddet

When Morag Riddet discovered Amma, she knew immediately it was an organisation she wanted to be part of. But having missed the first intake of volunteers, the doula, massage therapist and yoga teacher had to wait patiently before coming on board.

Volunteer Profile: Gemma Dool

A “random” application for an Amma volunteer post through a Glasgow-wide website for volunteering opportunities turned out to be one of the “best decisions ever” for mum-of-one Gemma Dool.

Join our team

At Amma, we support birthing people who are experiencing significant adversity on their journey to parenthood. Our mission is to improve birth, pregnancy and postnatal experiences and outcomes for vulnerable individuals.