Doula Client Pack Essential: Decoding Your Maternity Notes & Choices Printable Handouts
Looking for the perfect doula client pack printable to educate and empower your birth clients? As a doula or birth educator, you know that standard maternity care often speaks in code. Dense medical acronyms like IOL, ARM, CTG, and VE can leave expectant parents feeling overwhelmed or passive during appointments.
Decorated with original birth art, these printable doula handouts do far more than translate medical shorthand into plain English. They serve as an informed consent birth guide and a subtle, gentle, continuous reminder of bodily autonomy. Every entry bridges the gap between clinical language and birth rights, reminding your clients that every check, scan, and procedure is an offer, not an order.
If you're a pregnant woman and you'd like a set just for yourself then message me and I can send you a listing for a single printed set.
- Demystifies Medical Notes: Translates over 60 standard maternity abbreviations so your clients never feel out of the loop.
- International Compatibility: Created for UK maternity care, as well as care systems across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and beyond.
- Anchors Bodily Autonomy: Weaves gentle consent reminders throughout the explanations, empowering parents to pause, ask questions, and use their decision-making framework.
- Beautifully Illustrated: Decorated with original birth art to bring a warm, calming, and human touch to clinical information.
- Reinforces Your Antenatal Sessions: Keeps evidence-based information and rights-focused language at your clients' fingertips between visits.
- Instant Digital Download: Easy to print at home or via a local print shop to slip straight into your client welcome folders.
Give your clients the ultimate birth bag companion: the clarity to understand their care and the confidence to own their choices.
Please note: These printable handouts are designed for educational, informational, and supportive purposes only. They do not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or clinical guidance, and are not a substitute for care provided by a qualified healthcare professional. Parents are encouraged to discuss their medical notes, choices, and birth preferences directly with their midwife or obstetrician.
Copyright and Limited Use Commercial License
These handmade images, text and files are copyright of Hannah Thomas of Womb to World Art and sole copyright is retained by them.
The limited use commercial license that comes with this download means that birth workers, doulas, hypnobirthing teachers, prenatal yoga teachers, antenatal educators and midwives can print to share and use with pregnant women, birth partners and clients. By buying this download you are agreeing to the following terms:
The license means you - as an individual - can:
- Print the downloads on paper or card at the size specified
- Give the printouts as handouts to your clients, or use as teaching tools or posters for your own business
- You may use use a professional print service or print at home
- Add the images to a Powerpoint presentation to use with clients in person or remotely, as long as the presentation file itself isn't shared digitally
- Share the content using photos or videos of your printed materials on social media
The license DOES NOT allow you to:
- Print the images for any other reason than above or on any other material e.g. on a notebook or mug to give away
- Use the images as part of a product you will sell
- Share the digital files with anyone by email or another method
- Add the digital files to your website or use on social media
- Edit the images or remove my brand name
- Share with other professionals in your organisation.
Thank you for respecting the time that has gone into creating this artwork. If you have any questions about the license agreement, please contact me.
*ABOUT WOMB TO WORLD ART*
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I am Hannah: a trauma-healing, spiritual home educating mother of two little ones in Oxfordshire UK, and in my 'spare' (haha) time I like to paint motherhood art and make birthy things for birthy people!
