Birth Doula & Postpartum Care
Amsterdam area
You don't have to do this alone.
English and Italian Speaking Doula in Amsterdam since 2019
About Me & Ayu Doula Amsterdam
Hi, I’m Ombretta,
I moved to Amsterdam from Italy in 2013. During these years, I learned to navigate and embrace this country and it's culture, I changed my career path, immerse myself in a beautiful community and created Ayu Doula Amsterdam, back in 2019 with the intention to bring my holistic, emotional and physiological understanding of pregnancy and childbirth as transformational process. The intention back then was to support especially the expat community and the Italian mothers, helping them creating a bridge with the Dutch maternal system. This is one of my specialties: as an expat doula in Amsterdam, I understand firsthand what it means to navigate a foreign system without your village.
However, I am expat friendly but I not only work with expats - over the years, I served equally Expats and Dutch clients that were looking for a strong capacity to bring presence, warmth and connection to the birthing space.
The word Doula means "servant" - while Ayu means life force and vitality: the name reflects my connection with Ayurveda and Yoga that I study, practice and share for over 13 years.
I have a profound trust in the birthing process and I wish to support parents that desire to feel at the center of the birthing process, understand their rights, make their choices and have a strong support person during the whole journey.
When I stepped into this line of work I quickly realised the existing gap between what women need before, during and after childbirth and what is available in the current medical system that is not set to offer real continuity of care and create the conditions for birth to unfold undisturbed and trust in their body.
It is the personal relationship, the bond and the trust, the presence of someone that really knows you, understands how labor unfolds physiologically and psychologically that makes the real difference.
I am aware that this experience can and will leave you profoundly changed and it is my wish to create the conditions for you and your partner to feel safe, understood and supported skilfully.
My approach to the parents I serve as Birth Doula in the Amsterdam area is inclusive, tender, and free of judgment and extends to the multitude of Family Models, including holistic support when requested.
Offering birth support, is truly an honor, I tailor my services to your unique needs, offering prenatal visits, continuous birth support and Ayurvedic Postpartum Care for first time and multiparous, supporting low and high risk pregnancy, VBAC and C-sections (home, birth center and hospital - water and land births).
Postpartum Care in Amsterdam, focuses on Home Visits tailored on body work and emotional processing during the first two-three weeks, the most important days for your recovery - I oftentimes overlaap with your kraamzorg or I arrive when she lives: it is up to you!
In 2017 I opened up my Women's Health Ayurvedic Practice in Amsterdam and offer more recently, I moved my Womb Healing Sessions and my signature Women's Health Rebalancing Program online to support more women through hormonal transitions, fertility, and the deeper cycles of womanhood.
If you are still here, it might be time to connect...
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Education Experience
2026 - ongoing
Childbirth Education Training - BeBo MIA (Canada)
2026 - ongoing
Advanced VBAC Doula Certification - The VBACK Link (USA)
2024 - 2025
Inner Womb Method - Sacred Woman Awakening (Spain)
2022
Spinning Babies Foundational Course - Spinning Babies (NL)
2020
Professional Postpartum Care Provider Training - Midwife Cafe (South Africa)
2020 - 2021
Conscious Postpartum Care Certification - The Center of Sacred Windows Studies (USA)
2020
Intermediate Series Intensive (100hrs) - Delight Yoga (NL)
2020
Landscape of Loss, Rebozo and Aromatherapy for Postpartum Course - BIA (NL)
2020
The Path of Ashtanga (150 hrs) - Delight Yoga (NL)
2019
Advanced Certification in Ayurvedic Obstetric and Gyneacology - Arya Ayurveda Academy (India)
2025 - ongoing
Inner Womb Method Practitioner
2023 - 2025
Satori Process Assistant and Organiser - Germany & NL
2023 - ongoing
Mysore, Ashtanga and Prenatal Yoga Teacher - Yoga Circle (Amsterdam, NL)
2019 - ongoing
Birth Doula and Ayurvedic Postpartum Caregiver
Ayu Doula Amsterdam (Amsterdam, NL)
2020 - 2023
Mysore, Ashtanga, Prenatal, Yin, Restorative for
Women's Health Teacher - Delight Yoga (NL)
2019 - 2023
Ayurvedic Yoga, Ayurvedic Massage, Clinical Ayurveda
Teacher - Delight Academy of Ayurvedic Studies (NL)
2019 - 2023
Student Mentor and Clinical Curriculum Development -
Delight Academy of Ayurvedic Studies (NL)
2018 - ongoing
Ayurveda Practitioner - Women's Health
2017 - 2018
Gurukula training - traditional Ayurveda
Apprentincenship (India)
2016 - 2017
Studio Manager - Yoga Fest, Amsterdam (NL)
2018 - 2020
Yoga Therapy Training (800hrs) - The Yoga Therapy Institute (NL)
2018 - 2019
Birth Doula Training, Basic and Advanced - BIA (NL)
2018
Medische Besiskennis - Shenzhou Open University
2018
Ashtanga Yoga TT (200 hrs) - 8 Limbs (Bali)
2016
Yogic Mindfulness - Svasta Yoga & Ayurveda (India)
2016
Yoga Therapy Training - Svasta Yoga & Ayurveda (India)
2015
2015 - 2016
Event Specialist (volunteer) - Network Yoga Therapy
2011 - 2013
HR Business Partner
Recruiting, Training and Talent Manager
Heineken Italy
2008 - 2011
Employer Branding, Recruiting and Training Specialist
Heineken Italy
2006
Employer Branding and Recruiting Trainee
Robert Bosch Italy
2005 - 2006
School of Comparative Psychotherapy, Post Master Degree Program - Cagliari
Yin Yoga Teacher Training - Delight Yoga (NL)
2013 - 2017
Ayurvedic Practitioner Training HBO - Academy of Ayurveda The Netherlands (NL+India)
2013 - 2015
Ayurvedic Nutrition and Lifestyle Training - EIVS European Institute of Vedic Studies
2007
Master in Human Resources Management and Organisation, Post Master Degree Program - L.Bocconi University (Italy)
1999 - 2005
Master Degree in Psychology - Cagliari University
Stay in Touch
Address (Ayurveda Treatments)
TACA Amsterdam
Willem de Zwijgerlaan 69
1056 Amsterdam
