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Birth is powerful. So are you.

Birth support in Amsterdam, on your terms

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I'm Lua Grimalt, a psychologist, birth doula, and film photographer based in Amsterdam West. My work sits at the intersection of care and documentation — supporting families through birth, and sometimes holding onto the memory of it.

Raised in a culture that saw birth as a community event, and in a family of artists, caregivers, and pioneers, I grew up with a respect for craft and an instinct for story. That's still what guides everything I do.

For the past seven years I've been working with international and expat families through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period — in English and Spanish, in their homes and in hospitals, through straightforward births and complicated ones. My background in clinical psychology shapes how I show up — not as a therapist, but as someone who understands what it means to feel held, informed, and like yourself inside an experience that can make you feel like anything but.

I bring information, walk through options, and ask the questions that help you get clear on what you actually want. The decision is always yours.

(About.)

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(WHAT OTHERS SAY)

"Working with Lua as our Doula was an amazing experience from the beginning until the end. We decided to work with Lua based on her experience but mostly our personal feelings with her as a person. Her background as a clinical psychologist was also really interesting to us as we wanted to have the right support both physically and psychologically for this key moment of our lives, especially as we are both expats and far from our families and support system. We really feel like we wouldn't have been able to do it without her calm, multiple advice, support and continuous encouragement as we went from our house to one hospital and then another. She was like a big sister to us, who knows exactly how to help and when. Lua was there for it all and we can only recommend her services for anyone who wishes to be supported by a doula during pregnancy, labour, and beyond! "
 
 
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Alongside this work, I run Hello Doula, a matching service connecting Amsterdam families with the right doula.

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Hello Doula 

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Photographing mothers on film / gatherings & sessions / Amsterdam
By @luagrimalt  @hollymorri

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