Meet the team



Birth buddies was formed in 2003 by Honey and Philippa when they met and discovered they shared a passion for supporting women and families. The team has grown to include more passionate doulas. Birth Buddies have now supported hundreds of women, their partners, and families through pregnancy, birth, and the newborn time. To meet us in person come along to one of our regular free Meet the Birth Buddies sessions - see the Events page for dates and times.

Honey Acharya

I have a daughter born in 2003. The experience of being pregnant, giving birth and parenting a newborn solidified for me the passion for supporting parents that had been growing over the years. I believe in supporting parents in whatever choices they make, providing information, options, and a belief in their ability. I am studying undergraduate midwifery with the hope of becoming a midwife in 2010. A doula for 5 years I have experience supporting hospital births, home births, birth centre, natural births, planned caesarean births, emergency caesareans, epidurals, VBAC, water births, inductions, unexpected outcomes, and joyful new beginnings. Every birth is such a gift to attend, with each family a special relationship forms, I feel truly blessed and honoured to be able to support families as they bring a new child into the world.

Melissa Kent

After giving birth to my first child in 2008, it cemented in me the desire to support women and their families through the amazing journey that is pregnancy, birth and also the often daunting newborn period that follows. Currently a student Doula with Optimum Birth, I look forward to providing information and support in whatever form is needed and I am thankful for each new experience that I am lucky enough to be a part of. I hope that you can feel confident in your abilities as a woman, and I look forward to supporting your decisions regarding the birth of your child, whatever they may be.

Liz Robson

I am a mother of three beautiful boys and a Townsville native. I have always had an interest in pregnancy and parenting but it wasn't until the birth of my third son in 2009 that I found this amazing passion for birth. He was born naturally after two caesareans with Philippa as my Doula. I found after he was born I couldn't turn my back on everything I had learnt, so I am now training through Childbirth International to be a Doula. I want to be for other couples what Philippa was for my partner and me. A continuous source of information and support. I want to help women feel empowered and learn more about the amazing capabilities they have within themselves to achieve the birth they want and to support them and their partners through pregnancy, birth and the first precious beginnings with a new baby. I feel privileged to be a part of this amazing time in peoples' lives.

Philippa Scott

Being a Doula has been and continues to be such a rewarding journey for me. Through the births of my own three Daughters, with another on the way, and the births of the families who have given me the honour of working with them, a great trust and respect of women and their amazing instinct and abilities have developed in me. A great esteem has also grown for the manner in which partners can enhance the way a woman births and an acknowledgement that fathers/partners deserve support in their own journey of birth. It is from this position that my work with clients takes place. My role is one of pure support, what happens on a practical level will depend on what you want done. Over the past 5 years I have had the opportunity to support birth in many different forms, Hospital and Home births, VBAC’s, Caesareans, vaginal breech birth, Natural births, ones with unexpected outcomes, water births and a lot of other variations. Each one has taught me something. Having a keen interest in birth after caesarean, facilitating the Birth after Caesarean Support and Information Group monthly meetings over the past 3 years has brought great satisfaction. These women have blessed me with their openness and hunger for knowledge. This has in turn lead to a new voyage into Childbirth Education which I am studying through CBI. When we started Birth Buddies in 2003 I had little idea of how much being a Doula would mean to me. I’m hooked!!