Beneath the Palms Midwifery
Birth should feel like yours.
Personalised, emotionally safe midwifery care across pregnancy, birth preparation and postpartum in Cairns and Far North Queensland. One midwife. Your story. Every step of the way.
If your appointments feel rushed, you're not imagining it.
You might be sitting with a feeling you can’t quite name yet. Something about your care doesn’t feel right, but you’re not sure what to do about it.
Maybe your appointments feel too short to ask the questions you actually have. Maybe you’re receiving different advice from different people and you don’t know who to trust. Maybe you’re carrying the weight of a previous birth, an IVF journey, or a quiet fear you haven’t said out loud.
None of that makes you difficult. It makes you aware.
And it means you deserve care that actually has the space to hold what you’re carrying.
Care That Centres You,
Not a Protocol
Beneath the Palms Midwifery offers continuity of care midwifery in Cairns. That means one midwife, from pregnancy through to postpartum. Not a different midwife each time. Not a story you have to repeat. A relationship built on trust, time, and genuine understanding of your story.
This is emotionally safe midwifery care grounded in four pillars:
Individualised Care
Your care is shaped around your story, your needs, and your goals. Not a standard checklist.
Emotional Safety
A space where your fears are taken seriously, your feelings are respected, and you’re never rushed.
Informed Choice
Clear explanations and honest context so you can make decisions with confidence, not confusion.
Postpartum Support
Care that continues well beyond birth, with practical guidance, emotional grounding, and ongoing connection.
How Your Care Unfolds
From your first conversation to your postpartum weeks at home, here’s what private midwifery care with Beneath the Palms Midwifery actually looks like.
Pregnancy
Longer appointments with space to talk, ask questions, and understand your options. A comprehensive intake to learn your story, your fears, and your goals. Evidence-informed education and birth preparation tailored to you. One midwife who knows you, at every visit
Birth Preparation
Thorough birth preparation so you feel informed and confident. In-depth education, birth preferences that reflect your values, and practical guidance for your support person.
Postpartum
Home visits focused on you and your baby. Feeding support, settling guidance, and early parenting care. Emotional check-ins and space to process your birth experience. A personalised postpartum plan built before your baby arrives.
Support That Meets You Where You Are
Whether you’re early in pregnancy, navigating the postpartum weeks, or processing a past birth experience, there’s a clear pathway for your care.
Continuity of Care
Who it’s for: Women wanting one midwife across pregnancy, birth preparation and postpartum. Including those navigating IVF, first pregnancies, or previous experiences that left them feeling unsupported.
What changes: You’re no longer piecing together care from different providers. You have one person who knows your story, explains things clearly, and supports you from pregnancy through to postpartum.
Postpartum and Feeding Support
Who it’s for: Parents who need grounded, evidence-informed support with feeding, settling, sleep, and the emotional adjustment of early parenthood.
What changes: The overwhelm reduces. You have practical guidance that fits your family, not a textbook, and someone to talk to when it’s hard.
Birth Debriefing
Who it’s for: Women carrying unresolved feelings from a previous birth. Whether it was traumatic, confusing, or simply didn’t go the way you hoped.
What changes: You’re given space to understand what happened, process how it felt, and find a clearer path forward. Especially if another pregnancy is on the horizon.
How Private Midwifery Works with Medicare
One of the most common questions is about cost, and it’s an important one. Here’s what you need to know.
As an eligible private midwife, many of the services provided through Beneath the Palms Midwifery attract Medicare rebates. This means your out-of-pocket cost is often lower than people expect.
What affects your individual cost depends on your specific care needs, your Medicare eligibility, and which services are included in your plan. Rather than guessing, the clearest way to understand what your care would cost is through a conversatio
Meet Caitlin
Caitlin is a registered midwife with over 14 years of experience across hospital and community settings. Before midwifery, she worked in paramedicine and veterinary nursing. Those environments taught her how to stay calm under pressure, communicate clearly, and make people feel safe even in stressful moments.
She started Beneath the Palms Midwifery because she saw too many women leave their care feeling rushed, confused, or unheard. She wanted to offer something different. Care where women have the time, information, and emotional safety to lead their own journey.
Her approach is trauma-aware, evidence-informed, and built around you, not a protocol. She listens before she speaks, explains before she recommends, and creates space for every question you need to ask.
Clear Information Builds Confident Decisions
When you understand your options, decisions feel less overwhelming. These resources are here to support you, whether you’re exploring private midwifery, preparing for birth, or planning for postpartum.
Let’s Talk Through Your Options
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need a space where your questions are welcome and your options are clear. No pressure. No commitment. Just a conversation about what your care could look like.
