After I’d emerged from my own postpartum hibernation with my little ones, I realised I was facing a new normal. A time of my life that...

💛 HYPNOBIRTHING IS JUST FOR HOME BIRTHS: Hypnobirthing is for hospital births and birth centres just as much as home births. There are...

With hospital maternity tours currently on hold due to the pandemic, I have collated all the local virtual maternity tours which are...

How are you talking about your birth? How will you be talking about your birth? 💛 Research suggests that irrespective of HOW you birth...

If having a positive birth experience is important to you... 💛 Don't bury your head in the sand. This is going to happen and the more...

In my first pregnancy, my view was 'I'll just have an epidural' - sound familiar? In reality, when we arrived at Hampshire Hospitals...

Frimley Health & Care publish their guidelines online at http://frimleyhealthandcare.org.uk/.../frimley-health.../ in order to help you...

All antenatal courses are the same, right? WRONG! Did you know - the earlier you take a Hypnobirthing course the longer you have to enjoy...

Would you ask more questions? Would you ask for the actual risk (0.1% in increasing to to 0.15% for instance) compared to relative risk...

How confident do you feel about giving birth? If the answer is 'not very', you are not alone. A lifetime of horror stories, 'One Born...

Trigger Warning: This year the theme surrounding Baby Loss Awareness Week is Wellbeing, exploring what this means to all those affected...

You know that feel good tingle, your hairs stand up on end and you wish you could bottle the sensation? 💛 Whilst I’m more of a rugby &...

Have you heard of a Labour/Birthing Candle? Whilst the last thing you want is the world knowing you are in labour and avoiding those 'any...

Hooray! You’re expecting a baby! Following the initial excitement, possible sickness and rapidly changing body, you start to regularly...

'High Risk', 'Low Risk' -why do we insist on associating birth with being risky? Birth is a natural, physiological event that we humans...

Why are we always banging on about birthing in the dark?⁠ ⁠ 💛⁠ ⁠ I, for one, find it much easier to implement an action if I truly...

Or are you ticking some boxes?.. 💛 In a vast variety of situations in pregnancy it is not uncommon for women to be labelled as 'high...

Before your baby is born, it’s worth considering what you’d like to happen to the umbilical cord which connects the mother to the baby....

I was recently asked to introduce myself in a women’s wellness forum and it seems a waste not to share a little about me, with you too! ⁣...

'I am positive and proud that I managed to have such an empowering labour and birth.'