This is an article that has been a long time coming. What does being a midwife mean to me? It seems obvious that I’d want to write about why I became a midwife and what doing this job for the [...]
What is a natural birth? A lot of women associate natural births with vaginal deliveries but there are actually two sorts of natural births. Physiological ones, where you give birth completely [...]
Pregnancy and childbirth transform your body and ask a lot of it in a very short space of time. Naturally it takes time to get back to ‘normal’ – or your ‘new normal’ once your baby is here, but [...]
Today I want to talk about dads. There’s so much focus on motherhood and mums, but having a baby is a fundamental life change for men as well, and as such fatherhood also takes time to adapt to. [...]
There are all sorts of ways to manage pain during labour and childbirth, and as a midwife I’m always fascinated by natural techniques that women can use to work with their body as much as [...]
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