Home Births

It’s interesting that this blog post popped up this morning as I had a little chat with my current class about home births yesterday. Thanks to Chilled Mama for sharing so I can pass on and Live, Love & Birth for writing. The number one reason I hear about not wanting a home birth from those who…

Sweeps

I’ve been talking a lot this week about cervical sweeps with different people and for different reasons. I’ve been struggling with writing this post and how to angle it as I’m aware it could come across quite negatively yet many women will tell you they’ve had a brilliant experience with sweeps. And yet the evidence…

You and your NICU baby

Having a baby in nicu is a strange old time in ways that many people don’t get. You become fiercely protective of them but you have to put your trust in others to look after them. You often have to inhibit your natural instincts to hold and comfort them because they need more treatment than…

Ten years ago I became a mother. And I became friendless.

Becoming a mother was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Not just birth, although that left me wishing the baby would disappear halfway through the experience and I could go back to not having a baby at all thank you very much. But the act of becoming a mother, that transition time between…

Why closing the bones is so much more than closing the bones

Recently I had the pleasure of being in a room full of birth workers, there to learn the importance of the closing the bones massage. If you’re like me, you’ve probably never heard of it. I hadn’t until it popped up on Sophie Messager’s facebook page and, knowing of her from her work in the…