On 10th July I held a fantastic Q&A session with Consultant midwife Laura Mackenzie from the Princess Royal University Hospital, and Tess...

Here’s my tips on how to advocate for yourself in the birth room. Some couples worry about how to speak up when they’re at hospital. It c...

Let me ask you a question. When you got married, did you TRY to have a fantastic day, or did you just assume it was going to be wonderful...

In my classes we spend a fair bit of time understanding the brain. Why? Because your mindset and the hormones the brain releases all have...

If you have a caesarean, your baby will miss out on a healthy dose of bacteria as they travel through the vagina. Newborns get three dose...

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker It’s something I hear time and time again...

With many options for birth, my role is to remain impartial, to provide research, sign post couples to information so that they can make ...

Being in Bromley we are very fortunate to have a midwife led unit (MLU) as part of the PRUH. When you’re pregnant, you have several choic...

If your labour is very long, or you have interventions such as an epidural or artificial oxytocin to augment labour, your midwife will re...

Nope I don’t mean that X on the calendar signifying the day your baby probably WON’T be born... I mean the sticky dried fruit that we all...

This is a topic which we always discuss in my classes, as it’s so important to know that there are SO MANY other positions you can labour...

Do you plan to breast feed after birth? Breast feeding has many many benefits for both you and baby. For baby, breast feeding provides th...

Affirmations have been used for decades by many people to help with confidence and success. Sports people have long since used affirmatio...

A home birth is a much under used option for so many women. Falsely seen as a more riskier option for all, in reality a homebirth is not ...

Following on from my due dates post, let’s talk about induction. Quite often when you approach your due date, your midwife will start dis...

Fetal ejection reflex… this is a natural urge that a woman gets when she has an undisturbed birth, benefitting from all her natural birth...

With the spread of Covid-19, and the potential pressures the virus may put on hospitals and the healthcare system, many women may be wond...

When baby is born, they may be covered in a thick coating of a white waxy substance... this is called vernix caseous (literally translates a

Let’s talk ”due dates”… it’s easy to start stressing as you approach your “due date”, especially when the texts start flooding in asking if

I decided to write an A to Z of birth, which hopefully covers some key topics women should know in pregnancy. These are only a handful of th