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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Consuming your placenta may not seem like a particularly pleasant idea to most, but as someone who experienced awful post natal...

My name is Erin and I’m mum to 3 wonderful kids, 2 girls and a boy. I work in marketing in Canary Wharf, as well as being an artist and...

What is a doula and what do they do for you during pregnancy and labour? I can’t remember when I first heard about doulas (it was most...