Midwife Blog
The Bump Chapter
Baby’s Movements
💥Baby’s Movement 💥 💥Home Dopplers are dangerous. Period. If you listen in to baby’s heart rate and you hear a nice normal heart rate sound because you’ve googled a normal heart rate for a baby, you may get false reassurance from this. There are many things that we...
What is Hypnobirthing? Facts or Fantasy.
If you’ve landed on this page then I’m sure you’ve heard this term thrown around many times ... I’m sure you have heard it talked about amongst those positive birth stories but wonder whether it is all too good to be true. A good birth is something that only happens...
Creating An Ideal Birth Environment
Your Birth Environment - Why is Birth Environment So Important? Have you ever noticed how much you act from your environmental cues. Your Mum pops over with a plate of cookies and she leaves them on your dining room table. You weren’t hungry, but now you’re eating a...
The Birth Chapter
Katrina’s Birth Story- Cesarean during the Coronavirus
I had my daughter Eliza Ivy on 9th April 2020 - I elected for a caesarean following my previous induction and emergency caesarean under general anaesthetic with my now 26 month old daughter CiCi. Throughout my pregnancy I thought I would have a VBAC - I wanted to...
Liz’s Birth Story – Unplanned Homebirth
Whilst I think I did a pretty awesome job of staying relatively stress free in my second pregnancy (one of the MANY lessons learnt from my first), the one thing that was bothering me was the logistics of labour with a three year old to look after. I am a firm advocate...
Jessica’s Birth Story
After a positive first birth with my daughter in America (my husband Mark and I relocated to California for a couple of years, where our daughter was born - yay dual citizenship), I was keen that my second birth would be another one to look back on with fond...
The Baby Chapter
Things To Celebrate From 2019
2019 was my third year doing The Bump to Baby Chapter and it was a wild one. Wild like in this above photo wild, surviving the nights, managing 2 young children at home, writing blogs and scheduling emails at 2am with a baby on my boob, or walking around with her on...
What we can learn from the 3 Wise Men about visiting after a baby.
Managing visitors after having a baby... Christmas time is a time for lots of family and friends to visit. Having a baby brings even more reasons for visitors as everyone wants to meet your new arrival, plus you want to show off the new tiny, beautiful human that...
Breaking Dad
As I lie on the floor trying to write this, with my 7 month year old daughter crawling all over me, clawing at my note pad, shrieking in my ear and doing her best to be impossibly cute, I’m ashamed to admit to how I’ve felt before;...