I am - finally - properly back to work this week. I have written a review of a book about maternity activism for AIMS (look out for it in...

For most of the last 2 years I’ve been thinking about, reading about, and interrogating the concepts of choice and control in relation to...

Why do birth plans have such a bad reputation, and why do we keep writing them?

I’m a doula not because I’m a birth junkie, and not because I’m soppy about babies. I’m a doula because birth has the potential to be...

The pandemic really laid bare the role that 'woman centered care' plays in the NHS - the institution that most of us have our babies in....

At Edun Towers March began – as it did for many mothers – with an excited countdown towards the return to school. March 8th made my...

Honestly. I LOVE hypnobirthing - it's a fantastic tool.... However, it can feel a bit disempowering when you have Every Damn Thing You Need.

So you don't have to eat it. You don't have to encapsulate it. You don't have to bury it, or paint with it or photograph it. But please. Don

This SHOULD be tub-thumping, political stuff. Context is King, and the current context for birth is pretty dire, unless you take matters int