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Jul 23, 20143 min read

What is a Good Birth?

I have 3 sisters. Between us we've had 10 children and 10 totally different births. There has been 3 homebirths; 7 hospital births; 3...

Jul 9, 20143 min read

Making choices for you

How did I survive without iPlayer? Another night, another catch-up session with Himself, a glass of wine and, last night some gloriously...

Jul 2, 20143 min read

About girls

Like so many things in life, it started with a joke. Then came a piece of viral marketing. Followed by a dull thud as a sack of cultural...

Jun 24, 20141 min read

Relax, Breathe & Birth - new 2hr sessions from The Wise HIppo

Hot off the press! In July I'll be running the first new single session class from The Wise HIppo. Its called 'Relax, Breathe & Birth'...

Jun 18, 20141 min read

New Pregnancy Relaxation classes for Mum's 'doing it again'!

I'm so pleased to be able to tell you that after only a very few weeks of discussion with the lovely Colette Beard of Gymboree Sevenoaks,...

Jun 12, 20142 min read

The skills you need for the 4th Trimester

I've spent alot of time in the past couple of weeks talking about the 4th Trimester. Emma Evans, my Cradling Hands Doula partner in...

Apr 21, 20141 min read

Wise words from Ina May Gaskin

Ina May Gaskin - if you haven't heard of her before - is a midwife from America who runs a birthing centre called The Farm. She believes...

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So why ARE you writing that birth plan?

The birth trauma myth: it's not bad luck, it's not your fault, and it's not fair on any of us

Necessity is the mother of invention : the birth of the Pocket Doula, and why it works so well

We're human. Our relationships are everything.

We have to learn to accept that everything is 'and/also' not 'either/or'.

There is no alternative? Don't you believe it...

The repeal of Roe vs Wade: an urgent call to return to the fundamentals of women's right

Why we say 'good birth', and what it means for you

Framing the maternal body: neo-liberalism, dualism and sexed difference

3 problems with birth plans (and why you should write one anyway)

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