My Ethos

We seem have lost touch of what birth has to offer us as a society if all we dare to ask for is a safe delivery with a healthy baby. Birth is our right of passage into motherhood it holds power to instil new levels of empathy, it provokes deep rooted confidence and gives us an opportunity to reassess life’s priorities. One of the first things I ask the women I work with to do is to tell me what their dream birth looks like. Many have never allowed themselves to visualise an empowering, positive birth for fear of disappointment, or they believed that kind of birth was saved just for a lucky few and they certainly didn’t fall into that category. The fact that many of us don’t even dare to dream of a optimal birth experience speaks volumes about the standards we have been forced to accept when bringing our children into the world.

There is a gaping vacuum in our knowledge of birth as a natural physiologic event our bodies are designed for given the right environment. We are encouraged from the beginning of our pregnancy to look outside ourselves for reassurance, advice and monitoring, sometimes complying with things we aren’t comfortable with or perhaps don’t understand. My job is to help you navigate the maternity system, to support you in accessing the best level of care possible and empowering you to question things that don’t resonate. I aim to spark interest and intrigue on everything birth related, cultivate trust and connection to your body and baby and empower you to take charge.

When we are provided education, when statistics are presented clearly without agenda and when pressure and fear are relieved it provides space for families to cultivate the births they truly deserve. I’m pro choice and advocate for your baby to be born in the way you feel the safest and most comfortable. Wether you opt for free birthing, a home birth, being in a birth centre, on the labour ward or an elective C-Section. Every circumstance, mother and baby are different and should be catered to accordingly.

I love my job, sometimes I still can’t believe I get paid to do it as I fell into birth work without really realising it. I was called on by various friends to support them during their births and after. Those experiences hooked me in a way that nothing had done before. Being trusted with families birth and postpartum experience is a real privilege, I will never grow tired of watching and supporting women become mothers.