What happens during a homebirth to hospital transfer, hopefully a helpful summary!

How to self notify a birth after freebirthing……

💥 Just another note on HCPs who proclaim that they are fully supportive of choice, as long as it’s informed 💥…..

Downtraining your pelvic floor…..

Very Prevalent In the Birth World…..

What is LAM?

Why quiet is not better…..

🔥 Controversial PSA (again)🔥

Just noted another new new mother who feels disappointed with herself on the 'hypnobirthing front'.....though she birthed her baby at home, and all is well 😞….

🔴 Saying no is tricky. Depending on the situation, it can be awkward, challenging or extremely hard and scary even……

Why this is a good thing…

READ THE ROOM!

Whenever people talk about having some feelings of starting labour or ask for tips to ‘encourage’ those feelings of labour into something more tangible or are willing labour to speed up if it seems slow to start/taking its time to become established, the first suggestions are always…..

I thought I’d do a little post on managing mastitis……I suppose not everyone is aware that our understating of mastitis and the guidelines for treating it have fairly recently changed a little. The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has updated its Mastitis Spectrum Protocol last year…..

👌🏼🤞🏻Perineal massage 🤙🏼👇🏻

⭐️It’s a BIG popular topic in antenatal preparation courses, birth literature, general birthy chat online, etc etc…….

🥴I cannot stand lack of nuance🥴

(And yes, I’m still obsessed with the concept of nuance! Though I’m sure I’m also guilty of leaving out nuance at times 😬)

Many families these days are thinking very much about when and how they want their baby’s cord cut/disconnected from the placenta (or perhaps not at all, during Lotus birthing 🪷).

In the last few days I have again been in a few discussions about choice and decision making that had people contribute that said: ‘I’m absolutely for choice and autonomy, BUT (*insert why they are not really respectful of either*)’….

I’m going to *try* to write this without sounding creepy .

The love and affection I (and I’m 100% sure this is also the case for many other continuity midwives) feel for my lovely clients is unreal …..

Many people forget that this is a thing that will be offered after the birth of the placenta.

It is often presented as something that is *not* optional, though of course it is…..

So, the cord 🧶 .

An amazing structure.

In utero, it connects the baby with the placenta and shunts nutrients and oxygenation to the baby 🥰 ….