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midwife, birth reflection facilitator, yoga teacher, antenatal educator @healing_births @discodoli
February 24, 2018 Uncategorized

Physiological birth isn’t ideology, it’s biology. (Come back ‘Ten Top Tips’ normal birth needs you!)

Once upon a slow news week in summer 2017, UK journalists lazily latched onto an out of date factoid: that

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February 22, 2018 Uncategorized

Yoga nidrā and the ‘gift’ of injury

Simply being, without any need for doing. Discovering yoga nidrā was the gold of a one-to-one session with yoga therapist,

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March 26, 2017 Uncategorized

Breech holiday, Frankfurt

Justifying to a seven-year-old Anubis why I’m going to Germany for my week off – and missing mothers’ day, helped crystallise

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March 26, 2017 Uncategorized

Humanization of Childbirth in Brazil

Such is the force of the humanization movement in Brazil, that the IV International Conference on Humanization of Childbirth took

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October 14, 2016 Uncategorized

Adelir is becoming a midwife: “Life gave me a lemon – I’m making lemonade”

  Who remembers Adelir ‘#weareallAdelir‘ Góes? In 2014, the case of a woman from Torres in Rio Grande do Sul

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October 14, 2016 Uncategorized

Obstetric violence and humanized birth in Brazil

Originally a guest post on Sheena Byrom’s blog in April 2014, re-posted in response to the wonderful news that Adelir

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June 12, 2016 Uncategorized

One in five: pain into strength – and new beginnings in maternity care

Flitting listlessly through my timeline, I was arrested and perplexed by this wall of interrogation on a red background. Turns

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May 21, 2016 Uncategorized

Mary Cronk: Language – how far have we come?

Mary sent this letter today, asking me to ‘put it on a universal email on the computer’ for her sisters

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October 18, 2015 Uncategorized

Evidence, Experience and Safety: Letters to Editor

“Mothers-to-be may get right to home birth“, wrote Sarah Kate Templeton in The Sunday Times, 11 October 2015 (who also

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March 18, 2015 Uncategorized

Midwifery reflections on the Kirkup report

Still working my way through Kirkup’s Morecombe Bay investigation report – it’s a heavy read. After the RCOG and RCM

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Feeling inspired, humbled, optimistic and proud of everyone who took part in the recent Birth experience circle. At the beginning of the last Birth Experience group, some participants shared their expectations, reasons for joining, what had brought them and what they hoped for.. Not all birth stories feel empowering. Not all wounds are visible. A Birth Reflection with me is a gentle, trauma-informed space to explore your birth or postpartum experience - with warmth, curiosity, and care - at your own pace (online or in person at my home in Stroud). Normal (physiological, unmedicated) birth isn’t a cult and there has never been a campaign for ‘normal birth at any cost’. 💚 Long slow exhalation is the antidote to pain and tension. I know this from pregnancy yoga and attending births how longer exhalation lowers heart rate, blood pressure and activates the parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) nervous system. On my tether like a giant fish 🎣 every day. 15 degrees means shorter swims, but I still notice a calmer state, slower heart rate, better mood and reduced stress. Our next gig @acapellieschoir - this coming Sunday @lansdownhall in Stroud, the finale for the 79th @stroudartsfestival - still some tickets available! During midwifery training I did an internship @hospitalsofiafeldman (HSF), an extraordinary oasis of humanized maternity care within Brazil’s extremely medicalised birth culture 🇧🇷
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