Having experienced two very different births myself, I love working with parents and empowering them to achieve a positive birth experience – whatever the nature of that birth. I am also an antenatal teacher, so bring an understanding of the physiology and the processes of labour and birth along-with compassion, care, understanding and humour. Supporting the birth partner is something I also consider crucial in my role but I enjoy supporting women labouring without a partner too. I have supported births in hospital, water and at home and enjoy positive relationships with local midwives/professionals. I bring knowledge of active birth, positions, breathing, relaxations, visualisations, hormones, birth-environment, massage, affirmations and more including tea making, taking the photos, doing the holding – physically and emotionally – and supporting the important ‘birth reflection’ postnatally. I see my job as a huge privilege. Happy to support parents in a 20 mile radius of Shoreham By Sea.
