A weekend was spent with, what I strongly believe to be, the most influential people working in Perinatal Mental Health and I’ve come back feeling inspired, motivated and know that what I’m doing is there to make the biggest of differences to expectant and new parents. Many of us volunteer for grass-root, peer support organisations …
What an absolutely beautiful book from Naomi Stadlen, author of What Mothers Do – one of my very favourite books for new parents. Naomi’s work is fascinating as it discusses many of the common issues prevalent in today’s current society but doesn’t try to ‘fix’ them. What she does is normalises many of the typical …
In the 6 years since becoming pregnant and a parent, access to information has never been so readily available. Social media has escalated beyond belief – we are all becoming phone addicts and spend all our waking time googling or reading on facebook every single issue with regards to pregnancy, birth, feeding, sleeping, baby behaviour …
Dr Google’s baby manual – parental information overload Read More »
Last weekend I had a life-changing experience sitting for three days in a circle with amazing and inspiring women. I decided in spring this year to train as a doula – I thought having a more holistic understanding of birth and motherhood would really help me to support families postnatally. What I don’t think I expected …
My red tent re-awakening – my journey as a doula is beginning Read More »
