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Services
Safe, evidence based holistic care designed around you
From single appointments to full continuity of care packages
Antenatal & Pre-conception Care
After beginning our relationship wth a meet and greet, I am there to support you throughout your pregnancy journey. I can offer evidence based sources to help you create your perfect pregnancy and birth plans. All appointments will take place at a time and place to suit you, usually in your own home, and will last 1-2.5
hours. I check Mum and baby, listen in to and measure baby on a customised growth chart, check blook pressure and urine etc. I can perform many blood tests at home or refer you to free NHS or private serrvices for bloods and scans. I will offer continuous emotional support throughout your journey and be available by phone or SMS between appointments for those questions that just can't wait! Depending on your wishes we can also spend this time practicing hypnobirthing, breathing and relaxation techniques, planning for your birth, practicing coslostrum harvesting. Your care plan is personalised around your needs starting at any time from conception to around 36/40. I can also liaise with your multi disciplinarary clinical team or complementary therapists as needed.
Your birth - made with love and delivered with love
Enjoy personalised care with your private midwife. My role during your birth is to take care of you and your baby throughout whilst offering holistic support. My aim is that you achieve a beautiful birth, however this looks. I can offer full clinical care at home and am passionate about water-births. I can also offer non-clinical holistic support in hospital if that is your preference or clinical need. We will have discussed every eventuality before labour so you can enter your beautiful oxytocin rich birthing zone, knowing that I understand and respect your wishes. I can also offer hypnobithing support, creating light and sound moods in the room, offer massage, and protect your birthing zone so you have the ultimate conditions for birth. If things don't go to plan I can ensure that your wishes are observed by liaising with the rest of the medical team. All births can be beautiful, even when plans change and baby has his or her own plan! I will stay with you until you are safely settled with baby in your arms
Postpartum and breast feeding support - creating beautiful bonds
After the birth I will support you as you bond with your new member of the family. I can offer expert feeding support, offer top to toe checks for you and baby, assess and support you emotionally, help with baby care and bathing and any questions you may have about your newborn. I monitor baby's weight and wellbeing, can offer new born blood screening (NBBS) at home and can liaise with your local hospital to arrange free NIPE and newborn hearing screening tests. I can offer enhanced breast feeding support and refer to specialists including tongue tie assessors if needed. Visits are usually daily over first few days and then spaced out as you gain confidence. Visits are usually 1-2.5 hours and are in your own home. I am also available by phone between visits. Postnatal care is usually 2-4 weeks before handing over to the health visitor team.
Hypnobirthing, trauma and tokophobia
When we feel fear, we produce adrenalin which in turn inhibits the hormone Oxytocin. Oxytocin is the 'love' hormone that gushes through our blood when we cuddle, when we make love, when we hold and breast feed our babies, and when we give birth. Oxytocin is essential to allow the uterus to contract. Part of my role is to ensure that your birth room is an oxytocin rich environment. This is helped by low lighting, calm and quiet, massage, and through the mother achieveing a semi hypnotic state known as neo-cortical inhibition. One of the best ways of achieveing this is through hypnobirthing. Hypnotherapy is also wonderful to overcome previous sexual or birth trauma or to conquer fear of child birth (tochophobia). I offer sessions before the birth and leave you to practice as you lead up to the birth. I then support you throughout the labour and birth to stay in your oxytocin rich zone.