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Midwifery in Eden

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24/03/2026

Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane (GOMA). "...darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the spirit was hovering over the waters... Let there be light... and there was light". The beginning, light from darkness.

We stand on the brink of a new beginning in every moment, a beginning is waiting for you. What light can we create to share with others?

We can create light in the darkness. We are creators. We can birth over and over again in our lives creating new beginnings with our actions.

We are all brilliant birthers.

18/03/2026

A homebirth costs what it does because it is not just about a 1 day event. It is 9 months of pregnancy care consisting of monthly, fortnightly and then weekly appointments. It is 1.5 months of postnatal care. These appointments last between 1-2 hours.
That's almost 1 year of midwifery care.

It's unlimited phone contact with a Midwife whenever you need.

It's all the documentation, follow up of results, research and consultation with other practitioners your midwife does for you.

It's two Midwives (a second midwife must legally be present at a homebirth) being on call day and night for up to 5 weeks (37-42+ wks).

Then there is the BIRTH. Labour and birth is sometimes a multi day event and your Midwife is with you through that.

Homebirth and the care that is included is an investment. When we consider what is invested in weddings, funerals, and often yearly holidays there is more perspective.

How a woman feels during her pregnancy and birth will be with her for life. Birth is the beginning of life, the beginning of motherhood, the beginning of family. This is to be valued. Women and family are to be valued.

There are Medicare rebates to help, there are payment plans to suit individual circumstances. If you are interested in homebirth contact your local private midwives and find out more about investing in you and your family.

05/03/2026

This week marks my first year for Midwifery in Eden. I am over joyed and feel so blessed to be included in the journey of so many women and families.

Private midwifery care is so much more accessible now in FNQ, it is a growing option for women looking for woman-led care. No matter how you choose to birth, no matter where you choose to birth, a private midwife can support you.

Higher rates of vaginal birth

Higher rates of satisfaction

Improved outcomes for mothers and babies

Lower rates of intervention

You are the authority

02/03/2026

YES Entonox (nitrous oxide/oxygen) is available to use at a HOMEBIRTH. Women can choose to have this as an additional tool to use during labour.

MYTH "There is no pain relief at a homebirth".

There is, and its not just Entonox. It's a giant list of interesting things women and midwives come up with during the process. It's bodywork, it's warm water, it's the songs you chose, it's being held, it's your garden, your dog at your feet, the noises that come out of your mouth, throwing something... RELIEF. EXPRESSION. Taking everything you're feeling inside and doing something with it. And you're unhindered in that expression, you've got your whole house to do it in, and no one there that you don't want there. Freedom to be completely unhinged if needed.

FACT "Homebirth MAXIMISES creative pain relieving strategies rarely seen in a hospital".

25/01/2026

Midwives need AFFIRMATIONS. In a world full of wonderful pregnancy and birth affirmations for women I decided to make some for midwives. And not surprisingly the themes are similar, trust, fear, past experiences, acknowledgement, hope, and support. (Please add any other wonderful affirmations you think midwives need in the comments below).

I have said this before, for midwives to be WITH women, midwives need to be WITH midwives.

This is not the only time in history midwives have been challenged to practice true midwifery and support women. It is unfortunately constant. We can easily be flattened to the floor in despair at times.

I refuse to stay down and will lift up whoever is around me.

YOU ARE A GREAT MIDWIFE. These affirmations are for you! (Or for your midwife 😉).

18/01/2026

The last decades where birth frequently happened in the home in our western world. In Call the Midwife we may see:

*Enemas done before every birth,
*Cords cut immediately
*Most women birthing on beds (although that part really hasn't changed in hospital settings today).

And think how awful. Yes many things have been awful throughout the history of women, and of course birth.
We see the life women lived in this time in all its difficulties but also its beauty.
We see the love of the midwives for their community and how they not only bear witness to pregnancy and birth but the social, economic and emotional challenges the women face in the 1950/60s. Midwives continue to bear witness to so much more than pregnancy and birth.

Midwives and women have worked through history together evolving and learning from each other. I find it a story that captivates me. I look forward to a future learning from women of the past and also reaching forward in hope together.

As Sister Julienne says in the first episode "We must see what love can do."

(Ps. The first seasons are the best, aren't they always?)

17/01/2026

There are satisfying parts and challenging parts of labour. Everyone will have a different experience of this.
Sometimes women can be concerned that the hardest part is yet to come, that the contractions will be more and more challenging and will never end in escalation till the birth. This is not always true. I see that labour, contractions have to build up to the level of power needed to move your baby down. There is an escalation, a building up for part of the labour. Often this is the longer part.

Sometimes contractions may slow down and this is part of the process too. Allowing your baby the space and time to reposition if needed. This can be a period of rest for you.

Once your body achieves the peak level of power (your amazing body's power!) it stays there.
Every woman will sit in this powerful space and time until the work of the power asks them to do the next step. Women's focus often goes inwards.

In the next phase contractions often space out a little as you near birthing your baby. They give you more breaks to rest. And when they come you no longer have to ride them out you can now use that power and turn it into pushing. This creates a wonderful positive feedback system for you.

Your brain asks you to be alert and participate in a different way. Sometimes it feels like women come back into the room. They are present again, alert, to meet their baby.
This is the beauty of labour birth, when you're able to be intuitive, uninterrupted, and supported you can move through these stages exactly the way they are designed to be.

Every step of the way its your body, your power that is communicating with you and your baby. Its working (hard) FOR YOU.

24/12/2025

One of the most famous birth stories is celebrated today. An everyday woman birthing a change to the story, to history. Whether you believe it to be a story or history, it has changed the world non the less.
When we birth, the world changes, one person at a time. It's the change in us as mothers, its the precious one placed in our womb that brings a new story into our world.
Merry Christmas.

15/12/2025

A sun halo! How blessed to have this in our skies today Cairns. I have never seen one before, has anyone else?

A sun halo is caused by sunlight refracting (bending) through tiny, six-sided ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds, acting like prisms to create a halo, sometimes with faint rainbow colors.

Spiritually it is associated with divinity, heaven touching Earth.

14/12/2025

I have only ever had henna (mehmdi) done in India and Nepal but yesterday I recieved this beautiful artwork from a woman who migrated from Pakistan. Henna is for celebration and blessing, during festivals or special occasions such as weddings. Christmas is our festive time in Australia but yesterday we were also celebrating a woman becoming a mother.

So often when I get to spend some one on one time with a woman (especially someone from a different culture to mine) I love it when they share their experiences of being a woman in their culture, family, religion, and country.

I was getting my brows laminated in bali (such a bali thing to do) and I spent the hour listening to what it was like to be a 21 year old woman in Indonesia. Marriage, pregnancy, birth, family and religious expectations. She also asked me if I had seen a waterbirth, because a local celebrity had just birthed in water and was receiving a lot of media attention labelling it "dangerous".

When I was in Dehli learning to cook beautiful Northern Indian cuisine I spent 4 hours in a tiny kitchen listening to not only cooking instructions but how it was being a mother of 1 child, living and sleeping in the same room as your in laws and saving up money to pay for the private hospital she wanted for the 2nd birth. Not to mention running the most popular cooking class in the capital of India.

Yesterday I listened to a labour and birth story of a young woman when she lived in Pakistan. In labour she arrived at the hospital in a rickshaw shortly before she birthed.

I value all these stories so much and continue to stand in awe of the work women do for themselves, for their families, faith, and communities.

18/11/2025

After birth bliss. The fresh smell of a baby, an undisturbed cord, a placenta in a bowl, a cup of warm tea and the sound of the morning birds coming from your own backyard.
Here is oxytocin blossoming 🌸

03/10/2025

Can I relate anything to midwifery and birth? Possibly. The juxtaposition of footy and midwifery. I'm a mum of three boys who have thrown me onto world of NRL AND I am a Midwife dedicated to supporting women!

Months of preparation, physical and psychological training, your support team, your supportive and motivated coach and of course the BIG day/s.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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