Hand in Hand Midwives

27/08/2025

I am now officially on holidays and will be away without my phone for a month.
I have availability from April onwards.
Look forward to feeling rested and fresh on my return. ⭐️🌞

13/08/2025

NOT A GAS TANK
Your baby is not a car. The goal is not to put gas in the tank to see how far it can go between top ups. It’s to teach a tiny human to listen to their body and it’s caloric and hydration needs from an early age to help them grow and develop. This is FEEDING. How you feed is different than how I feed. How your family feeds is unique and not how my family feeds. From what we eat, to how often we eat, to when we eat it’s such an individual process!! Some adults are grazers. They like to snack on small meals all day. They sip water throughout the day and always have a water bottle handy. Some babies are like this, too. Some adults are bingers. They eat really big meals less often. They only drink water in big glasses around meal times. Some babies are like this, too. And there’s everything in between. The goal is not to reach some magic number of ounces in a limited number of feedings because an internet blog said baby needed x number or ounces in 4 feedings a day. That can cause undo stress for both parents and child. The goal is to learn your unique baby’s feeding habits and help them foster those habits within your family context as they grow and develop into a bigger and bigger human.

17/06/2025

This gave me a laugh 😂

09/06/2025

This definitely is much needed research. Women really need to be given all information and the actual statistics to enable an informed decision re routine induction for postdates.

Judith Gardiner https://doi.org/10.1111/aogs.15151

07/06/2025

08/05/2025

You’ve got the basics. A growing baby, a body literally built for birth, and the right people who’ve got your back.
But birth isn’t just about the physical. In my opinion,
That’s 5% of it.
The other 95%? That’s the mental game.
Birth is belief.
It’s unlearning everything the world told you about pain and chaos and danger and failure.
It’s dismantling fear, rewriting the story, and coming home to your power.
Birth is not something to endure or be rescued from, it’s something to rise into, to claim as your own.
It’s exhilarating.
It’s sacred.
It’s you meeting you in your rawest, most instinctual, most profound form. And navigating waves to bring your most longed for child into this earthly realm.
The work starts long before the contractions do.
It starts before you've even conceived, when you begin questioning.
When you start listening inward. When you *manifest* and create the birth you deserve
When you begin to remember that you were made for this.
This is the birth prep that no hospital bag can hold.
This is the magic that changes everything and the key to sacred, positive, dream births 🤍

DM me to connect and get my top tips on manifesting and planning your dream birth

05/05/2025

This says it all…..

05/05/2025

Happy International Day of the Midwife! So grateful for this profession and all it brings. So grateful for my colleagues who have been beside me on my journey as a midwife, always supporting and teaching me something. And very grateful for the beautiful families that trust me to share their journey! Definitely feeling the love today, I really appreciate all the special messages I have received. Thank you all 🥰

27/03/2025

🌹 Don’t rush a birth. You might just find it doesn’t take long at all.

26/03/2025

It’s so normal and not forever! It just is! So difficult to see past this when you are in it. But yo know it is normal somehow makes it easier so we are not trying to ‘fix ‘ something that is not broken!

One night, you’re up five times with your baby.
Then it’s three.
Then just once.

Then, for weeks, they’re up at 5 AM like clockwork.
But one day, they sleep in a little longer.
And then a little longer after that.
Until suddenly, you’re both well-rested, and it feels like you’ve finally made it through.

Everything is temporary.
The long nights and early mornings will pass.
They won’t last forever. 🤍

07/02/2025

If anyone is open to having a student midwife ….

07/02/2025

Much needed research into screening of GDM! Anyone that had birthed in last two years that can do these surveys would be so helpful to this study. https://ow.ly/KzgJ50UFOei