Soulful Birth Holistic Midwifery

06/10/2025

Taking a week to Breathe - mountains, jungle, breath and mantra 🕉️

05/10/2025

My first caravan homebirth!

This groovy family have been on the road for her whole pregnancy. We managed with phone consults and a couple health clinic drop ins, to have the ultrasound scans and bloods she wanted, and check in on them both. The last month of her pregnancy we met frequently, me learning what was most important to her.

The day of Banjo’s birth was sunny and warm. A good thing, as we went through all the gas bottles keeping the pool warm. Not an ‘easy’ birth, she worked so damn hard to bring him down, and she did. One of those ‘travelling to the universe to bring him through’ births. Afterwards, she took some time coming back into her body. Unhurried, making a nest on the ground next to the birth pool, she did. Slowly returning from the epic adventure.

I love the green placenta bucket 🪣 - a simple vessel to hold the sacred organ. Just like this family: practical, no fuss, but deeply connected. The placenta was later buried in ceremony on the land of Banjo’s birth.

02/10/2025

Spring posy from a client’s garden 🪏 🪴 🪿🌼🥬

I loved wandering round their backyard in the afternoon sunshine with them. Home appointments allow time to get to know each other.

01/10/2025

Happy Birthday Dad 🩷

You would have been the best grandfather ever. We can see you taking our kids on so many crazy adventures with you. Fishing, hiking, skiing, camping.

Always creating love in nature and family.

Missing what the last 20 years would have been ###x

07/09/2025

Happy Father’s Day to this great guy. Couldn’t imagine doing this wild journey with any other.

21/08/2025

Vale Michel Odent

His work has forever changed how we think about birth.

We are saddened to hear news of the passing of Michel Odent, whose vision and writing reshaped the way we understand human birth.

Michel Odent reminded us that birth is not a medical procedure to be controlled, but a primal rythm to be respected. He advocated for home-like maternity units, warm water births, protecting the birthing woman's privacy and honouring her instincts, undisturbed contact between mother and newborn; he was among the first to discuss the importance of the microbiome, and question many of the practices that had (and have) become normalised in overmedicalised maternity systems globally.

Michel Odent's legacy lives on in every dimmed, quiet birthing room, and in every midwife his words and work inspired to join our profession.

Thank you, Michel, for your passion, vision and committment to women and newborns.

Photo: Xavier Caré / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA

19/08/2025

It’s that time of year again, wildflower season. This year, three generations of women took a trip out to Walganna and had an overnight stop at

02/08/2025

A little bit of beautiful Bali.

25/07/2025

Oh my, see you in a week!

23/07/2025

Thank you Pip for your prompt response to the media buzz.

WA’s new birth tech claims to help—but is it solving the right problem?

16/07/2025

The space between births, aka time off-call.

I baked a cake from start to finish, relaxing into knowing the process would be uninterrupted.

I made a massive (20 apple) apple-pie, just because.

I went out to an intimate songwriters gig and drank TWO glasses of red wine, and rode home slightly tipsy

I sung in a choir

I took long morning walks under the full moon and didn’t stress about being too far from home in case I needed to get somewhere quickly.

I switched on my creative business woman at Bo Wong’s workshop on visual storytelling.

I picniced, drummed, prayed and released with my circle sisters on the beach.

And I’m currently resting in nature along the butterfly-drenched Blackwood river ‘Goorbilup’.

Ps. I’ve just published a newsletter (it’s been 3 years since my last one). If you’d like to be on my mailing list, send me a message with your email and I’ll make sure you’re signed up and that you receive the current update.

Pps Thanks for being here x 😊

01/07/2025

Rhonda and I have just had our last homebirth together before she heads off to be a midwife (and nana) in the big smoke.

We have worked together for over 17 years, and attended homebirths together for at least 5 of them. And she was my own homebirth midwife for my second baby.

This week has brought us two beautiful births - a perfect final chapter of this story.

To my dear colleague and friend, Perth is gaining another incredible midwife, and Geraldton will have a large space waiting to be filled. You will be missed enormously by me, birthing familes, and the community xx

I love the idea of us attending births together in the future, with you as a special ‘visiting midwife’ or perhaps in other unknown places.

For now, celebrating these last two births, our partnership and all the goodness yet to come.