Michelle Griffin - Doula Services Perth

24/08/2020

A lovely podcast episode with Dr Clare Davison. Such an amazing woman, midwife and academic. One of the main reasons I decided to study at ECU this year (after she invited me to talk to the midwifery students two years running). I can’t wait to study under her! 😍

Today on the show I speak to Dr Clare Davison. Clare is a privately practising midwife who attends births at home as well as in hospital. She is also an academic who holds a PhD and she is a lecturer in midwifery at Edith Cowan University here in Perth, Western Australia. Clare and I chat all things birth and feminism. We start by chatting about her own births - always my favourite way to start an interview. We then chat about working inside the system, working outside the system, changing the system or maybe creating a new one? Ultimately a birth revolution! Clare is the woman who is changing the face of birth by educating the next generation of midwives and I am very grateful for her work, knowledge and passion.

Dr Clare Davison is a midwife, academic and feminist. Clare is passionate about promoting and supporting physiological birth and working with women so that they can be empowered in their birth choices. Clare combines these passions by working as an independent midwife, providing holistic continuity of care to women; and as an academic teaching and hoping to inspire the next generation of midwives.

Listen here:

iTunes -
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dr-clare-davison-feminism-and-birth-the-last-frontier/id1510707553?i=1000488936166

Spotify -

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xhgWpuAoads6N8DMAyUd1

28/06/2020

I love this! Normalizing birth and women’s bodies 🤩

Reposted from We don't have storks in Iceland. We do it the midwife style. Best bus art ever! -

16/01/2020

Beautiful day for ’s first meetup of 2020. Always love being with women, especially when we’re gathered to talk about pregnancy, labour, birth and parenthood. Fills my cup. Now I can not wait until next months meet with the incredible Julia Jones . Head to The Birth Folk page for more details 🌿

28/12/2019

My top 9 for 2019! Which are all about the surrogacy 😂 Definitely our biggest adventure for 2018/19. It’ll be hard to top it but I hope the new decade will bring loads more adventures and excitement ✨

28/12/2019

These are incredible 😍

These paintings are life-size, depicting the power and impact birth has.
Photo credit: Chaloux Photography

06/12/2019

It’s off! ✂️🥳
Thank you so much to everyone who donated, we managed to raise over $650 for and I’ll soon be sending off almost 38cms of hair to be made into a wig for a child without hair.
Special thanks to for doing an amazing job, I love my new look! And big love to for being my photographer, love ya! 😘
Bring on Summer with hair that doesn’t weigh a tonne ☀️

04/12/2019

A beautiful morning spent with some incredible people in our Perth birth community! Thank you Fiona for taking the time to chat about trauma and make sure we, as birth workers, are looking after ourselves in the work we do. ♥️

04/12/2019

2 more days!! ✂️✂️
Would love to meet my fundraising goal of $500, so if you can spare a couple of dollars (no amount too small), it would be so appreciated! ♥️

https://hairwithheart.everydayhero.com/au/michelle-s-chop-for-change-1

(link in bio too)

18/11/2019

Over the past couple of weeks our parentage order was finally granted and a new birth certificate was issued for Jack, with Kate and Kris listed as his parents!
It’s been almost 8 months since Jack was born and now our surrogacy journey has officially come to an end!
I’m so happy for Kate and Kris to now finally be legally recognized as Jack’s parents, even though his parentage has never been questioned. They’ve been such incredible parents to him and it’s just so special to see the three of them together.
Super proud of Kate too, juggling new motherhood while also going through the rigmarole of the WA courts to get this parentage order. It’s not an easy task with the mounds of paperwork, so hats off to her!
While our surrogacy journey has officially “ended”, our friendship has definitely not and we still catch up regularly. They can’t get rid of us that easy. Here’s to no longer being “Intended Parents”, now just regular old Parents! 😉🌿
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15/11/2019

Nothing will ever be worth more than the four of us. Nothing I’ll ever be more proud of. Nothing that could top this love. ♥️
📸: @ City of Perth

06/11/2019

The FBC has experienced one of it's busiest months this October in many many years! Our Midwives have been working around the clock to provide amazing continuity of care and have helped welcome 91 babies into the world. 😍
We are so proud of the excellent service we provide.