More than a Midwife

05/02/2026

20/01/2026

The only way to truely know the actual weight of your baby is to weigh it after it’s born.

Ultrasound is not an accurate predictor of your baby’s weight during pregnancy. The accuracy threshold is +/- 10% which means if your baby is 4kg then an accurate assessment on ultrasound would anywhere from 3.6kg to4.4kg… ultrasound is only accurate to this standard 70% of the time

Given the inaccurate measurement standard, the literature suggests NOT using ultrasound findings to make decisions about early induction for baby weight.

Get the full story on episode 186. Big babies small babies.

13/01/2026

To the parents I walk with — especially in those first raw, beautiful, exhausting days:

You don’t have to do it all.
You don’t have to love every second.
You don’t need to be “on” all the time.

You just brought life into the world.
That’s enough.
You are enough.

When you feel unsure — I’ll remind you.
When the questions come at 3AM — I’ve likely heard them before.
When you need someone to say, “You’re doing great,”
I will.

This work doesn’t end when the baby arrives.
Because you were born too.
Into this new version of yourself.
And I’ll keep holding space for you there.

💛 Save this for the days it feels heavy.
You are seen. You are held.
And you are never doing this alone.

13/01/2026

✨ 2026 Availability Now Open ✨
"The Held Package"
Private midwifery care for pregnancy, birth & postpartum

This package is for families wanting more than appointments.
More than fragmented care.
More than feeling like just another number.

It’s for those who want:
• One midwife, the whole way through
• Care that feels calm, personal, and unhurried
• Support through pregnancy, birth and the postpartum weeks
• Someone who knows your story — and holds it with care

Places are intentionally limited to protect the depth and quality of care I offer.

If you’re planning pregnancy or already expecting in 2026 and this kind of support speaks to you, I’d love to chat.

📩 DM me “2026” or book a discovery call via the link in bio.

03/01/2026

Let’s talk about language — because it matters.

When we say “delivery,” it subtly places birth in a transactional box.
As if a woman is passive.
As if something is being handed over.

But birth isn’t a service being provided.
It’s an experience being lived.
A physiological, emotional, transformative act led by a woman’s body.

It is something the woman DOES,
not something that is DONE to her.

Words shape culture.
And the language we use around birth quietly shapes how women are treated within it.

So no — I don’t “deliver babies.”
I witness women give birth.

As a lecturer once told me "Pizzas are delivered, and babies are born"

💬 Does the word delivery give you the ICK. too, or am I alone in this?


📸Steff Swain Photography
🤰Leah 💕

24/12/2025

📣 Volunteers needed 📣

If you can cook even one meal, you can help support a growing family this Christmas season.

Register today 💚🤍❤️
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21/12/2025

You've had your Spotify wrap-up, now time for More than a Midwife Wrapped: 2025 🤍✨

This year I had the absolute privilege of supporting 22 families through pregnancy, birth, and those tender early postpartum days.

A few “highlights” from the birth room (and the lounge room, and the car, and the 2am phone calls 😅):

🌿 19 planned homebirths + 3 planned hospital births
🫶 86.4% vaginal births
🔥 7 VBACs (including VBA2C) — every single VBAC mumma achieved her VBAC
🛁 11 waterbirths
🚫 No inductions and no instrumental births
🏡➡️🏥 4 transfers for pain relief (3 vaginal births + 1 in-labour CS)
👶 12 boys / 10 girls
⚖️ Birthweights ranged from 2975g to 5290g
🍼 90.9% exclusively breastfeeding at discharge — and every baby received colostrum/breastmilk at birth

Behind every number is a story. A mother doing something brave. A partner learning how to hold the moment. A baby arriving in their own time (and sometimes this is beyond the 42 week mark).

To every family who trusted me with your journey: thank you.
And if 2026 is your year — I’m here. 🤍

Tell me in the comments: what was your biggest “wrapped” moment of pregnancy/birth/postpartum this year?

17/12/2025

As we move toward 2026, there are some things I’m consciously leaving behind.

Fear as education.
Rigid rules dressed up as “best practice.”
Women being told what’s right for them without being included in the conversation.

Birth and motherhood are complex.
They deserve care that can hold nuance — not black-and-white thinking.

What we need more of isn’t louder voices or stronger opinions.
It’s respect.
Time.
Listening.

Here’s to care that centres women, families, and informed choice — not fear or control.

💬 What’s one thing you are leaving behind in 2025?

02/12/2025

Christmas is not a medical indication for induction.

Ever noticed how few babies are born on Christmas Day?

Let’s just say…
the calendar shouldn’t be making clinical decisions.

Your birth, your body, your timing — always

27/11/2025