04/09/2025
If we were expecting babies next year, here’s some of the things we’d be doing now!
📚 Read! Start learning about how birth works. Our favourite childbirth authors are: Sara Wickham, Rachel Reed. 🎧 If podcasts are more your thing, The Great Birth Rebellion is jam packed full of info.
🫀Really tune in to how you feel. How your baby is. Connect with your gut instinct. If this feels challenging to you, who can you seek support from?
🫂 The people you surround yourself with during pregnancy influence how you feel about birth. Planning a home birth but all your friends/family think you’re bananas? You need to find people who believe in home birth and hear other peoples experiences. Also, your village will be with you after birth as you adapt to your new family & responsibilites - these are the people that will drop you food off, listen to your worries, get it when you don’t respond to a text immediately.
🔮 If you don’t know what your options are, choices will be made for you. This presents itself as being told, for example, that you have to have certain tests if you have certain risk factors - rather than having all your options explained to you so you can make an informed choice. The doctors / midwives don’t always know best - and they don’t know your body and your baby like you do. Going with the flow often plays out as going with the flow of the maternity system - which might not be the right flow for you!
🤰🏽Hiring an independent midwife means having a midwife who supports & respects your choices, isn’t bound by hospital policies & red tape and who will have the time to explain your options. It also means you get to dictate what’s talked about when. Want to discuss your birth plan at 12 weeks? No problemo. Want to talk about feeding at 40 weeks? All good babes. It’s care on your terms.
Let’s chat if you’d like to know more 🫶
