Joy Horner - Birth Joy

17/03/2026

✨️Save the dates!✨️

I'm so excited to share that our series of BirthWise Workshops are coming to in Glastonbury.

Designed to support the work of Doulas Midwives and Birthkeepers, as well as those new to this work, these monthly workshops will equip you with research based information and practical skills to enhance your practice.

These workshops have been crafted by Birth Wisdom-Keepers and facilitators of the Birthkeeper's Path-10 moons course, Jady Mountjoy and Joy Horner.
Jady and Joy have over 40 years combined experience of serving birthing families. They have received direct transmissions from their own mentors and teachers, including Michael Odent, Mary Cronk, Gail Tully, Penny Simkin, Sheila Kitzinger, and many more.

Together, they embody a lineage of wisewonen who cared for families through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood and are now sharing their wisdom for those ready to receive it.

Each workshop will enable you to explore the subject through practical demonstrations, real-life scenarios and self enquiry, updating your knowledge base and skills toolkit.

All workshops are inclusive, trauma informed, and birth imprint aware. Designed to deepen your understanding of pregnancy, birth, and parenting as sacred portals of transformation to be honoured, and enable you to develop the skills to support clients through challenges as well as triumphs.

Our first workshop is Placenta Magic and medicine.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:

🟠 Honour the placenta
🟣 Examine a placenta
🟠 Make placenta prints
🟣 Give a placenta reading
🟠 Make a tincture
🟣 Prepare the placenta for ingestion
🟠 Make a cord keepsake
🟣 Traditions for disposal of a placenta

More details are coming soon.

15/03/2026

Mother's day blessings!

with - Today is Mothers Day and I’m dedicating this to all mothers as well as all those women who wished to be mothers but , for whatever reason , were unable.
Last summer, I went on pilgrimage to the most south westerly point of England, to traverse the sacred sites of ancient Kernow ( Cornwall ) One particularly special day was with dear Cornish sister . We had already shared a special trip to Tintagel and this time, our destination was the stone circles , holy wells and dolmen of West Penwith. As the sun was setting , we reached Men-an-Tol , the extraordinary donut shaped stone you see below . It’s said to be 4000 years old !
Folklore surrounding the Mên-an-Tol standing stones in Cornwall, England, suggests that women seeking to become pregnant should crawl through the central holed stone seven times backwards during a full moon. This ancient site is associated with fertility, easy childbirth, and curing child ailments. Abbey and I held a ceremony here and I sang ‘Circle of Women’ . We literally felt the presence of spirit of so many women who had prayed here for millennia, all their hopes and dreams and aspirations, especially the young maidens praying to become mothers , circling us . It was a profound experience that remains with us still . Blessings and thanks to the Great Mother who sustains us all . sacredsites

11/03/2026

Wow! Such exciting study into treatments for HIE

with - New study explores intranasal administration of mother’s milk in babies after hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy?

The rationale is compelling: human milk contains stem cells, growth factors, anti-inflammatory mediators, and neurotrophic factors, and intranasal delivery may allow biologically active components to reach the brain through olfactory pathways.

Treatment tolerated in all 10 babies in this pilot study

Many mechanisms involved in preterm IVH overlap with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in term infants—neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, and impaired repair.

Could intranasal mother’s milk become a simple adjunctive neuroprotective therapy for term infants with HIE?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41776367/

04/03/2026

I am creating a new offering.. As part of the process I am seeking 5 pregnant women - who would be willing to book a free 1:1, 45 min call with me - to answer 7 questions I have, and receive answers to 3 of your own.. Comment “call” or DM me and I will reach out to you to schedule our free call ❤️🌹

04/03/2026

The more safety and comfort that surround you in birth, the better your natural oxytocin will flow.

Give birth where you feel safe.

Surround yourself with people you know and trust.

Learn what makes you and your birth partner regulate your nervous systems and feel good

Find ways to block external stimulation

03/03/2026

26/02/2026

I remember Mary Cronk telling me this 20 years ago, and I believed it. Of course, most women and people who are pregnant are aware if ther baby is growing, if they feel full of baby or not. They also know if this baby feels bigger or smaller than the last!

Please listen to those who are pregnant! 🤰

with - In studies that compared ultrasound, a clinician’s estimate, or the mother’s guess on the size of the baby, the mother comes out the winner. We’ve been taught to outsource our inner knowledge to technocracy and it has come with a cost. We can reclaim birth back to the family in one generation with common birth knowledge back in the hands of common families. 

Reply TBC2026 to learn more about our upcoming September’s Becoming a Traditional Birth Companion.

Sources:
Ashrafganjooei, T., T. Naderi, B. Eshrati, and N. Babapoor. "Accuracy of ultrasound, clinical and maternal estimates of birth weight in term women/Precision de l'estimation echographique, clinique et maternelle du poids du bebe a la naissance chez des femmes enceintes a terme." Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 16, no. 3 (2010): 313.

Sgayer, Inshirah, Yara N. Francis, Nadine Ashkar‐Majadla, Ruba Tuma, Lior Lowenstein, Maya Frank Wolf, and Marwan Odeh. "Three Methods of Fetal Weight Estimation Compared in Women With BMI≥ 35 kg/m2 at Term—A Prospective Observational Study." Birth (2025).





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