Ten Moons Birth Wisdom

14/04/2026

Research published in the Lancet in 2020 showed a significant reduction in medical interventions for women simply PLANNING to birth at home, regardless of where they actually birthed (swipe for the stats)

Why? What’s the magic formula to help reduce interventions?

Confidence + relationships with midwives + calm in their choices = empowerment

The wonderful home birth team at PAH, can give you the confidence in your choices and your body. They believe in your ability to birth your baby with little@or no interventions.

Just think of the difference it would make to have someone cheering you on instead of undermining your ability by constantly checking, prodding and poking, all the while tapping their watches and silently saying, ‘tick tock, come on! Hurry up!’

The word ‘midwife’ means ‘with woman’ - quietly observing, gently promoting if needed, just knowing you can do it. What a person to have on your support team

17/02/2026

For families who home educate their children, the wonderful Matipo Arts offer sessions locally to support learning

15/02/2026

What was your “I wish I’d known” moment?

This is such a useful post from Pandas Foundation (Pre And PostNatal Depression Advice and Support)

There so much you can try to learn before your baby arrives in your arms - but antenatally, it’s all theory.

The real learning hits as soon as your baby is born

And that very often makes you realise that no matter how many podcasts, instagram follows, classes, chats with other parents you did during pregnancy, sometimes that just isn’t enough to be ready.

We’re sharing this question because so many parents tell us they wished they’d known they weren’t alone in how they felt.

By sharing, you might help another parent feel seen, reassured, or brave enough to ask for support.

There’s no right or wrong answer. Share as much or as little as you like ❤️

[ID - Text reads: "What’s the hardest part of pregnancy or early parenthood that no one prepared you for?]"

12/02/2026

What Melanie The Midwife is saying here is something that needs to be applied ACROSS THE BOARD for birthing women.

Anyone who spends time with pregnant, labouring and postpartum women can see that morbidity outcomes for women is WAY down the list of noted outcomes.

❤️‍🩹Increase in postpartum infections, including sepsis
❤️‍🩹Increase in more severe perineal tears
❤️‍🩹Increase in assisted deliveries
❤️‍🩹Increase in unplanned caesareans
❤️‍🩹Increase in PTSD and birth trauma (for labouring women, their partners and their babies
❤️‍🩹Increase in babies needing to be in the SCBU or NICU

This is not about saying, all pregnant women should have a homebirth.

It's about having homebirth as a legitimate, evidence-based safe option for all pregnant women to consider if they want to.

Just as they have the planned caesarean or induction discussed by professionals.

But they need to have home birth midwives talk to them about it - not journalists, labour ward practitioners with no experience or confidence in home birth, or consultants who have never (or would ever, perhaps) see home birth as the safe and legitimate option that it is for most women, even first labours

12/02/2026

This is a personal post, but such an important one for our family, because it marks the start of a wonderful new adventure for us all 🎉

Taking much longer than we could ever have imagined (8 months in total!) yesterday we finally exchanged contracts on the sale of my mum’s house and the purchase of her new one.

It’s been a particularly hard time because the reason for the move is to support my lovely mum, who’ll be 88 in May, as she navigates her way through deteriorating mobility due to chronic arthritis in her legs, plus the middle stages of vascular dementia.

But, it means we’ll finally be able to move in together at the end of the month, giving my mum the social and emotional support she needs, whilst giving us the joy of being around her at this challenging part of her life.

Seeing her struggle more and more with fading independence and capacity while we tried to get the house sale across the line has been torturous and brutally frustrating at times.

And there were times when we thought we’d missed the window of opportunity to support her.

There’s an unpredictable road ahead, but I’ve never been more grateful to have the unconditional loving support of my amazing children who didn’t bat an eyelid when I first floated the idea of multi-generational living to help their grandma, Jeannie Beannie.

Let the fun begin! 🙌🏻🥰

11/02/2026

Midwives ARE the solution! And the sooner society accepts and actively embraces that, the quicker we will see reductions in postnatal trauma, morbidity, families being empowered, less babies going into NICU, more women feeling stronger and more confident mothers. This is not a drill…midwifery models of care shape our future

10/02/2026

There’s still time to book your place on this great antenatal course starting at The Parent Hood of Harlow on 24 February 🙌🏻

07/02/2026

I am so excited to share this wonderful new antenatal course starting at The Parent Hood of Harlow in collaboration with Dragonfly Wellness

Starting on Feb 24th, the course offers pregnant women and expectant parents the chance to prepare for the realities of becoming a parent for the first time or if your family is growing.

We can’t wait to meet you

05/02/2026

A lovely idea from Greater Anglia - collecting donated Easter Eggs and Easter activities at local stations for the children’s ward at PAH
🐣🐰🌸🏥



Stations where you can leave donations:

Harlow Town
Harlow Mill
Sawbridgeworth
Bishop’s Stortford
Stansted Mountfitchet

05/02/2026

A lovely idea from Greater Anglia - collecting donated Easter Eggs and Easter activities at local stations for the children’s ward at PAH
🐣🐰🌸🏥



Stations where you can leave donations:

Harlow Town
Harlow Mill
Sawbridgeworth
Bishop’s Stortford
Stansted Mountfitchet