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28/08/2025

The use of CTG changes birth. It creates anxiety, prompts interventions, and shifts focus away from the woman.” — Dr. Kirsten Small

Continuous fetal monitoring (CTG) was introduced with the promise of saving babies. Yet decades of research show it has not reduced rates of cerebral palsy or stillbirth. What it has done is increase caesarean and instrumental birth rates, while often leaving women feeling sidelined and scrutinised.

CTG doesn’t just ‘monitor’. It shifts the atmosphere in the room, directs attention to a machine instead of the mother, and frequently triggers the cascade of intervention.

When we talk about safety in birth, we must also talk about the evidence gaps and who carries the consequences when tools designed to help actually cause harm.

Tonight’s Birth Word of the Day dives deeper into CTG its history, the evidence, and why understanding it matters for every woman planning her birth.

Thank you for your work 🙏🏻🙏🏻

21/08/2025

Today, I’m pausing with a full heart to honour Dr. Michel Odent, who passed away today. I had the immense privilege of training with him in 2010, in a beautiful church in Gospel Oak London, an experience that forever reframed my role as a doula and birthkeeper.

Before that training, I thought my role was about finding things to do for women in labour, opening up my doula bag of learned tricks and unleashing them in the birth space. Michel showed me that the greatest gift we can offer is often to do less: to bring quiet, calm presence, and protect the space where birth unfolds.

He was a true pioneer. At Pithiviers hospital in France, he introduced water birth, reimagined maternity wards into home-like birth centres, and created environments where women could labour and breastfeed in peace and intimacy. A surgeon who became a midwife in spirit, he devoted his life to showing the world that birth could be physiological, instinctive, and undisturbed.

His books, Childbirth and the Future of Homo Sapiens and Childbirth in the Age of Plastics, among many others—remind us that how we birth shapes not just mothers and babies, but the future of humanity itself.

One piece of wisdom I carry with me always
“To change the world, we must first change the way babies are born.”

Thank you, Michel, for your courage, your scholarship, and your unwavering trust in our bodies. Your legacy lives on in every birthing pool, every home birth, every doula who chooses presence over interference, and every mother who births in her own power.
Rest in power, you will be missed.

21/08/2025

I created Motherhood Untamed because women deserve more than fear, pressure, and cookie-cutter prep, that serves to

💥 This isn’t about positive affirmations.
It isn’t about “going with the flow.”
And it isn’t about hoping you’ll get lucky with your birth.

❤️ It’s about knowing.
Knowing how your body really works.
Knowing how to spot coercion before it derails you.
Knowing how to hold your ground, protect your space, and step into birth with authority.
Knowing your partner, your birth team is informed and has your back.

✨ That’s the transformation waiting inside Motherhood Untamed:
From fear ➝ confidence.
From confusion ➝ clarity.
From pressure ➝ sovereignty.
From isolation ➝ belonging.

👉 If you’re ready to prepare for birth on your terms and not the system’s — join the waitlist today. [link in bio] Early bird price from now until October 2nd. We start October 12th ✌🏼

12/08/2025

Most antenatal education is like buying a flat-pack birth plan. One-size-fits-all. Instruction manual style. Neat, tidy… and completely disconnected from the real, raw, and instinct-led process your body is designed for.

It rarely teaches you how to:
🧠 Regulate your nervous system so fear doesn’t run your birth
🔥 Keep your sexuality and mammalian instincts intact in labour
🐾 Work with your body’s primal physiology instead of overriding it
💬 Spot coercion and confidently make decisions in the moment
🌿 Protect your birth space so your hormones can do their job

Without this, you’re not fully prepared, you’re just informed. And when labour arrives, it’s clear that information without embodiment isn’t enough.

That’s why I created Motherhood Untamed — the antidote to cookie-cutter prep. An 8-week journey for women who want to birth from a place of sovereignty, deep self-trust, and unshakable mammalian wisdom.

✨ Doors open now for October start — only 5 places, an intimate space with likeminded people and full daily access to me! 📩 DM me “Untamed” to apply!
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03/07/2025

🌱 Seed Cycling 101: Balance Your Hormones Naturally 🌙

👩🏻‍🦳I’ve been seed cycling for the past 6mths or so and it’s supporting me through perimenopause as it helps me modulate excess oestrogen.

🍃 Did you know you can use food to support your hormones throughout your cycle — without pills, tracking apps, or guesswork?

Seed cycling is a gentle, powerful rhythm that helps your body do what it already knows how to do: regulate, restore, and rebalance.

Here’s the breakdown:
🩸 Day 1–14 (Follicular Phase):
1 tbsp flax + 1 tbsp pumpkin daily → supports estrogen & egg development

🌕 Day 15–28 (Luteal Phase):
1 tbsp sesame + 1 tbsp sunflower daily → supports progesterone & reduces inflammation

This isn’t a hack. It’s a return to biological rhythm using food as medicine.
And it works best with consistency — give it at least 3 cycles. Your body will thank you.

💡 Especially powerful if you’re:
✨ Coming off hormonal birth control
✨ Preparing for pregnancy
✨ Regulating your cycle postpartum
✨ Experiencing PMS, cramps, irregular bleeds or hormonal acne

➡️ Save this for your next cycle
➡️ Share with a friend who’s feeling out of sync

Are you planning your pregnancy and would love some support on nutrition? Drop me a DM and I’ll send you my Nutrition PDF! 👋

24/06/2025

Your grandparents didn’t need supplements.
True. But the soil their food grew in was nothing like the soil we have today.

Since the 1940s, industrial farming has stripped the land of essential minerals like magnesium, zinc, selenium, and iodine.
Even organic produce grown today contains significantly fewer nutrients than it did 80 years ago.

On top of that, modern life increases your nutrient demands:
🧠 Chronic stress depletes B vitamins and magnesium
💊 Hormonal contraception impacts folate and other micronutrients
🌍 Environmental toxins place greater detox burden on the liver
🤰 Pregnancy and postpartum increase needs for nearly every vitamin and mineral

So no—this isn’t about taking a multivitamin just in case.
It’s about correcting for real, measurable gaps in the food supply and the modern lifestyle.

Supplements aren’t a shortcut. They’re a response to a broken system.

And not all supplements are created equal…the ones sitting on your supermarket shelf are likely mass produced junk, filled with fillers and nowhere near the recommended daily average. Do not even get me started on Pregnacare 💩

Drop me a 🍃 if you want your hands on my 30 page Nutrition PDf sent straight to your email, looking at food first principles, supplements and low tox living 🍃🍃

The key is knowing:
✅ What your body actually needs
✅ What form and dose is effective
✅ And which brands are worth your money

This is especially true in preconception, pregnancy, and recovery.
Because building a baby (and rebuilding yourself) takes more than kale.

12/06/2025

NATURE doesn’t wear a watch... 🌿

Your body isn’t following a hospital protocol - it’s following ancient wisdom that’s been perfected over millions of years.

Some births flow like rivers...
Others pulse like waves...
Each one moves to its own rhythm 🌊

The “too long” in birth is a MYTH created by systems that value efficiency over instinct.

Your birth story deserves its own timeline.
Your body knows the path.
Your baby understands the journey.

Trust this:
• Every birth dance is unique
• Your body holds deep wisdom
• Nature’s timing is perfect

The real question isn’t “how long is too long?”

It’s “who made you believe your body needed a deadline?” 🤔

👇 Drop a ❤️ if you believe in the power of YOUR unique birth journey

10/06/2025

When birth plans change, WISDOM emerges.. and often with that grief for the outcome that you planned so hard for, that did not play out.

This grief can sit very heavy and reside if its not given care and attention to process and work through. It can punctuate your early days as parent if ignored or not given space to air.

Your body knew exactly what it needed. Even when the path looked different than expected. This is where birth preparation must include emotional agility and
and prepare families with tools to pivot when needed...

Sometimes the greatest STRENGTH isn’t in sticking to the plan...

It’s in listening to your instincts when it lets you know “we need to pivot”

I’ve witnessed countless births where mothers felt they “failed” because their journey took an unexpected turn.

But you didn’t fail.
You ADAPTED.
You LISTENED.
You CHOSE.

This is the raw power of birth - it teaches us to trust ourselves even when the path shifts 🤍

Your birth story isn’t measured by how closely it matched your plans...

It’s measured by how deeply you trusted yourself through each moment.

Remember: You’re not just birthing a baby.
You’re birthing yourself as a mother.
And both journeys deserve grace 🕊️

Double tap if you needed this reminder today 🤍

06/06/2025

Hey 👋 welcome to all the new faces!

Thrilled you’ve followed me… what you can expect from me!
🤩Engaging birthy content that is outside of the mainstream
🤩Updates on my work and offerings
🤩Weekly lives from folk within the birth space and from parents who want to share their birth and new parent journey
🤩 Home birth info, opinion and experiences.

Oh and probs a few photos of my dog Dolly 🐶for good measure! Look forward to getting to know you ✌🏼🙏🏻💕

03/06/2025

Before the medical fraternity flattened the art of midwifery and reinvented it in the image of itself, birth was held and supported by the female elders of the community and midwives. Wisdom was passed on through either attending births within your family or through the elders of the group… there was no need for birth preparation when birth happened all around.

🫠 We no longer live in these community centric societies and birth is out of sight to most people until they are planning it themselves. Plan your birth with as much attention to detail as you would your wedding, your dream holiday.

👶🏼 You only birth this baby once and deserve to have the most powerful, life changing experience.

My birth preparation comes in three flavours…
🤩Motherhood Untamed my 12wk birth & postpartum group coaching programme, where you will unlearn the mainstream narrative of birth.
✌🏼Private 1:1 online birth preparation, 5 sessions of deep preparation bespoke to your situation.
💻Virtual Birthkeeper - like having your own birth support in your pocket, includes birth preparation and virtual supprt on your day of birth.

Wanna know more? Let me know in the comments below and we’ll set up a call,

29/05/2025

Choosing a home birth isn’t about being “brave.”
It’s about being informed.
It’s about trusting your body.
It’s about reclaiming birth as something that doesn’t need to be managed — just respected supported.

We’ve been conditioned to believe that birth is dangerous unless it happens in a hospital, this is not supported in research or the experiences of women. Technocracy and the machinery and monitoring it has brought has done little to nothing to improve maternal or neonatal outcomes.

Safety isn’t a location it’s felt.
Private. Loved. Undisturbed. Powerful.
That’s the nervous system’s definition of safety — and it matters deeply in birth.

Your body is not broken.
Birth is not a medical event by default.
And home birth is not a trend — it’s a return.

A return to instinct.
A return to sovereignty.
A return to the kind of birth that belongs to you.

Have the ‘What If’s’ been weighing on you? Let me know in the comments and tag a mama that needs to hear this today!

✨ Ready to unlearn the conditioning and uncover faith in your body and trust in the birth process?
DM me UNTAMED and I’ll send you the first step.

28/05/2025

Thursday 29th May I’ll be in conversation with former midwife turned radical birthkeeper

Kelly stepped away from her NHS job as a home birth midwife because she could no longer work in the constraints of a system that centred its protocol over the individual care of women. Like many midwives she felt she was not ‘with woman’

💥 This will be an insightful and thought provoking conversation and not to be missed especially if you are planning to birth at home with NHS midwives in attendance

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