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12/01/2026

Birth education isn’t the problem and to a lesser degree, neither the solution…

Most women are informed. They’ve attended the classes, read the books, learned the physiology.

What they’re rarely prepared for is how decisions are framed once labour begins (and often before) how authority, protocol, and risk language quietly shape the room.

This is why education alone hasn’t protected women from medicalised birth.

What’s your thoughts? Let me know in the comments!

The full piece is now live on the blog - link in bio

17/12/2025

💓 Ending the year with a full heart, belly laughs and seemingly answering to ‘Bro’ courtesy of my two nephews.

👦🏻Theo my 8yr old nephew shot this video and put the music to it -my little content creator in the making.

I’m savouring every moment here, reconnecting with family, enjoying nature and stepping off the hamster wheel that is life in a big old metropolis.

Festive Greetings from North Carolina, I’m so grateful to be here 🇺🇸

DM’s are open, I’m available here and there for clarity calls, DM me to set up a time.
❤️

16/12/2025

Last week I had an incredible conversation with Shannon O’Flaherty on her podcast Beyond Birth trauma - where Shannon uncovers the powerful truth about our beginnings and how they’ve shaped our entire lives.

We went deep in Shannon’s words “In this episode, Jo Dunn, a birthkeeper, pulls back the curtain on the industrial maternity system and reveals what women are never told about their bodies, their power, or their births. She shares her unfiltered perspective about what’s really happening inside modern maternity care, coercion, fear-based protocols, and the erosion of informed choice.”

I’ve linked the episode in my stories pls check it out….

09/12/2025

Todays birth word is ‘Luteal Phase’ is where fertility is either protected… or quietly sabotaged.

🩸 This is the second half of your cycle ruled by progesterone, steadied by the thyroid, and responsible for whether an early pregnancy is welcomed or expelled. It’s where implantation is supported, the uterine lining is stabilised, and your nervous system decides whether it feels safe to hold life

📅 A short luteal phase.
A temperature that won’t stay elevated.
Premenstrual anxiety, rage, insomnia, spotting.
These aren’t ‘just hormones’ they are biological feedback.

🔥 The luteal phase is where burnout shows up in the body. Where under-fueling, over-training, stress, thyroid drag, and blood sugar instability quietly unravel conception.

If you’re trying to conceive, this phase matters as much as ovulation and maybe more.

Your cycle isn’t broken.
It’s talking to you.

👂🏻And if you know how to listen, it will tell you exactly what your body needs. Share this with a pal on their fertility journey 🙏🏻

07/12/2025

🚲 I’ve hear it said that cycling women are a different person each week of the month….

Hormones are the key to our female reproductive health, they show us red flags, orchestrate our emotions and offer us more insight than any app of GP appointmen!

📆 This week I’m taking a hormonal focus for those of you on a conception journey… tomorrow I’ll be dropping a post about your luteal phase…
🧬 What is it?
🧬 What’s the purpose
🧬 How to support it?
You won’t want to miss tomorrows post - let your friends on a fertility journey know 🙏🏻

06/12/2025

🙏🏻To all the new faces who found their way here this week welcome. Truly.
I’m Jo. Birthkeeper, birth educator, and long-time student of the most humbling teacher I know:…birth itself.

My work hasn’t been shaped by one training, one philosophy, or one season of certainty, I’ve thought about walking away from this space many times. My work has been shaped over many years, at many bedsides, floors and planning over kitchen tables. By watching women surprise themselves. By seeing what works in theory meet what unfolds in real life and above all learning, unlearning, and relearning all over again.

I care deeply about sovereignty and just as deeply about physiology. I care about women being informed, held, and met in the complexity of their real lives, not shoehorned into ideologies or made to perform a particular kind of ‘right’ birth.

If you’re here because you’re pregnant, thinking about becoming pregnant, or simply curious about how birth really works beneath the noise, you’re in the right place.

This space is for nuance., for evidence, for instinct, and for questions that don’t fit neatly into boxes.

💕Thank you for being here. I’m glad you’ve found this space and I would love to hear from you in the comments. What would you like to see in this space?

05/12/2025

🏥 When a woman with a previous caesarean asks for a homebirth, the response she gets often tells you more about the system than her actual level of risk.

🏡 HBAC isn’t a fringe choice.
It’s a path many women take because their first birth was shaped by stalled labour in hospital, coerced augmentation, emergency surgery, a baby in NICU, and the disruption of bonding and breastfeeding and nervous system fallout. Choosing differently the next time is not a gamble - it’s informed.

👩‍🔧 And the data reflect that.
VBAC success rates are high.
Scar rupture in spontaneous labour is rare. HBAC studies show increased vaginal birth rates and low absolute rates of severe outcomes.

🏠 The real issue is not “woman at home” it’s the trial of VBAC in a system that won’t allow physiology to unfold and pushes women into the very emergencies they’re then blamed for.

🥼 So when a clinician says, “We don’t support homebirth after c-section, it nearly always means loss,” it’s worth pausing.
What does the evidence say?
Is this personal opinion or clinical fact?
What is my gut staying right now?

🖼️ Women deserve the full picture, the numbers, the nuance, and the right to choose the environment that actually supports their labour, not derails it.

If you want this unpacked or need support planning a VBAC or HBAC pathway, drop me a hand raise 🤚🏻✋🏿 and I’ll send you my HBAC myth buster one sheet!

03/12/2025

🌎 We’re raising babies in a world our nervous systems never evolved for constant alerts, wireless signals, apps that watch while we sleep.

And after years of working with families, I’m seeing something we don’t talk about enough…

Parents are becoming more hyper-vigilant, not more confident.

Baby monitors haven’t reduced SIDS. They haven’t made newborn sleep easier. But they have trained already-sensitive brains to stay on high alert — ping, flash, beep all night long.

🇬🇧 The UK Health Security Agency says these devices sit within safety guidelines.
But ‘safe’ doesn’t always mean neutral.

🚨 False alarms spike cortisol -
interruptions disrupt attunement and a dysregulated parent can’t co-regulate a baby.

Infant safety has always been built through presence, physiology, and nervous-system regulation not surveillance tech.

👶 This is about remembering that your baby needs you, not a device that tells you not to trust your instincts.

02/12/2025

design of the human body.

🤓 What part of labour physiology interests you the most?… let me know in the comments⬇️⬇️⬇️

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