Birth Song Midwifery

21/11/2025

So much of midwifery isn’t visible at first glance.
People see tools, checks, measuring, charting… antenatal appointments, hospitals, GP surgeries, scans… but the real work is in the relationship. It’s in the trust we build, the safety, your environment, your intuition.

Supporting you with my heart means:
• listening without judgement
• respecting your choices fully
• being steady when things feel intense
• keeping your experience at the centre

Supporting you with my hands means:
• safe, evidence-based clinical care
• experience and critical thinking
• knowing when to act, when to wait, and when to simply hold space

It’s the balance I bring to every family I work with at Birthsong Midwifery.
And I’m grateful for every journey I’m invited into. 💛










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17/11/2025

12/11/2025

Feeling so grateful for smooth collaboration and genuine teamwork 🫶 The team at The Conquest, Hastings are working beautifully alongside me — centring our clients needs and ensuring true continuity of care. It can be tricky at times, but when it flows like this, it’s such a gift. 💛

10/11/2025

There’s been a lot of noise lately about the “ideology” of natural birth.
But what’s really being questioned is women’s autonomy — their right to trust their bodies, to make informed decisions, and to birth on their own terms.

Let’s be clear: what’s dangerous isn’t physiological birth.
What’s dangerous is a system so underfunded, understaffed, and risk-averse that it’s forgotten how to trust birth at all.
A system that removes choice, shuts birth centres, pressures induction, and calls it “safety” — while maternal deaths are rising (13.56 per 100,000 maternities, MBRRACE-UK 2022).

To call women “ideological” for wanting physiological birth is to hide a much deeper truth —
that fear and control are tools of compliance.
And that’s not care.

Autonomy, continuity, and evidence-based physiological birth are not luxuries.
They are human rights — and the foundation of safe, compassionate maternity care.

To the midwives still holding space for choice,
to the families standing steady in the storm —
thank you for your courage. 🌿

🔗 Evidence & resources:
– Birthrights UK: Human rights in maternity care
– MBRRACE-UK Report 2022
– RCM: Continuity of Care Models
– Sarah Wickham, In Your Own Time

05/11/2025

Day 5 visit for this little one 💛 🐯

New born blood spot test and a weigh.

Already above birth weight and thriving — calm, content, and surrounded by so much love. Mum and dad are settling beautifully into parenthood, caring for each other and even catching some sleep!

I’ll continue to visit regularly at home as they settle into these precious early weeks 🐯

Please get in touch if you’d like to receive postnatal visits at home.

31/10/2025

🪶 Samhain marks the turning of the wheel — a time between worlds, between light and dark, between what was and what’s to come.
Midwifery lives here too, in the liminal — tending thresholds, holding courage, honouring stillness.

In birth, in motherhood, in all our becoming — there is power in pausing, in trusting, in tending the unseen.

🌑 Read the full reflection on my website blog — Tending the Threshold: Midwifery, Motherhood, and the Liminal Lessons of Samhain.

29/10/2025

🌾 Sometimes the path most travelled isn’t the one that calls you.

Sometimes, it’s the quieter road — the one lined with questions, curiosity, and deep trust in your own body and knowing.

We’re told there’s a “right” way to do pregnancy.
That there’s a checklist, a timeline, a system.
But birth doesn’t fit in boxes. And neither do you.

If you’re walking your own path — if you’re asking, “what’s right for me?” — know that you’re not alone.
This is the work I love most: walking beside women who choose their own way, without judgement, with full trust and evidence to support their choices. 💛

16/10/2025

Birth is a sacred threshold — and midwifery, at its heart, is about relationship.

I’m Rachel, an Independent Midwife offering one-to-one care for women and families across Sussex and Kent. My practice, Birth Song Midwifery, was born from the desire to restore depth and continuity to maternity care — where trust replaces fear, and the pace of birth is honoured.

I support those seeking a more intimate, grounded, and conscious experience — whether birthing at home or seeking gentle guidance within the system.

If this resonates, I’d love to hear from you.
🌾 Limited spaces for winter/spring births

16/10/2025

Birth is a sacred threshold — and midwifery, at its heart, is about relationship.

I’m Rachel, an Independent Midwife offering one-to-one care for women and families across Sussex and Kent. My practice, Birth Song Midwifery, was born from the desire to restore depth and continuity to maternity care — where trust replaces fear, and the pace of birth is honoured.

I walk with those seeking a more intimate, grounded, and conscious experience — whether birthing at home or seeking gentle guidance within the system.

If this resonates, I’d love to hear from you.
🌾 Limited spaces for winter/spring births.

23/09/2025

A brilliant day of training with fellow independent midwives 🌱
Hands-on, practical, and deeply informative — the kind of skills we rarely need to use, but that matter so much to keep fresh.

Part of our ethos and commitment as (independent) midwives is to stay current and prepared while also practising watchful waiting: knowing our clients, trusting normal physiology, and stepping in only when it’s truly needed.

Days like this help me continue offering safe, skilled, relationship-based care — so that when you invite me into your birth space, you know you’re held by someone who is both calm and capable.

💛 Supporting families across East Sussex with continuity-based homebirth, antenatal and postnatal care.

Thank you 🙏