Movement for Birth

Movement for Birth is about providing holistic, personalised midwifery that cultivates self-trust to enable families to move more easily through the constant changes on this journey.

Pregnancy, birth and parenthood are unique rites of passage, which bring myriad challenges. Through compassionate, individualised care I make space for the complexity of birth experience and create community to support these diverse journeys.

As in life, risk is inherent in childbirth, but it can be dramatically reduced  through a strengths-based lens of salutogenesis. This word comes from the latin 'saluto' for health, and asks us to look at what supports an individual's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness.

While everyone has the capacity for health, birth is unpredictable.  This is why the unknown of birth - which involves factors beyond our control - has to be acknowledged and respected. The challenge in birth at the moment is that many people are disadvantaged by 'too much too soon' (i.e. unnecessary intervention) or 'too little too late'  (i.e. avoidable poor outcomes). 

We need to find the middle path. Movement for Birth is about respecting the body's intelligence and its limitations; it's about working with nature, not against it.

 I love to learn from families' unique journeys into parenthood, which inspire the continuous evolution of Movement for Birth.