Updated 24/03/20 in line with new RCOG guidelines If you are pregnant right now, I can imagine that the unpredictability of the pandemic situation might make you feel anxious. I am writing this to try and help allay fears, as well as suggest of list of ways you can...
If you follow my blog you might have felt surprised that I haven’t posted anything since last July, when I typically wrote a monthly or twice monthly post before. This is because, early in the summer, I experienced a personal and professional crisis of...
At the end of 2017 I wrote a review of my year. I found this a very useful exercise, because as I wrote telling a story, I gained a lot more insight into what I had done during the year than when I bullet point it like I used to do. So I am doing it again, for myself,...
This morning, a antenatal teacher friend shared the local hospital’s leaflet about the timeline of physical recovery after a cesarean. It’s been a while since something in the birth world has triggered me as much as this leaflet did. The leaflet, whilst...
The Background of the Rebozo Rebozos, shawls and scarves-the lost art of supporting women through the childbearing years. I was introduced to the art of using the traditional Mexican shawl called the rebozo back in 2013 when I attended a workshop by doula...
