A midwife will give you & baby antenatal health checks, but who will prepare you for birth and baby life? Are all the options the same? Which one is best?

Understanding the options, and how to choose between them, will help you to feel properly ready to meet your baby.

Read time: 7 mins

Birth is unpredictable, so why would you bother planning for it? The same reason you plot your journey to the airport on Bank Holiday Monday: because it gives you choices and power.

These five reasons, rooted in research, will help you to reframe your birth plan and help you to create a positive birth experience.

Read time: 8 mins

Congratulations! You’re creating life, from scratch! That’s the most powerful thing in the world and you’re doing it without thinking… so why do you feel so clueless?

My four doula top tips for will help you keep your thinking to the positive side, focusing on how born for this you are.

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Buying gifts for our pregnant friends and family is such a treat. But surely, we want our baby shower, Christmas and birthday presents to help not hinder our loved ones?

Make sure your gift brings joy and ease to the life of the pregnant person in your life, using these four simple steps.

Read time: 7 minutes.

People have been having babies for millions of years; you are fully capable of growing, birthing and raising your baby without anyone telling you what to do.

But would you feel about going in blind? Nervous? Unsure? A little clueless?

Finding the right antenatal class will give you confidence.

Read time: 9 minutes

I’ve been there: researched the best pram, the car seat, the play arch… and honestly, most of them made life harder for me.

These three steps will help you create a baby-essentials list to make your family life as easy and enjoyable as possible.

Read time: 7 minutes

I’ve birthed a baby without a doula and I’ve birthed a baby with one. Trust me when I say that the difference was enormous!

Take a look at the evidence on how having doula support can transform your birthing experience.

Read time: 9 minutes

Birth = hormones = emotions. If this equation is as true as science tells us, why don’t we prepare for the emotional side of birth better?

These four steps will help you to start preparing for the emotional rollercoaster ride of birthing your baby.

Read time: 11 mins

Pregnancy is hard. Parenting is hard. Why do we make it harder for ourselves by not sharing the knowledge we have?

These four knowledge nuggets won’t take away the hard, but they’ll help to prepare you for it.

Read time: 8 mins

When it comes to birth, feeling safe is vital. You can throw as many statistics at me as you like, but ultimately your gut instinct matters more here.

Create a feel-safe birth plan to boost your oxytocin levels in six simple steps.

Read time: 6 mins

Whether you’re still suspicious or in-the-know and announced it to the world, pregnancy can be an overwhelming tsunami of what’s next?

These five steps will ground you, calm you and put you on the powerful pregnancy path.

Read time: 7 mins

In caveman days, no pregnant woman had to worry about being alone: her village would always be there. But nowadays… well…

Here are three ways to build your own village to beat the loneliness of modern parenthood.

Read time: 9 mins

Instinct is meant to tell us what to do. But when there’s no ‘right’ answer are we destined to be damned if we do, damned if you don’t?

Strike a chord? Try these tips for unpicking the guilt and tackling parenting with confidence.

Read time: 9 mins

Am I ‘back to normal’, since having my baby? Of all the things I hear that are complete bullshit, that takes the biscuit.

Four simply steps to take to replace the idea of bounce-back with transformation.

Read time: 9 mins