Dear Body...
I would like to send you my most heartfelt of apologies for twenty-odd years of almost perpetual self-abuse. I'm sorry that before I had...
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Here's to the team
I've got teams that are transient and others that are permanent, and they ebb and flow, and interlink. There's the life guru, who is now...
A unicorn named Oxytocin
Nobody said being a student or becoming a midwife was going to be easy. Three years of sacrifices, tears and gruelling hard work,...
Time to be happy
I woke up this morning feeling supremely unsettled. Two hours later, languishing in the sunshine and sighing a contented sigh as I came...
Changing the world
This week I made a difference. A home visit lasted two hours and, by the time I made my way back to my own home and my own children, my...
May I be...
May I be a midwife who stops and looks and listens May I be patient May I be confident enough to say “I don't know” and “please help” May...
Mother, Midwife, Me. In no particular order
Way back when, in the depths of my midwifery training, I wrote for The Practising Midwife about having twins. I wrote that my role in the...
Women supporting women... continuity counts
Continuity of carer is undoubtedly the gold standard of care that we should all strive for, and women who experience continuity of carer...
My own 'normal'
This has been a difficult one. This week has seen me supporting women with fear in their eyes and heaviness in their hearts. I have...
The value of mentorship
Having survived my first week as a newly qualified midwife, I have once again been considering the value of mentors. Mentorship interests...
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