MAMA Midwifery Practice

MAMA Midwifery Practice MAMA is a private midwifery practice & hub for holistic care during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

MAMA is Victoria’s largest private midwifery practice, supporting over 2,500 births in the last 15 years. We’re here to help you feel empowered, informed, and supported through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.Your journey is at the heart of everything we do. MAMA was created by two passionate midwives, Jan Ireland and Kelly Langford & is the first centre of its kind in Victoria, offering Me

dicare rebates for individualised midwifery care across the continuum. From pregnancy to postnatal care, we’re here with expert midwifery care and allied healthcare support for every step of your journey into parenthood. MAMA offers a range of services including:
- Pre-pregnancy counselling
- Early pregnancy consultation and support
- Antenatal midwifery care including ordering & interpreting of ultrasounds and blood results
- Labour and birth care at home or support in hospital
- Postnatal care through to 8 weeks
- Shared care with The Women's Hospital, Mercy Health and Western Health
- Complementary therapies including yoga, massage, counselling, naturopathy, aromatherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, physiotherapy, baby massage, birth debriefing, internal pelvic release
- Lactation support with a team of internationally board certified lactation consultants
- Free feeding support groups
- Parent morning teas
- Mothers groups
- Women's circles
- Birth education classes
- Parent education classes
- Professional education classes
- Quality products recommended by MAMA for retail
- A resource library

More information on our website; www.mamabirth.au

An image we love of a beautiful birth capturing how the rest between contractions is just as important as the work. Thes...
22/04/2026

An image we love of a beautiful birth capturing how the rest between contractions is just as important as the work. These moments served her so well as her labour progressed, and her partner was brilliant at knowing when to ‘be’ rather than ‘do’ as a support person.

Shared with permission from a wonderful client

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Choosing who is in your birth support team is one of the most significant decisions you will make in your pregnancy.Not ...
16/04/2026

Choosing who is in your birth support team is one of the most significant decisions you will make in your pregnancy.

Not just who you want there, but whether the people you choose feel genuinely confident in their role. Whether they understand what is happening & why and whether they know how to support you in the way your body actually needs to be supported in labour.

When your support people are informed, calm and clear about what their role is, it can make a big difference to the energy in the room.

This is a big part of what we work on in our childbirth education program and in our midwifery appointments. Not just with the person who is pregnant, but with everyone who will be in that room!

When someone doesn't feel listened to in their care, they unfortunately adjust; they ask fewer questions, they share les...
15/04/2026

When someone doesn't feel listened to in their care, they unfortunately adjust; they ask fewer questions, they share less, they carry more alone than they should have to and that has ripple effects that last well beyond the birth!

Building care around relationship and time isn't just a values choice; it is a clinical one too, because it really can effect clinical outcomes in a way that is hard to measure, but when we listen to women, we can hear it in their stories, and we see it in our outcomes.

When women feel genuinely heard they engage differently with their care. They often make decisions from a place of understanding rather than anxiety & they begin their parenting from a different foundation.

It's the question that comes up when families are considering a homebirth or sharing with their loved ones what their pl...
10/04/2026

It's the question that comes up when families are considering a homebirth or sharing with their loved ones what their plans are.

At every homebirth, two MAMA midwives attend & we bring neonatal and maternal resuscitation equipment, equipment for IV access, and medications to manage postpartum haemorrhage (just to name a few). We're also highly experienced in recognising the difference between labour progressing normally and a situation that needs something more. That clinical judgement is as important as any piece of equipment we carry.

Physiological birth with two experienced midwives who know you is also protective in general. The families we care for at home are well & are being supported to labour without unnecessary interventions that might add additional stressors. Physiological birth, in those conditions and with experienced support, has a strong safety record; the research supports this clearly, and our outcomes reflect it.

If you have questions about safety in homebirth or private midwifery care, please just ask.. our discovery calls with a midwife are free!

This is something we talk about lots in appointments and in birth classes.Birth environment isn't a soft preference or a...
09/04/2026

This is something we talk about lots in appointments and in birth classes.

Birth environment isn't a soft preference or a nice-to-have, it's physiology. Your nervous system is reading the room, and your hormones are responding accordingly. We've seen it make a difference more times than we can count.

Swipe to understand why, and know that wherever you choose to birth, we can help you create a space that works for you.

If you support birth, what environmental factors have you seen make the biggest difference in labour? Drop it in the comments for parents to see.

Scales, doppler, measuring tape.. angle grinder?Veronica's midwife basket last month had some unexpected items while she...
07/04/2026

Scales, doppler, measuring tape.. angle grinder?

Veronica's midwife basket last month had some unexpected items while she also helped out with renovations in our Caulfield clinic in between appointments! It made for some interesting chat with her first client of the day as she unpacked!

Private midwifery really is a bit of everything some weeks!

There are no words for this moment..so we won't try. Shared with permission from one of the beautiful families we were h...
04/04/2026

There are no words for this moment..so we won't try.
Shared with permission from one of the beautiful families we were honoured to support.



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Somewhere along the way, six weeks checks became known as sufficient postpartum care. And most families don't question i...
02/04/2026

Somewhere along the way, six weeks checks became known as sufficient postpartum care. And most families don't question it because they don't know anything different is possible. This is different in private midwifery, extended and deeply supported postpartum is not considered a 'nice extra', it's actually an essential.

If you know somebody pregnant and planning ahead for postpartum, share this one!

A very interesting question we hear in discovery visits for those who are exploring support from a private midwife for a...
31/03/2026

A very interesting question we hear in discovery visits for those who are exploring support from a private midwife for a planned hospital birth.
It's such a good question so we wanted to answer it here too for anybody else wondering.

Address

Wurundjeri Country, 38 Gatehouse Drive
Kensington, VIC
3031

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+61393767474

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