Hills Midwifery Services

28/04/2023

ARE YOU A MUM-TO-BE OR A MAMA IN ADELAIDE??

I'm a private midwife in the Adelaide Hills who has been attending homebirths since 2017. Lately, I have been feeling the call to work with women in a new way. To support women to move into motherhood feeling connected to community and spiritually grounded. To bring women together as they move through matrescence, transitioning from maiden to mother. To witness and celebrate each other's unique experiences, and share in the sorrows and challenges.

If you have a moment could you please fill out this survey? It's so important to make sure any new offerings match your needs as mothers and women.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/72HLQ66

21/04/2023

Lately, I've been feeling the call to work with women in a new way. To support women to move into motherhood feeling connected to community and spiritually grounded. To bring women together as they move through matrescence, transitioning from maiden to mother. To witness and celebrate each other's unique experiences, and share in the sorrows and challenges.

If you have a moment, could you please fill in this survey? It's important that any new offerings match your needs as mothers and women.

Please take the survey titled "Hills Midwifery Meditation Circles". Your feedback is important!

26/06/2022

Dilation Station? Labour Throne? 👸

DILATION STATION! 💯

Aka the "Get it done position." 💪🏽 Most of my clients know that I love using the toilet for labor. It's the best way to release a pelvic floor and help a baby descend into the pelvis. The contractions are super intense on the potty, but that's because they are super productive! Trust me when I tell you, this is one of the all time best labor positions!

🚽you are naturally prone to relaxing your pelvic floor and perineum while sitting on the toilet.
🚽the bathroom is a place of privacy and solitude and you are used to relaxing in this room.
🚽you are using gravity
🚽you are opening your pelvis.
🚽you are allowing your baby lots of room to rotate and navigate the birth canal.
🚽you can also turn around and straddle the toilet with a pillow in front of you for comfort.

I call it the “dilation station” for a reason. I’ve encouraged many mommies to spend some time laboring on the toilet. It’s not uncommon for baby to come rather quickly after that 🤗

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12/06/2022

✨Support available for September ✨ Spots limited - reach out now to secure your spot for an empowered and supported transition to motherhood (whether it's your first or fifth bubba)

08/06/2022

Theme 6: We were never meant to be doing this alone- we humans are social creatures who were never designed to raise our young solo or within a nuclear family.

We were always meant to have many knowledgeable, wise, and willing hands around us to ensure that we could stay well and thrive while meeting the intense needs of our littlest people.

The fact that so many of us don’t have access to this is an important thing to understand when we are questioning why we may be struggling so hard to cope, enjoy or even do more than survive this time.

The weakness is not on the individual’s part (or our baby’s), it’s a societal problem that needs addressing urgently.

We work hard every day to advocate for change at every level- top-down and bottom up. You can help support our work through our Australian registered charity, Little Sparklers.

We can and should be doing better by families.

Wrapping up the themes from Season 2 of The Beyond Sleep Training Podcast
Precious image: courtesy of Renee, Vida Images

06/06/2022

What a way to celebrate International Homebirth Day. First time at a homebirth (other than my own) in 3 years! What an honour to be welcomed into women's homes at such a sacred time 🌟🌟

Cheers to my assistant for being a good sport. My back is feeling it but my heart is happy 💜

18/03/2022

Infant sleep is one of the top reasons women contact me for postnatal support. There's so much conflicting advice to be found from GPs, midwives, Family Health nurses, friends, family, paediatricians and influencer mums on YouTube and Instagram. It's enough to do your head in and make you feel like you need to “do something” to fix the “problem”.

I highly recommend the Possums program to new parents wanting to learn how to support their baby in a holistic way. https://possumsonline.com/

Postnatal support from a trusted midwife is also brilliant (mine were amazing!). If you feel like you'd like some extra support around baby sleep - book in asap to avoid disappointment! Postnatal packages for women due in August and September are still available.

Hils 🌿

14/03/2022

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14/03/2022

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13/03/2022

Your dignity matters. But how can you hold your dignity, when the culture around birth and the structure of the maternity system expect us to disregard ourselves?

The Birth Map was written to address this issue. What started as a birth plan template, that just got more and more detailed as it became apparent that the template approach to birth plans were doing us a disservice.

What we needed, as pregnant women, expectant mothers, was support to navigate this system which expected us to have no expectations and do as we are told.

And this is a problem, as consent is the framework for healthcare.

There is No One Way. Who we are matters. Our back story will influence our birth journey. We need to know The Questions to ask in order to determine our way forward. At the very least we need to understand what our options are, not just at a point in time, but what it looks like 'down the road'.

If you choose to birth in the system - you owe it to yourself to understand the system.

The Birth Map helps you to do that.

see blog post for more: https://birthmap.life/birth-with-dignity/