Mummy of 3. Registered Midwife offering midwife-led antenatal, hypnobirthing, baby classes & birth reflections offering continuity of care from bump to baby.
Antenatal, Baby & Toddler Classes based in and around Camberley, Surrey.
07/11/2025
🌱 This week has been National Fertility Awareness Week.
I want to highlight the importance of understanding our reproductive health.
👩🏽⚕️As a midwife, I often meet people who have had incredible and often long and difficult journeys getting to a point to where I get to meet them.
🌱 Fertility challenges are common — around 1 in 6 couples experience difficulty conceiving — and open conversations can make a real difference.
This week is about raising awareness, reducing stigma, and ensure everyone has access to information and compassionate care. 🌼
03/11/2025
🌸 Exciting News for Parents-to-Be in Fleet! 🌸
Our Midwife-Led Antenatal Classes are returning soon! 🤰✨
Led by local midwives, these sessions will offer trusted advice, practical tips, and friendly support to help you prepare for birth and beyond.
📍 Fleet
🗓️ Coming soon – watch this space for more info!
💬 Or send us a DM if interested in finding out more
22/10/2025
📆 November 2025 Timetable 📆
Booking is open for my final term of 2025 Antenatal and Pregnancy Yoga classes!
Come and join me for one of our Midwife-led antenatal courses. It takes a village to raise a child, come and find yours.
Our class sizes are always small to keep us all safe and make lasting friendships, so spaces may be limited.
Our antenatal classes are AMAZING - 👩🏫 Facilitated by me, Anna - a mum of 3 children and a practising midwife!
ℹ️ Lots of information so you can make the empowered choices that are best for you
💜 Hypnobirthing breathing & relaxation techniques
🤰All birth options discussed including water births to planned ceasereans
🍼 All feeding options discussed
👋 Meet like minded parents-to-be & build your supportive village
📧 Weekly class emails
📱WhatsApp class group
🌍 Online Private FB Village Community network
💞 Or if you would prefer something 1-1 in the comfort of your own home please do get in touch to discuss further.
Today we share the story of our amazing Haslemere teacher Rachel who is pictured here with her rainbow baby, born after miscarriage.
"I fell pregnant with my first son very easily and looking back, I was lucky to have had a straightforward pregnancy and then a somewhat trickier birth, but all in all, Teddy’s was a very positive story.
When he had just turned 2, we decided that it was time to think about trying for a second baby. Again, we fell pregnant in the first month and began to feel very excited about having two summer babies.
I had many of the same symptoms as I had done with Teddy, but there were also some little niggles and worries this time and I almost seemed to sense something wasn’t right. I called the pregnancy advice line a couple of times with questions and they assured me that if I had positive tests then it was a great indicator, but the lines seemed too faint to me. I couldn’t shake my concerns and worries, then began to fear it was an ectopic pregnancy or something was wrong and so I went to A&E.
I had to go in my own because we had no one to look after Teddy and I can still recall the loneliness and fear I felt as I walked through those doors. The staff who looked after me were incredible. They found me a quiet place to wait away from everyone else and came to check on me frequently while I waited. Eventually I went through to a bed and had bloods taken and they took my urine sample. I lay there with my fingers crossed, clutching my little bag of umpteen pregnancy tests and prayed. Sometime later a doctor appeared to do an ultrasound. He looked for ages and then turned to me and said he couldn’t see a heartbeat. Then he said my levels in my tests were so low that he thought I was probably going to lose this baby.
I felt numb. Tears slowly dripped down my cheeks. As it was the weekend, there were no specialists there and they needed the bed so I was moved to a chair in another quiet place to wait for some more information. Then I drove myself home.
The next morning I felt the cramps and saw the blood. It was nothing like period pains. These felt like contractions. The hospital had said to come back if I started miscarrying, but I didn’t want to be on my own there. I stayed at home and lay on the sofa and cried. We called our parents and sobbing, shared that our joy from the last calls about this pregnancy was no more.
Those days that followed were a blur. The bleeding and cramps were almost a comfort as they were the connection to our pregnancy and made it still real. I felt another wave of grief when they ended because that little, much loved baby really was no more. My emotions were all over the place. I felt grief, pain, anger, disappointment and failure.
I will never forget the people who held me up literally and metaphorically in those darkest of days. Those people who heard what I needed and were there without question. Thank you will never be enough.
Something that I found really comforting in the weeks and months that followed, even to this day really, was having something tangible that would commemorate our baby. I have a little red woollen heart, small enough to fit in the palm of my hand or in my pocket and I hold that and think of my baby. It’s a cliche too, but time does heal. As time passed, I found when I thought of our baby, I pictured them at the beach on a beautiful sunny and warm day. They’re standing at the water’s edge with their back to me, paddling and watching the waves. When I close my eyes and picture the scene, there’s an overwhelming sense of peace and happiness which brings comfort to me.
Whenever we go to the beach I walk to the water and talk to my baby and let them know I’m thinking of them and I always take a photo of the sea, my way of taking a photo of them. It brings me so much comfort.
We were then lucky enough to fall pregnant again. Throughout that pregnancy I was so anxious, so fearful of something going wrong. I didn’t relax and enjoy it. Getting to every milestone - an early scan, 12 week scan, 20 week scan, 24 week viability, feeling them move and then reaching full term at 37 weeks - gave some more reassurance, but I don’t think until I held Rupert in my arms that I truly believed he was going to be here and ok.
Miscarriage changed me. I will always wonder who that little baby, our little Poppet, would be and what they would be like. I adore Rupert and feel so unbelievably happy he is here, but we’ll always think of that baby who wasn’t able to stay with love and sadness.
I have 2 babies here in my arms and another held forever in my heart"
26/09/2025
📆 Day 4️⃣ of Black Maternal Mental Health Week was yesterday but I was sleeping off my nightshift but better late than never for such an important cause ❤️⬇️
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It’s Day 4 of Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK 2025 🩷 Today’s theme is Inclusion, Access & Communication.
What should that look like?
✨ Valuing lived experience and creating spaces where Black mothers are heard and respected.
✨ Compassionate, holistic care that integrates physical, emotional, and social wellbeing.
✨ Services that offer childcare, flexible appointments, and outreach that meets mothers where they are.
✨ Perinatal mental health care that is equitable, culturally competent, and trauma-informed.
✨ Professionals who listen first, build trust, and communicate with respect.
All of this makes Black mothers visible in services — and ensures we receive what every mother deserves: safe, high-quality maternity and mental health care.
23/09/2025
👀 Black Maternal Mental Health Week day 2- look at this amazing infographic showing practically what good care actually looks and sounds like….as well as what it doesn’t! It shouldn’t need to be spelled out, but sadly we know that it does - we are grateful to for their tireless work in this field and are proud to support them ❤️🫶🙌⬇️
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What does listening look like for Black mothers?
It looks like giving our stories respectful attention and space.
It looks like believing our experiences as truth.
It looks like turning our words into real change.
And what is it not?
It’s not interrupting or dismissing our concerns.
It’s not demanding “proof” before taking us seriously.
It’s not listening politely but then doing nothing.
As part of Black Maternal Mental Health Week, Day 2 is about making Black mothers visible by showing what true listening REALLY requires.
22/09/2025
🚨 Today is IMPORTANT
It is day 1 of Black Maternal Mental Health week and we are delighted to be supporting, amplifying and cheering on the amazing work of in support of this week.
This is why it is essential that Black Maternal Mental Health is given the spotlight it deserves ❤️🙌👏⬇️
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8 Reasons Why Visibility of Black Maternal Mental Health Matters ✨
1. To confront hidden disparities
2. To break stigma and silence
3. To humanise the statistics
4. To shape services that work
5. To amplify community solutions
6. To embed anti-racist care & cultural competency
7. To rebuild trust
8. To highlight links to maternal mortality
Bonus two:
9. To show intergenerational impact
10. To elevate Black women’s leadership
Every statistic represents a mother, a baby, and a family. Visibility makes Black mothers impossible to ignore.
Like. Share. Repost. Help make Black mothers visible.
20/09/2025
🍃 New Birth Reflection Service 🍃
I wanted to share my news about my new Birth Reflections Service that I'll be offering very soon.
Watch this space for more info about the service in the next couple of weeks.
Message me if it's something you want to find more about as you know I'm always happy to chat!
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Welcome to the Camberley branch of the The Mummas Village. Classes in this ares are run by co-founder and Director of the The Mummas Village, Anna Kemsley.
There is an African proverb that says “its takes a village to raise a child” at The Mummas Village we want to provide you with a network of experts and other parents to educate, support and guide you through your pregnancy and parenting journey.
Nowadays many of us live away from our families and our traditional support networks, we want to help bridge that gap and provide families with community of support, empowerment and fun!
We offer evidence based and logical down to earth antenatal classes together with fun, stimulating, developmentally appropriate baby classes. Offering continuity of care, judgement free support and a safe community for parents to learn and families to grow.
We have teachers right across Surrey in to the Berkshire borders, all sharing the same passion and drive, we are all mothers and have had a huge range of birth and parenting experience. All our antenatal teachers are FEDANT accredited and we are all fully insured and undertake regular training to keep our knowledge and expertise up to date and relevant. We aim to help you make informed decision and we will never judge your choices.
We look forward to welcoming you to our village and joining you on your amazing journey.
