Doula Passion - Dwla Angerddol

12/11/2025

11/11/2025

Lovely to meet up with one of my mentees today the lovely Rosie Farrar to chat birth, homeopathy and business. Rosie is available as a mentored Doula through Doula UK her clients are so lucky to have her

11/11/2025

10/11/2025

Help make sure maternity and neonatal services in Wales are improving

The voices and experiences of women, parents and families, and the maternity and neonatal workforce in Wales will be at the heart of the Maternity and Neonatal National Assurance Assessment commissioned by Welsh…

10/11/2025

Do we need birth classes in Carmarthen
Oes angen dosbarthiadau geni arnom yng Nghaerfyrddin?

let me know/ gadewch i mi wybod >> https://forms.gle/cXocxXwMCZLYkaGc6

09/11/2025

This is crowning.

What you’re seeing is the baby’s scalp gently folding and molding as they navigate through the vaginal canal.

This isn’t swelling, trauma, or “pushing out a watermelon”.

It’s the body doing what it’s designed to do.

The baby’s skull is made of plates that overlap so the head can change shape to fit through the pelvis.

This molding protects parent and the baby, allowing birth to unfold safely and physiologically.

Too often, people only see birth through medical lenses, monitors, drapes, and sterile lights.

But this is the real view of emergence.

It’s raw, natural, and powerful.

This moment isn’t dangerous.

It’s not an emergency.

It’s life in motion.

The human body working in perfect rhythm.

Let’s normalize what real birth looks like.

Let’s honor how intelligent the body truly is.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

07/11/2025

Toddlers can....come to your antenatal....be at your birth....feel included and part of your pregnancy journey.
PM to find out more about how a Doula can support your family antenatally, during birth and postnatally

06/11/2025

03/11/2025

26/07/2025

Any of my clients want to take part in a research study about biodynamics, if I used spinning babies/ rebozo/ positioning with you please take part. This research may help info maternity care in the future.

Recruitment PDF link: https://shorturl.at/PVfa5
Study website: https://biodynamicsresearch.wixsite.com/biodynamics-research
Link to sign up: https://forms.office.com/e/hCkqW6qW3

A study describing how biodynamic techniques (more commonly referred to as Biomechanics for Birth® or Spinning Babies®) are used in the active (first and second) stages of labour by midwives, doctors and women and birthing people. Insights will inform the design of a clinical trial in a labour war...

22/07/2025

"It's really clear that we need to stop attributing birth outcomes solely to women's size, age, and/or race (or whatever other characteristic will become a so-called risk factor next) and recognise the part that fatphobia, agism, and racism play in outcomes."

That's a quote from a blog post in which I discuss an important labour progress myth.

That is, the idea that slow labour progress in women who are older and/or have a higher BMI can be attributed to their size/shape or age.

Because even if those things play some part (and the jury is out on this), there are many other factors.

The most important of which is the attitudes of the care provider and the guidelines that are imposed when women are giving birth in systems of maternity care.

I've written a lot about this in my book on Plus Size Pregnancy, and my blog post explains how studies have helped us better understand this area.

And debunk the myths.

You can find my blog post at https://www.sarawickham.com/research-updates/labour-progress-myths/

I hope you find it useful