Kindred Birth

20/01/2026

💦 Amniotic fluid is not a passive cushion.
It’s a living, adaptive environment regulated by the baby, placenta, and mother.

When this intelligence is reduced to a single number, complex physiology is flattened into a system-friendly metric…often triggering knee-jerk diagnosis without clinical context.

Birth physiology is integrated and self-regulating.

It cannot be safely understood through isolated measurements or managed by protocol alone.

19/01/2026

18/01/2026

Information isn’t neutral.
It’s always framed, by language, risk, protocol, and institutional bias.

Clarity comes from understanding how information is being presented, not just what you’re being told.

A 90-minute Clarity Call is a space to slow everything down.

We look at the information you’ve been given, how it’s been framed, and what’s actually being asked of you — clinically, legally, and emotionally.

This isn’t about being talked into or out of anything. It’s about understanding the landscape you’re moving through so you can make decisions from clarity rather than pressure.

Clarity call link in bio

18/01/2026

16/01/2026

💧Low fluid or ‘Oligohydramniosis’ just ONE of the MANY ways fear gets introduced late in pregnancy.

But amniotic fluid is not just “extra water” around the baby.

It’s a living, protective environment.
It cushions the umbilical cord, allows the baby to move freely, and supports lung and gut development through swallowing and breathing movements.

And here’s the part most women aren’t told:

💦 Fluid levels naturally change.
They rise and fall across the day.
They shift with maternal hydration.
And they are ESTIMATED by ultrasound — not directly measured ‼️

So when someone says:
“Your fluid is low. The baby isn’t safe. We need to act now.”

What’s often missing is context.

💦 Is this a single reading or a pattern?
Are there any other signs the baby isn’t coping?
Has hydration been tried and the scan repeated?
Is this late pregnancy, when fluid normally tapers anyway?

Low fluid can matter — especially when it appears alongside other signs of placental compromise.

But “low” on its own is not automatically an emergency.

This is where the system comes in.

🥼 Because “low fluid” is easy to protocolise.
And protocols move faster than conversations.

🧠 Fear minimises the window for thinking.
Time pressure simplifies consent.
And simplified consent protects systems, not necessarily women.

Women don’t need fear introduced at the eleventh hour to manufacture consent.

They need:
time
context
and the truth — spoken without an agenda.

What’s your thoughts? Let me know in the comments… did something occur to you right at the end of your pregnancy?

15/01/2026

👩‍⚖️Today’s Birth Word is defensive medicine.

You’re not naive,
You’re just being spoken to through a system that’s trained to fear instinct and birth unfolding naturally.

⚙️Modern maternity care is shaped by something called defensive medicine, where decisions are influenced by fear of litigation, not just by what your body and baby are showing in the moment.

That’s why:
• uncertainty gets framed as risk
• waiting suddenly feels dangerous
• “just in case” shows up so often
• and intervention starts to sound like the safest option — even when nothing is wrong

This isn’t about bad clinicians.
It’s about a system designed to protect itself from blame, not to protect mammalian birth physiology.

💥 Once you see this lens, you start listening differently in appointments.

💥 You start asking better questions.

💥 And you stop mistaking fear-based urgency for safety.

🤓 I help women navigate their pregnancy journey with clarity… see my link in bio for all my online and in person offerings ✌🏼
(Defensive medicine in obstetrics is well documented in international research, with clinicians reporting litigation fear as a significant driver of intervention.)

12/01/2026

Birth education isn’t the problem and to a lesser degree, neither the solution…

Most women are informed. They’ve attended the classes, read the books, learned the physiology.

What they’re rarely prepared for is how decisions are framed once labour begins (and often before) how authority, protocol, and risk language quietly shape the room.

This is why education alone hasn’t protected women from medicalised birth.

What’s your thoughts? Let me know in the comments!

The full piece is now live on the blog - link in bio

17/12/2025

💓 Ending the year with a full heart, belly laughs and seemingly answering to ‘Bro’ courtesy of my two nephews.

👦🏻Theo my 8yr old nephew shot this video and put the music to it -my little content creator in the making.

I’m savouring every moment here, reconnecting with family, enjoying nature and stepping off the hamster wheel that is life in a big old metropolis.

Festive Greetings from North Carolina, I’m so grateful to be here 🇺🇸

DM’s are open, I’m available here and there for clarity calls, DM me to set up a time.
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