Kindred Birth, 111 Holland Road, London (2025)

07/12/2025

🚲 I’ve hear it said that cycling women are a different person each week of the month….

Hormones are the key to our female reproductive health, they show us red flags, orchestrate our emotions and offer us more insight than any app of GP appointmen!

📆 This week I’m taking a hormonal focus for those of you on a conception journey… tomorrow I’ll be dropping a post about your luteal phase…
🧬 What is it?
🧬 What’s the purpose
🧬 How to support it?
You won’t want to miss tomorrows post - let your friends on a fertility journey know 🙏🏻

06/12/2025

🙏🏻To all the new faces who found their way here this week welcome. Truly.
I’m Jo. Birthkeeper, birth educator, and long-time student of the most humbling teacher I know:…birth itself.

My work hasn’t been shaped by one training, one philosophy, or one season of certainty, I’ve thought about walking away from this space many times. My work has been shaped over many years, at many bedsides, floors and planning over kitchen tables. By watching women surprise themselves. By seeing what works in theory meet what unfolds in real life and above all learning, unlearning, and relearning all over again.

I care deeply about sovereignty and just as deeply about physiology. I care about women being informed, held, and met in the complexity of their real lives, not shoehorned into ideologies or made to perform a particular kind of ‘right’ birth.

If you’re here because you’re pregnant, thinking about becoming pregnant, or simply curious about how birth really works beneath the noise, you’re in the right place.

This space is for nuance., for evidence, for instinct, and for questions that don’t fit neatly into boxes.

💕Thank you for being here. I’m glad you’ve found this space and I would love to hear from you in the comments. What would you like to see in this space?

05/12/2025

🏥 When a woman with a previous caesarean asks for a homebirth, the response she gets often tells you more about the system than her actual level of risk.

🏡 HBAC isn’t a fringe choice.
It’s a path many women take because their first birth was shaped by stalled labour in hospital, coerced augmentation, emergency surgery, a baby in NICU, and the disruption of bonding and breastfeeding and nervous system fallout. Choosing differently the next time is not a gamble - it’s informed.

👩‍🔧 And the data reflect that.
VBAC success rates are high.
Scar rupture in spontaneous labour is rare. HBAC studies show increased vaginal birth rates and low absolute rates of severe outcomes.

🏠 The real issue is not “woman at home” it’s the trial of VBAC in a system that won’t allow physiology to unfold and pushes women into the very emergencies they’re then blamed for.

🥼 So when a clinician says, “We don’t support homebirth after c-section, it nearly always means loss,” it’s worth pausing.
What does the evidence say?
Is this personal opinion or clinical fact?
What is my gut staying right now?

🖼️ Women deserve the full picture, the numbers, the nuance, and the right to choose the environment that actually supports their labour, not derails it.

If you want this unpacked or need support planning a VBAC or HBAC pathway, drop me a hand raise 🤚🏻✋🏿 and I’ll send you my HBAC myth buster one sheet!

03/12/2025

🌎 We’re raising babies in a world our nervous systems never evolved for constant alerts, wireless signals, apps that watch while we sleep.

And after years of working with families, I’m seeing something we don’t talk about enough…

Parents are becoming more hyper-vigilant, not more confident.

Baby monitors haven’t reduced SIDS. They haven’t made newborn sleep easier. But they have trained already-sensitive brains to stay on high alert — ping, flash, beep all night long.

🇬🇧 The UK Health Security Agency says these devices sit within safety guidelines.
But ‘safe’ doesn’t always mean neutral.

🚨 False alarms spike cortisol -
interruptions disrupt attunement and a dysregulated parent can’t co-regulate a baby.

Infant safety has always been built through presence, physiology, and nervous-system regulation not surveillance tech.

👶 This is about remembering that your baby needs you, not a device that tells you not to trust your instincts.

02/12/2025

design of the human body.

🤓 What part of labour physiology interests you the most?… let me know in the comments⬇️⬇️⬇️

30/11/2025

I know a little about loss and grief. I’ve acquired a keen eye to recognise grief… even when it’s not spoken aloud.

In 2021 I lost my dad and just 16mths later my mum. Almost a year to the day of loosing my mum, I stood in the exact same chapel at the funeral of my beautiful friend Lauren, a 45yr old mum of two.

I’ve weathered a tumultuous grief journey. 🌊

Threw in a casual breakup, a side order of homelessness and a sprinkle of perimenopause for good measure. Because why fu***ng not?!

Why am I sharing my tales of woe with you fair reader…. I recognise grief in its often unspoken form…
🤍 The pregnant woman moving from maiden to mother.
🤍 The new parent navigating parenthood after the loss of their own parent.
🤍 The breastfeeding mama whose feeding journey has been far from easy or had to cease.
🤍 The couple that planned for a physiological birth that did not work out.
🤍 The Grandmother witnessing her child become a parent and feeling her unhealed wounds resurface.

🤍 Birth and death are life’s two certainties.
Grief is the consequence of all the love we have that no longer has somewhere to go.

🕊️ And it doesn’t only arrive at the end of a life.
In pregnancy and postpartum, grief often moves quietly beneath the surface the grief of who we were before, the grief of unmet expectations, the grief of births that unfolded differently than we hoped, the grief of mothers or fathers who aren’t here to witness this new life, the grief we inherit from our own beginnings.

♥️ We rarely name it, but it shapes us.
Honouring it doesn’t diminish the joy of becoming a parent it simply makes room for the whole truth of what it is to be human.

Did you experience grief in your pregnancy or postpartum? Let me know in the comments… I’ll share podcast I recently was a guest on 🤍

29/11/2025

Welcome to an avalanche of new faces here…..

🙏🏻Welcome to the fellow birthworkers working to their truth and in nuance…

🌊 Welcome to those of you pregnant finding your way in a sea of information…

🫶🏼 Welcome to the new parents seeking support and community…

I don’t serve absolutism here, or coach speak.
It’s good to connect 🙏🏻
Jo 💕

28/11/2025

Friday F**kery: The “your infection risk jumps from 5% to 100% in an hour” edition…

A London obstetrician told a woman this during her homebirth to push her into hospital.
It’s not science, it’s coercion.

📋 The facts:
Most women’s waters break during labour.
For the 10–15% whose waters release first, 70–80% will start contractions within 24 hours on their own.
🦠 The infection risk stays low when you avoid internal exams and simply monitor the basics.

‼️ What actually increases infection risk?
Hospital admission, repeated vaginal checks, and clock-watching policies — not the waters breaking themselves.

What’s normal at home 🏡
• Clear, pale yellow, or pink-tinged fluid
• Baby moving normally
• No fever
• No foul smell
• No abdominal tenderness
• Feeling well overall

When to act ⏰
• Fever or chills
• Foul-smelling waters
• Meconium-stained fluid (dark green/brown)
• Reduced fetal movement
• Persistent abdominal pain
• Headache + feeling unwell
• Waters broken for many hours plus any of the above changes

Most of this is basic, common-sense physiology — not cause for panic.

This coercive “infection risk increases every hour” line is one I’ve heard for 17 years. And it’s why so many women end up rushed into inductions that don’t improve outcomes but do birth, bonding, breastfeeding, and recovery.

Birth works.
Information works.
Fear freezes.

27/11/2025

Today’s birth word is Uterine Alignment

Most women are told birth is about ‘how strong the contractions are.’
In reality, it’s about how well the uterus, baby, and pelvis are aligned.

When the uterus sits in its optimal position, supported by balanced ligaments, functional posture, and instinctive movement — the muscle fibres can contract efficiently, the baby can rotate through the cardinal movements, and labour progresses with far less resistance.

Misalignment creates the opposite:
Asynclitism, OP babies, longer labours, more pain, more “failure to progress,” and a fast-track to interventions that never address the root cause.

⚙️ This is biomechanics….
The uterosacral, round, and broad ligaments change the angle of the womb, and when they’re tight or imbalanced, they alter the pathway the baby is trying to navigate.

👟 This is why movement in pregnancy matters.
🤰🏾 It’s why maternal posture matters.
🤰🏼It’s why instinctive mobility in labour isn’t optional — it’s physiology.

If you want birth that flows rather than fights, start with alignment.

Inside Motherhood Untamed I teach the exact movements, daily practices, and birth-space setup that support pelvic balance and optimal fetal positioning. Waitlist is open for March programme!

Want to plan for your birth fully understanding biomechanics, hormones, birth space and so much more? Drop me a ⚙️

26/11/2025

The last week has been a case study in what happens when ‘internet birth coaching’ grows faster than integrity.

Freebirth Society didn’t just spark a conversation it exposed a culture. A culture of curated sisterhood, monotone coach-speak, shadow-work platitudes, and a kind of spiritual performance that rewards branding over depth.

It’s the zeitgeist of the online coaching world:
Fake it before you make it. Recruit before you’re ready. Teach before you’ve actually lived it.

Birth work isn’t built on that.
It’s built on dirt-under-your-fingernails experience. On thousands of hours in real rooms with real women.

On nuance you only gain by sitting in the complexity not spiritually bypassing it.

This moment isn’t about gossip.
It’s about standards.
It’s about naming what online birth spaces have become… and what women actually need from people offering support.

I don’t regret being part of the programme there was value there. It also showed me exactly what was missing.

Being good at Instagram, knowing how to package a message, growing a big audience that doesn’t make you a more capable birth worker. It just means you’re skilled at tech, branding, and online visibility.

And for me?
It’s simple. My work evolved beyond the FBS era because birth work asks for depth, grit, and a capacity to hold reality not just rhetoric.

What’s your thoughts, I’d love to hear from you?

21/11/2025

👶🏾When a baby isn’t gaining by day 10, the answer isn’t “pump what you can and formula-fill the shortfall.”
 👩‍🍼Paediatrics are not lactation specialists, yet they are routinely giving breastfeeding advice that derails supply, disrupts the microbiome and leaves mothers thinking they’ve failed.

😞 Most feeding issues come down to birth impact, latch, transfer, or tongue tie. Not low supply. Not your body.
Find your local IBCLC in pregnancy. Breastfeeding deserves expertise not pump maths.

💡 Every Friday I share f**keries from the Maternosphere and I unpack them… send me your experience from the sublime to the ridiculous and everything in between and let me illuminate what your instinct already knows!

20/11/2025

It’s Black Friday week and I’m offering 10% of all in person AND my Online offerings now until Dec 1st….

That means my Birth Packages and my postpartum packages are 10% off!

All of my coaching packages are 10% off!

Dm me to send you all the juicy sale deets ✌🏼

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