Kindred Birth

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 ✌🏼

19/11/2025

📅 Birth doesn’t start on a calendar — it starts in a conversation. Today’s birth word is Placental Clock.

🫁 Your baby’s lungs, your placenta, and your hormones are in constant biochemical dialogue. When the baby’s lungs release surfactant proteins, the placenta responds by increasing CRH, signalling to your body that labour is approaching.

🤷🏼‍♀️This isn’t guesswork, it’s a finely-tuned hormonal cascade evolved over millions of years and it varies from woman to woman.

So when we override the Placental Clock with synthetic hormones, deadlines, or “just in case” membrane sweeps, we’re not supporting biology, we’re interrupting it, with downstream impacts on respiratory readiness, cortisol rhythm, early bonding, and breastfeeding.

⏰ Birth has its own timing.
Our job is to understand its wisdom not rush it.

Do you want to get ready for your birth feeling confident, in full clarity and understanding your body? Drop me a dm to explore all my birth prep offerings from 90min clarity calls to 1:1 coaching. I got you 💕

17/11/2025

⚙️ Most people think dilation is purely mechanical. Open, close, 1 cm, 2 cm… as if the cervix is a door. 🚪 But the body isn’t built like that. It follows the same neurological rules that govern every sphincter in the human body.

💕The cervix responds to safety, privacy, warmth, familiarity, darkness and the absence of scrutiny.

💡 It also responds to fear, bright lights, strangers, pressure and interruption. Just like the bladder stalls when someone’s watching, or the bowels freeze when you’re stressed, the cervix can close, pause, or reverse when the environment tells the nervous system it isn’t safe.

This is why environment, hormones and instinct matter as much as anatomy. Oxytocin isn’t released under surveillance.

Adrenaline doesn’t help dilation. And no amount of “progress checks” can override a biology that’s wired to protect you and your baby.

Sphincter Law isn’t woo. It’s neurophysiology. Change the environment and you change the trajectory of labour.

👋 Inside all of my coaching sessions and clarity calls I teach you how to work with your hormonal blueprint and create a birth space where your physiology can lead.

13/11/2025

⚙️ The UK government has quietly approved mandatory folic acid fortification, without public consultation, without transparency, and without asking families what goes into their food.

Here’s the part they don’t say:

🔬 Synthetic folic acid is not the same as folate.
Up to 40% of people carry MTHFR variants, meaning they can’t efficiently convert synthetic folic acid into the bioactive form their cells actually use.

When the body can’t process it?
Unmetabolised folic acid builds up in the bloodstream , linked in emerging research to altered methylation, thyroid disruption, masking B12 deficiency, changes in immune function, and possible increases in tongue-tie prevalence.

🧁 And now it will be added to white flour, cereals, commercial bread, pastries, biscuits, processed foods, thousands of everyday products.

All without you knowing… or opting out.

This isn’t informed choice.
This is mass supplementation via the food chain.

We deserve transparency.
We deserve evidence that this policy is safe for everyone, not just statistically “most people.”
And we deserve conversations about real nutrient support for fertility + pregnancy — the stuff that actually works with your biology, not against it.

My full breakdown is inside my online coaching & birth prep — where we go deep on functional nutrition, methylation, pregnancy physiology, and how to support your body without the system’s shortcuts.

🔗 Clarity call link in bio.
Let’s get you actually informed.

12/11/2025

Replying to Thank you Robyn for echoing the voices of women all over the U.K.

Echoing the voices of midwives too - in that women are opting for c-sections because they do not feel safe attempting ‘normal’ or physiological birth in the U.K.

Which is a far cry from women being the victims of an ‘embedded campaign to birth normally at all cost’

The absolute tone deafery of it!

What does the future hold for our human biology the c-section rate rises in each generation? Will be land at a point in the future where we can’t actually birth vaginally?

What does this do for breastfeeding? Bonding, enfocrinology, the microbiome?

I would love to know your thoughts in the comments 🙏🏻🙏🏻

11/11/2025

Today’s birth word is decidua your body’s intelligent gatekeeper.

🧬 Formed from the lining of your womb, it decides what’s allowed to cross between you and your baby. It’s not just a passive layer it’s an active communicator, shaping immune tolerance, nutrient exchange, and even how the placenta embeds. This is where your body and your baby meet in constant conversation a living boundary of protection, nourishment, and deep biological trust.

Isn’t the human body incredible?! If you are on your preconception journey or know someone that is reach out - I have a Nutrition Guide just for you 💕

Share with a mama on her early pregnancy journey!

10/11/2025

Jeremy Hunt says maternity failures stem from an “ideology of normal birth.”

But the data and the lived reality of midwives and mothers tell a different story.

Induction rates have tripled in a generation.
Spontaneous labour is now the exception, not the rule.

Most midwives qualify having barely witnessed a physiological birth, and obstetrics almost never sees one at all.

The problem isn’t a cult of normal birth.
It’s a culture that has forgotten what normal even looks like.

A system so shaped by litigation, fear and control that it can no longer recognise physiology when it’s right in front of it.

The safest maternity systems protect nature and provide excellent medical care when it’s truly needed. But in the UK, women are entering labour afraid and unheard.

The next generation of midwives are leaving heartbroken that the art and science of birth are being lost.

Birth was never meant to be a battle between ideology and intervention. It’s a threshold — deeply human, deeply sacred
and every birthing woman and family deserves to cross it with dignity, trust, and choice.

09/11/2025

07/11/2025

Today’s F**kery is a classic.

They call it “offering an induction”… but how much of it is truly choice?

💥 Behind the gentle language lies a system built on deadlines, litigation fear, and a clock that serves hospital logistics, not physiology.

😫Up to 1 in 3 births are now induced in the UK yet the evidence shows outcomes aren’t safer, just more controlled.

It’s sold as protection but what’s really being protected? Obstetric ideology? Hospital logistics?

💥 Let’s unpack the induction illusion together -if you are ready to fully embrace your inner knowing and claim your birth on your terms…

🌿 Explore my online offerings for private birth prep, 1:1 coaching, and the 90-minute Clarity Call that helps you untangle fear, reclaim evidence, and anchor in self-trust.

07/11/2025

My 90 min clarity calls are were you get to address questions specific to your birth plan..

Because your 10mins with your midwife ain’t cutting it…

Or

Maybe you have an obstetric consultation coming up and you want to feel prepared…

Maybe you had the consultation and you feel even more confused, pressured and uncertain?!

Let’s talk 🗣️

Ahead of the call I’ll understand your concerns or where your potential informational gaps are or just where you need to supported.

In 90mins you’ll leave the call feeling ready, inspired and with your birth mojo fully fired up 🔥

Ready to do this? I’ve gone couple of spaces in the next few weeks… DM or comment READY 🔥

06/11/2025

Hidden beneath the endometrium lies the myometrial junction, the inner layer of the uterus where intelligence lives.

📡It’s not just structure.
It’s a communication hub, the interface where hormonal signals meet muscle fibres.

🙏🏻 Here, oxytocin binds, contractions coordinate, and labour begins to organise itself into rhythm and power.

🧘🏼‍♀️When birth is undisturbed, this layer leads the choreography guiding the waves that open, descend, and release. 🌊

🥼 When birth is disturbed through induction, surveillance, stress hormones, or people
this zone loses coherence.

🎶 The body’s natural rhythm fragments.

🎻Birth isn’t chaos. It’s choreography and the myometrial junction is the conductor.

🕊️ Inside my private birth prep sessions and 1:1 birth coaching, we unpack this kind of physiology in depth — so you can understand what’s actually happening beneath the surface and make decisions rooted in body literacy, not fear.

💻 Book a Clarity Call or explore all options via the link in my bio, or drop me a DM 👋