Julie Ann Northamptonshire Doula

05/11/2025

It is Multiples Birth Awareness Week… and if you are having scans the most important thing you may want to establish is the chorionicity of your pregnancy… the key to being fully informed for all types of birth plans.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐦𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐨 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲?

Early ultrasound does more than confirm more than one heartbeat, it sets a plan. It clarifies chorionicity and amnionicity, the simple terms that guide how often scans happen, what each visit covers, and when key decisions are made. Clear answers early help parents understand the path ahead, make informed choices, and allow care teams to organize safe, timely care.

In our video, Professor Asma Khalil, a maternal–fetal medicine specialist, explains why establishing chorionicity and amnionicity early matters and how that information shapes a straightforward scan timetable for the rest of the pregnancy.

Access to early ultrasound varies around the world, and clear information helps everyone stay aligned. Along with many other resources, ICOMBO hosts a copy of the patient guide to the ISUOG twin pregnancy guidelines on its website. The guide explains chorionicity and amnionicity in plain language, outlines visit timing, and shows what each scan looks for. It also offers practical questions to bring to appointments, so families leave with a plan that feels understood and written down.

Screening brings clarity, not worry. A clear plan supports day-to-day decisions, helps parents prepare, and keeps attention on what matters for multiples throughout pregnancy.

How was screening and planning in your multiple pregnancy discussed with you?

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/lRn2QtwJ0mI

Find a link to the patient guide, and other resources from ICOMBO in the comments.



Watch the video: https://youtu.be/lRn2QtwJ0mI

Profasmakhalil

14/08/2025

October’s 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 course at The Space Within Studio in Astwood (MK16 9JU) is open for booking… now! Milk Mentors Laura, Saba and myself will be guiding you again.

Sundays 12th & 19th October 2025

For those of you expecting babies any time after October, and you're planning to breastfeed your baby, this course is a 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 alongside any other antenatal prep. We cover:

❤️ The benefits of breastfeeding
🧡 What to expect of the fourth trimester
💛 The basics of how to breastfeed
💚 How to know if it's working and what to do if you hit an obstacle
💙 Common concerns and what to know
💜 How partners/dads can help with breastfeeding

This is an informal course that encourages parent involvement in a gorgeous relaxed countryside venue. It offers an opportunity to meet other families about to embark on a similar journey and provides ongoing Milk Mentor support for those early days of initiating breastfeeding (and onwards).

🔗 Book now using this link: https://www.milkmentors.org/preparing-to-breastfeed

❓If you have any questions, feel free to send us a message on the Milk Mentors page

06/08/2025

16/04/2025

The Q***r Parenting Partnership stands with trans women and the trans community now and always.

21/03/2025

Finally! A week that includes us all!

What is your job that you do around BIRTH? 🌎

09/11/2024

We believe in the right for all pregnant women and people, and all children to live in safety and peace.

We have written an open letter to the Royal College of Midwives, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain & Doula UK from birthworkers in the United Kingdom.

Please consider adding your signature https://forms.gle/cZPX97m6TNhhWrPX9

These organisations have chosen to ignore the calls from their own member organisations, the ICM and EDN, who have asked their members to stand in solidarity with them in supporting the people of Palestine.

We are holding you accountable for your silence and your bias. We believe our professional organisations should be advocating these demands, and treat any violation to the health, dignity and safety of the people who rely on our services within the realm of birth, be it locally or globally, as their duty to respond and to act accordingly.

Please share this open letter widely, to colleagues, and also to any childbirth-related organisations & perinatal course providers you are connected with, who we hope will join in solidarity with these statements.

All birth professionals and parents can sign!

The genocide happening right now in Gaza is supported by our government that our tax money contributes to! We should be condemning it, we should be speaking out and organisations and people with platforms should be using their invoices and do whatever they can to support and call for an immediate ceasefire!

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19/06/2024

There are only 4 of these left, so please divert your payment to the fundraiser instead of the usual way - even those of you who are on a package plan with me currently.

The Birthworker Collective Support for Palestine links in my bio should explain all. We chose a very low-key and free of fanciness Google site to list all of the offerings that are available to you. Don’t let it put you off!

https://sites.google.com/view/birthworkers-for-palestine

In short, email your request to BWCS.Palestine@gmail.com and we will get you sorted with booking.

Thank you for those who have done this already and shown me your kick-ass powerful birth plans 🤗

07/06/2024

Volunteering my milky skills in new ways with Milk Mentors from now on.

How is everyone in Northants fixed for a regular and reliable breastfeeding support group?

If you’re seeing this and know of some areas in Northants that need one, tell me in the comments please!

It's 🆅🅾🅻🆄🅽🆃🅴🅴🆁🆂 🆆🅴🅴🅺 and we thought what a wonderful time to share our appreciation for all our fantastic volunteer peer-supporters!

All of our peer-supporters take time out of their busy schedules usually consisting of working, running their own businesses, and raising families, to aid us in providing support to breastfeeding parents via messages, phone calls, emails, groups and home visits, and we simply cannot thank them enough for all that they do!

Without our incredible team of Mentors, we simply wouldn't be able to provide the support we do to the breastfeeding parents of Milton Keynes and surrounding areas!

🆃🅷🅰🅽🅺 🆈🅾🆄 Mentors, we appreciate every single one of you (including the ones we didn't get pictures of 😅) and all that you do for us! We simply couldn't run this service without you! 🫶🏼

03/06/2024

I don’t know about you, but I am increasingly suffering from indecisiveness when trying to make a much-needed purchase or a gift for someone. I *need* to know that the manufacturer or provider are not just against the genocide, but that they are wanting to actively support Palestinians.

Here it will be clear to you that not only are you obtaining a product or service that was provided from someone who cares for Palestinians, but 100% of the price you pay goes directly into the fundraising pot for our current Palestinian causes (IG handles) & Saeed’s family

There is a growing range of products and services all centred around pregnancy, birth and wellbeing which will also pique the interests of Birthkeepers and doulas like myself.

If there isn’t something for you, but you would like to add to the pot, please follow the donation link to do that too.

The website will tell you everything - it’s linked in my Bio and on my Linktree:

https://sites.google.com/view/birthworkers-for-palestine/home

Free Palestine 🕊️ 🇵🇸