Midwives Exclusive

06/12/2025

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17/11/2025

Raw, real, powerful, long, empowering

You Are the Story

Your birth story is raw, powerful, and beautifully yours.

Let’s make sure it’s remembered — every tear, every triumph.

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13/11/2025

🟣 BLOG POST
Back by popular demand. I've revised, updated and republished my VBAC blog post so you can all stop messaging me about it 😆
"A VBAC is simply a birth. The most likely outcome of going into spontaneous labour after a previous c-section is the vaginal birth of a healthy baby. If we stop making a mountain out of a molehill, and instead nurture self-trust and support physiology, more women will experience VBAC as a healing and empowering rite of passage."
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/vbac

24/10/2025

This is our past week in short summary

06/10/2025

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28/09/2025

Thinking about midwife led care? Great option and yes covered by certain medical aid very well.

25/09/2025

Let’s talk about Skin to Skin
How do midwives ensure we are continuing with good practice:
Evidence - up to date (see poster)
Education- telling the couples about skin to skin antenatally so they know what to expect
Explain - how this will realistically happen
Encourage - gently guide and support the brand new parents
Example - do what we believe in and do it well
Empathy - understanding cultural or personal issues that may impact on skin to skin (esp daddy) - come up with good alternatives

21/09/2025

This will give many a little ah ha moment when it comes to initial birth weigh and weight loss of baby. Did you know you can keep equally well hydrated by ensuring you drink at least 250ml / hour in labour?

Disrupting breastfeeding confidence a drip at a time.
Alex Smith draws attention to the effect that IV fluids given to the mother in labour may have on her baby’s initial weight loss.
https://www.aims.org.uk/journal/item/iv-fluids-labour