Mia's Blog

When I got pregnant, I was “warned” that birth would be painful, that I would probably need drugs to cope,...

This was said to two of my clients in the same week. It got me thinking. They were up to...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I know that it causes trauma, because I’m seeing a lot of the distress that...

“At least you have a healthy baby” and other ways to silence women traumatised at birth trigger warning : details...

It’s help them to calm their brain. Picture a meerkat, up on the tips of his feet, eyes and ears...

You wrote a birth plan, because birth is a big deal. But did you write a postnatal care plan? After...

  We are on a girlie week-end, climbing hills in the Derbyshire dales, and staying in a bed and breakfast....

I’m excited about this referral because the money has been arranged by a health insurance company, so neither of us...

What do you say when you hear the words “I’m terrified that I’m going to harm my baby” Those words...

After over 10 years of teaching birth preparation classes, and having taught over 1000 couples, here are my definitive five...

New parents are anxious. And according to research, they are getting more and more anxious. I often hear cases of...

My friend’s daughter announced last year that she wasn’t going to eat lamb anymore because it seems cruel to eat...