After time away on maternity leave, i’m returning to the work that calls me home - supporting women as they cross the threshold into new life - in autumn 2025 with a deeper clarity and renewed purpose.

Becoming a mother twice over has only strengthened what I had already felt in my bones: birth matters. The space, the care, the voices that surround you - they shape the story you carry for life.

In the UK today, too many women are left unheard, rushed, and traumatised by a system that is stretched far beyond its limits. This is not said to spark fear, but to name a truth that too many whisper quietly after the fact. We are blessed to have medical support when it is truly needed, and what a priveledge it is to know it is there should we require it. But birth has become a medical event that it was never meant to be, and in that shift, much has been lost.

For now, I am choosing to walk with those planning to birth at home*. Not because it is an ideal or brave choice, but because I truly believe it offers the most chance for a woman to birth in her own power, on her own terms, with mother-centred support and the best outcomes for mother and baby. Home is not just a setting. It is a space of softness, of sovereignty, of trust. When the right support is there, it often becomes the safest place of all.

If you are holding a vision for your birth, quietly or boldly, I see you. You deserve care that meets you where you are, and serves the natural unfolding of childbirth. I would be honoured to walk beside you.

* (yes, I will transfer with you during labour and continue my dedicated support at hospital, should the need arise!)