About Me

I entered the National Health Service in 1974 and trained as a State Registered Nurse and a Sick Children’s Nurse. I have worked as an adult and children’s nurse and have also specialised in Tropical Diseases and Burns. I trained as a Midwife at Pembury Hospital in 1990 intending to take up a post with the Flying Doctor Service in Australia. A passion for midwifery and normal physiological birth was instilled in me during my training. Seventeen years on, I am still practising as a Midwife with the same degree of passion.

As my midwifery career developed I became increasingly aware of the benefits for some women of using Homeopathy in childbirth. I trained as a Homeopath in 2000 to increase the options I had available to offer people as holistic practitioner. The philosophy underlying this supports my enormous faith in women’s abilities to birth well when they are at ease in their environments.

Since qualifying as a Midwife, I have spent about equal amounts of time within the hospital and community settings. This has allowed me to specialise in home-births, water-births, twins, and vaginal births after caesarean section (VBAC).

I have chosen to become an Independent Midwife so that I can continue to be able to offer full holistic care to women and their partners. I have found this increasingly difficult to achieve within the current NHS system. As an Independent Midwife I can offer women, their partners and families, the time and support that should belong to them by right. I remain passionate about empowering women at this important time in their lives. Positive birth experiences instil a confidence and self-respect in women that is unrivalled by any other life experience. Poor birth experiences, on the other hand, can have a negative impact that can stay with families for a very long time.

Seeing couples become parents and growing their families, caring for them in each pregnancy, attending their births – through continuity of care these clients are friends, and it gives me enormous pleasure to be with them for their special occasions.

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