Articles

Information on topics including pregnancy, birth, postnatal, parenting, sleep, baby feeding, mental and emotional well-being and more.

  • Introduction to Sarah

    Introduction to Sarah

    You’ll already have been introduced to me on a basic level if you’ve read my about me page. But here’s an introduction to me as a doula. This was just a social media post to start with, but then I thought it deserved a place here as well. I trained in 2009 after my first Read more

  • Being Heard Helps You Heal

    Being Heard Helps You Heal

    Trauma-Informed Listening Session Who is this for? This is for you if you have had a previous traumatic birth, pregnancy or postnatal experience that you feel is still affecting you and you are really ready and keen to move on and enjoy life with your baby. It’s for you if you read about the process Read more

  • That little voice in my head – talking to myself.

    That little voice in my head – talking to myself.

    This blog is an updated version of a previous blog. I logged on to finish writing a new post but that one is going to have to stay in the drafts for today because today this was the blog post I needed to read. The original blog post started with the quote below. This therapist Read more

  • Informed Decision Making

    Informed Decision Making

    I’m here to offer you -a safe space to choose the information that is helpful to you and the support to have confidence in your own unique choices. Read more

  • The perfect team

    The perfect team

    Partners and Pregnancy. Being the non gestational parent to be is a funny time. It’s not like for the person who is pregnant who feels everything happening in their body and gets to know your baby through feeling movement from the inside, always knowing that another person is within them. You see the positive pregnancy Read more

  • What is a doula?

    What is a doula?

    Language Doula The word doula comes from an ancient Greek work for female slave. There are many reasons not to feel comfortable with that imagery. But doula as a modern western concept has developed a meaning of its own and is in common usage now as someone who provides non medical, social and emotional support Read more