I’m really pleased to bring you today’s episode, with Sarah from My Independent Midwife. Sarah founded this service alongside her long time colleague and friend Jenny.

She qualified in 2008 and knew that immediately wanted to work within a case loading model. For the first two years of her career, she worked as a Private Midwife for ‘The Private Birth Centre' in Northwich, Cheshire. Here, she became expert at empowering, advocating and facilitating births for people from all kinds of birthing backgrounds, beliefs and philosophies. Many of these births were births after a traumatic experience, and she saw for myself how healing and empowering birth can be when it's on your terms. In 2010, she then worked within a classical hospital setting and got to the point where she was birth centre manager.

Now she works as a private independent midwife, focused on providing continuity of carer throughout your pregnancy, birth and postnatal period so you will always know exactly who you can contact for support and who will provide all of your care.

Today we explore the benefits of independent midwife care, the constraints within the existing model of care that you can access via the NHS, common misconceptions with independent midwifery and the magic of when midwives and doulas work together.

I can’t wait to share, so get yourselves comfortable and enjoy today’s episode.

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I’m SO excited for today’s guest. Shellie Poulter has many talents – from training as an osteopath in 2005, to delivering cranio-sacral therapy, massage, acupuncture and more to expectant parents. Shellie is also a Doula and is well known in the birthworker world for her education and mentorship, and I personally learnt a lot from Shellie about biomechanics and how this can be used in labour. 

In today’s podcast, Shellie and I chat about Shellie’s journey to where she is now, how cranial sacral therapy can be used to support infants and in pregnancy, as well as how biomechanics has the power to change our birth experiences.

You won’t want to miss this one, so get comfortable and enjoy the podcast. 

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This week I'm talking you through an analogy that a lot of coaching clients find useful. As mothers we tend to place ourselves at the bottom of the pile - I'm on a mission to help you revaluate how you look after yourself!

This mini-pod ends with a short, but very enjoyable relaxation to release stress and set you up for a brilliant sleep or day.

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