2nd Pregnancy – Choices in Childbirth. Just three weeks after my first son Erik turned 2 years old, his younger brother Graham was born. In honor of Graham’s birthday I thought I’d share his birth story, to add to the first one I posted in my last blog. This pregnancy began with a false negative blood test result (there weren’t pregnancy test kits in those days), though I knew I was pregnant at the time. Less than a Continue Reading …
40 Years a Mother
September 22, 2014 Today is a big day – it is 40 years since the birth of my first child Erik and the day I became a mother! It’s hard to believe that 40 years have passed. Today we spent nearly an hour having a Face Time conversation, as we live on different continents now. Three more siblings were born after him, and my motherhood took a professional turn towards the work I love doing now helping other Continue Reading …
Knowledge + Support = Empowerment
“I know why you call it Birth Empowerment! I felt so empowered, elated, wonderful – I was on such a high”, exclaimed one of my clients when we spoke on the phone after her birth. This woman was the last client I taught birth preparation to before immigrating to the UK in 1998, and it was actually a couple of years later that we had that conversation. She was due a couple of months after I left and Continue Reading …
Mothering the Mother
Lately I’ve been thinking about my work as a doula and how important it is to support a woman making the transition to parenthood; it’s a time of unique vulnerability for a new mother who is moving through uncharted territory while also responsible for the needs of an even more vulnerable newborn person, 24/7. A new mother needs mothering herself at this time, a person who can hold a space for all the changes taking place and all the new Continue Reading …
Testimonial – SK2
“I ended up having a pool birth and had a beautiful baby boy. Diane provided us support and advice after the birth for my recovery, breastfeeding, looking after the new baby and also general advice to help us as a family and how to adjust. Having Diane work with us gave us both confidence and took away the few niggling concerns that we both had. She is a lovely, warm person to work with, and I would recommend Continue Reading …
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