Independent Midwife Of The Year – Winner

Wednesday, 30 November 2022 / Published in Antenatal, Awards, Home Birth, In The News, Labour, Pregnancy
MAMA Academy Awards – Independent Midwife Of the Year Winner – Debbie Linger Another award for our amazing staff at Private Midwives! – We had four of our midwives nominated by clients for the independent midwife of the year award at the MAMA Academy Awards. Our fantastic clients put forward Linda Bryceland, Heather Berry, Angie

WINNER – Gamechangers Progress Champion Award for Race & Cultural Equalities

Thursday, 17 November 2022 / Published in Antenatal, Awards, Home Birth, In The News, Labour, Pregnancy
Gamechangers Progress Champion Award for Race & Cultural Equalities Winner – Private Midwives Another award for our amazing staff at Private Midwives! – We are sol very thrilled to announce that we’ve won the Gamechangers Progress Champion Award for Race & Cultural Equalities. Thank you to our Midwives, our office staff, our clients, our voters

HOW TEA CAN SUPPORT YOU IN THE BUILD UP TO LABOUR

Wednesday, 23 March 2022 / Published in Antenatal, Home Birth, Labour, Pregnancy
TEA FOR THE THIRD & FOURTH TRIMESTER OF PREGNANCY Tea is a great way to naturally support your body and mind when you are preparing to meet your baby at the end of pregnancy.   It can be a daunting time, and relaxing with a cup of tea, can be a micro-moment of self-care in

Hypnobirthing & Home Birth Testimonial

Wednesday, 19 February 2020 / Published in Home Birth, Hypnobirthing, Meet the Midwife, Midwife, Pregnancy
One of our private midwives, Melanie Ambrose has recently helped one of our clients from Northamptonshire with hypnobirthing along with arranging a home birth and postnatal care. Out client, Kathryn, had not had a great experience with hospitals and the number of midwives she had up to her 32nd week of pregnancy. That’s when she

Birth – The jigsaw puzzle

Tuesday, 16 May 2017 / Published in Home Birth, Labour & Birth
Birth is a very instinctual process and could be described as a big “jigsaw” every piece needing to fit tightly to create the full picture. Birth environment is one of the very important pieces to the birth jigsaw. If it is not the right piece it will not fit and the jigsaw will be incomplete!

Why I chose a private birth with private midwives

Monday, 24 April 2017 / Published in Home Birth, Midwife
A client gives us her reasons for choosing Private Midwives:   Why I chose a Private Birth To me, birthing means opening up my deepest and most intimate parts. This is both a literal physical truth, and is also true on my emotional, psychological and spiritual levels. I felt a strong need to feel fully

Home Birth and breastfeeding feedback from a new mum

Monday, 24 April 2017 / Published in breastfeeding, Home Birth
Lovely feedback from one of our new mums this April, thank you so much for sharing with us Holly and many congratulations from all at Private Midwives: “I am currently writing about my experience one handed while I also breastfeed my new baby, born 4 days ago in the comfort of my own home and

Benefits of Birthing with Private Midwives – a mum’s perspective

Monday, 24 April 2017 / Published in Home Birth, Labour & Birth
Thinking about a private midwife and wondering if it is worth it? Read this lovely blog from our new client, Claire. Thank you Claire for sharing with us:- First introduction to birth It seemed when I first announced my pregnancy in 2013 a sudden but quite orderly queue of fellow mothers formed outside my door.

Your pregnancy – weeks 28 to 32

Monday, 30 November 2015 / Published in Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife

As your bump pushes up against your lungs and you have extra weight to carry around, you may feel breathless.

The Birth

Wednesday, 18 November 2015 / Published in breastfeeding, Home Birth, Labour, Labour & Birth, Midwife, Newborn Care

One thing I wondered about before I had my home birth - was it going to be better than my hospital births?