It is my absolute joy, pleasure and (healthy) obsession to practice midwifery in partnership with women, birthing people, their families and chosen networks to support the optimisation of the biological, psychological, social and cultural processes of childbirth and early new born life.

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Before I became a midwife I ran a successful business for many years in healthcare research. Around the time of my first pregnancy however, a series of profound life events called me to take up the wonderful profession of midwifery.

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After qualifying as a midwife I honed many clinical skills working for a number of years within the NHS (mainly within a delivery suite setting 'catching babies'). Although I loved many elements of my work and valued working alongside some wonderful colleagues, much of my time within the NHS was marked by frustration. Understaffing, inadequate funding and overstretched services constantly prevented me from providing the level of care and giving the amount of time I believed women and birthing individuals truly deserved. I knew that practising outside of the NHS would enable me to work in a way that best aligned with my own personal and professional midwifery values and thus, Aligned Independent Midwifery was born—a practice founded on the principles of personalised, compassionate and respectful care which is delivered from the heart, not against the clock.

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In my personal life I have been lucky enough to have received care from a wonderful Independent Midwife in my second pregnancy and so I know first hand what a difference IMs make to every aspect of the childbearing journey. My IM helped me to address previous trauma, to see myself as whole (not just a list of obstetric risk factors) and to empower myself to experience a wonderful, healing labour and birth with my second son. It is my life goal as an Independent Midwife to help others feel the same.

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When I am not busy midwifing, massaging, thinking about birth, talking about birth or writing about birth, I can be found snuggled up with my cats, absorbed in a good podcast (probably about birth) or escaping to the Welsh wilderness with my partner and our two lovely little sons in our rooftop tent.

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