The truth behind the judgement. — If I could count the times I’ve been told, ‘I’ve thought about home educating my child but I don’t want them to be weird’, I would be a rich woman. And while it’s a good thing I am not more easily offended I thought that opening a discussion might be…

Sometimes we are just too close and too isolated to see the truth about the job we are doing. — I had too many children. Each one was longed for, dreamt about, and planned long before they arrived in my womb. Each one felt known to me in such a tangible way I never felt like there was any option other than to allow them to be born. I feared…

Courage isn’t just about facing challenges, it’s about how we view them in the first place. Stood at the bottom of the wall, feet comfortably on solid ground, I watched her climb. The progress was slow, it was only her second time, but she was doing better than the first…

Sometimes the long dark nights just need a little extra light. — Parenthood often feels like climbing Mount Everest in the dark. I wonder if I’ve made it harder on myself by having four and then choosing to home educate them all, but in all honesty, I think this is the nature of motherhood. You do your research and make your plans…

A working mother or a stay-at-home mother, either way, motherhood is not your job. — Being a mother is not a job. We all too often refer to it as one, but it isn’t. Being a mother is something that you are. When you have a job, you can show up late or not at all, you can quit if you hate it enough, but…

How their experiences impacted and transformed their families — In 2021 a photographer friend and I embarked on a journey to meet women who had journeyed through pregnancy and birth during the pandemic. These are the stories those brave women shared with us. They can teach all of us so much. The birth journey and post-partum period is a…

Let’s start celebrating the unseen work that you do. — The most valuable player in a team is not the one who takes the glory and the obvious wins, it’s the player who sets up the shot, the player who is always right where you need them to be, the player who enables everyone else to do well. Often unseen…

We know how pregnancy and birth impacts mothers, but what of the father’s journey and how has the last year affected that? — In all the ways that Covid-19 has affected daily life for families, the impact that it has had on the birth journey has been profound and will have echoes for years to come. Women delve deep into their warrior natures during labour and birth, and ideally, they are enabled and…