When a family discovers that their baby has, or may have Down syndrome, it can be news that many people struggle to immediately accept. There is often so much negativity surrounding a diagnosis of Down syndrome during pregnancy that there is often an expectation from family, professionals and wider ...

Around one in every 250 pregnancies are twin pregnancies, so it’s quite possible that you’ll be asked to support a family who are pregnant with two babies – or more!

As a doula supporting families pregnant with twins and multiples, what are some helpful things to know about? Sarah Hawkins, twin mum...

Sam is a Nurturing Birth course facilitator and has worked for many years as a doula in Chelmsford, Essex. This is the story of why she decided to train to be a doula.

I’m primarily a birth doula, but I also do postnatal work from time to time. I think, actually I know, that I tend to limit how muc...

No one told me it would be like this. I had wanted a baby since my teenage years. I’d craved the closeness of a newborn, fantasised over the kind of happy, centered mother I’d be and yearned for the love shared between parent and child. However, when my first child was born, what I felt bore very li...

Being the second eldest and with seven siblings my doula journey started early on in life. I was blissfully unaware that I would still be in a position to be doing something that I love to this day and with a confidence that has grown over the years.

My career path before becoming a doula was in th...

How often do we see people posting on social media that their baby is ‘late’ or ‘overdue’, often with worries that their body just can’t do it, or that there is something wrong with them.

There is something very wrong with our medical system if women feel like failures if they haven’t birthed their...

Your baby… Your body… Your decisions!

When we’re pregnant we are offered so many tests and checks, we’re poked and prodded and our bellies are listened to. We’re even told to “leave our dignity at the door”.

But did you know that you have the absolute right to decide what happens to your body? Did...