Maddie's Musings
My Blog Posts
I love writing, and never more than when it's about stuff I'm passionate about - usually birth, babies and parenting.
Splashing Out on a Doula
Over the years I have read a lot of articles about doulas and whether we should charge for our services…
Tips from the milky coalface
The following article was written for and first appeared in my friend Naomi Kemeny's book 'Nurturing New Families'. A book not…
Freedom for Birth
What is Freedom for Birth? "Freedom for Birth" is more than just a film. It marks the beginning of a…
Doulas DO Make a Difference!
Survey Shows Doulas Have Significant Impact on Birth and Breastfeeding Chances of an intervention-free birth and successful breastfeeding increased with…
Vaginal Birth After Ceasarean – it IS possible, even after
Stan’s birth – a VBA2C. This story is shared with permission in the hopes that it will provide inspiration to…
Group B Strep
I've been asked about this subject quite a lot recently so I thought I'd write a post about it. Before…
Boring Breastfeeding (why I hate doing radio interviews during breastfeeding
Really, boring? Too boring for the media, obviously. After all, baby asks, mum offers, baby nurses, baby and mum get…
Toffee Apples
The children are on half term at the moment so as usual, today I was trying to think of low…
Tongue-Tie Stories and Resources
I have recently moved the majority of the Tongue tie information and stories to my other site, www.thebirthhub.co.uk If you are…
“That Was Your Midwife”
Last night I was doing that incredibly modern thing so many of us seem to do nowadays, namely half watching…
