Mia's Blog

Why doing nothing isn’t doing nothing, and how the three systems model can help new mums   Here’s a little...

My friend was mid-air, on a plane from America for a week-end of amateur sports, when the week-end got cancelled....

Hello lovely birth professionals. Do you ever wonder if you are doing the right thing when you listen to some-one’s...

I work in perinatal mental health. I see a lot of women struggling with perinatal anxiety, depression and rage. I...

When I got pregnant, I was “warned” that birth would be painful, that I would probably need drugs to cope,...

This was said to two of my clients in the same week. It got me thinking. They were up to...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I know that it causes trauma, because I’m seeing a lot of the distress that...

“At least you have a healthy baby” and other ways to silence women traumatised at birth trigger warning : details...

It’s help them to calm their brain. Picture a meerkat, up on the tips of his feet, eyes and ears...

You wrote a birth plan, because birth is a big deal. But did you write a postnatal care plan? After...

  We are on a girlie week-end, climbing hills in the Derbyshire dales, and staying in a bed and breakfast....

I’m excited about this referral because the money has been arranged by a health insurance company, so neither of us...