I qualified as a midwife in 2008 and I knew immediately that I wanted to work within a caseloading model, where the midwife has specific families that she cares for right through pregnancy and birth. For the first two years of my career, I worked as a Private Midwife for ‘The Private Birth Centre’ in Northwich, Cheshire. Here, I became expert at empowering, advocating and facilitating births for people from all kinds of birthing backgrounds, beliefs and philosophies. Many of these births were births after a traumatic experience, and I saw for myself how healing and empowering birth can be when it’s on your terms. In 2010, I then worked within a classical hospital setting as a rotational, then community Midwife in order to support my Mother-in-Law’s cancer.

When the hospital opened its alongside Birthing Centre in 2015, I was first in line to become a core MLU Midwife.

In the birth centre, I was able to utilize my skills in physiological birth and advocating for people with more complicated pregnancies to birth safely in a low-risk environment.

In 2020, I became a Ward Manager for a brand-new Birthing Centre, setting the culture, ethos and role-modeling the skills to facilitate birthing people to release power and capabilities that they never dreamed they had.

Now as an independent midwife I am able to combine all of my previous experience, skills and knowledge to provide the true continuity of carer model that evidence shows is so much safer and positive for the people and their babies that experience it and I absolutely love it!