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Complementary Therapies in Maternity Care: are we blind to the bias?

12th November 2019 By doulamaddie 4 Comments

I was scared. VERY. I am dreadfully phobic of enclosed spaces and didn't know how I was going to cope with an MRI. For a while I considered putting it off but I realised that being a doula has given me a number of useful tools. First, I reached out to a friend who was able to use her Continue Reading

6 Visions of Breastfeeding Support for Cinderella

25th February 2019 By doulamaddie 3 Comments

As brand new breastfeeding mothers, we can sometimes feel like Cinderella, sitting lonely in the kitchen while everyone else is having fun, feeling like we have been tasked with the impossible. But just like Cinderella, you are not alone. Even without her mother to care for her, Cinders had others Continue Reading

My Doula Year: banging the drum for justice

31st December 2017 By doulamaddie 5 Comments

It's been quite a year. Not just for me, but for the wider birth world. This year heralded the beginnings of the implementation of the Better Births report. Continuity of Carer is really on the horizon - for those not in the know, that means the prospect of all women being able to get to know a Continue Reading

Women’s Voices

22nd October 2017 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Where to, Love? said the taxi driver. Up with the lark, ain't yer? Station, please. Tickets please, next stop, Kings Cross. 30p for a wee, then mind the gap, tube to Baker Street. Past tourists gathering outside 221b Leafy streets and round the bend, the Royal College. The rarefied air and Continue Reading

Interview with Paula Cleary, Mother-of-five, Doula and founder of Birthplace Matters

7th September 2017 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

This latest offering in my irregular series of guest posts is this interview with the inspiring Paula Cleary. Doula, Birth Activist and Founder of Birthplace Matters, Paula manages to find time in between home educating five children to support birthing mothers and raise awareness of the disparities Continue Reading

Hunting for the Truth: Birth in the Age of Fake News

16th August 2017 By doulamaddie 5 Comments

This week there has some been some very random, and very mysterious news headlines in the media. Without warning, the media began reporting that the Royal College of Midwives was no longer going to be promoting 'normal birth'. None of the offending journalists seemed bothered by the fact that this Continue Reading

Breathing Out!

14th April 2015 By doulamaddie 2 Comments

That's what I seem to be doing at the moment. With all the whirlwind around publication  of the book, family stuff, teaching new doulas and, somewhere in the mix, planning (probably stupidly) to embark on a house extension, I kind of forgot to breathe there, for a while! So this is me, breathing Continue Reading

The Roar Behind The Silence, edited by Soo Downe and Sheena Byrom

2nd April 2015 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

When I first discovered Sheena Byrom, I had no idea she was the midwifery queen of Twitter, passionate and expert in bringing mothers, midwives and all interested in maternity care together to debate, share and raise their voices in unison. She was the author of 'Catching Babies', a life story of a Continue Reading

Book Review: All That Matters, by Rebecca Schiller

14th February 2015 By doulamaddie 3 Comments

This short book written for the Guardian by writer, human rights activist and doula, Rebecca Schiller, is easily digested in an hour or two. But don't be misled by its brevity; Schiller has given us an important document. As a breastfeeding counsellor, a core part of my education was reading The Continue Reading

The Politics of Breastfeeding: Partnerships, Parameters, Taboos and Pecadillos

5th June 2014 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

The following was, more or less, a speech I gave at the 2014 Doula UK conference. I am  passionate about breastfeeding and the ways in which doulas fit into the breastfeeding support landscape. I'd like to take you on a little tour of some of the social attitudes to breastfeeding that interest me Continue Reading

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