When a baby is born, so are its parents
I spent years beside families in delivery rooms, and what stayed with me wasn't only the births — it was how much of this journey happens inside the people living it, long before and long after the baby arrives. I work with the expectations no one says out loud, the exhaustion nobody warned you about, and the distances that open up when everything else is demanding your attention. With couples, and with mothers and fathers doing this on their own. Not as clinical care, but as guidance from someone who has walked this ground with hundreds of families.
Why I came back
I'm an obstetric nurse. Nine years in delivery rooms, in clinical care through pregnancy, in postpartum support and in nursing supervision.
After that, I spent seven years away from the profession. I came back because, on a visit to the hospital where I used to work, I realised what I'd been feeling had a name: a longing for the practice itself — and the wish to do it differently from before.
Differently because, across all those births, what stayed with me wasn't the birth itself. It was seeing how many people arrived exhausted, frightened, with no one looking after them. That's the space I work in now.
Partnership
This journey is shared. When there's a partner, he isn't an extra — he understands what she's going through and finds his own place in it. When there isn't, the journey still belongs to a person, not to a mother who's supposed to manage it all alone.
Honesty
No perfect mother, no divine motherhood. Mothers sleep, eat, bleed and get tired, and they deserve time that is theirs alone. Saying it out loud lifts a weight no one should carry in silence.
Support
No one crosses this in a vacuum. Building a network around you — and learning to ask for help without feeling you've failed — is part of the work.
How it works?
The support is organised into three journeys — before pregnancy, through pregnancy, and after birth. You join the one that matches where you are.
Sessions are online, scheduled around your routine. They can be just you, you and your partner, or you and someone from your support network — your mother, your sister, the friend who'll be there with you. In each session, we work on what's weighing on you now: the conversations that aren't happening, the fears no one says out loud, the balance that isn't holding.
This isn't medical care and doesn't replace your antenatal appointments. It's the space that's usually missing: someone looking after you, not only the baby.
