Rhiannon Carmichael, IBCLC, Birth and Postnatal Doula

08/10/2026

30/06/2026

🤍The best birth wisdom often comes from those who have walked the path🤍

Birth is powerful, unpredictable, and deeply personal.

So I want to hear from you…

✨ What’s one thing you think every pregnant wahine should know?

Share your wisdom below 👇
your words might be exactly what another mama needs to hear 🌿

Save this post & tag a pregnant wahine 🤍

09/03/2026

Something important is happening right now in the UK 👇🏼

And our voices are needed.

In case you haven’t heard already:
For the first time in a long time, there is a national investigation gathering real experiences of maternity and neonatal care 🗣️

Not statistics, not policy language, but the lived truth of women and families.

All of it…
The positive moments.
The neglect.
The level of care received.
The traumas.

The moments of deep support…
and the moments where something went terribly wrong 💔

👉🏼 Our maternity system is in desperate need of change 👈🏼

Too many women have left birth feeling dismissed.
Too many families have left carrying trauma.
Too many stories have been minimised, buried, or quietly endured.

And meaningful change cannot happen until those stories are heard 🕊

Baroness Amos is leading the National Maternity and Neonatal Investigation, and a public Call for Evidence is now open for women and families across the UK.

This is an opportunity for the truth of maternity care to be spoken collectively 🔥

Not as isolated experiences.
But as a pattern that cannot be ignored.

Two surveys are available:

•⁠ ⁠One for women and people who have been pregnant to share their experiences of maternity and neonatal services.

•⁠ ⁠One for partners, fathers, family members, friends or support people who supported someone through pregnancy and birth.

If you feel able to share your story, your voice, your experience matters.

And your words may help shape the recommendations that guide the future of maternity care in this country.

But please only share if it feels safe and supportive for you to do so 🤍
Your wellbeing comes first.

If you do feel the call to speak…

this is a moment where your voice may ripple far beyond your own story.

🕊 The Call for Evidence is open until 17 March 2026

You can find the link to participate in our stories

The future of maternity care must include the voices of the women and families who lived it.



Photography: .birthphotography

09/01/2026

25/12/2025

25/12/2025

Long before Christianity, people awaited the Sun Child, born through the Goddess, who waxed toward a fullness of light after the darkest day of winter. ~ Rebekah Myers

“Since the coming of Christianity, the mid-winter holiday has been dedicated to the birth of a child-god to a mortal woman, yet the images and songs of Christmas-time belie the official reason for the season. Rarely do we see more tender images of motherhood than at this time. For without Mary, there would have been no miraculous birth to celebrate. Thus the ancient power of the Divine Feminine sustains itself in our hearts. No matter that the official story focuses on a male child. Our human need for balance asserts itself, and this becomes a grand festival of the Holy Mother. This is every bit as much Mary’s holiday as it is Her child’s.”

~ Patricia Monaghan

Art: Bernadette Carstensen

10/10/2025

This October, London will witness a cultural first: the unveiling of a public statue that honours the raw, unfiltered reality of motherhood
https://www.positive.news/society/new-london-statue-celebrates-the-unseen-strength-of-mothers/