18/08/2026
We’ve normalised so many interventions in maternity care that sometimes the alternative starts to look reckless 🤷🏽♀️
💁🏽♀️ Induction? Normal.
💁🏽♀️ Epidural? Normal.
💁🏽♀️ Planned caesarean? Normal.
🤨 But homebirth? “Dangerous.”
🤨 Going beyond 41 weeks? “Risky.”
🤨 Writing a birth plan? “You can’t control birth.”
🤨 Preparing for physiological birth? “Don’t set yourself up for disappointment.”
And this isn’t about being anti-intervention.
Intervention can be lifesaving. Modern obstetrics absolutely has a place.
But we should be able to ask questions about why an intervention is being recommended, what the alternatives are, and whether one intervention could potentially lead to another.
Because when intervention becomes so normalised that physiological birth starts to seem unusual, we have to ask:
Have we forgotten that birth is a physiological process?
You deserve to understand your options, not simply accept the default “one sized fits all” approach to your care.
And that’s exactly why I do what I do. 🤍
I support women and couples with birth education and doula support so they can enter birth feeling informed, prepared and confident in their choices (and it’s an evidence based choice that improves outcomes…in case you need any more convincing 😉).
📍 I support women and couples in the Coffs Harbour region. DM me “DOULA” if you’d like to explore working with me.
