MAMA Midwifery Practice

MAMA Midwifery Practice MAMA is a private midwifery practice & hub for holistic care during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

MAMA is Victoria’s largest private midwifery practice, supporting over 2,500 births in the last 15 years. We’re here to help you feel empowered, informed, and supported through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.Your journey is at the heart of everything we do. MAMA was created by two passionate midwives, Jan Ireland and Kelly Langford & is the first centre of its kind in Victoria, offering Me

dicare rebates for individualised midwifery care across the continuum. From pregnancy to postnatal care, we’re here with expert midwifery care and allied healthcare support for every step of your journey into parenthood. MAMA offers a range of services including:
- Pre-pregnancy counselling
- Early pregnancy consultation and support
- Antenatal midwifery care including ordering & interpreting of ultrasounds and blood results
- Labour and birth care at home or support in hospital
- Postnatal care through to 8 weeks
- Shared care with The Women's Hospital, Mercy Health and Western Health
- Complementary therapies including yoga, massage, counselling, naturopathy, aromatherapy, chiropractic, osteopathy, physiotherapy, baby massage, birth debriefing, internal pelvic release
- Lactation support with a team of internationally board certified lactation consultants
- Free feeding support groups
- Parent morning teas
- Mothers groups
- Women's circles
- Birth education classes
- Parent education classes
- Professional education classes
- Quality products recommended by MAMA for retail
- A resource library

More information on our website; www.mamabirth.au

It can often surprise parents that babies can be alert & quiet when they're born. We've come to think of crying as the o...
20/08/2026

It can often surprise parents that babies can be alert & quiet when they're born. We've come to think of crying as the only indicator of wellbeing sometimes when you watch birth in the general media. However, often at a gentle birth (particularly in water when the transition to one warm environment to the next occurs), it can look more like this.

Quiet moments where your baby is calm, alert, looking at you and the world & finding familiarity in your smell, heartbeat, voice (all those things they've known as home for the last 10months).

It still amazes us midwives too, to really stand and watch a baby soak up their first experience of the world and to just 'be' so in their bodies immediately. It's really hard to even put into words how much of an honour it is to witness.

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Sometimes the pace of a short appointment doesn't always leave room for what something actually means for you, your body...
17/08/2026

Sometimes the pace of a short appointment doesn't always leave room for what something actually means for you, your body, your baby, your labour or your postpartum.

That's why continuity of care is so important to families and midwives alike. When you're seeing the same midwife throughout your pregnancy, those follow-up questions aren't just a delay... they're the whole point of the appointment. You get to ask the same thing multiple different ways until it actually makes sense to you, often way before you even need to make a choice for many topics!

If you would like to explore what continuity of care can look like for you and your family, we have discovery appointments that are book billed every day of the week with a midwife.

A beautiful affirmation on the fridge of a gorgeous client.The reminder serves so well in the waiting room phase of preg...
14/08/2026

A beautiful affirmation on the fridge of a gorgeous client.

The reminder serves so well in the waiting room phase of pregnancy, often that 40-42 week window, when even though you know you're not post-term, you've seen your 'due date' pass by & the mental game can change.

The reminder also serves in labour, when as long as mother & baby are well, we really see no set timeline and know that babies will come when they are ready.

Spoiler alert; Jack did indeed come when he was ready!

Rhea Dempsey wrote the book on staying confident and clear-eyed through labour & and now she's back with an updated edit...
10/08/2026

Rhea Dempsey wrote the book on staying confident and clear-eyed through labour & and now she's back with an updated edition of the epic Birth with Confidence!

We're thrilled to host Rhea at MAMA Kensington for her book launch and Q&A. Whether you're due in 6 weeks or you've been catching babies for 20 years, this one's for you.

An Evening with Rhea Dempsey
MAMA Kensington
Friday 14th August, 7–9pm
$10 link to book on website under professional education

It makes sense that a lot of people picture their own birth the way that they see the media portray it (all noise, urgen...
07/08/2026

It makes sense that a lot of people picture their own birth the way that they see the media portray it (all noise, urgency and bright lights) right up until the moment the baby arrives.

Yet, this is what it actually looks like more often than not, at least in our experience. The room is quiet, nobody's rushing anywhere and you're simply soaking up your baby on your chest with your partner beside you. The midwife who's known you since your first appointment is often sitting back and observing that all is well, while also soaking up the joy of watching your family come together.

If the only version of birth you can picture is closer to the TV one, it might be worth seeing what other versions can look like as well & broadening your input. Our discovery appointments are free, and they're with our midwives so you can come ask us anything and everything!

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Unfortunately, most people never get properly taken through their options. They get whatever their GP mentions, whatever...
03/08/2026

Unfortunately, most people never get properly taken through their options. They get whatever their GP mentions, whatever a friend did or maybe whatever came up first on Google. Public system, MGP, private midwifery, private obstetrics, home birth, hospital birth.. these aren't small differences, and what's right for one family isn't right for the next.

Every week we carve out time in the midwives diaries for discovery appointments for this reason. We truly believe that we can make the most change by supporting families to make informed choices from the very beginning, and go a little upstream!

If you have 40 minutes, we have experienced midwives laying out what your options really look like so the choice is actually yours. No obligation to book with us and no referral needed. Free, in clinic or via telehealth!

Address

Wurundjeri Country, 38 Gatehouse Drive
Kensington, VIC
3031

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+61393767474

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