04/09/2026
🌱 Two little bits of news from Little Seeds! 🌱
Firstly… I have a brand-new, updated website! 🎉
I’d love you to have a look when you have a moment. If you spot anything that needs tweaking, changing or adding, please do let me know — I have a small window of time in which I can get any final amendments made.
And secondly… I have a new idea that I’m really excited about. ❤️
Birth Stories
I’m going to create a special Birth Stories page on the Little Seeds website, where real experiences can be shared with other expectant parents.
It doesn’t matter how your baby came into the world.
Perhaps you had an unplanned or ‘emergency’ caesarean birth, a planned caesarean, a water birth, an assisted birth, a straightforward vaginal birth — or something completely different.
What would you share with another expectant parent that might help them?
It could be something you wish you had known beforehand.
Something small that made a surprisingly big difference.
Something your midwife said or did.
Something your birth partner did that helped you enormously.
Or simply something you learned from your own experience that you’d love another parent to know.
And birth partners and new daddies — I’d love to hear from you too. ❤️
What do you wish you had known?
What was the most special part of supporting your partner?
What helped her the most?
What did you find useful to do?
And what made your own experience of becoming a parent more meaningful?
My hope is to share one birth story each week on the Little Seeds website, so that real-life experiences can be shared, celebrated and perhaps help someone else feel a little more prepared, reassured or confident as they approach their own baby’s birth.
As a midwife, I truly believe that birth isn’t about how your baby emerges into the world — vaginal birth or caesarean, a short labour or a long one, epidural, gas and air or no pain relief at all.
What matters is how you felt.
How you felt at the time.
How you were supported.
And, importantly, how you feel now when you look back on your baby’s birth.
Every birth story is unique. There is no ‘right’ way to give birth and no two experiences are the same.
If you feel you have a story, experience or little piece of wisdom that might help another expectant parent, I would be so grateful if you would consider sharing it with me. 🌱
Thank you, as always, for being part of the Little Seeds family.
Sending my love and gratitude,
Alison x ❤️
