The Southwest Indie Midwife

The Southwest Indie Midwife Independent, private midwife. Homebirth specialist

Holistic, physiology centred care

Plymouth, Devon & Cornwall. Aromatherapy, hypnobirthing, biomechanics.

Independent, private midwifery services in Devon & Cornwall. Full continuity of carer and guaranteed access to home birth with an experienced and skilled homebirth midwife. I want you to be at the centre of your care. i value relational care, with a physiology first approach. Helping you to understand how and why your body works to ensure a positive birth experience. I will always prioritise the s

afety and wellbeing of you and your baby and am a fully qualified and NMC registered midwife. I am trained in managing obstetric emergencies, Newborn Life Support and Immediate Life Support and carry out yearly skills and drills to ensure my skills stay up to date. I am able to provide a range of care packages, from the full pregnancy, homebirth and postnatal care continuum, hospital birth packages including where you are choosing a planned caesarean birth as well as enhanced antenatal or postnatal support. I can offer individual appointments or a package of care depending on your needs. I am trained in biomechanics for birth, hypnobirthing, aromatherapy, massage and reflexology and can offer tailor made sessions for you to enhance your pregnancy and plan for a positive birth. To find out if I am right for you I offer a free online meeting of approx 30 mins where you can have the opportunity to meet me, ask any questions you may have and decide if what i can offer will suit you and your needs.

Want life altering care from an independent midwife who has the time to truly be with woman?For midwifery done different...
24/08/2026

Want life altering care from an independent midwife who has the time to truly be with woman?

For midwifery done differently to honour your journey into motherhood, make you feel held and safe and witness you as the truly magical human you are! No rushed appointments, no staff shortages. Just nourishing care from the same midwife throughout your journey.

Specialising in homebirth care but witness to all births and standing by your side in reverence of your power. Providing safe, evidence based care with skill and heart.

01/07/2026

The internet isn't a very nice place right now, with lots of polarised views and pitting women and midwives against one another, creating a supposed fight.

Well I call BS. Yes we passionately support and protect physiological birth and have a skill set in that, but you need to know normal to understand abnormal.

Women have the right to understand their options in a trauma informed way that creates safe, nurturing care to allow them to make choices that feel right for them. Whether that's a homebirth or a planned caesarean, deciding to opt in to an induction or declining interventions when they understand the risk/benefit and alternatives on offer.

We stand with women to have a birth that leaves them whole, mind,body and soul. The current system is failing women in the most basic provision.

So our wish for the narrative currently online in the birth world? Can we all stop fighting please. We all want better for women. This is about a system that fails to provide adequate choice, staffing, care and support that is trauma informed and holistic. I have worked in the system when I did provide that. I believe it can again.

Homebirth is not the problem, normal birth is not the problem. .

A system that is not listening to women IS the problem.

A system that funnels women through a conveyor belt of care, not seeing them as unique individuals, staff overworked not having the time for nuanced conversation, services not running adequately. Swiss cheese where women fall through the gaps and are harmed.

So if you want to know what our favourite kind of birth is........it's the one where you being alive is NOT the baseline, it's the one where you walk away trauma free, feeling in control of your choices and able to enjoy motherhood feeling empowered, listened to and like YOU MATTER.

Over and out with love and oxytocin

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Today has been another tough day to read about maternity care.There is an alternative Private independent midwifery care...
30/06/2026

Today has been another tough day to read about maternity care.

There is an alternative

Private independent midwifery care with a midwife you know and trust.

Connection, relationships, your birth team and navigating birth and life with a new baby.

This is what I live and breathe with you, helping you navigate choices, nurturing and deep knowing.

Want to find out more about independent midwife support? DM me for a free meet up to see if this kind of care feels aligned for you

It's mentioned at least 75 times in the latest report and yet the headlines are still focussing on women being too old t...
29/06/2026

It's mentioned at least 75 times in the latest report and yet the headlines are still focussing on women being too old too far blah blah blah.

Why does continuity matter?

Because the themes coming out are systematically not listening to families and dehumanisation of women - continuity is protective of this. When you are known by your care provider trusting relationships from - this is also trauma informed as a way of caring for families (you only need to tell your story once)

And because continuity has repeatedly demonstrated that almost every measurable outcome is improved when women and families are cared for in this model. That's less morbidity (harm) and mortality (death) for women and babies. That's both physical and psychological. There is a Cochrane review available for you to read on this!

So if we really wanted to improve maternity services we would be putting this back on the agenda.

At the moment fragmented care is the norm. Care is centralised and reductive.

If you want care that is the opposite of this then you may need to look outside of what the NHS is offering. There are some pockets of the NHS doing this and doing this well, so request to be cared for in this way and if they can't ask why.

In the meantime my DMs are open 💕

26/06/2026

It's ok to want more than just a healthy baby as your baseline.

You deserve to be held and treated with the kind of care that keeps you both physically as well as psychologically safe.

Continuity of care and expert midwifery care provides this. Seeking this out is not a betrayal to the NHS. It's recognising that you need more than just the basic care provision.

We know that sometimes women and babies require intervention to provide safe care - this is why employing a highly skilled independent midwifery team to care for you keeps you and your baby safe. We are trained to recognise when intervention might be warranted or required. But we also work in a way that treats you as the unique individual you are. With trust, time, nuance and continuity of care. This is evidence based to ENHANCE safety and IMPROVE outcomes.

This is why we work in this way.

Interested in starting your transformational journey?

DM to start a conversation ✨

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