Macarthur Midwife

✨ Parents & Bubs Catch Up ✨

Let’s try again 🫣

Everyone is welcome — mums, dads, siblings, family & friends 🤍

Are you currently pregnant? Of course we’d love to have you join us too ❤️

Let’s get together for a catch up.

Bring a rug for the grass, let the kids play in the park, grab some lunch, and connect with other incredible families 🌿👶☀️

📍 Camden Valley Inn
📅 Thursday 23rd April
⏰ 11:30am - 1:30pm

Don’t forget to pop it in your diary ✍️
We can’t wait to see you there 💫

✨ Private Midwifery Care Availability✨

If you’re looking for continuity of care for your pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey I have some spaces available 💛

What does Private Midwifery Care include? 

🤍 One-on-one support throughout your pregnancy, birth & postpartum journey. 
🏡 Home visits - no long waits in the clinic. 
🌼 Extended visits that aren’t rushed. Time and space to talk, ask questions, and feel heard and supported. 
📝 Support with birth planning, decision-making, and navigating your options
👶Supportive care as you transition to newborn life.

📍Servicing: Macarthur/ Wollondily/Penrith/ Western Sydney 
📩 DM for more info

✨ Parents & Bubs Catch Up ✨

Take #2 🫣
Everyone is welcome — mums, dads, siblings, family & friends 🤍
Are you currently pregnant? Of course we’d love to have you join us too ❤️

Let’s get together for a catch up.

Bring a rug for the grass, let the kids play in the park, grab some lunch, and connect with other incredible families 🌿👶☀️

📍 Camden Valley Inn
📅 Wednesday 18th March
⏰ 11am – 1pm

Don’t forget to pop it in your diary ✍️
We can’t wait to see you there 💫

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Birth culture loves to debate how women give birth, when there really isn’t a “right” or “wrong” way.

Home vs hospital.
Natural vs medicated.
Vaginal vs caesarean.

What really matters though, is how she was treated.
Was she given real information?
Was her consent clear and ongoing?
Was her “no” respected?
Did she feel like the central decision-maker in the room?

Because a woman can have every intervention in the book and still feel powerful.
And she can have the most physiological birth imaginable and walk away feeling silenced.

The difference is respect.

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Home birth benefits everyone 🤍
One thing I’ve noticed? After a home birth, the biggest advocates are often the partners.
They usually begin the journey feeling unsure… but by the end, they’re the ones telling everyone how incredible it was ✨
There’s something powerful about witnessing birth unfold in the comfort of home — it changes you, it changes everyone 🥰

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Just a reminder of a really important question.

In an editorial in The Lancet’s EClinical Medicine, Professor Hannah Dahlen looked at the meta-analysis by Hutton et al (2019), which looked at 14 studies involving around 500,000 women.

It showed (again) that home and hospital birth are equally safe and that homebirths in well-integrated settings appear to lead to better perinatal outcomes.

She then raised an important question: ‘Is it time to ask whether facility based birth is safe for low risk women and their babies?’

If you’d like to know more about the evidence on home birth, head over to https://www.sarawickham.com/research-updates/is_home_birth_safe/

has an entire page of studies and links to load of evidence-based information about homebirth.

Dahlen HG (2019). Is it Time to Ask Whether Facility Based Birth is Safe for Low Risk Women and Their Babies? EClinicalMedicine doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2019.08.003

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Who you have on your team matters!
It’s never too late to change care providers 🌤️
Reach out for more info or to arrange a meet and greet 😊

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✨Delayed Cord Clamping✨

How long is considered delayed?
⏱️Instead of being time focused tell your care provider what you want to wait for:
✨Wait for white 🤍
✨Wait for pulsating to stop ✋🏼

In a lot of facilities 60 seconds is considered delayed. But is this is enough for you?

What e baby is missing out on if the cord is cut while it’s still pulsating:
☝🏽Up to 30% more blood volume
☝🏽 Increased iron stores (supporting brain growth and development 🧠)
☝🏽Higher hemoglobin levels
👇🏽Reduced risk of iron deficiency anemia in the first year
✨Better oxygen delivery during the transition to breathing
✨Transfer of valuable stem cells that support immune function and tissue repair
✨Smoother cardiovascular adaptation after birth

Every baby is different — some cords stop pulsating quickly, others take several minutes or even hours 🫣
The beautiful cord and placenta pictured was pulsating for 2 hours ⏳

It’s not about the clock ⏰
It’s about completing the transition. 💫

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Have you met beautiful Jess yet?
Do it - you’ll love her!

My love for acuneedling began after experiencing acupressure during my own labour.

It supported my body throughout my pregnancies and continues to support me well into motherhood.

Supporting women through acuneedling, seeing beautiful results, and working with the body naturally is something I’m so passionate about years later ~

Holistic support for women — truly a win win 🤍