• Wishing this beaut an awesome 18th birthday tomorrow. I can’t really believe my baby niece is now a full grown adult woman. Love you so much @lucyabigail.x thank you for inviting the crazy Calverts to celebrate with you. Happy birthday Lucy Lou 🥂
  • It’s world breastfeeding week! As a doula I love supporting new mums in the early days with a newborn. With many years of experience as a trained breastfeeding supporter I can help navigate the tricky journey to breastfeeding success. As a vocal advocate of breastfeeding much of what I say is about the personal choices of each mother and each dyad is a unique journey wrapped up in emotion. The pressure new mums feel is enormous but the fact is most mums want to breastfeed but society makes it so hard. Yes, breastfeeding is a personal experience but it is also a political one. One aspect that we don’t discuss enough is the environmental and economical impact not breastfeeding has. This is another pressure point we need to press on policy makers and commissioners. Breastfeeding is a public health issue, an economic and environmental issue which should make it a priority when it comes to funding support services. Sadly well funded breastfeeding support in the UK is far lower than it was 10 years. In the last few years the majority of regions have seen support services reduced or cut entirely and mothers are being failed. Maternity Voices Partnerships are an excellent way to let commissioners know we want breastfeeding support in our communities. Find out about your local MVP by searching the National Maternity Voices Partnership website and get your voice heard! . . . . . . . . . . . . . #worldbreastfeedingweek2019 #breastfeeding #breastfeedingsupport #maternityvoicespartnership #mvp #healthwatch #nhsmaternitycare #nhsfunding #climatecrisis #breastfeedingsavestheworld #breastfeedingecowarrior
  • 13 years ago I was pregnant with my first baby. I couldn’t imagine what giving birth would be like let alone imagine this point with years of experience and an almost teenage son who now towers over me. I couldn’t imagine the profound change motherhood would bring or the awakening of my feminism and my activism. Giving birth for the first time and navigating early motherhood with little knowledge or guidance from people who thought like me meant I had to find and fight for my own path. As I breastfed in public for the first time. As I discovered cloth nappies and slings without a peer support group. As I trod my own path being an outlier, I learnt and I grew strong. This only served to make me raise my voice. From becoming a breastfeeding peer supporter to administrating a Facebook group with over 250k membership to protest the censorship of breastfeeding images. This all led me to this point: Serving women and their families as they begin their journey. As a doula I can share my 13 years of experience of birthing 4 babies, breastfeeding them and navigating motherhood through eyes wide open to the obstacles women face in fulfilling their goals both in family life and working life. If you want to know how I can help you just get in touch. . . . . . . #emsinstchallenge1 #essexmarketing #doulauk #doulalife #motherssupportingmothers #peersupport #breastfeeding #birthwork #pregnancy #birth #birthdoula #radicaldoula #radicalfeminist
  • I have THE BEST clients! Not only do I get to nurture beautiful people and witness the wonder of birth I get lovely, thoughtful gifts too. Each family leaves a mark on my heart and it is always bitter-sweet to say goodbye. ❤️ . . . . . . . . . . . #doula #doulauk #birth #birthdoula #womancentredbirth #femalepower #doulasupport #doulaclient #ilovemyjob

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