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Doula, hypnobirthing teacher & fear coach 💛
Empowering birth partners, supporting first-time parents & helping families navigate 🧠 ADHD & 💭 anxiety through pregnancy, birth & postpartum 🌿

✨Before there’s a baby, there’s the becoming.✨One of the easiest (and loveliest) ways to prep an older child is to let t...
19/12/2025

✨Before there’s a baby, there’s the becoming.✨

One of the easiest (and loveliest) ways to prep an older child is to let them bond with the idea of baby — without pressure, without big speeches, just… closeness.

👉🏻Try this: two minutes a day of “hands on bump” time. You breathe slowly, they listen/feel, you tell baby who’s here.
🌿That’s it. That’s the ritual.
💚And yes — it’s adorable.
⚡️It’s also brilliant nervous-system work for everyone.

✨Partner tip: you run “older child + connection time” while mum rests. Same time daily. Consistency = magic.

If you’re prepping a sibling, comment ‘BUMP’ and I’ll share my fave sibling ‘jobs’ list.

✨ A little life update…After a few years away, I’m returning to birthwork.The path back hasn’t been simple—there’s been ...
09/08/2025

✨ A little life update…

After a few years away, I’m returning to birthwork.
The path back hasn’t been simple—there’s been divorce, healing, rebuilding, and a lot of rethinking how I want to work and live.

But if anything, all of that has only made my love for this work deeper.

I’m so proud of my growing family—the heart of everything I do—and the love and lessons they’ve brought into my life.

Being a doula was never just a job—it’s who I am. Holding space, offering calm, and witnessing people step into their power during birth… it moves me every time.

I’m back. With more heart, more perspective, and so much care to give.

💚 Thank you for still being here.

You can see what I’m offering now at www.thedoulaskitchen.com 🌿

09/12/2022

We are so looking forward to another Wriggles & Wrinkles at Elliscombe House!

Join us from 2pm to 3.30pm on Thursday 22nd December to share in one another’s company and take part in some wonderful Christmassy activities!

We know that regular visits like this provide a hugely beneficial social boost for everyone involved and our residents absolutely love it when the children visit!

Please give us a call on 01963 32746 if you would like to pop in.

04/11/2022
16/05/2022

We are living in some 'interesting' times.

Real food is being replaced by lab made 💩 , baby formula milk shortage in USA 🤨 seems to have an option for another lab made product, what happened to real food? What happened to the breast milk banks? https://www.facebook.com/HM4HBUK/
..Come on mothers, we can do this, share news about the breast milk banks (USA folk do you have any links?) , let's share about real food, real health. Let's support our kid's health, let's empower them. My boys 15yr and 19yr only know about the microbiome due to their mother, not their biology teacher, not their high school teacher, not their University teacher. What is 15 years of schooling teaching our kids if they cannot bring REAL health into the curriculum? They are still getting taught about saturated fats being bad, what about the sugar in their 21st century 'buzz' drinks? What about the artificial sweeteners replacing sugar? Have every aspect of our children's lives been hijacked by big corporates?

Are we heading for a mass explosion of chronic ill health 'pandemic'? We have had an explosion of auto-immune conditions, and now to add insult to injury we have lab made food, anyone else feeling this is just a tad 'odd'?

Remember when antibiotics were prescribed as if they were safe? Remember when we did not know much at all about the microbiome when these antibiotics were making a 'killing for pharma'?

Remember when mothers were sent home from hospital after giving birth with a 'toxic' bag promoting all sorts of environmental unfriendly products and information on how to suppress fevers with Calpol..and this still happens.

Let's change the narrative, I believe it is going to take mothers (mothers to furry ones, 4 legged ones, nieces, nephews etc as they do most of the nurturing) to do this. I have plenty of mum clients who say 'my partner wants me to give my baby antibiotics what shall I do?' How you both decide on healing your child(ren) is your decision, I have no role in that. My advise is get your partner educated, don't 'convince them' as it is not about convincing, educate them, get them to do a homeopathy first aid course, if not you just get yourself educated and empowered.

Sadly most of us have all grown up in an education system that is all about 'killing the bug' , annihilating the bug' 'war on the 'invader''...but this no longer works, this is out-dated, this trashes the microbiome , this sets up for new 'dis-eases' and there really no drugs for these dis-eases just suppressants, like immuno-suppressants. If the education system at these schools is not teaching our children this, mothers you can teach your children, by just using homeopathy in the home. My own boys now 15yr and 19yr have had ear infections, chest infections, UTIs, skate board hospital surgery injuries, conjunctivitis, tonsillitis and never used antibiotics till this day. These are acutes that were easily healed without trashing their microbiome. But their teen diet outside of home is another story 🙃

NOTE : ANTIBIOTICS WHEN ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY HAVE THEIR PLACE, SO BE RESPONSE-ABLE.

If what we have discovered about the microbiome is not knowledge to your doctor and they are prescribing antibiotics for simple acutes like tonsillitis, ear infections, strep throat, sinusitis, etc , then our health system is not broken it is more than broken. Our microbiome, is not there as a bonus, it is not like these bugs had no where else to 'rock up'. These bugs are VITAL for life. They are part of our lifeline, sounds dramatic? Did you know ...

- Children with autism struggling with seizures when
given antibiotics and anti-fungals their seizures disappear?

- Obesity is now linked to changes in our microbiome it even has a term called ‘micro-obesity’

- Auto-immune conditions have also been linked to dysbiosis (imbalance in the gut microbiome)

Research is now showing that the microbiome plays a major role in metabolic dis-ease like diabetes, like cardiovascular dis-ease, so what are we doing taking antibiotics when you can take alternatives?

Why are new not mothers leaving hospital with a 'goodie' bag that has a homeopathic kit in it, that has an booklet that explains how to feed your baby, how to nurture your baby, how to read food labels, how to avoid drugs, how 'fever is your friend', how the babies microbiome is SOOOO new and precious and setting up home and settling in over the next two years, and these two years are the foundation of their future health. Giving antibiotics when this microbiome is literally building your baby's health is like running on a treadmill backwards.

You are not crazy, you are ahead of the curve...your focus is on health not sickness management.

If you want to a fresher start up on how to use homeopathy at home, my colleague Lisa Strbac is running a short course.

There is more news coming, but know that 'mothers are the 'driving force' when it comes to health. Get educated on this, education is empowering, understanding it is empowering, but actually doing it is magic!

Can you imagine if every new mother left the hospital with a homeopathic kit? Can you imagine empowered mothers all over the world with a homeopathic kit in their home/hand bag? Can you just imagine?

Where can you purchase these kits:
- Ainsworth https://www.ainsworths.com/
- Helios https://www.helios.co.uk/

If you are tempted to buy the cheaper option, i.e. 16 remedy kit, think again, as the larger ones are worth the investment. I have had my kit for 20 years...long term you are not saving on money only but you are building health.

PS. I have nothing financial to gain from posting all these links...what i have to gain is the joy of knowing that mothers are being empowered. I was blessed to question drugs early on in my life as I studied a degree in Pharmacology and Biochemistry and that is when I started to think, surely these are only when absolutely necessary...however that is not the way of the 'world' but it is changing.

Have you a homeopathic kit in your home? If yes, do you know how to use it with confidence? Then Lisa's course may just be the 'ticket'. If no, it could be a 'game changer', why not invest in one? ...let's spread the love of a 'kit in your home' that is being USED.

Here is a link to Lisa's course....
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-homeopathy-live-2-week-homeopathy-workshop-tickets-260082201867?utm-campaign=social%2Cemail&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=strongmail&utm-term=listing

and the below image is from
https://theconversation.com/antibiotics-can-lead-to-life-threatening-fungal-infection-because-of-disruption-to-the-gut-microbiome-new-study-182881

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