Every Birth Has a Story
Home birth. Hospital birth. Caesarean birth. Induction. Water birth. Epidural. No pain relief.
Beautiful. Brutal. Empowering. Frightening. Completely different from anything you imagined.
There is no type of birth I am looking for.
There is no “right” story to tell.
I am interested in the reality of birth and the woman inside it.
The decisions you made. The moments you remember. The things that mattered. The things you understand differently now.
Your story does not need to be extraordinary to be worth hearing.
It just needs to be yours.
A New Chapter
I have been awarded Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice funding to develop my work through Let’s Talk About Birth.
This gives me time and space to explore my practice as a writer and storyteller, gather women’s voices and develop spoken-word pieces rooted in the lived experience of birth.
As a midwife, I have witnessed so much. The humour, the intensity, the vulnerability. Moments that stay with you long after everyone else has left the room.
Through conversations, recordings, writing and creative mentoring, Exploring how these stories can be shaped and shared with care, keeping the women they belong to at the heart of the work.
There is room here for the messy, the magnificent and the things we have not yet found the words for.
Gathering Voices
Gathering Voices began with a simple idea: what happens when we create space for women to speak, and really listen?
It has grown into the heart of Let’s Talk About Birth.
Some contributions are longer conversations. Others might be one question, one thought or one piece of wisdom captured in a few minutes.
Together they create something bigger.
A living collection of what women know about birth because they have actually lived it.
Not statistics.
Not policies.
Not somebody else's interpretation of women's experiences.
Our own words. Our own voices. Our own stories.
Add Your Voice
What happened that nobody put in the birth notes? Was there a moment you stopped being polite? If your birth had a title, what would it be?
Answer one question, a few or all five in the form below. Leave any blank, or share something else you want to tell me.
You do not need to remember every detail or find the perfect words. It might be something somebody said, a moment that surprised you, or a feeling you have never quite been able to explain.
Birth stories live in those small details too. The ones that still make you laugh, catch in your throat or remind you of who you were in that room.
A few words or a longer story. Funny, tender, difficult or completely unexpected. I would love to hear it.
Your birth did not have to make the headlines to have something worth saying.