After having an amazing birth, I found it very sad that so many of my friends didn't experience the birth they wished for.

Some time later I discovered first HypnoBirthing and then Doulas and realised that this was how I could help my daughter and others birth in a calm, relaxed and controlled environment.

I have two gorgeous granddaughters - one born in a midwife led Birthing Centre and the other in a home birth - and I was priviledged to be present at both births.  However from my years working within the NHS, I have plenty of experience supporting mothers needing interventions from ventouse to caesarean sections.

I trained with the wonderful Valerie Goedkoop of Nurturing Birth in April 2009 as a Birth and Post Natal Doula and I am now in the process of gaining full Doula UK recognition.

I am also an experienced HypnoBirthing practitioner, and so I am used to working with women who are anxious about their pregnancy and birthing, but also those who are confident in their body's ability to do what comes naturally.

And if you think you would benefit from reflexology, I am a qualified reflexologist and so can offer you reflexology treatments during your pregnancy and birth - or just a relaxing foot massage.