Hello, I’m so glad you’re here. Welcome to your parenting journey. In 2020 when I was pregnant with my first child, I remember saying to my husband ‘I can’t ever give birth’! As much as he laughed, it was quite serious, my lack of understanding of birth led to fear, which led to being completely disconnected from to prospect of giving birth. So I bought the books, attended classes, and my fear was replaced with so much excitement, and also questions; why aren’t we taught this? Why are woman walking around without truly knowing what’s going on inside of their body, month after month during our menstrual cycle and moreso, in pregnancy. And don’t get me started on the expectations versus the reality of motherhood.

Fast forward a few months and I experienced the most transformative event of my life; the birth of my first son calmly at home, in water, zero intervention. LIFE CHANGING! Followed by another transformative experience two years later, when I had my second son via elective c-section after weeks of navigating his breech position. Another LIFE CHANGING and equally another beautiful, calm, gentle birth.

Something had ignited in me, a passion about birth. I have spent the past 5 years helping women voluntarily with their birth preparations. I have raised awareness about important birth and parenting topics, and championed positive changes in hospitals.

I have worked with extremely vulnerable people for 14 years, navigating their most traumatic and difficult life sitautions, which has provided me with so much experience. Alongside this, I completed a degree, masters and diploma, qualifying as a counsellor in 2020.

Since becoming a parent myself, I sadly learnt how it feels to be a motherless mother, with next to no village. So much so, I found myself phoning a breastfeeding consultant, I had no issues breastfeeding, I just needed a woman to sit on the sofa with me, I needed a hug, I needed a woman. From this, I developed my therapeutic work and for the past 4 years, I have been offering my service ‘Listening To Mumma’, helping women in all seasons of their motherhood navigate and explore their thoughts and feelings. It’s what I needed but there wasn’t a service, so I created it!

After returning to work from maternity leave with my second son, it became instantly obvious that their moral values towards working women didn’t align with mine, so I took it as a sign to leave and turn this ‘side hustle’ of supporting mothers into a full time vocation and I retrained in hypnobirthing and birth support. So, I am delighted to present THE MOTHERHOOD, which offers a range of services that I hope you’ll enjoy.

• Hypnobirthing course (in person)

• Birth preparations (plans, hospital bags, debriefing choices)

• Birth reflections

• Peri and postnatal support

• Listening To Mumma- 1:1 support for all stages of motherhood

The thing is when working with me, I say it how it is, I swear, and I normalise all topics, nothing is off limits with me. So, from vaginas to dropping all the swear words, let me be your village.

I really look forward to working with you,

Danielle x