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I’m planning on doing a whole ‘origin story’/ how Postpartum Matters CIC came to be series shortly but, for today, as I was wanting to introduce our newest facilitator at The Women’s Health Hub - I thought I’d start with what I see as our (or should I say my) pre-origin story of sorts.

As with most people nowadays, I think it really began back at the beginning of 2020 as I found myself eleven weeks pregnant in a pandemic. I was working full time in a Microbiology lab, struggling with hyperemesis gravidarum, an extreme kind of pregnancy sickness. To say it was terrifying would be an understatement and I regularly felt as if I was a character in some sort of post-apocalyptic film.

27th March 2020 - our dating or 12 week scan, where I found out I had to go by myself via social media, not the hospital

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This is a new section of our substack entitled ‘Doula Diaries’.

So many people don’t know about doulas until after a negative experience - at which point they may wish they’d had one, but it is sadly too late (I may be talking about myself here). Maybe they are unsure as to what a doula does or how they can support them & what their scope of practice is.

find my current doula work here

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I am writing this in advance, at the start of the half term and, honestly, I’m feeling pretty worn down. It’s been a busy month and I’m feeling it.

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