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Notes from The Motherhood Practice.
Honest writing on pregnancy, birth and the early weeks with a newborn, from a team of London midwives.
Gestational Diabetes: What the NHS doesn't have time to give you
Just diagnosed with gestational diabetes? Here's what good midwifery care looks like when your pregnancy becomes high-risk, and what you shouldn't have to navigate alone. You weren't expecting the call. Or perhaps it was a letter, or a message through the NHS app, brief and clinical, telling you that your glucose tolerance test had come back outside the normal range. Gestational diabetes. You've written the words down, Googled them, read the NHS page, the NICE guidelines, the Mumsnet threads. Y
Sarah Seror4 min read
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After everything it took to get here: Why pregnancy after IVF can feel like falling off a cliff
IVF pregnancy comes with anxiety the NHS isn't set up to hold. Here's why having the same midwife throughout is life changing. You spent years getting here. Perhaps two rounds of IVF, perhaps more. Miscarriages. The blood tests at 6am. The injections. The two-week waits that felt like holding your breath until your lungs gave out. And then, finally, a viable pregnancy. A positive scan. A due date. You thought the fear would ease. It hasn't. What nobody tells you about pregnancy after IVF is t
Sarah Seror5 min read
The midwife who knows you
What continuity of midwife care actually means, and what the evidence says it changes. There is a particular moment that many women describe in almost identical terms. You arrive at your antenatal appointment, and the midwife who sees you has never met you before. She reads through your notes while you sit across from her. She asks questions you have already answered twice. And somewhere in the room, the thing you actually needed to say, the thing that had been building for weeks, stays unsaid,
Sarah Seror6 min read
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The midwife who stays when your pregnancy gets complicated
Specialist-led care manages your condition. A named midwife manages you. Here is why both matter. You did not expect the call. Or perhaps you did, because you had been quietly bracing for it since the scan, since the blood test, since the moment a consultant used a phrase that sent you home to Google at 11pm. However it arrived, whether gestational diabetes at 38 weeks, a breech presentation at 34, a cervical length measurement that placed you on a different pathway, or a pregnancy after IVF t
Sarah Seror7 min read
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