Building Birth Confidence
Building Birth Confidence is the podcast for anyone who is pregnant after a difficult birth, pregnancy loss, or traumatic experience, and who is scared, exhausted, and trying to find a way through.#
I’m Katie, an NHS Mental Health Midwife and Perinatal Trauma Specialist. Every week I bring you honest, clinically informed conversations about the things that rarely get said out loud: the fear, the guilt, the disconnect, the grief that comes with pregnancy after trauma. And the tools, the understanding, and the realistic hope that can make a real difference.
This is not a positive thinking podcast. This is a podcast for people who need more than reassurance. You deserve support that actually meets where you are.
New episodes every week. Start wherever feels right.
Building Birth Confidence
Latest Episodes
How to Advocate for Yourself in the Maternity Setting
After a traumatic or difficult birth, walking back into a maternity setting and trying to speak up is one of the hardest things you can be asked to do. Not because you lack confidence, or preparation, or the right words, but because the last ti...
Making Your Birth Environment Work For You - Not Against You
The moment you walk through the hospital doors, your brain starts making assessments, and for anyone who has had a difficult or traumatic birth before, those assessments can trigger a fear response before labour has even begun. In this episode,...
Building Your Birth Team
All the internal preparation in the world is harder to access when you are in the middle of labour and the people around you do not know what you need. In this episode, Katie turns outward and talks about who belongs in your birth team, what th...
Taking Back Control
After a traumatic birth, the drive to control everything about the next one makes complete sense. In this episode, Katie talks honestly about why that drive, however understandable, tends to keep people exhausted and stuck rather than actually ...
Your Trauma Informed Birth Plan
For a lot of people who have been through a traumatic birth, the idea of writing a birth plan feels pointless or painful or both. In this episode, Katie reframes what a birth plan is actually for when you have a difficult history, and walks thr...