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Cathy Williams
- May 4
- 5 min
How a labyrinth healed my grief
The day before my husband died I held my first retreat day at Tofte Manor in Bedfordshire, a beautiful retreat venue with the unique...
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Cathy Williams
- May 2
- 4 min
What will you bring to the labyrinth?
A labyrinth is a wellbeing tool, and then some. It is a single path winding its way to the middle, so unlike a maze there are no...
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Cathy Williams
- Apr 5
- 2 min
Go barefoot!
The benefits of grounding When was the last time you stood with bare feet on the ground? Last summer? Other mammals are physically in...
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Cathy Williams
- Mar 10
- 4 min
Why 'toddler led toileting'?
If you are reading this you are probably a child centred parent following a ‘gentle parenting’ or ‘positive parenting’ or ‘responsive...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Five wellbeing wins for a feelgood February
It's Spring! Even if it doesn't feel much like it. I love February, it's my birthday month, but one of my friends really struggles with...
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Cathy Williams
- Nov 17, 2022
- 2 min
Can I have a water birth with a vbac?
#vbacquestions YES! is the quick answer. About half of my doula clients had vbacs, and the vast majority of them, at home in birth pools....
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Cathy Williams
- Apr 3, 2022
- 4 min
What is a fire ceremony?
Today I thought I would tell you a little about the fire ceremonies I do at the retreats. It can sound a bit ‘whoo’. And you may be...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Does having a vbac increase your chance of a 3rd or 4th degree injury?
A new study has found that women going for vbac were more likely to have a 3rd or 4th degree perineal tear (anal sphincter injury), than...
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Cathy Williams
- Jun 21, 2021
- 5 min
Let your hormones be in the driving seat
The important hormones of childbirth Giving birth is controlled by the most primitive part of our brain, sometimes called ‘the reptilian...
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Cathy Williams
- Aug 18, 2020
- 4 min
Water baby
It's my #4's 16th birthday. Here's his birth story. I was fed up. It was my due date. All of my previous three babies had come well...
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Cathy Williams
- May 17, 2020
- 4 min
6 steps to making a complaint
Making a complaint about your maternity care. Maternity care in the UK is not perfect. Midwives and doctors are human beings, trying to...
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Cathy Williams
- Mar 12, 2020
- 7 min
Coronavirus and home birth
Has the Coronavirus outbreak made you consider home birth? Or are you wondering what would happen to your home birth plans if you come...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 19, 2020
- 8 min
Twin home water birth at 42+2 weeks
Many women are told 'you're not allowed to ...'. Not allowed to have a home birth with twins. Not allowed to have a water birth with...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 18, 2020
- 3 min
Women do the allowing
As the woman who is pregnant, who is carrying the baby, who is giving birth to the baby from your own body, you, and only you, have the...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 14, 2020
- 2 min
All you need is love ...
💞OXYTOCIN💞 The love hormone. Released with a hug (20 seconds is best), a kiss, touch, massage, loving words, sex, orgasm, labour,...
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Cathy Williams
- Feb 5, 2020
- 3 min
How I coped with labour with my first baby
Here I am at home a few days after giving birth, my tummy still wobbly, breast pad on the arm of the sofa. I gave birth on Tuesday 19th...
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Cathy Williams
- Nov 4, 2019
- 4 min
Why knowing what 10cm looks like is unhelpful
With Halloween last week a picture of a pumpkin display in a maternity unit supposedly showing varying cervical dilation sizes went...
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Cathy Williams
- Sep 10, 2019
- 4 min
How to cope with labour
Eight top tips from doula & mum of five, Cathy, Chilled Mama. Generally the things that women do naturally during tightenings not only...
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