I’m Jaz

I’m a mum to two little ones, and live in a seaside town in Suffolk, UK.

During the winter month evenings you can find me snuggled up reading with a fluffy blanket and hot chocolate, and in summer photography, play groups and podcasts keep me busy. I host My Postpartum Podcast with the first season due to be released June 2025.

My background is in the Pathology Lab at my local NHS trust, and Purchasing previously for a cruise line and more recently for an educational supplier. Talk about a career change!

I started getting deeply interested in all things birth related late 2022, after I had experienced a traumatic hospital birth in April of that year. My birth trauma, which went unnoticed by many, for months after, led me to become very ill, requiring a voluntary in-patient hospital admission into a Mother & Baby Unit (MBU) when my baby was just 5 months old. I also had to deal with a social services referral, but a few months after my discharge from the MBU the case was closed.

As I started getting better, and trying to realise how this had happened to me, I found myself getting more interested in birth, the medical system, and then unassisted birth, otherwise known as freebirth. I focused most of my limited spare time soaking up as much knowledge surrounding physiological birth and soon knew I was on the path to an unassisted birth.

My second baby was born at home in January 2024, with only my partner, son and Doula present. It was a phenomenal, beautiful, and yet totally normal experience. I then went on to have a much more relaxed postpartum period, and a fire in me, for wanting everyone to have the opportunity to experience this sensational life experience was ignited. 

I am now a Doula, under mentorship, having trained with When Push Comes To Shove, a decentralised, holistic maternity structure for empowered women.

I have a keen interest in supporting women and families who are choosing a home birth or unassisted birth, particularly if they have endured previous birth trauma or are under the perinatal mental health team. However I am open to supporting women choosing hospital births too.

It is a privilege that we live in a time where, if we deem it necessary, we have access to advanced medical care. However, it is each woman's choice where they birth and if they engage with the medical system at all and this will be accepted from me with no judgement. What matters to me is that women are making fully informed decisions, from a place of peace and not fear.