Are you plus size & pregnant? Are you worrying about all the 'high risk' stuff you've heard? About how you'll be treated by health professionals? About restrictions and interventions happening in your pregnancy and birth - that you don't want? (Because maybe you'd actually quite like a waterbirth...?) Do you need to know where to start getting the support and info you need to have a birth experience you're in control of?

If so, YOU are the person I set up the Heavyweight Midwife to help!

I established The Heavyweight Midwife in 2022 after 15 years of specialising in plus size pregnancy care and completing my PhD.

My online courses consist of bite-size lessons, laser focused on everything you need to know about what is different in plus size care, the underpinning evidence, and how to make the right choices for you, in order to ultimately advocate for the birth experience that you want.

My support starts from the very start of your pregnancy, because the choices you make then, all of the knowledge you have and certainly the level of confidence you feel, all really matter in terms of what happens later, on the day you have your baby.

Too often I’ve seen impersonal, rules-based pregnancy care offered to plus size women and I’ve made it my mission to change this through empowering women like you advocate for themselves.

And I am exactly the expert to bring you this unique support. I have been a midwife for over 20 years and I specialise in plus size pregnancy. I know my way around NHS systems, plus size clinical guidelines and the evidence that underpins them. My own published research is quoted by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in their UK plus size care guidelines.