Hi – I’m Deb I am a registered nurse, registered midwife, mum, grandma (Moonpie) and wife. My interest in positive birthing started back in 1984 when I was living in the UK and had newly qualified as a nurse, I was 21 and pregnant for the first time. My husband and I enrolled in national childbirth classes which looking back were not too dissimilar to the hypnobirthing Australia classes. I went on to have four gentle births three of which were in my own home. I was inspired by my births and parenting journey that I trained to be a volunteer breastfeeding councillor within the NCT (equivalent to the Australian Breastfeeding Association) for five years before moving to Australia.

It was while working as a Registered Nurse in Roebourne, Western Australia that I was given the opportunity to train as a midwife and lactation consultant. Over the last twenty plus years I have predominantly worked with pregnant and birthing woman, supporting them to birth and breastfeed their babies. During 2019 I attended a hypnobirthing supporters’ workshop when working in Karratha run by Western Australia Country Health Service. It was during these seminars and subsequent hypnobirthing births I felt empowered to become a practitioner, to spread the word and allow other women to take birth back! My main interest is supporting woman who may have had a traumatic experience in the past to experience a gentle birth in the future however it may go!