Who we are – Nurturing Birth

Sophie started working with families in 2004 first as a Baby Massage Teacher (training with Peter Walker) and Therapeutic Massage Practitioner (London College of Massage). Doula training with Nurturing Birth came in 2008 and Sophie has supported hundreds of families in the perinatal period, as well as mentoring numerous doulas over the past decade.

Infant feeding support is a passion for Sophie. She volunteers on the postnatal wards of one of London’s major hospitals where she is a member of the Unicef Feeding Group and contributor to the Maternity Voices Partnership.

More recently Sophie has trained as a Shift Method Facilitator, learning techniques to support people to release old feelings, limiting beliefs and decisions, and a Breathwork Practitioner, a practice she loves to bring to retreats and workshops. She loves to witness transformation in people – seeing people become more confident in their work and lives.

Sophie lives in London and Somerset and has two teenage children. When she isn’t thinking about all things perinatal she can usually be found walking her dog Wilf, singing, going to the theatre/cabaret, and eating dark chocolate (which she isn’t prepared to admit is an addiction)!

Women’s rights and human rights are at the heart of everything that Emma campaigns for, and she desperately wants pregnant women and people to know more about their rights to their own body autonomy. She wrote the AIMS flagship book – The AIMS Guide to Your Rights in Pregnancy and Birth (link below), and offers courses to birth workers on birth rights and consent. She continues to be an active volunteer and trustee with AIMS (link below), and is one of their website birth information page writers.

As well as writing for AIMS and Nurturing Birth, Emma researches and writes articles for a number of birth and breastfeeding related organisations, ensuring that pregnant women and people have access to evidence based information on a wide variety of topics.

Emma lives in a small village on the south coast of Spain with her husband and three children, mostly because she loves the sun and dislikes British winters!