Lucinda Holman Doula & IBCLC

22/06/2025

Still relevant!

Common Wild

19/06/2025

I love this!

🟣 Another blog post updated and moved to my website!
I have previously written about how the current framework for understanding and assessing labour progress is inaccurate, not supported by evidence, and fails to incorporate women’s experience of birth. This post is in response to readers asking me to write about how to assess labour progress without vaginal examinations or palpating contractions.
I think it is time to own our (women’s) knowledge and start shifting the discourse of ‘stages of labour’ and cervical measurements. This means changing how we talk/write about labour with women, other care providers and students.
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/understanding-labour-progress

25/05/2025

"Lucinda has been the most amazing doula. She offered a Hypnobirthing course, doula support during birth and her expertise post birth as a lactation expert. All of these have been invaluable. I couldn’t have asked for a better person to support me for my first pregnancy. She brings a beautiful calm aura, knowledge and is super flexible."

Lovely words from my beautiful client 💖

25/05/2025

For those who are new here, welcome! It's lovely to have you here.

Here is a little more about my services.

I offer antenatal Breastfeeding, Birth Preparation and HypnoBirthing Classes in the comfort of your home, at a time that suits you best.

The continuity of being at your birth, as your Birth Doula.

And postnatal specialist Breastfeeding Support, Birth Debriefing, and at home postnatal Doula support.

You can also find me running joint Feeding Clinics with Anneli at Back in Balance Wimborne Cranial Chiropractic Clinic
www.backinbalancewimborne.co.uk

Or Term time at Parent and Baby Group, Ringwood Waldorf School, Tuesday afternoons. www.ringwoodwaldorfschool.co.uk

Please feel free to contact me for more information ❤️

We are a family friendly chiropractic clinic run by Anneli Hulkkonen which has been based in the centre of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, since 1994.

22/05/2025

22/05/2025

Some of my favourites 💗

01/04/2025

Thought for the day.

This is something I talk about a lot in What’s Right For Me: making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth.

We’re probably not going to get away from the fact that systems, including systems of health and maternity care, need rules and pathways and guidelines based on population-level evidence in order to function.

If they didn’t, everyone would be wandering about doing their own thing and it would be chaos.

But those pathways and guidelines exist to tell professionals what to offer.

As an individual who is using that system, you don’t have to follow the recommendation or pathway or guideline if it’s not right for you.

Find details about my work, that book (along with my others on aspects of birth-related decision making) and loads of free articles at https://www.sarawickham.com/me

26/10/2024

There's an important nuance in making birth and health decisions which doesn't always get mentioned.

That is:

It's not always about a yes/no, accept/decline dichotomy.

Often, there is a middle ground.

This middle ground is about making decisions as and about an individual within their own context and according to need.

Just not routinely.

Or based on what the guideline says.

If you're making decisions about your health or birth, you might want to bear this in mind.

Declining an intervention doesn't always mean an absolute 'no.'

You can say, 'I want to wait and see.'

Or, 'I don't want routine intervention / induction / screening just because I have a risk factor, but I'll consider things that are right for me or my individual circumstances.'

Your body, your baby, your decisions.

I have a longer explanation of this in a blog post for those who would like to know more.

It's at https://www.sarawickham.com/riffing-ranting-and-raving/deciding-to-decline-or-deciding-to-wait-and-see/

I hope it makes the decisions that are right for you.

There's also a lot more on this in my book, "What's Right For Me? Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth."

More info at www.sarawickham.com/me

01/07/2024

Excited to hold my very first HypnoBirthing session tonight with a beautiful family.
I am loving The Rose Method and can't wait to share it!!

12/05/2024

https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/posts/pfbid0rBvYRWU49RckwUSKHZykY4SoStMp9ueg78mSUdXq86arhHMrHRDtY3tGbRryHzGXl

''All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four month old fetus in the womb of her mother.

This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother.

Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb, and she in turn formed in the womb of her grandmother.

We vibrate to the rhythm of our mother's blood before she herself is born, and this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother.''

~ Layne Redmond, When The Drummers Were Women

Art by Arna Baartz

30/04/2024

This beautiful sunshine makes me feel Spring is finally here.