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W&B London group

Our driving passion is to offer a person-centred approach for each new parent. You will be the centre of Womb & Bloom as you step over the threshold into parenthood. We offer continuity-of-care packages to help you prepare and expand your understanding, but most importantly, to listen intently as you slowly bloom as a new mother and as parents.

Pregnancy & Postpartum pactitiones
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Victoria's own experiences called her to change career to work in the field of birth work, to be a presence for women, people & couples in their pregnancy & birth. Victoria appreciated the sense of a village of support and founded Womb & Bloom to form a collective of gorgeous birthkeepers to offer packages, services & lots more.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Scarlett has been a doula for many years in the UK. Originally from New Zealand, Scarlett trained as a midwife. She now combines her extensive skill set to support families through the transitions of life and parenthood.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Alma brings together her midwifery and philosophy degrees and passion for pregnancy, birth and parenthood to offer her services to you. Alma offers antenatal care bundles for counselling, antenatal and postnatal support and birth attendance. Her focus is to provide care to accompany women and their partners through the internal (psychological and emotional) journey of pregnancy, birth and early parenthood.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Kate is birth and postnatal doula who is passionate about supporting families through this special time of pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Romy offers antenatal birth preparation, birth support, and postnatal care. She trained under Dr Gowri Motha as a Gentle Birth Method Practitioner, incorporating self-hypnosis, visualisations and Creative Healing massage fear-releasing techniques into her practise. She is also a Birthlight-trained perinatal yoga teacher and an Ecstatic Birth practitioner.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Vicky is a birthkeeper, homeopath and herbalist specialising in women's wellbeing and peri-natal health. Empassioned by a recognition that the empowered feminine, experiencing optimal reproductive health and birth are the foundation of nurturing families and communities.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Birth and Postnatal doula support, Osteopathy and massage for pregnancy, Postpartum osteopathy & Cranial Osteopathy for babies and children, Breastfeeding support.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Kemi is the queen of experience, information, evidence based facts and knowledge around all things pregnancy and birth. We are honoured to share her wisdom here at W&B. Kemi provides services to women and families seeking more than the conveyor-belt style of care and education is currently provided. As well as working with first-time mothers-to-be, Kemi can help people unravel their thoughts regarding previous births.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Dunya is a Feminine Embodiment Practitioner and the creator of the Somapresence Method—a somatic and energetic approach to movement and bodywork that nurtures presence, vitality, and resilience. Dunya's practice is deeply informed by her own journey of transformation, shaped by movement, healing, and a profound trust in the body’s wisdom.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Amanda has been a midwife for 30 years supporting countless families through pregnancy, birth, and those early days.

Amanda's job is to hold a safe space for you, your partner, and your family to figure out your way of doing things. She'll listen, guide, and support you without judgement, helping you trust your instincts and feel confident in your own rhythms. Amanda won’t make you feel rushed, ticked off a checklist, or squeezed into a one-size-fits-all plan. You’ll get time, understanding, and care that fits you.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Tina is a highly experienced midwife who set up South London Independent Midwives in 1998 after the birth of her fourth baby! She is really passionate about helping women to have a positive experience. “Every expectant mum should have a Tina' were the words reported from Tina's past clients.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Ritah provides her postnatal care herself and, via a team of maternity nurses she has trained herself. Rita's team are DBS-checked, first-aid trained, and hold BabyEm level 5 maternity nurse accreditation. Ritah provides the very best support to help parents adjust to life with their newborn, however that looks for each individual family.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Nadya is a dedicated postnatal doula and fabulous baker/cook. The support Nadya provides is tailored to each individual. Some families opt for daily support and then reduce it when ready, other find two days per week is enough. You will discuss this together to make a plan that best suits you with an aim to empower you to navigate your journey with grace and confidence.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Charlotte is a Somatic Therapist, supporting women to move through anxiety, overwhelm, indecision, and anger. Previously in her role as a birth educator, Charlotte found that many women were being held back, or feeling stuck in their experience due to unprocessed emotional wounds they carried. Following her somatic training with the Focalizing Institute, she now combines somatic therapy and inner child work to support women who are keen to move towards clarity, confidence, and trust in themselves.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Lynn has a hypnotic presence and a gentle voice of experience, she has been in the field of pregnancy, birth and motherhood for over 25 years. A space holder for all stages of womanhood through the medium of embodied yoga and breath awareness that allows woman to feel more at home in themselves. She is a Birth Debrief & a 3 Step Rewind Practitioner and offers Mother Mentoring & Support. You may know Lynn from her time as the former Co-Director of the Active Birth Centre that closed in 2020.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Roz was inspired by the support received both antenatally and postnatally at the Active Birth Centre, particularly from Lynn Murphy. It made such a difference that she changed careers, training in both antenatal and postnatal teaching and support and also set up and ran Whittington Maternity Voices Partnership for many years.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Colette is a birth and postnatal doula. She trained with Conscious Birthing and also trained in shamanic practices and body work. She works in an intuitive way and is led by your wishes and well-being.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Stephanie is a birth and postnatal doula with a holistic approach, which means your baby's and your physical well-being are as important as your emotional, spiritual, and mental health. Stephanie's aim is to empower you to find strength and joy in this incredible rite of passage, helping you trust your instincts and have a positive birth experience.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Aimee feels into everything and her presence is incredibly comforting, loving and deeply authentic. She is a birth and postnatal doula and doula teacher.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Yolande is a London based yoga teacher, doula, holistic therapist and ritualistic space holder specialising in pregnancy, postpartum, womb health, rites of passage and earth and moon honouring ceremonies. Yolande has over 15 years of working with individuals holistically and offers accessible in person and online spaces for her clients to practice nourishing and nurturing yoga sequences, deep healing through medicine and ceremony, and has the immense honour to witness life and families being born through her many years of offering support as a birth and postnatal doula.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Jessica is a science-minded birth and postnatal doula offering evidence-based, practical support for birthing people and their partners as they navigate pregnancy, birth, and the transition into parenthood.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Verity is an HCPC registered Senior Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience, specializing in perinatal and parent-infant mental health.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
A mother of four turned first-class midwife, Tess left the NHS in 2018 to offer the kind of deeply personal care she always believed every family deserves.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Emma's journey into midwifery began with a truly positive 3rd birth experience. The care she received from one incredible midwife left a lasting impact and inspired Emma to pursue this path. At 46, as a single mother of four, she completed a midwifery degree with First-Class Honours and began a career that has become her life’s passion. Since qualifying in 2014, Emma has supported families across a wide range of settings from high-risk hospital units to calm, empowering home births, always with compassion, respect, and the belief that care should be centred around you.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Rebecca ia a mother to 5 amazing children and each of her birth experiences and feeding journeys have been very different and shaped Rebeccas career as a Lactation consultant and Birth Doula.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Yasmine is a dual-qualified Osteopath and Naturopath who brings a calm, unhurried care to adults, children & babies, expectant and post-partum mothers.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Gokce is a Psychic, Reiki Master and a Medium. She does energy healing sessions using Reiki and her psychic skills to open energy blockages, find out the root causes and to lighten up the soul. Due to 20 years of experience and being a mother herself, she has deep knowledge on pregnancy, birth, fertility or loss where she can help you to elevate and heal your energy, your subconscious and emotional blockages such as trauma as well as physical problems. Her sessions is also great for pain or stress management.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Emma is a wonderful, very experienced & understanding Acupuncturist & Shiatsu practitioner with 30 years in practice. Specialising in fertility, IVF, pregnancy and childbirth, Emma is calming and supportive, and able to offer her extensive wisdom as you journey to blooming as a new parent.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Sara is a full spectrum doula that supports people and families through different transitions in life as a birth, postnatal and abortion doula. She trained as doula and set up Ancestral Birth after following her calling to birth work. She speaks Norwegian and Egyptian Arabic as well as English.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Sue is a birth & postnatal doula with 18 years experience of empowering and nurturing mothers and their families. In 2020 Sue took the IndieBirth course "Doula training and Transformation” "It taught me a lot [even after years of supporting births] as well as reinforcing my core values, my strong belief in continuity of care & my innate trust in birth." Please note Sue is now mainly supporting home births.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
As a birth and postnatal doula, Elin is deeply passionate about empowering women to have births filled with confidence and self-trust. She firmly believes that every woman deserves a positive, transformative birth experience.

Elin's own journey into motherhood was life-changing, inspiring her to dedicate her life to supporting other women during this incredible time.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Agustina is a birthkeeper and doula with a passion for undisturbed, physiological birth. She left med school in her fifth year after realising we put our power too much outside of ourselves. Since then, the journey has been about going within. Augustina also works with the Germanic New Medicine paradigm and speaks Spanish and English.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Charlotte is a mother of three children, whose births covered a wide spectrum of experiences including hospital, birth centre and home.
Her aim is to ensure that birthing people feel supported and held through their transformation to parenthood, so that they can enjoy this life-changing experience. Charlotte is a proud member of the LGBTQ community and welcomes clients of any gender and sexuality.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Chase is a birth doula and postnatal coach offering emotionally attuned support for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She was trained as a doula with Birthing from Within and studied Spiritual Psychology at the University of Santa Monica.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Kate's background has been across many fields. A nurse, health visitor, infant feeding specialist and Thai yoga practitioner, but Kate kept getting drawing her back to birth work and the postpartum period of new motherhood. Her skills as a Craniosacral therapist have been inspired by her past and love of pregnancy, birth and mother/person and baby.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Daisy is an experienced midwife with almost two decades of clinical experience looking after women at all stages of their maternity journey and has a passion and commitment to providing care which empowers women to feel safe and well-supported in every part of their transition to parenthood.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Emily is an Independent midwife with over 13 years of clinical work and teaching experience within both the NHS and Private maternity services. I love what I do, and supporting people through their pregnancies and birthing journeys brings me so much joy and happiness!
I am also a mother to four beautiful (but very noisy) young children, which gives me firsthand experience of the challenges and joys of parenthood. I am passionate about helping expectant and new parents feel confident and informed throughout their journeys, by providing expert guidance, reassurance and support at every step of the way.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Thomasina has the most nurturing and loving presence. She is a highly experienced breastfeeding supporter & IBCLC lacation consultant within the private & NHS fields. Thomasina will support you from the very start of your feeding journey, offer advice, signposting and information to leave you feeling confident and supported.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Niamh has been a chartered physiotherapist since 2003 and worked as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with people of all ages within the NHS and private practice for many years. Women’s health has been her sole passion for the last 10 years and to help women with obstetric and postnatal related conditions get back on track.
Independent Midwife Nadia Abououf
Carlotta’s first training was in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (ACP). Alongside her private work, she has over 10 years of experience in working for the NHS in a variety of settings.She specialises in under-5s work, the postpartum, and in supporting mothers and parents navigate the transitions through pregnancy, birth and parenthood. Carlotta is also an INNATE Postpartum Care Practitioner. She believes in prevention, her aim being to support and empower parents and parents to be starting with pregnancy and birth.
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