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MENTAL HEALTH MIDWIFE
MENTAL HEALTH MIDWIFE
Helping you feel safe, calm and ready for birth
No matter what happened last time
I support people navigating pregnancy after trauma to rebuild
trust in their body, their care team, and themselves, after a
difficult or traumatic birth experience.
"You're not too anxious. You're appropriately
scared after what happened."
KATIE - MIDWIFE
"Your fear doesn't mean you're not ready. It means you care deeply about what happens next."
BUILDING BIRTH CONFIDENCE
"This birth can be different. Not because you'll be fearless, because you'll feel safe."
KATIE- BIRTHCARE
Birth trauma isn't always about what went wrong medically. Sometimes it's about feeling invisible, dismissed, and completely unheard.
"In that theatre full of people, you felt so alone."
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
Understanding Your Experience
Your fear makes complete sense
Maybe you thought you were ready to be pregnant again. And then the fear came back, louder than before.
If you're terrified of giving birth again after a traumatic experience, that fear isn't irrational. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it's designed to do, protecting you from what happened last time.
The problem is, traditional approaches don't work for birth-related fear. Telling yourself to "just relax" or forcing yourself to think positively can actually make things worse.
Tokophobia is real, recognised, and treatable
Trauma often comes from feeling unheard, or out of control, not just
from medical emergencies
Evidence-based techniques exist that work with your nervous system
Healing doesn't require you to retell your story verbally
You can prepare for birth without reliving what happened before
HOW I CAN SUPPORT YOU
Everything you need in one place
A gentle, daily practice to quiet your mind, ease your fears, and begin rebuilding trust, one small step at a time.
Honest, clinical, compassionate conversations about fear, trauma, and what it really means to prepare for birth after a difficult experience.
The complete programme for pregnancy after trauma. Evidence-based, trauma-informed, and built around you, not a one-size-fits-all approach to birth prep.
Digital Workbook
A gentle guide to feeling calmer in pregnancy
For when the anxiety is louder than everything else, and you need something you can do right now.
The Better Birth Anxiety Workbook is a compassionate, evidence-informed toolkit to help you ease anxious thoughts, settle your nervous system, and feel more grounded throughout this pregnancy.
No waiting list. No appointments needed. Something you can open tonight.
Understand your anxious thoughts - and why they make complete sense given what you've been through
Reframe - not bypass - evidence-based exercises drawn from CBT to help quiet the spiral
Settle your nervous system - grounding techniques and breathing practices with an explanation of why they actually work
Manage acute anxiety and panic - practical tools you can reach for anywhere, anytime
This workbook is also included as a bonus inside Birth Without Fear, the complete course for pregnancy after trauma.
Katie Smith
MENTAL HEALTH MIDWIFE - REGISTERED
ABOUT KATIE
A midwife who truly understands trauma
I built Birthcare because I knew there were thousands of people beyond the area I could reach, facing the same thing alone.
I support people navigating pregnancy after a difficult or traumatic birth, perinatal loss, or frightening postnatal experience to rebuild trust, in their body, their care team, and themselves.
My approach is evidence-based and trauma-informed. That means no empty reassurances, no glossing over what happened, and no pretending your fear
isn't real.
Registered Midwife, NHS - over 12 years experience
Specialist in Perinatal Mental Health & Birth Trauma
Trained in CBT, CFT & Trauma-Informed Care approaches
Hypnobirthing Practitioner
BUILDING BIRTH CONFIDENCE PODCAST
The conversations your
midwife should be having with you
A gentle introduction to why fear feels so loud in pregnancy after trauma, and the evidence-based tools that actually help calm it.
Why your uterus is more remarkable than you've been told, and how to start trusting it again after a difficult birth.
EPISODE 04
How to write a birth plan that communicates what you need, and helps your care team hear you, even if last time they didn't.
FLAGSHIP COURSE - NOW OPEN
Birth Without Fear
Essentials for a Better Birth
A complete, self-paced course for anyone pregnant again after a difficult or traumatic pregnancy, birth or postnatal experience.
Created by an NHS Mental Health Midwife, this course combines CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy and hypnobirthing, adapted specifically for pregnancy after trauma. Practical, effective tools designed to work with your nervous system rather than against it.
4 modules · 17 video lessons - self-paced, lifetime access
20 worksheets - including trauma-informed birth plan template
9 guided meditations - for vaginal and caesarean birth
Early access price - £147 or 3 × £52
Early access · £147
WHATS INSIDE
Four Modules
Everything you need
1
Finding Safety Within
Understanding fear after trauma and how to start building calm
2
Reframe & Cope Ahead
lBreak the fear cycle and build a flexible plan for any birth
3
Your Birth Toolkit
lBreathing, meditations, anchors and your safe birth space
4
Your Birth, Your Way
lRights, communication and your trauma-informed birth plan
17
Lessons
20
WORKSHEETS
9
MEDITATIONS
FREE RESOURCES
Two free resources to start with.
Written by an NHS Mental Health Midwife. Yours instantly.
How to Write Your
Birth Plan
A free 16-page trauma-informed workbook with a printable template you can hand directly to your care team. Simple, guided steps, written by someone who knows exactly what your midwife needs to see.
The Calm & Confident
Birth Mindset Challenge
A free 30-day challenge with five gentle daily practices and a tracker to help you notice the small shifts. Starting wherever you are, one small step at a time.
READY TO BEGIN?
