Elisabeth, a self professed people pleaser, figures out what she feels comfortable saying no to and what she finds herself agreeing to without question. She has the clarity from the offset to refuse to be weighed and have her BMI calculated, which serves her well throughout pregnancy, and goes on to lean ever further into her trust worthy gut feeling, confidently and unwaveringly walking towards the unassisted home birth of her 11lb 4 baby.

She then talks us through her significant blood loss after birth, including episodes of losing consciousness, and how that was managed peacefully, lovingly and without medical intervention. As well as the challenge of advocating for her newborn to remain home without monitoring for hypoglycaemia against recommendations and threats of safeguarding triggers.