Kicki-Hansard

Kicki has 17 years’ experience as a doula, has attended hundreds of births, including those of high profile clients, as well as at least one in Windsor Castle. She has trained over 700 doulas – more than anyone else in the country and continues to do so through The Birth Bliss Academy. She wrote her first best selling book on childbirth “The Secrets of Birth: What every woman should know about birth and motherhood” in 2015 and contributed to “The Roar Behind the Silence: Why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care” published during the same year. She is currently working on her second book "Supporting Survivors of Sexual Abuse During Pregnancy and Childbirth - A Guide for Midwives, Doulas and Other Healthcare Professionals" which is being published by Jessica Kingsley in 2020. She has a great passion for supporting women and families during the childbearing year, in particular ensuring that they make informed decisions based on solid research as well as listening to their instinctual needs. She believes that childbirth and the postnatal period have become distorted and that women are losing out on that most empowering experience of birthing a baby. Her mission is to gently but firmly create a new culture very much based on the physiology of birth. She wants to help change the view of childbirth in the UK.