Welcome to Yorkshire Storks
We are a growing team of midwives and birth activists offering support and care throughout the childbirth year. Some care can be face to face at your home, or virtual if that makes more sense. We provide family centred, evidence based care and information about pregnancy, birth and parenting.
Our basic beliefs
All Yorkshire Storks, past and present, believe that giving birth is part of a continuum, a life event and that supportive, enabling midwifery helps keep everything normal. We believe that respectful care and birth at home improves the outcomes for most women but back up help and intervention in hospital is sometimes necessary and at times most sensible. We are of course happy to support those who feel that hospital birth is best for them and their family.
Flexible and unhurried interactions
We can plan your visits/zoom meetings around your work or family commitments at times to suit you and your partner. We can chat over a cuppa and our visits are unhurried, relaxed and friendly, enabling us to get to know each other and explore what is important to you. Occasionally we may need to reschedule a visit when we are attending another client who is birthing or in unexpected need of us. This flexibility means we can be similarly responsive to your needs.
Student Midwives
Do you want to find out if midwifery is for you or gain experience for study applications? We also occasionally run Study Days of interest to midwives and other birth workers.
