The experience I have gained has been invaluable – particularly with supporting new mothers and helping to reassure them and encourage them to recognise what a great job they are doing.

People often assume that PTSD is “something that soldiers from the war get” without fully understanding why and how it develops in the first place. There's a lack of understanding or at least a lack of public acceptance of just how frightening and disempowering childbirth can be.

The best part of my job is training / educating parents in the importance of a holistic nurturing of babies and to put into place a strong foundation as the first set of building blocks, and then seeing the babies flourish.

It can be nerve racking going into a stranger's home and caring for their precious baby – but I found the placements gave me the confidence that it's not as scary as I thought it would be, as well as experience with multiples and different family dynamics.