Yorkshire Storks started as "Your Way Midwifery Practice", in Kent, in 1990. The impetus was the birth of Chris’s daughter Jess, born at home, and Chris’s wish to combine supportive midwifery with hands on mothering. A move to Yorkshire in 1993 and help from other midwives, Deborah Hughes, Linda Mc Clean and Nic Sowerby-Greenhall, to name a few, and Yorkshire Storks Midwifery Practice evolved.

All Yorkshire Storks believe that giving birth is part of a continuum, a life event and that supportive, enabling midwifery helps keep everything normal. We believe that care and birth at home is usually best for everyone but back up help and intervention in hospital is sometimes necessary and at times most sensible.

More than 300 women have birthed their babies with Yorkshire Storks’ midwives in attendance. Since Yorkshire Stork’s first planned water birth in 1992, pools have become a common feature with about half the women birthing their babies in the water. Sometimes gravity is needed and women want to be grounded and sometimes the baby comes before the pool is full.

Self hypnosis and hypnobirthing is becoming an increasingly popular way to prepare for birth. Women often use these techniques to overcome fears and for relaxation.

Between us we offer: reflexology, aromatherapy, Moxa sessions and yoga based stretches and breathing to help with pregnancy and birth and beyond.