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About me

Hi, I am Antonia, a mum of 2 and a midwife with experience in both hospital and community settings.

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At the moment I work independently, offering personalized pregnancy and postpartum consultations, breastfeeding workshops, antenatal hypnobirthing courses and a homebirth service in English and Spanish in La Costa del Sol and surroundings. 

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My background as a hypnobirthing teacher, doula and breastfeeding consultant complements my midwifery knowledge holistically. I consider myself as a “forever student”, wishing to keep building my academic foundation to provide women and their families with the best resources and latest evidence based practice.

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I am passionate about providing woman-centred care which focuses on your unique social, emotional, physical, spiritual, cultural needs, expectations and aspirations.

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Education and working experience

Since I was a child, I knew that my place in the world would be sharing the path of life cycles and processes, but my particular passion for the world of births grew as I understood the essential imprint it leaves on the lives of babies and on our path as mothers and fathers.

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In 2009-2010 I attended, or rather say I experienced the Doula training at Centro Nagual in Madrid, a profound journey where I not only soaked up knowledge for accompanying motherhood from great teachers, but also learned the importance of healing our own experience to be able to support families from THEIR experience. For 6 years, my work as
a doula was focused on the much-needed postpartum and breastfeeding support, while my desire to have more tools to support women and their families led me to train as a yoga instructor for pregnant women in 2011 and complete the training as a lactation consultant at FEDALMA (Spanish Federation of Associations for Breastfeeding) in 2012.

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The more I immersed myself in the world of motherhood, the stronger the call to protect births became, and in 2014-2017 I completed my BSc in Midwifery at Edinburgh Napier University (Edinburgh, Scotland).

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On finishing my studies, I worked for 2 years in labour ward at Edinburgh Infirmary Hospital in Edinburgh (2018-2020) and later decided to work as a community midwife (2020-2022), where I have spent the last two years, with my own caseload of women, offering all antenatal, childbirth preparation and postpartum care, and also providing a home birth service, since in the United Kingdom community midwives provide home birth care for women who opt for this option.

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In my search for tools to better support families, I trained as a KG Hypnobirthing teacher in September 2021, and I am about to  qualify as an IBCLC (international breastfeeding consultant lactation certificate).

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I am still registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and also with the Colegio de Enfermería de Málaga, offering my services as an independent midwife on the Costa del Sol and surroundings.

Other courses

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  • Neonatal resuscitation course. NHS Lothian. Edinburgh, Scotland 2021

  • Gathering in the knowledge course with Sara Wickham. Edinburgh, Scotland 2020

  • Perineal repair for midwives NHS Lothian. Edinburgh, Scotland 2018

  • Venepuncture and cannulation for midwives NHS Lothian. Edinburgh, Scotland 2018

  • Aromatherapy course for midwives NHS Lothian. Edinburgh, Scotland 2017

  • Perinatal mental health for midwives NHS Lothian. Edinburgh, Scotland 2016

  • NHS Lothian female genital mutilation awareness course. East Lothian, Scotland 2016

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