Who we Are

Sarah Murray

Sarah spent three years working in the community and both midwife and consultant led units of a busy hospital, informing her practice so she fully recognises the importance of continuity of care and the role of midwives in guarding the normal physiological process of birth.

Sarah lives in Grantchester just outside Cambridge with her husband having brought up her now adult children. After reading history at Cambridge University, a brief career in fashion buying followed, alongside normal parental taxi, advice and homework duties.Sarah subsequently gained a First Class midwifery degree, finding through her training an excitement and passion supporting women through one of the most transformative experiences life can bring.

Subsequently, she has enjoyed working as midwife at Cambridge Midwives for the last ten years, looking after her clients with enormous care and guiding them and preparing them for birth and beyond. Sarah supports a holistic and individualised approach to the childbearing continuum, making the woman and her partner the focus of her practice, promoting and protecting normal birth and the woman’s right to experience such normalcy. Sarah is especially keen to support the transition to parenthood by thorough antenatal advice and preparation, and postnatally, by establishing breastfeeding and creating links with the wider community.

Becky Talbot – Doula

Hello, my name is Becky and I live in central Cambridge with my husband, James. Three of our five children still live at home with us,
and my youngest child was born at the Rosie in 2009. The older two have now flown the nest and began families of their own (I have two wonderful grandchildren. In my personal experiences through motherhood I discovered that being supported and nurtured through my pregnancies empowered me to make choices that were right for me and my family whether that be highly medicalised, or home birth, both of which I have had. I have also worked outside the home in Sex and Relationship Education and supporting young people within the education system. At my children’s school I volunteer with Forest School and Gardening club. I love my allotment and spend any spare time that I have there.

I am a Recognised Birth Doula and trained with Developing Doulas in 2013, working in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdon and sometimes beyond. I
have a real passion for supporting women and their families . What is most important to me is that you feel confident informed and nurtured through the process of planning your birth, the birth itself, and that special time after your baby has arrived.I have supported many different types of families including homebirths, births after caesarean and waterbirths. My philosophy is that if a woman experiences a quiet, calm and nurturing environment, she is most likely to feel positive about her experience, however the baby is born. The calming presence of having your own doula alongside you, who you know and trust, gives reassurance and benefit to you and your partner however you choose to birth.

I am a member of Doula UK and Cambridgeshire Doulas.I co-run Cambridge Birth Choices, a free drop in group that provides emotional support and practical suggestions for pregnant women in Cambridgeshire.I am experienced in supporting, VBAC, Water-birth, Hypnobirth, Cesarian, Active birth, And have attended many training sessions and Workshops on Attachment, Rebozo, Birthing for Blokes, Pregnancy Massage, Waterbirth, Hypnobirthing, closing the bones, active birth, birth rights, Breastfeeding, early parenting, my training is ongoing and I aim to stay updated and current in my knowledge and practice.

There are no words to describe how grateful I am to Sarah, thanks to her knowledge, wisdom and experience my two children have had the best start in life. She guided me through two pregnancies and births and then supported my husband and I in the first weeks of their lives.

Sarah helped me to create positive birth plans and she gave me the confidence and the know how to use these plans while I was in hospital before, during and after the birth. During my second birth I could often hear her voice in my head guiding me and encouraging me to trust my instincts and do what was best for my baby and I. So it is thanks to Sarah that I had almost constant skin to skin with my babies for the first days and nights of their lives and I was able to successfully breastfeed both of my babies and not suffer any complications. I firmly believe that this is why they were both happy and healthy babies.

During my first pregnancy I was extremely anxious and Sarah has helped me to gradually overcome my fears and she has given me the tools that I needed to become a very happy and confident mother of two. I really don’t know what we would have done without her. C and C.