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Welcome to my blog...

I'm Milli Hill, a mother of three small children, and a writer.

I'm interested in early attachment, breastfeeding, positive birth, evidence based parenting, and the rights of women and children. I am the founder of The Positive Birth Movement.

I'm also a 'stay at home mum' and most of my energy and passion is currently directed towards my three children, Bess, 9, Ursula, 7, and Albie, 3.

You can keep up with my latest posts on facebook, or on twitter @millihill.


Writing

My first book, The Positive Birth Book, was published by Pinter and Martin in March 2017!

I am a columnist for Telegraph Women.

I was a weekly Columnist for BestDaily.co.uk from 2013 to 2015 and wrote for them mainly about pregnancy and childbirth, breastfeeding and early parenting.

I am the editor of Water Birth: Stories to Inspire and Inform, published by Lonely Scribe  and available on Amazon UK and Amazon US, and several other online bookstores.

I contributed a chapter to The Roar Behind the Silence: Why Kindness, Compassion and Respect matter in Maternity Care, published by Pinter and Martin in February 2015.

I also write for the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Huffington Post.

If you would like me to write for you, or would like to contact me about media enquiries, please get in touch. Email me info@positivebirthmovement.org or find me on twitter @millihill.






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The Visual Birth Plan from the Positive Birth Book

If you've already seen the beautiful positions for labour artwork by the amazing Kate Evans that feature in the Positive Birth Book, you'll be pleased to know that our collaboration goes much further! I've been in love with Kate's art and imaginative flair ever since I read her amazing book Bump , so I nearly passed out with excitement when publishers Pinter and Martin agreed to commission her not just to do these amazing illustrations, but to collaborate with me on a much bigger part of the book - the Visual Birth Plan, or VBP. I've loved the idea of a Visual Birth Plan ever since I saw birth plans made from little icons floating around on social media a couple of years ago. These little icons are pretty simple and basic, wouldn't it be better if the icons were more suited to every birth choice, and more beautiful, I thought?! I know there are arguments to be made about birth plans 'per se', and I'm not going to go into those here - suffic

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In the past few decades, mankind has had to shake up their attitudes about a number of things. It is no longer considered to be 'ok' to degrade, humiliate, taunt or insult another human being on the grounds of their sex, race or sexuality. It still happens of course, but it is not considered acceptable. Make a sexist or racist joke down your local pub and you might get away with it. But post an image on Facebook that derides another human being, and you're likely to be reported or even prosecuted. That is, unless that image is of a child. Then it's ok. These images have been doing the rounds this week. Most commenters seem to agree that they are 'hilarious': "Comedy Gold' "Gave me a smile - thanks" "A bit of humour" "I just love this!" I beg to differ. The children in these pictures look sad, and humiliated. At a time when they clearly need help to sort out their sibling rivalries and calm their emotional

While I Nurse You To Sleep...

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