Real stories & expert insights from Amanda

Birth stories, hypnobirthing insights, and honest advice from a midwife with 35 years of experience.

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Client storiesHonest, real accounts from the women Amanda has supported
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Expert insightsEvidence-based advice from 35+ years of midwifery experience
Independent Midwife of the Year
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Independent Midwife of the Year

A midwife who has been helping families in Ilkley prepare for the birth of their babies for more than three decades has been announced as the winner of the Independent Midwife of the Year 2022/23 at the Prestige Awards.

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Client stories
In their own words
Positive Birth Experience“
A Lovely Birth Story - My Calm Birth, Ilkley

It's difficult to find the words to explain what Amanda Wardle has meant to us - not only during our birthing experience but throughout the whole pregnancy!

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Support with Absolute Superb Style

Amanda was the best thing that happened to me during my surrogate pregnancy. Gushy testimonial, I know... But when it comes to writing a testimonial about a midwife, if she's really worth writing about, it can't help be filled with lovey dovey stuff.

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Information I Couldn't Find in Books

Amanda's support throughout my pregnancies and birth was one of the best things I ever did. She entered my house a midwife and left a friend.

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Support, Encouragement and Reassurance

Amanda was an amazing midwife, and without doubt contributed to my confidence in the pregnancy and birth experience. Her experience really shone through, and I was always confident that I was in safe hands.

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Time to Find My Zone - Pregnancy & Birthing

We were lucky enough to have Amanda Wardle, My Calm Birth, support us during pregnancy, throughout the birth and after our little girl was born.

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Insights & advice
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AdviceConvenient Continuity - Why Choose an Independent Midwife?

Doctors surgeries, inconvenient times, rushing from work, waiting for an appointment that never seems to come, then feeling rushed, not listened to and sometimes like your just another number in a sea of other women?

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HypnobirthingHypnobirthing Refresher for a Hypnobirthing Teacher!

Just recently I was asked to do a hypnobirthing refresher session for a hypnobirthing teacher and her partner. Now, why on earth would she want to do that you may ask!