About

Hi,

I am Giulia, I am a Midwife.

My journey into midwifery started in Italy back in 2010, when I entered the University of Studies of Perugia and graduated in 2014 presenting self-led research about regular physical exercise before and during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes and maternal weight gain. My interest about holistic health and well-being has always been there and alongside with academic studies I started building my yoga teacher background in 2012 when I started practicing at Kashi Kriya Yoga Centre in Perugia and eventually trained with Ilaria Perni to become Antenatal Yoga instructor in 2020. My passion for movement and exercise developed widely, exploratively and in deep relationship with nature and its elements. Particularly water, such a precious element to support childbearing women during pregnancy, birth preparation, birth itself and the first 1001 days of life. I undertook the training as Aquanatal Yoga instructor with Birthlight in Cambridge in 2017. I owe to this course a lot of skills and knowledge not just about how to practice yoga in water and how the mothers can benefit from the combination of yoga poses and moves within element water, but also because I could explore physiology of childbirth from and holistic health perspective. 

In 2021 I started practicing contemporary dance and completely felt in love with this art so I started blending release contemporary dance moves to the yoga routine that I practice and teach, finding out how these two disciplines can be complementary and enrich each other. The dance’s elements of improvisation and perception of our body moving into the space and onto the rhythm, combines with the stretching, strengthening and breathing that yoga offers creating a complete and satisfying way of conscious movement which I base my antenatal and postnatal classes on.

I have studied biomechanics of birth from the psycho-neuro-endocrinological perspective with SEAO in Florence in 2020 and learned the Spinning BabiesÒ techniques to favour and support physiological pregnancy and birth from one of its founders and major research midwife and author Anna Maria Rossetti. I then extended and updated such skills in 2022 attending the course about the same topic with midwife Molly O’ Brien from Optimal Birth. After discovering and exploring the use of essential oils into my self-care routine and experiencing the benefits of it for the physical and emotional wellbeing I then decided to introduce the use of aromatherapy techniques within my midwifery practice. So, I completed the Aromatherapy for Childbirth course with Jude Davis and Lindsay Woodman in 2021 and Aromatherapy for Postdates with Expectancy in 2022 learning essential oils blending techniques and their use during childbirth and post-dates.

Studying aromatherapy, I learnt some massage and acupressure techniques specifically used to favour and support physiological birth and onset of spontaneous labour. Observing how beneficial can be the massage when used to support childbirth, I decided that I needed to add more structure to my massaging skills, so I undertook the Holistic Massage course at School of Natural Therapies in London.

My project involves blending the experience, skills and knowledge that I gathered along my journey as midwife and holistic health practitioner into a unicum, to support women during their childbearing journey to find their own individual health balance during preconception, pregnancy, postpartum period. My philosophy of work is based on the concept of individuality and diversity of each human being which must be listened and observed in its own complexity. Only by considering this complexity it’s possible to offer care and advice that are tailored on the specific needs of each person and that are based on the experience coming from several techniques and background. 

I recently became a mother, lived the joy of pregnancy and giving birth alongside with continuing being a midwife and looking after my patients. The empathy I received from my patients while I was childbearing Claudia it made it even more special until I was eventually ready at 37 weeks to say a big “see you soon”, take my maternity leave break and fully focusing on my birth preparation that culminated with the home birth I was hoping and meticulously preparing for. Currently I am wandering about the challenges and joys of being a mother for Claudia as best as I can while exploring new ways to look after myself and work.