Janet is the founder of Pregnant in West London. She set up the charity after discovering how very little was known about pregnancy and birth among new mothers. Janet trained as a birth doula on the Paramana Doula course with Dr. Michel Odent and Lilliana Lammers. She has also trained as a breast-feeding counsellor with La Leche League. Janet has run Montessori Nursery schools, nannied and run very successful arts-based holiday clubs. She continues to enjoy teaching yoga to children and older people and supporting new parents.
Molly has been a midwife for almost 20 years. She recently retired from full-time midwifery to focus on giving expectant parents access to the best available information , birth preparation and post-natal classes. She also shares her expertise and experience with student midwives in her work as an associate lecturer at the University of East Anglia and other universities. Molly now runs workshops on Zoom to midwives all over the world. Her passion is biomechanics for birth, and she continues to expand her knowledge on this subject.
Claudia Goulder is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, trained at the Tavistock Clinic in London, and a full member of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She has worked in a number of inpatient and outpatient child and adolescent mental health services within the NHS as well as family and specialist under-5s services. Claudia also worked as a parent–infant therapist within the Perinatal Mental Health Team at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, helping parents deal with issues such as loss, trauma, depression and acute anxiety. Alongside her private work, she currently teaches on the Psychoanalytic Developmental Psychology MSc course at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and UCL.
BANT-registered nutritionist Jackie Lynch is the founder of the award-winning WellWellWell nutrition clinic, where she specialises in women’s health and the menopause. She is the author of The Happy Menopause: Smart Nutrition to Help You Flourish, which was highly commended at the 2021 UK Health & Wellbeing Awards. Jackie hosts The Happy Menopause podcast, is a sought-after speaker at events, and a regular presence in national media, including Channel 4’s Superfoods. Her clinic was named Menopause Nutrition Clinic of the Year in both 2021 and 2022. Find out more here.