You want to feel safe, heard and supported by someone who knows you.
Rise offers private midwifery care for women who want more time, more trust and more continuity through pregnancy, birth and the early weeks after birth.
You will be cared for by one experienced midwife who gets to know your story, your body, your hopes, your fears and the kind of birth experience you want.
This is care that stays close when you need support, and steps back when you need space to trust your body.
✓ Over 17 Years Midwifery Experience
✓ One known midwife throughout your care
✓ Experienced home birth support
I’m Virginia, an independent midwife supporting women through pregnancy, birth and after birth.
If we work together, I will not meet you as a stranger in labour. I will know your story. I will know what helps you feel safe, what you are afraid of, what matters to you, and what kind of birth you are hoping for.
My role is not to take over your body or your birth. It is to stay close enough that you feel held, skilled enough that you feel safe, and quiet enough that you can still hear yourself.
I’ve been a midwife since 2009. I trained at the University of Milan, then spent years working in NHS community midwifery in Brighton. That experience gave me strong clinical skills, a deep understanding of maternity care, and the privilege of supporting many different families through pregnancy, birth and the early weeks after birth.
Rise was created from a clear belief: midwifery works best when there is time, trust and real relationship.
Working alongside experienced independent midwives in Italy showed me what this kind of care can look like in practice. Care that is clinically skilled, deeply respectful and rooted in trust in the woman’s body.
My own two home births deepened that belief. So did my training in bodywork, nervous system support, biomechanics, craniosacral therapy, somatic work and birth trauma support. These all shape the way I care for women now.
Most of the time, my work is quiet. I listen, observe and protect the space around you. When clinical skill is needed, I use it. But I do not interfere just to feel useful. Birth often works best when women are trusted, not managed.
I support families across Sussex and surrounding areas, taking a limited number of clients each month so I can offer the kind of care that is truly personal.
Whether you want full birth care, support from the third trimester, or private antenatal or postnatal care without birth attendance, each package is designed to give you time, continuity and care from a midwife who knows you.
For women who want one known midwife beside them from pregnancy through birth and the early weeks after birth. This is the fullest level of care, with deep continuity, preparation, birth support and postnatal holding | £9,000
For women who want private midwifery care from 30 weeks, through birth and into the early postnatal days. A good fit if you are later in pregnancy and want experienced, calm support for the final stretch and birth itself | £7,900
For women who want private midwifery care during pregnancy or after birth, without birth attendance. This package gives you time, reassurance and continuity for antenatal preparation, postnatal recovery, feeding, reflection and emotional support. from £3,000
Additional services are also available, including single 1:1 consultations, NIPT testing, IBCLC feeding support, mother blessings, placenta medicine, birth trauma release and closing ceremonies.
— Ellen, Brighton
I don’t take over your journey.
I don’t run your pregnancy or direct your birth. My role is to stay beside you, protect the space around you, and support the conditions your body needs to do what it already knows how to do.
Most of the time, that means less interference, not more. Paying attention. Waiting. Listening. Trusting the process as it unfolds.
You are given time
Pregnancy, birth and postpartum each have their own rhythm. They do not respond well to being rushed or squeezed into timelines that do not belong to them.
I work at the pace your body sets, without pressure to move things along for the sake of a system. Time creates space for trust to grow, questions to surface, and your body to soften into the work it is doing.
I pay attention to the whole picture
I use evidence and clinical knowledge, but I do not rely on numbers alone. I pay attention to you, your body, your responses and how you are experiencing pregnancy, birth or recovery.
I notice how you move, how you breathe, what feels different, and how things shift over time. The clinical picture matters. So does the lived, embodied one. My role is to hold both.
One relationship changes everything
This work is built on relationship. You do not meet me for the first time in labour. We get to know each other over months, so I understand your history, what has shaped you, and what helps you feel safe.
Your partner gets to know me too. That continuity changes how supported you feel and how birth is lived, not just how it unfolds.
That is the foundation of my care: presence, attention, relationship and support that adapts to you, rather than asking you to fit into a system.
I support families across East Sussex, including Brighton and Hove, Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven, Eastbourne and Hastings.
I also cover parts of West Sussex, including Worthing, Horsham, Haywards Heath and Shoreham.
Kent and Surrey may be possible depending on your location, your due date and my availability.
If you are nearby, get in touch and I’ll let you know what is possible.
Not ready to book, or can’t find a time that works? Just drop me a note.
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