Sarah Seymour, at The Blogs

Mar 6, 2022, 5:08 PM

Birth workers who experience moral injury

Moral injury was initially coined as a notion relating to the military. Soldiers who were forced to witness or participate in unethical acts or atrocities in opposition to their moral compass and end up with secondary trauma from the...

Jan 6, 2022, 7:21 PM

The Opening of a Natural Birth Center in Israel

Caring for a Client
Credit: Sarah Seymour

Childbirth is a healthy, normal life event for most pregnant women and their babies which is not always best managed in a ‘house of sickness’ (Bet Cholim). A birth center is an alternative birth location in a home-like setting,...

Nov 9, 2021, 4:33 PM

I’m a Homebirth Midwife and People Think I’m Crazy!

Of a total population of 9 million, there are only about 30 working Israeli homebirth midwives, between the lush Golan heights and the deserts of Eilat. We independent midwives are a curious breed, so let me tell you a...

About Me

Sarah Seymour made Aliya from the UK in 2000 with her husband and children. She lives in Kochav Hashachar where she enjoys the rural lifestyle. Sarah has been working as a qualified midwife in the Jerusalem area since 2007 and transitioned to working exclusively as a homebirth midwife for the past 2 years. Sarah now owns and runs the Binyamin Natural Birth Centre where women can have a home birth experience in another setting. Sarah practices the UK model of maternity care which puts the mother firmly in the centre of her pregnancy and birth.

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