Jenny Smith is a clinical NHS and private midwife with 35+ years of experience, throughout her career she has worked in various settings, including hospitals, communities and home births. Jenny has played a pivotal role in transforming birth environments on mainstream labour wards, bringing awareness to the impact that infrastructure and buildings have on the culture of birth for families and the professional teams who support them; coining the term “Maternity Architecture”.
Jenny has received awards for her work and has lectured widely in UK and abroad. She is the author of Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth and co-author of the Natural Caesarean: A Women Centred Technique paper.
Jenny is also the founder of the Jentle Childbirth Foundation charity, through which she has imparted talks in the UK and internationally, funded brith wards, and produced three different films about birth. <
In 2017, Jenny established BirthContinua with the goal to guide, empower, and prepare parents to be for the beautiful and transformative journey of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.
Your Body, Your baby, Your Birth
By Jenny Smith
“I cannot rate this book highly enough. All parents-to-be need acopy.”
– Gabby Logan
Your Body, Your Baby, Your Birth was a culmination of many conversations with women who then empowered me to write this book. The book covers the full spectrum of early pregnancy to birth, and the early post birth weeks. Even reading it now myself I have so many memories of all the wonderful collabora- tions and hold beautiful images of the wonderful mothers, fathers and babies.
The Natural Caesarian: a woman-centred technique
By Jenny Smith, Felicity Plaat and Nick Fisk
This revolutionary technique has been adopted globally. It promotes a natural approach to caesarean birth; which mimics aspects of vaginal birth by allowing parents to be active partici- pants by vewing their baby’s birth and having skin-to-skin contact directly after delivery.
There’s No Such Thing As Naughty
By Kate Silverton
“Kate’s pioneering, invaluable parenting book … takes you on a journey in how to encourage and support your baby and child’s brain development in the early years and beyond.”
– Jenny Smith
In There’s No Such Thing As ‘Naughty’, mum to two young children, journalist and children’s mental health advocate Kate Silverton shares her groundbreaking new approach to parent- ing under-fives that helps to make family life so much easier and certainly a lot more fun! .
Jenny belives parenting starts in the womb and knows the importance of developing positive psychological relationships during pregancy, birth and beyond.
