Catherine Cumberlidge
More About Me
- A highly experienced midwife (qualified 2008, 18 years' experience)
- A specialist in physiological birth
- A midwife who supports informed choices
- A practitioner who advocates for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion, offering safe and respectful care for all families across all protected characteristics.
- A provider of full continuity from pregnancy discovery to six weeks postnatal.
- A senior quality and clinical governance specialist with quality improvement and patient safety expertise.
- A midwife who maintains safe practice and up‑to‑date skills through regular study days, training and continuing professional development.
Clinical Credibility
- 18 years qualified
- Senior midwife across multiple maternity settings
- Governance and quality improvement expertise (10 years)
- Strong understanding of safety, risk, and regulatory expectations
- Extensive experience in supporting families in the pregnancies that follow pregnancy or neonatal loss, informing the sensitive and individualised care I offer to every family that I care for
- Appropriate indemnity cover
Continuity and Choice
- Full continuum of care
- Support for all birth choices
- Trauma‑informed, inclusive, and autonomy‑centred
- Professional reassurance for safe and trustworthy midwifery care throughout your pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey.
Geographical Reach
Wirral, Chester, South and Central Liverpool, Part of North Wales
The reason I work as an independent midwife
When I was having my own children, I was fortunate to be able to be cared for by an independent midwife. I was looked after in a continuity of carer model and experienced such a positive experience with all three of my children through their pregnancies, births and in the postnatal time. I could also see how much my midwife enjoyed what she did.
Having worked in different settings as a midwife, in hospitals and in the community, it is the continuity of carer model that I love the most. This is the opportunity to care for a birthing family in a relational way and support them. I always think back to how it felt to me and I certainly feel very privileged to be able to work in this model of midwifery care and provide it to others.
