Fully informed. Fully supported. Ready for the birth you actually want.
Somewhere between the excitement of a positive test and the 10pm Googling, you realised the appointments are short, the questions are endless, and guesswork isn't how you operate. This is a private mentorship with a qualified midwife, from wherever you are now, through birth, to your first month with your baby.
Led by Emma Rajakrishnen: Midwife · MSc Midwifery · Former NHS Quality Leader · Founder of Elythia
You're used to feeling in control. Pregnancy shouldn't be the exception.
It usually starts the same way. A positive test, a wave of joy, and then the questions arrive. Your booking appointment is weeks away, lasts minutes, and answers half of what you wanted to ask. So you find yourself Googling at 10pm, and the internet hands you either horror stories or fluff. You're capable and successful in every other part of your life; guesswork isn't how you operate. Working with a private midwife mentor doesn't replace your NHS care, it completes it: a senior clinician beside you the whole way, so every appointment, every scan, and every decision makes sense.
Where are you in your journey?
Every woman arrives at a different point. Choose where you are, and see what working together looks like from there.
This is the very best time to begin. Most women find us at 8 to 14 weeks, often just after a first appointment that raised more questions than it answered. Starting now means the full Elythia journey: we build your clarity and confidence from the very first scan, and Emma is beside you for all of it, through birth and your first month postpartum.
Elythia Complete is built for exactly this. Book your free call →
You've settled into pregnancy, but the bigger decisions are coming: screening results, birth preferences, all the choices no one has properly walked you through yet. We join the journey exactly where you are and build your plan from there, at a pace that means nothing gets rushed and nothing gets missed.
Elythia Complete, tailored from your week. Book your free call →
The countdown is on, and this is where focus matters most. We work intensively: your birth plan, your options, your body and mind ready for labour, and your first month with your baby covered too. Late is not too late, this is precisely what the intensive track was designed for.
Elythia Essentials was designed for you. Book your free call →
The Elythia Method
One clear system that takes you from staring at a positive test feeling anxious, to holding your baby feeling confident, informed and supported. Seven parts, one for every letter of Elythia, every one of them personalised to you.
Envision
We start at the end: the birth you actually want. Everything we do together works backwards from that vision.
Learn
Understand exactly what's happening in your body and in your NHS care plan. Every appointment, scan and test explained before it happens.
Your risks, your plan
Your personal risk factors, identified honestly, with a clear plan to reduce, manage or overcome each one.
Team up
A midwife in your pocket: WhatsApp access when worry actually strikes, and you walk into every NHS appointment knowing exactly what to ask. The system, explained by someone who has led inside it.
Health
Your body and mind, looked after properly through pregnancy: nutrition, movement, sleep and emotional wellbeing.
Informed decisions
A calm, structured way to make every choice, informed by evidence rather than fear, forums, or whatever you happened to read that week.
Arrive
Ready for birth in plan, body and mind, your partner and your bag too. And your first month postpartum is part of the journey, not an afterthought.
Two packages. One guiding hand.
Both are one-to-one with Emma, both follow the Elythia Method, and both include your first month postpartum. The difference is simply how much of the journey we walk together.
Elythia Essentials
- Up to 4 private one-to-one sessions, arranged around what you need
- Mentorship through your final weeks and your first month afterwards
- Direct WhatsApp access between sessions
- Birth-plan intensive: your options, preferences, and advocacy
- Full guide library, personalised to your situation
Your postpartum month, covered too
Elythia Complete
- Up to 8 private one-to-one sessions, arranged around what you need
- Everything in Essentials
- Up to 7 months of mentorship, through birth and your first month afterwards
- Extra support sessions around your birth
- Priority WhatsApp access, including evenings
- Partner preparation session
Your postpartum month, covered too
Emma personally mentors a limited number of women at a time, simply because this really is one-to-one.
Not sure which package is right for you? Book a free 30-minute call to see if this is something Emma can support you with.
"I wanted someone who could tell me not just what was happening, but what it meant for me."
Emma Rajakrishnen
Emma is a qualified midwife with extensive experience across NHS maternity services in the UK and abroad, and has led quality improvement within the NHS. That combination means she understands both what happens at the bedside and how the system behind it actually works, including where it falls short and how to work around that.
She's the founder of Elythia, an evidence-based maternity education platform reaching tens of thousands of expectant and new parents every month. The Elythia Method is the system she built from that experience, the same one she'll walk through with you.
Content and community are known for being clinically informed, practical, calm, non-judgemental, and trusted, never sales-led.
Not a doula. Not your NHS midwife. Not a course.
Your NHS midwife
Excellent, but stretched thin, hard to reach between appointments, working within system constraints she rarely has time to explain.
A doula
Typically supports the birth itself, not the full decision-making and preparation journey from wherever you are now.
A generic course
The same static information for everyone, with no personalisation and no direct access to a real expert.
The Elythia Method combines all three: real clinical credibility, full personalisation, and ongoing direct access, a midwife and cheerleader in your pocket.
Who this is for
This is for you if
- You're used to being capable and in control, and it's unsettling that pregnancy doesn't feel that way yet
- You want a real expert's judgment on your specific situation, not generic advice you could find yourself
- You're ready to invest in the right support, not the cheapest option
- You want to understand your choices well enough to make them yourself, not be told what to do
- You want someone reachable when a question actually comes up, not booked out weeks in advance
This might not be the right fit if
- You're looking for the lowest-cost option available
- You'd prefer a pre-recorded course or a group programme over 1:1 attention
- You're hoping someone will make the decisions for you
- You're not planning to engage much between sessions
What happens next
Book your free 30-minute call
Pick a time that works, no forms to fill in beforehand.
We talk about where you are
Your situation, your NHS care so far, what's on your mind.
We decide together
Which package fits, and when to begin. If it's not the right fit, you'll leave with clarity anyway.
Ready to feel ready?
Spaces are limited to the number of women Emma can personally mentor at once. Start with a free call: no pressure, no pitch, just a conversation about where you are.
Apply for a place
Tell us a little about where you are, and Emma will be in touch to arrange your free call.