Laura is an artist, midwife, award-winning author, and Jewish Mother. She combines her creative and healthcare practice, to bring fresh interdisciplinary perspectives into a variety of birth spaces and cultural contexts.  

Laura produces a number of projects - Maternal Journal: the award-winning creative journaling movement. Shifrah UK: celebrates and informs on Jewish cultural birth practices, and provides information, education and training. Birth Cafe: opens up space for conversations about birth.
Laura's podcast - The Maternal Journal Podcast: conversations with writers about their work, parenting, creativity & mental health.
Laura's blog - Birth, Art & Culture - interdisciplinary perspectives hosted on all4maternity

Visit the new Jewish Birth resource Shifrah UK, above - co-founded by Laura in 2025. 
​Read our open letter about antisemitism in the birth world, and academia, and a mothers' call for peace, posted in January, 2024, available on the blog page. Read the article Antisemitism and Inclusion: Towards Jewish Cultural Safety, co-authored with midwife Jessica Falk Perlman.

​Laura's essay 'Fish and Apple Strudel' features in the publication Roots and Rebellion, as a winner of the JKP Writing Prize, 2023 , available to order here

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The Maternal Journal Book, co-written with Samantha McGowan, was published in October 2021 - a creative guide to journaling through pregnancy, birth and beyond, featuring >80 guides created by artists, midwives, doulas and therapists. Available to order

You can read Laura's essay, 'How to be a Mother Artist' in this excellent anthology - An Artist and a Mother, published in March, 2023 by Demeter Press, that speaks to the diverse ways artists balance creative life with the demands of mothering. 

Photo - Laura (centre) holding a 'Deeds not Words' placard at the Artichoke 'Processions' Event to mark 100 years of suffrage. London 2018.