Our Team
What Mums Eat™ brings together experts in nutrition, maternal health and food to support mothers during one of life’s most demanding stages.
Our team combines clinical expertise, lived experience and practical knowledge to help shape a service designed with mothers’ real needs in mind.
Chiron Cole is a food and travel photographer and the founder of What Mums Eat™.
The project began when Chiron started documenting a small but telling moment of motherhood: how mothers actually eat while caring for a baby. Again and again she saw meals eaten standing up, interrupted, cold, or half-finished. Not from lack of care, but from lack of capacity.
After navigating her own health journey and fertility struggles before having her second child, Chiron became increasingly aware of how little practical and accessible support exists for mothers when it comes to nourishment. What Mums Eat™ grew from a desire to create the kind of service she herself needed - bringing together chefs, midwives and nutrition experts to help mothers access nourishing food while also giving them the tools to better support themselves.
Chiron’s background is in storytelling. Her work includes the project Sunday Dinners, commissions for National Geographic, and earlier work as an actor. Through What Mums Eat™, she brings observation and storytelling together with action, making maternal experiences visible while building something designed to support mothers more meaningfully.
Chiron Cole - Founder
Debbie Linger - Forest Midwives
‘Prior to qualifying a midwife, I trained and worked with Gowri Motha offering the Gentle Birth Method body therapies, nutritional advice, self-hypnosis and counselling techniques to support birth preparation and the postpartum. As a qualified midwife, this knowledge guides our holistic care and supports women in approaching birth confidently, working with their bodies to achieve optimal outcomes. Juggling competing demands on time and the physical changes of pregnancy and birth, often leaves the choice of nourishing foods rather low on the list despite the obvious benefits it could be bring, so guidance and simplified access to nutrient packed food will be a big benefit. I have worked in the NHS and then in a community continuity team called Neighbourhood Midwives where I met Bex and our friendship and professional partnership began. As an independent midwife, I feel privileged to support clients during birth, having had the opportunity to get to know the mama-to-be through the pregnancy. From research, we know that having continuity of carer is beneficial to women and their families and allows a trusting bond to develop prior to birth. It is also associated with lower anxiety and better maternal well-being. I find a real delight supporting the postpartum, assisting the transformation into motherhood and nutrition is key to as the body heals and restores after birth. I enjoy helping to demystify care of the newborn, feeding patterns and identifying how babies are communicating supporting new parents to enjoy the first 40 days and perhaps open a window into the all-important 1000 days.
Anna Firth is a registered nutritional therapist specialising in women’s health, fertility and hormonal wellbeing. With over 16 years of experience, she supports women through key life stages including fertility challenges, pregnancy, gestational diabetes, PCOS, endometriosis and the transition into perimenopause and menopause.
Anna holds a BSc in Nutritional Therapy and a Master’s degree in Nutritional Sciences and is currently undertaking a PhD focused on maternal health. Her work centres on helping women understand how nutrition can support their health during some of life’s most demanding and transformative stages.
Alongside her clinical practice, Anna is also a trained yoga teacher and passionate cook, bringing a practical, food-first approach that translates complex nutritional guidance into everyday meals.
As a mother of two, she understands the realities of caring for others while trying to care for yourself. Her experience across fertility, pregnancy and maternal health makes her uniquely placed to guide the nutritional approach behind What Mums Eat™.
Anna Firth - Nutritionist
Marie Mitchell is a British-Caribbean chef, author and cultural practitioner whose work brings together food, storytelling and community. Through pop-ups, events and writing, she creates spaces of nourishment that explore social and cultural themes while celebrating the power of shared meals.
Her cooking draws on Caribbean hospitality, ingenuity and heart, while weaving together seasonality, history, geography and contemporary ingredients to create dishes rooted in both tradition and the present moment.
Marie is the author of Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen (Particular Books / Penguin), which won the Debut Cookery Award at the 2025 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards and was widely recognised as one of the standout cookery books of the year. She is also a regular guest chef on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch and has written for publications including The Guardian, The Observer, Vittles, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s Magazine.
At What Mums Eat™ Marie brings her thoughtful, seasonal approach to food and her belief in meals as a form of care, helping shape dishes designed to nourish mothers during the early months of motherhood.
My name is Rebecca. I am a midwife, birthkeeper, bodyworker, advocate for physiological birth and for womens body autonomy. Here’s a bit about me –
I have been working as a nurse and then a midwife for over 20 years both within the NHS and Independently with Neighbourhood Midwives and as Forest Midwives with my incredible midwife 'wife' Debbie Linger!
Since 2016 I have been honing my passion and skills in working together with parents to achieve fulfilling birth experiences outside of and in conjunction with the NHS framework, mostly at home. A safe and gentle place for this sacred event to happen with the support of skilled midwife professionals.
I believe the rite of passage to parenthood should be protected, celebrated and honoured through the many profound stages of change that unfold during pregnancy and the continuum into labour, birth and early weeks with a newborn.
For over a decade I have been immersed in supporting families to enjoy the pregnancy and birth experience in the safety of their own home in the style of the traditional community midwife. I prefer a holistic approach, to include psychological, emotional, nutritional and biological input.
I like to think my midwifery style is gentle, nourishing, therapeutic and empowering.
I value traditional and time honoured rituals to nourish and heal body and spirit. We welcome and encourage wider family support and love to learn about the different cultures and customs which welcome the new baby and bestow love onto the new parents.
