You're in theright placeYou’re preparing for birth with hard-won wisdom, you’re not naive, you know what can happen.
You’ve done the research, asked the questions, committed to doing it differently. But underneath all that determination, there’s still a voice asking:
Can I really trust myself when it matters most? Will I know what I need? What if I hand my power away again? What if I can’t protect my baby’s experience like I want to?
Something was taken from you in birth. You want it back. You want to feel calm, sure, and deeply connected to your knowing - not just hoping you’ll trust yourself, but certain of it.
I became a mother
expecting transformation.
i got it - just not the kind i imagined.
After an unexpected forceps delivery, our daughter screamed. Hour after hour, day after day - the kind of sound that lives in your body long after it stops. The internet, the books, the well-meaning voices around me had theories: colic, reflux, allergies, it’s ‘normal’. Try this hold, that supplement, different feeding positions. Nothing worked because none of it addressed what I sensed in my bones: she wasn’t sick. And it wasn’t normal. She was trying to tell us how hard it had been to be born.
When we finally found someone who understood - who could help us witness her experience and support her processing - she began to heal. And so did I.
That experience cracked me open. I wondered: what if I’d had support from the beginning? What if someone at the birth had understood babies as conscious beings? What if the medical team had considered her experience, not just her Apgar score?
Those questions became my calling. Now I support mothers who understand what I learned the hard way: that babies experience birth, and life in utero, that how they arrive matters, and that a mother’s intuition about her baby is trustworthy. I help women reclaim their power in birth and support healing when it doesn’t go as expected - for both mother and baby.
my story
I realised I wasn’t the only mother watching my baby cry inconsolably, knowing it was about more than colic - but having no one who understood.
That’s why I became a doula specialising in trauma-informed, baby-centred support. I bring over 10 years of mental health experience to birth work that sees babies as conscious beings and mothers’ intuition as trustworthy.
Now I help families prepare psychologically for birth, trust themselves through it, and support their babies when needed - so they can bond deeply and raise humans who know how to trust themselves.
The moment that changed everything: seeing peace in my daughter’s eyes after holding space for her to release what she’d been carrying. That’s what’s possible when we stay present instead of trying to fix.