Postpartum Support

What Is Postpartum Coaching? I offer personalised coaching sessions and workshops for women and couples, both during pregnancy and the postpartum period (also known as the ‘fourth trimester’). These sessions focus on understanding the postnatal phase, why it’s so crucial, and what the universal needs are at this time, for both the mother and the whole family. By uncovering the essence of how you want this period to unfold, we can craft a postpartum plan tailored to your unique family needs. I then guide you in implementing this plan step-by-step. Additionally, I offer postpartum support sessions to check in on your progress, provide birth debriefing, address any current concerns, and offer referrals or advice. Why is the Fourth Trimester So Important? Birth is a profound physiological process, followed by a cascade of hormones that support bonding and breastfeeding, but also bring emotional highs and lows. This time can feel deeply transformative—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—and can make mothers more sensitive. Breastfeeding may take time to establish, and it can take around six weeks for the uterus and organs to return to their pre-pregnancy state. Integrating the birth experience, adjusting to motherhood, and bonding with your new baby all take time. Birth is considered a rite of passage by many, but in our fast-paced world, it’s easy to miss the opportunity to truly engage with this experience without the support and witnessing we need from our communities. What Draws Me to Work with Families During the Fourth Trimester? Having given birth to three children and experienced different levels of support during the postpartum period, I was inspired to support families during pregnancy and the postpartum period. In 2020, I completed my training as a postnatal coach and doula with Olivia Seck at Birthing Wisdom Holistic Trainings. Through my journey as a mother, I have wrestled with the conflicting information and opinions that are out there in books and what we are told by those around us. I know how challenging it is to find balance between our needs and those of our children and how confusing it is at times to apply the information in our own families. Having navigated this myself, I believe that getting to know ourselves and our needs is the key to finding balance and maintaining our sense of self and personal wellbeing. By having time to bond and get to know our babies and taking the time to listen and understand their cues builds our confidence as a mother and our ability to sense and tend to their needs. I don’t believe there is a one size fits all approach to parenting. This is not always easy, as following someone else’s approach can seem simpler and give clarity and ease. However, this can be at the cost of our own inner knowing. Seeing through the lens of someone else’s parenting approach can mean missing the opportunity of sensing what might really be going on and intuitively finding a way forward. My approach draws on my own journey of self-enquiry and integration of life’s challenges as well as my on-going interest in non-violent communication (NVC), Hand-in-Hand Parenting, Mindfulness, Self-compassion practices, attachment theory, knowledge of trauma and the nervous system, child development and conscious parenting in general. I believe in finding a balance between trusting our innate body wisdom and educating ourselves in a way that supports us in making informed and conscious choices. I feel that cultivating self-awareness, mindfulness and having space to process our own childhood experiences are fundemental in this process. Although not always an easy journey, I have found this to be essential in growing my capacity to love and meet my children where they are at each stage of life. I am passionate about holding a non-judgemental and empathic space where you can be with where you are, connect with what you are longing for personally and as a family and find ways to meet that together.