I had always been a healthy person, played sport, I was (am) a High School PE teacher and Integrative Nutrition Health and Nutrition coach so I knew this was wrong and so not fucking good enough for mums. Where was the holistic care? The nutritional support? The referral to the physio? Anything!! Something!! 

But with all I knew I still struggled postpartum!
While recovering on my own postpartum health journey I struggled with my relationship changes and sex and intimacy, body image issues, I’d cry because none of my clothes fit, my back hurt, I was tired, mad at myself, I was sad, I got mastitis, my whole life had been flipped upside down, I was overwhelmed and stressed, I had mum guilt, I felt like I couldn't keep up with life and looking around everyone seems to be crushing motherhood but once I got to talking to mums it seems so many felt the same. 

I decided something had to be done for myself and other mums. I looked at going back to uni to be a midwife or anything that would allow me to help mums. Then when I was researching starting solids with Paige I stumbled across Oh baby School of Nutrition. From then a fire was lit, I enrolled and within 12 months I had graduated as a pregnancy, postpartum and nutrition consultant and started this biz! Inspired to support mums on their journey to thriving throughout motherhood! 

And then, well I had my second baby Charli in September 2023. Like my first birth with Paige, this one also did not go to plan. I've never had that skin to skin baby bubble and neither of my girls have had their first feed from me; it's been through a tube both times. Charli although a planned cesarean ended up with a punctured lung and was flown to Sydney, about 4 hrs from where I was, and I couldn’t go with her. Josh followed up in the car with her, he brought her back to me 2 days later.

You can read all about that journey here and Paige’s birth story here.

These birth journeys and during the weeks that followed with Charli I discovered all over again how little we are taught about how to be a healthy thriving mother. My life wasn't turned upside down this time, more like spun around and shaken up a little but I still was smacked in the face with the pressures of motherhood, had to navigate my relationship with my husband Josh AGAIN, find time for myself, cope with the noise of a busy household that would spike my stress and overwhelm, manage a household and get organised with 2 kids, find myself as I transitioned from maiden to mother AGAIN which this time hit hard and fast and how to not be the stressed, burnt out, tired and overwhelmed mum that society tells us that all mums are. While I was learning how to do all this I realized that we are literally taught jack shit about how to be a mum! And anything we are taught revolves around the kids- how to start solids, how to nurture their emotions, how to help them transition through puberty. Where is the lesson on how to nurture the mothers emotions, how to help her physical and mental health and how to help her transition into a mother?