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Introducing birthing bliss
My journey into birth and postpartum work began with my own initiation into motherhood.
During my first pregnancy, I navigated the public health system with PCOS and Gestational Diabetes and was taken aback by how little information and decision-making was shared with me.
From day one, I was told I would be induced early, with no discussion, no shared decision-making, and no explanation of risks or alternatives. When I questioned whether induction was the right path for us, I was dismissed and made to feel selfish or reckless.
Intuitively, I knew it wasn’t right for our family, but my self-trust wobbled in those appointments. And after an appointment that left me rage-crying in the car, I cancelled our hospital birth class and went searching for something different.
That search led me to Hypnobirthing Australia.
I was drawn to the program because I wanted to approach birth with excitement rather than fear, and to access clear, unbiased, evidence-based information so I could truly understand my options.
The program gave me that and so much more.
I felt supported, informed, confident, and ready to reclaim my agency and advocate for what was best for my family.
At my 38-week appointment, despite all clinical evidence showing my baby was the perfect size for my body and my GD well managed, the undue pressure to induce continued.
Equipped with new knowledge and confidence, I kept asking questions until a junior obstetrician finally admitted the real reason: staffing shortages over Christmas.
And I went on to have a positive, redemptive birth as my son arrived on his own timeline; spontaneously at 39 weeks and 5 days, at 3.5kg and thriving.
That birth taught me profound lessons in trust, surrender, and strength. The confidence it gave me carried me into motherhood with a deep “I can do hard things” knowing.
That postpartum was one of my biggest teachers too.
While it remains one of the most meaningful seasons of my life and holds some of my dreamiest, fondest memories, it also came with challenges I wasn’t prepared for. From healing a tear, breastfeeding and sleep deprivation to anxiety, grief, matrescence and chronic depletion—all without truly supportive postpartum care modelled for me.
I remember feeling completely lost, ordering all these books weeks into it and trying to work out what we actually needed to support us during this precious, but trying, season. By then it was clear our ‘preparation’ for postpartum didn’t really prepare us at all.
We had fixated on everything we thought our baby could possibly need, but gave zero thought to what I would need and what our family unit as a whole would need. Our focus was entirely baby-centric: the nursery, gadgets, and “just in case” formula. I didn’t yet understand the family ecosystem, and how deeply intertwined all our needs would be.
Those experiences, and the lessons they gifted me, lit a fire in me.
When my son was still tiny, I gestated and birthed ‘birthing bliss’. In June 2023, I began offering the Positive Birth Program.
What started with one couple grew, booking out as I supported families across many different paths to birth: first-time parents, seasoned parents, homebirths, hospital births, VBACs.
Then I carried what I had learned (and unlearned) into my second pregnancy.
I chose a homebirth with a private midwife and welcomed my second baby with a powerful, family-centred entrance.
I directed energy and intentionality into my postpartum preparation. It wasn’t an afterthought, and it wasn’t outshone by our preparation for birth. I leant into key postpartum principles to create a foundation that could hold and nourish our whole family. And it made a huge difference to our experience.
But honestly, it still wasn’t what it could have been.
Because the truth is, DIY didn’t cut it. I didn’t manage to meal prep the way I had planned. I slipped back into stress cleaning and hosting too soon. I struggled to ask for help. I didn’t get the space I needed to properly debrief my birth. I skipped herbal baths, belly binding, and other supportive practices because the setup and cleanup felt overwhelming. Support I had counted on fell through.
A doula wouldn’t have carried everything, but they could have bridged those kinds of gaps, helped me call in my village better, and reminded me that my needs were worth prioritising.
That’s the care I wish I had. And it’s the care I feel deeply called to offer now.
Today, I weave together my experiences, with lessons from the families I’ve supported, and ongoing study and mentorship.
I build this work in the cracks, and often chaos, of mothering two under three, guided by the conviction that birth and postpartum deserve to be approached with excitement and confidence, not fear and overwhelm.
I’m here to support families to feel informed, equipped, confident, and deeply held as they journey through birth and postpartum.
Thank you for finding your way here. If this speaks to you, I’d love to connect and support your family.
Core Values
Respect for Personal Rites
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Honouring birth and postpartum as sacred, deeply personal transitions, with reverence for each family’s unique path.
This means recognising birth and postpartum as profound rites of passage, not merely physical or medical events, and not limited to a day or six weeks.
It’s embracing them as transformational portals, to be approached with
Honouring birth and postpartum as sacred, deeply personal transitions, with reverence for each family’s unique path.
This means recognising birth and postpartum as profound rites of passage, not merely physical or medical events, and not limited to a day or six weeks.
It’s embracing them as transformational portals, to be approached with excitement and confidence rather than fear or overwhelm.
It’s affirming that all families deserve a positive experience as the norm, not the exception.
It’s supporting each family as they move through these pivotal experiences in ways that honour their distinctive needs and values.
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Supporting informed, autonomous, and aligned decision-making.
This means recognising that knowledge is power, and that power belongs with families.
It’s ensuring they have the information, support, and space needed to make truly informed decisions.
It’s respecting their autonomy, centering their choices and trusting them as the experts in t
Supporting informed, autonomous, and aligned decision-making.
This means recognising that knowledge is power, and that power belongs with families.
It’s ensuring they have the information, support, and space needed to make truly informed decisions.
It’s respecting their autonomy, centering their choices and trusting them as the experts in their own experiences.
It’s holding space, reflecting their sovereignty back to them, and deepening their self-trust, so they can move forward with choices that feel right for them.
Responsibility to the Collective
Honouring Informed + Aligned Choice
Responsibility to the Collective
Recognising the transformative ripple of birth and postpartum, which extends beyond one person or family into their communities and the generations that follow.
This means appreciating that each positive birth and postpartum contributes to a wider story;
from strengthening lifelong, intergenerational wellbeing to modelling possibility and
Recognising the transformative ripple of birth and postpartum, which extends beyond one person or family into their communities and the generations that follow.
This means appreciating that each positive birth and postpartum contributes to a wider story;
from strengthening lifelong, intergenerational wellbeing to modelling possibility and reshaping cultural narratives for the better.
It’s advocating for care that uplifts all families and recognising that each family’s experience contributes to the wellbeing of the collective.
It’s dismantling fear-based narratives and rewriting them into stories of sovereignty and strength for the next generation to inherit.
It’s making space for these rites of passage to be celebrated, respected, and reclaimed now and in the future.
more of Our story
& the key lessons I drew from hypnobirthing:
Thank you for supporting our share the love initiative
Waminda's Birthing on Country Project
Waminda's Birthing on Country Project
birthing bliss is determined to make pregnancy, birth and postpartum knowledge and support more widely accessible. In line with our values, we donate 1% of our profits from each purchase over $100 to one of the following causes (on a rotating basis):
Waminda's Birthing on Country Project
Waminda's Birthing on Country Project
Waminda's Birthing on Country Project
Birthing on Country (Yuin Country) is a transformative project led by First Nations women to support culturally safe, family-centred pregnancy and birth care including support for First Nations women to choose how and where they give birth.
The Returning's Postpartum Care Program
The Returning's Postpartum Care Program
The Returning's Postpartum Care Program
The Postpartum Care Program supports First Nations mums on Bundjalung Country with weekly, nourishing meal deliveries for the first six weeks after birth and donated essentials for families. Alongside this, the program offers Indigenous Postpartum Care Workshops to rebuild cultural care networks and share traditional postpartum practices.
The Village Community
The Returning's Postpartum Care Program
The Returning's Postpartum Care Program
The Village Community is a modern-day village created to support mothers in the Blue Mountains through all stages of motherhood, but especially during the rebirth experienced in postpartum. The Village supports families through coordinated meal donations and community care.
& our mother earth initiative
birthing bliss is also mindful of our environmental impact and the importance of giving back to mother earth. In line with our values, we plant a tree for every order over $100 with Trillion Trees Australia.
In it's over 41 years of operation, this not-for-profit has planted close to 15 million native trees and understory across Western Australia, to combat salinity and soil erosion, improve biodiversity, and provide habitat for thousands of native species.
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We acknowledge that we operate on unceded, sovereign Aboriginal land and pay our deepest respects to Dharug Elders past and present.
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