When I discovered I was pregnant for the very first time in 2011 as a Prenatal Naturopathic Doctor, expectations were high: I planned a beautiful, easy, natural home birth with my husband, a doula, my midwife and I’d have a natural 4-hour powerbirth, just like all the other women in my family.
Discovering my baby was breech after 12 hours of natural labour was probably the most pivotal moment of my life. After a scary ambulance ride to the hospital and 12 more hours of natural labour, with sore swollen eyes and a completely broken heart, I finally welcomed Rowan into the world via C-section.
I was happy, but also devastated by my difficult birth. I was in shock. Disbelief. Grief. Failure. Embarrassment. I hated having a scar. Healing was slow. I struggled to breastfeed. I cried a lot.
And amidst it all, I was terrified that things could go sideways again the next time I tried to give birth…
I became obsessed with helping other women
avoid the same experience.
After my c-section, all I could do to ease my anxiety was obsessively research every naturopathic technique for how to OPTIMIZE the body for natural labour. I then developed a step-by-step system and used it with my pregnant patients in clinic. I coined it the “Four Step Natural Labour Prep System.”
They were easy, empowered, all-natural births by
Over the years, my clinical practice evolved into an exclusively online business, and the “Four Step Natural Labour Prep System” evolved into the online, members-only Natural Labour Preparation program, called:
I used this system again while preparing for my 3rd birth and was able to achieve the greatest accomplishment of my life: an empowered, healing, ECSTATIC home birth.
Love Your Labour© is creating a movement of women who are taking control of their labours by educating, equipping & empowering themselves to give birth naturally.
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