Useful Resources
my certifications
I have attained and am now certified in Level 4 Holistic Sleep Coaching Programme with Lyndsey Hookway and BabyEm based out of London. I have also completed the Possums NDC Masterclass. I love my work with families supporting them through the journey of natural and biologically normal sleep patterns for newborns and older babies. There is a lot of conflicting information for new families and I love to be able to spend time helping families to get to know their own babies cues so they can settle into learning how to support their own baby's sleep and development with gentle care and evidence based information.
I am currently studying to be a Board Certified Lactation Consultant IBCLC. I’m loving the study and also learning all about baby’s reflexes, nervous system, natural instincts and the feeding journey from birth and beyond. Feeding and sleeping are so co-related and with all my years of working with babies I’m loving going into the depths of how supporting both these functions for a bub lead to a more settled bub and calmer more informed family too.
I am a Newborn Mothers Postpartum Professional having studied and gained certification from the Newborn Mothers Collective taught by Julia Jones.
I have attended training and received certificates in Spinning Babies, Optimal Maternal Positioning, Aromatherapy, Acupressure, and the Hypnobirthing Australia Supportive Caregivers Course, I also regularly attend and assist at the weekend SheBirths course run by Nadine Richardson.
I have recently spoken at the Webirth Virtual Doula Conference on the “Role of a Doula in caring for couples who have undergone IVF or assisted reproduction to achieve their pregnancies”.
I am trained mentor and work on a voluntary basis with young and teenage mums with Raise Foundation in the bump programme. I have also worked with young teens in the ISMO (in school) programme with Raise.
I have worked with women in crisis through the Australian Doula College Groundwork Programme.
I have facilitated the beautiful mums and baby “soul mumma” circles in the inner west suburbs of Sydney and Bondi in Sydney. I have also facilitated other mum and baby circles in Sydney also. I believe it’s so important to create a nurturing and positive “village” for mums/parents to meet others so there is support and friendship out there in what can be a very isolating and lonely time. Having been a postnatal nurse for many years,
I am loving spending time with all these beautiful parents and babies, and providing all the help, support and assistance I can during their amazing journey into new parenthood.
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Practitioners
WOMEN’S HEALTH PHYSIOTHERAPISTS
Physio Therapy Clinic
Their physiotherapists are highly skilled and have undertaken extensive postgraduate training.
Beaches Pelvic Physio
Based on the Northern Beaches, they are focused on improving your pelvic health naturally.
CHIROPRACTOR/osteopath
The Chiropractor
Andrew Stevenson - North Sydney Oval Colonnade. Suite 11-12 283a Miller St, North Sydney NSW 2060. Andrew and his team are awesome for adjustments during pregnancy and the postnatal period.
Polly Wilke is an awesome osteotherapist and chiropractor and kinesiologist based in Bondi. She treats babies from newborn and pregnant and postpartum mums.
NATURAL THERAPIES
Optimum Health Essentials
The awesome team offer many natural therapies including Naturopathy, Chiropractics, Kinesiology, NET (Neuro Emotional Technique), massage and many more. “We aim to empower people to be in control of their health and to help them to maintain a state of optimum health for themselves and their family”.
Yoganic
This amazing team offer pre and postnatal yoga and pilates in Willoughby Sydney
ACUPUNCTURISTS
Kate Elevett
North Sydney Acupuncturist using both Japanese and Chinese acupuncture, to suit the needs of the person.
RedTent
Erskineville and Bondi based Acupuncturists.
Simone Stolmack
Double Bay based Acupuncturist.
MASSAGE THERAPISTS
Nurture Mama
Kensington Massage Therapist. Safe, relaxing and therapeutic massage to assist you and your body during each trimester and to prepare you for labour.
Body Bright
Randwick Massage Therapis, bringing together a small group of Therapists, passionate about fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum & women's health.
OSTEOPATHY
Cecile Parain
Clovelly Osteopath & Director of Bulb Osteopathy
Kirsten Hannan
Forrestville Osteopath
Julie Fendall
Randwick Osteopath with almost 40 years of experience.
BIRTH & POSTPARTUM
Shebirths
Highly recommended childbirth education course “Combining evidence-based and holistic techniques, She Births® equips you and your partner with the knowledge and skills to support you during pregnancy, birth and right through to early parenting”
Motherhood Matters
Felicity Hughes is a Midwife and Lactation Consultant IBCLC in Private Practice in Willoughby, NSW. She is a mum of four, hugely knowledgeable and highly qualified. She provides very dedicated support to new mums and their feeding journey whether it’s breastfeeding, bottle feeding or both.
Whole Food Healing
Brittany Darling is an Accredited Nutritionist and Herbalist, and works with people who really want to get well and be healthy." She is highly qualified and loves to help mums with their babies and their own gut health and wellbeing.
POSTPARTUM MEAL DELIVERY
Feed Mama First
Meals 4 Mummas
The Nourishing Point
Dinner Ladies
Books
Inducing Labour - Dr Sara Wickham
Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding - Ina May Gaskin
Why Induction Matters - Rachel Reed
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering - Dr Sarah Buckley
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding - Teresa Pitman and Diana West
The First 40 days - The Essential Art of Mothering the New Mother - Heng Ou
The Happiest Baby on the Block - Dr Harvey Karp
Baby on Board - Dr Howard Chilton
Your Cherished Baby - Dr Howard Chilton
Websites
Evidence Based Birth
This is a wonderful resource and probably my most recommended one when it comes to research and evidence-based information with regards to pregnancy and birth, and really helps when making decisions regarding care and options regarding these.
Belly Belly
A great site with information on a wide range of topics.
Jennifer Hazi
A blog written by an awesome midwife and doula, well worth a read, always informative and interesting.
She births
The only scientifically verified childbirth education programme in the world, proven to improve birth outcomes for mother and baby.
Spinning Babies
This is a great resource for learning about optimising the best position for baby during pregnancy and birth by teaching stretches and tools to aid the body to be aligned and ready for birth.
Sarah Buckley
Sarah Buckley is a New-Zealand-trained GP/family physician with qualifications in GP-obstetrics and family planning. She is the mother of four home-born children and currently combines motherhood with her work as a writer on pregnancy, birth, and parenting. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland,, where her research is focused on oxytocin and the autonomic nervous system in labour and birth, and the impacts of interventions. She is a wonderful author and among her great books is “Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering”, which I really recommend to read.
Mid Wife Thinking
Dr Rachel Reed is a Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Discipline Lead of Midwifery at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She is committed to the promotion of physiological birth, and of women’s rights (and rites) in maternity care. She is the author of the highly recommended book “Why Induction Matters”, which is a concise, easy to read and really informative book that explores all aspects of Induction, and often assists in the decision making around induction facing many pregnant mums.