Materniverse: birth, boobs & bubs

18/03/2026

Love following this account. All the feels with this one.

Do you feel emotionally exhausted?

When we live most of our lives either zoned out or in panic mode, we leave no time for repair and restoration.

If the bulk of your time is spent in either sympathetic or dorsal, that can be emotionally and physically exhausting. It can be hard to maintain and the cues from the nervous system just get louder, the more we ignore them. Realizing that my dysregulated nervous system was contributing to my emotional exhaustion was a lightbulb moment for me.

As parents, we have so many reasons for feeling exhausted, we tend to ignore how much our own dysregulation might be contributing to those feelings. When we live most of our lives either zoned out or in panic mode, we leave no time for repair and restoration. We leave no time for healing. We leave no time for rest. As parents, we need to find ways to access ventral (self-regulate), while parenting. That’s a special set of skills that I focus on a lot in my work. How do we access calm and connection when there is chaos happening around us?

Understand your nervous system and your child’s with the Emotionally Overwhelmed Workshop Series.

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10/03/2026

Let me share something personal with you.

I took this photo 4 years ago. My third baby was just a few weeks old.

This was a difficult, lonely time.

You wouldn't know it from the photos I shared on facebook, and probably not if we'd had a chat. Women, and mothers can be masters of disguise. That can be useful at times as a tool, but also highly isolating and detrimental to our mental health and emotional wellbeing if it becomes our default mode.
Unfortunately, it became my default.

Remy came along 10 years after our first baby, at 39 years old. My close friends were well past the new baby phase and with 2 older kids to ferry around I didn't feel I had the energy or time to look for a tribe. It was also 2022, the tail end of covid, and life was still unrecognisable in a lot of ways. I certainly had no awareness of any mothers groups near me.

A decent dose of birth trauma amplified that exponentially, as it does for 1 in 3 women. I found myself ruminating for hours, day after day, descending into cycling feelings of anger, frustration, sadness and betrayal. Every single day of that first year, I made a conscious choice not to let it engulf me. It didn't, but it took ridiculous amounts of energy just to keep it far enough at bay to get through the day with moments of joy, connection and wonder.

Two major takeaways from that experience:
1. It should never have been that hard.
2. I never want any mother to feel that way.

This is a big part of why I have dedicated my professional life as a midwife and IBCLC to advocating for and supporting women through matrescence, from informed, empowering birth education and preparation, to breastfeeding education and support, to a positive postpartum transition- understanding and honouring the massive transformation that is matrescence (and patrescence!)- and nurturing it to be as smooth and joyful as possible- amongst the inevitable hurdles.

This path has led me to open the doors to a new mums and bubs offering here in Moggill, 4070. Materniverse 'Nurtured Mama' Mum and Bub Groups offer a safe, calm and comforting place for new mums to land, once a week during term time, and soothe their nervous system with other new mums, just witnessing and honouring where they're at, sharing, learning, laughing together.

I cannot wait to start.

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19/11/2025

So happy about this! Thank you Dr Rachel Reed for making this chapter widely available!

This is Chapter One of the audiobook version of Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage.

19/11/2025

I have to share this as a matter of some urgency. Thank you Tracey, I couldn't have written this better.

Here's why I'm not rattled by the new sleep training paper, what the research actually shows & why your intuition matters more than ever.

25/10/2025

🥰🥰🥰 such a fun morning!

24/10/2025

Last chance to book in!
10 professionally edited photos of you and your bub/s
Discounts from Adele at The Good Days Photography for subsequent shoots
Specials from me
And 2 hours to connect with other like minded breastfeeding mamas and ask me anything about all things matrescence! 🥰🥳

15/10/2025

Fl**ge fittings!! I am stoked to be offering this service now and I can confirm that the right Fl**ge size can make a massive difference. If it's going well, that's great, you don't need to fix something that isn't broken. But if it's uncomfortable, painful, or not giving you much milk for your efforts, even if it was before, a Fl**ge fitting/check is warranted.

Our bodies are not symmetrical. While the fl**ges that come with your pump are the same (usually too large) diameter come as a matched pair, some people may actually need different diameters for each side. Some may even need a completely different type of fl**ge, like silicone on one side or hard plastic on the other. If your pump experience isn’t comfortable, feeling like nothing or a gentle tug, keep trying to find the right fl**ge. New research says smaller is better, with most people finding they need the diameter to be somewhere in measurement between that the tip and the base of the ni**le measure. If your lactation consultant told you to add 2-4mm from the measurement of the base, they are giving outdated, non-evidence based recommendations which can increase the risk of plugged ducts and inefficient milk removal that can lead to dropping supply over time.

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12/10/2025

Lactation support appointments available this Friday morning ❤️ in studio at Bellbowrie or home visits. DM or email me at mia@materniverse.com.au to book in.

01/09/2025

I am so thrilled to be supporting the beautiful Keshmi as one of her guest speakers in her upcoming Mamas - Brisbane Mothers' Group Programs in Graceville. I'll be there holding space and presenting about one of my favourite topics- honouring our matrescence journey and understanding the biological, developmental needs of human infants- so we can honour our babies AND ourselves in this uniquely joyful, challenging season of our lives. I can't wait. I only wish this existed when my babies were little!