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Doula Maid Tess, Currimundi (2025)

30/09/2025

🆘 When you’re 3 years old and have already experienced 3 menty B’s before 6.30am 🫠

My God I love and adore my children, but the times be testing my limits today. I will get through this! Better days are on the horizon 🙏🏽😅

Please tell me I’m not alone 🙆🏽‍♀️

15/08/2025

🌸 LABOUR TENS MACHINE HIRE AVAILABLE 🌸

The Elle TENS Machine gives you gentle, effective relief by using adjustable electrical pulses to help your body release natural endorphins and decrease pain signals.

Reflecting on both of my labour experiences, I found great comfort in my second labour using this handy tool, and I would love to offer you the same experience.

✨ Benefits:
✔️ Drug-free & safe for you and baby
✔️ Portable & easy to use
✔️ Helps you stay active & in control
✔️ Can be used at home or in hospital

💌 $40 Hire includes:
* TENS machine & fresh electrode pads
* Full instructions & support
* Convenient hire period to suit your due date
* additional $15 for drop off and pick up (Caloundra - Coolum)

📅 Book now to secure yours for your estimated due date!

10/06/2025

They never said it would be easy, but it will ALWAYS be worth it ✨

Truth be told, I was up at a ridiculous hour in the hope of conquering the morning by completing a few tasks, like putting the slow cooker on, doing a load of washing, and enjoying a hot coffee in solitary, without being attached to a baby.

Well, that backfired didn’t it 😅 with baby boy immediately sensing my absence, making the simplest of tasks more challenging than planned. Instead, we proceeded with a few tears, laughs and cuddles along the way.

Sometimes, as mothers, we have to surrender to the constant cuddles, contact naps, sleepless nights, delayed meals and lack of self-care.

My point here is Motherhood is far from easy, but these little pockets of joy between the tough times make the roughest of days worth it.

This is a season, and not a life sentence! These days too, shall pass. I’m just as happy to be here as he is about his stinky bum.

From mother to mother, no matter how big or small the issue, I see you and feel you, we’re all in this together 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽

I hope you find tiny snippets of joy in each day 🤍

29/03/2025

🎂BIRTH STORY🎂
PART 2

I vividly remember waiting for the feeling of needing to poo that you receive just before the 2nd stage of labour. I started repeating to myself, “Grandma did this 9 times; I can do it twice.” Eventually, I was met with that enormous pressure in my bottom. “The baby is coming” I declared with excitement. My birth team huddled in closer as I was struck with another powerful surge and the fetal ejection reflex. I followed my body’s innate wisdom and gave a little assisted push, and let me tell you, I DID NOT do this quietly 🔊. Next, I felt the immense stretch of my perineum as my baby’s head crowned in the amniotic sack, moments after I felt another surge and gave the final push, my waters breaking at the same time. At 2.07pm, the rest of my baby’s body was born. I reached down to pull my baby up when Katy noticed the umbilical cord wrapped around their neck. She swiftly unravelled it and helped place my baby on my chest.

Due to the calm nature of a water birth, my baby didn’t let out an instant cry. I wasn’t too concerned because I knew this response was a variation of normal.
“What have you got?”, Heather (Jay’s mum) excitedly questioned. I moved my hands upwards of their little bottom and felt a swollen pair of BALL BAGS! “I know what it is” I expressed with sheer joy and shock, without sharing the actual gender.

Not long after Katy felt that the umbilical was no longer pulsing, and explained that the placenta had come away from my uterine wall. This meant we missed out on the delayed cord clamping we’d wished for. She quickly cut the cord and took him over to the resuscitation table. Less than a minute later I heard his first cry and instantly felt at ease. He was transferred directly back into my arms. Feelings of Euphoria filled my entire body as I sat there cuddling and admiring my healthy baby boy.

Continued in comments…

29/03/2025

🎂 BIRTH STORY 🎂
PART 1

On the 12th of March at 5:30 AM, on exactly 41 weeks pregnant, I started to experience my first sign of labour. Completely in denial, I tried to ignore the period-like cramps and questioned if I had an upset tummy. In the space of 20 minutes, I experienced another 4 light but rhythmic surges (contractions). Filled with elation, I phoned Jay at work and informed him of the long-awaited news.

Next, we both called our mums, whom we invited into our birth space. While I waited for my team to arrive, I took a shower and then messaged my birth photographer, Emma, before calling my MGP midwife, Katy.

Much like the beginning of my previous labour, the pressure of the surges influenced a strong urge for me to sit on the toilet and p*e. At around 8.30am, I noticed them getting longer, stronger and closer together, this felt like the perfect time to utilise my tens machine. By this point both of our mums had arrived, as well as my sister and her partner to look after my 3-year-old.

As I slowly sunk deeper into the labour zone, I put on my birth playlist and sat comfortably on my gym ball doing figure-eight movements. This is when I began to concentrate on my surge breathing techniques. With the uncertainty of how rapidly the rest of the labour would unfold, we collectively decided to head into the hospital at 9.15am, where we met my midwife Katy, and birth photographer, Emma.

Once in the birth suite, I sat back on the gym ball riding the waves of labour, while my wonderful team set up the space. With the sensations in my back gradually increasing I started to use my birth comb. In between surges, we were all guessing the baby’s gender and the time of birth. Everyone said an arbitrary time before 1pm. 🚨 SPOILER ALERT, we were all wrong…

While the birth pool was filling up I got into a forward-leaning position to help alleviate some of the back pain I was experiencing. Suddenly, I felt an overwhelming mix of emotions wash over me and I shed a few tears. Reality had sunk in that we were soon to meet our baby.

Continued In comments…..

18/03/2025

🤎 One week with our baby BOY! 🤎

Hendrix Paul Steinhofer
12/3/25
3.18kg
51cm

BRB with the birth story, I’ve been busy soaking up every second of this newborn love bubble 🫧

26/02/2025

🎯 LET’S PLAY A GAME 🎯

BOY? 🩵
or
GIRL? 🩷

As soon as we could find out the gender of our 1st we did, I had such strong feelings she was a girl from the very start, and I was right.

This pregnancy I wanted to try things a little different, so we (well mostly me 🤣) have decided to go in for a surprise! 🥳 This time I’m so mixed with emotions about gender 🤯 but probably leaning more towards a boy 🤔

FOR CONTEXT: 1st pregnancy barely any morning sickness. 2nd pregnancy morning sickness from 6-12 weeks. All other aspects have been much the same regarding how I physically feel.

Side Note: 📝 I think it’s well and truly time to update the bedding 😳 but first, let’s have a baby! 🤍

10 extra points if you can guess the date of arrival, first was born at 39+4…

22/02/2025

✨FEMININE ENERGY UNLOCKED✨

A reminder to book the maternity shoot, you are only pregnant for a minuscule period of life. I want to remember this season forever. The start of a forever love ♾️🤍

📸 👑 behind the lens 🙌🏽

01/02/2025

☀️Another summer salad idea for the grid☀️

We devoured this last night and I could honestly eat it again tonight!! 🤤

WARM ROAST VEGGIE SALAD with MARINATED BUTTERFLY LAMB & SEEDED MUSTARD MAYO 👇🏽

INGREDIENTS
* Rocket
* Roasted salad onion and zucchini
* Roasted sweet potatoes coated in olive oil and mingles “use me on everything all natural seasoning”
* Roast red capsicum
* Feta
* Roast pine nuts
* Marinated butterflied lamb from the local butcher (carved into thin slices to add on top)

SALAD DRESSING
* Whole egg mayonnaise
* Seeded mustard
* Dash of lemon
* Water
HOW TO: Simply mix mayo, seeded mustard and a dash of lemon juice together. Slowly adding water ensuring not to add too much. Get it to a consistency that makes it easy to drizzle over the salad.

Hit this simply yet delicious recipe with a save to make meal making decisions that little bit easier each week.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did 🫶🏽

18/06/2024

😍 The moment you realise you birthed your baby exactly as you envisioned.

I admire the pure joy painted across this first-time mama’s face. Baby Indie entered the world in true superwoman-style (fetal hand presenting with the head 🙋🏽‍♀️) mirroring her mother’s incredible strength and determination.

Birth isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely worth it! (no matter how you birth) 🫶🏽

Raise your hands if you appreciate the authenticity of a genuine birth shot. 🙌🏽

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10/06/2024

🌟CLIENT TESTIMONIAL🌟

A great mindset, an amazing support team and a safe space. The perfect ingredients for birth to be an experience you will never forget. In a system where we were unable to be provided with a continuity of care midwife program, we opted to hire a doula to fill the gap so that we had someone with the skills and education to support us through the journey.
We found Tess and supporting us is just a small part of what she did for us.

She educated, nurtured and laughed with us. When we say that we don’t believe we could have done it without her we truly mean it. When I had quite a significant crisis of confidence not only did she hold me, she made sure to hold my partner and make sure we remained in line with what we desired birth to look like.

No matter what decisions I made I knew I would be loved and supported. I was able to fight through the toughest part of labour unassisted by medical intervention and I credit much of that to her ability to show me how much she believed in me.

She is an incredible woman, and mother and an asset to your pregnancy, birth and postpartum. We love you Tess

Love mumma Chels, daddy Craig and baby Beau ❤️

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