Deva Co.

25/07/2025

Sorry folks, no Saturday prenatal yoga tomorrow 26/07 as I have a beautiful Mummas Blessing Day on... There's a few availabilities for massage next week so get in quick!

23/06/2025

Podcast link in bio…
Do you do any of these things regularly?

13/08/2024

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Do as much or as little as your soul desires. This weekend is all about you, and what YOU need to reset and reboot.

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22/06/2024

A DOULA FOR EVERY WOMAN 🤎

Do you know I offer payment plans and working within your budget so you get the support you need. This can include contra or service swaps if you have something I need
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Please don’t let your budget be the reason that you don’t reach out for birth support.

Each year I offer a bursary place to someone who may otherwise not have had the support they need in pregnancy birth or postpartum.

Other options if we don’t make a good fit is engaging with a student doula. This also needs to be the right fit for you and not just about the price…

Thank you for your words .

If you are a birthworker who is able to help bridge the gap within your own community, I ask that you please screenshot the following slides and share onto your own page 🤎

20/05/2024

AHPRA oversight petition closes tonight
Please all sign so AHPRA is held to account

Australian doctors are not represented by a union. AHPHRA & the Medical Boards are not held accountable for any decisions made even without an investigation. A number of Australian doctors have committed su***de after being accused of wrongdoing without evidence by AHPRA & the Medical Boards. AHPRA has covered up instances of wrongdoing to patients and doctors.

https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6113

e-petitions

26/04/2024

This definitely needed a spot in my feed. Thanks •

☁️ Purism In Birth ☁️

Over the last couple of days there have been a few things I noticed in social media birth circles.

A sort of purism……

One comment I read was about ultrasounded babies being ‘different’ to ‘pure’ non ultrasounds babies. How exactly was not elaborated on 🙄.

Another comment was that once you have taken paracetamol for early labour discomfort, you are not having a physiological birth anymore.

☁️ What’s that all about? Even if this was the case, Is physiological pregnancy and birth in itself the goal? Is a ‘pure birth’ better, even if it’s more painful, difficult, complex, riddled with anxiety?
Some pregnancies or births or postnatal periods VERY MUCH benefit from the interventions/medications that sully their pureness 🤔

☁️ Isn’t a satisfying, non traumatic birth *whenever possible* the goal….however that may happen?

☁️ Why are we so invested in other people’s decision making?
What’s the goal? Education? Shaming? Superiority? Control?

☁️ And is this judgment, and assigning of specific value for our own benefit? Or is it for others’ benefit?

Is this sort of commentary supposed to be helpful?

There is a fine line between education with nuance/clarity/kindness and passive aggressiveness that ultimately unsettles/shames/humiliates/puts down.

I’m really not here for it.

Can we please not?

07/03/2024

So much yes to this post by •

Our culture: “Hi its me, I’m the problem its me”

After becoming a mother, I began to hear people tell me “you’ve changed”. I felt two things when this occurred: enraged! - “well of course I’ve bloody changed!” and also shame; because obviously this meant I’d failed in some way. Failed to remain unchanged by becoming a mother.

Whether you’ve heard someone say this to you or not, I’m sure you’ve felt this pressure - from the outside world with its depictions of “perfect” mothers who do everything “right” while remaining unchanged, and from your own inner voice that is made up of the internalisations of the messages we recieve from media, our families, and even our communities.

This expectation is unrealistic. We are not robots. Of course we’ve changed. Become a mother is MEANT to change you, this is what we call matrescence.

I am proud of who I have become, and of “dead wood” I have let go of - whether that be old values and beliefs, friendships, old identities, whatever. If it’s gone or theres something new about me, it’s for the better.

Now if someone say’s “you’ve changed” I wear it like a badge of honour.

Mothers need to be celebrated for all the ways that they’ve changed, evolved, and upgraded. Just as we celebrate birthdays, there should be ceremonies for all mothers that acknowledge all the ways that they’ve grown and overcome for every year that they are a mother.

Tell me how you’ve changed since becoming a mother and let me celebrate you in the comments below 👇🏾

To hear more on this check out my recent episode on my podcast: Life After Birth with Yara, where I speak to about this and so much more.

01/03/2024

I want to let you in on a huge myth! 🤭​​​​​​​​
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There are no “stages of labour” for physiological birth. 😲​​​​​​​​
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So, how do we define stages of labour? Well... 1st stage (Your cervix is opening to 10cm), then 2nd stage (Pushing), then 3rd stage (Birthing your placenta) ​​​​​​​​
But, hang on... then there’s also... early labour (0-5cm), active labour (5-10cm), transition, prodromal labour (long early labour), prolonged second stage, then there’s the anterior lip of cervix stage, care providers love to discover... It’s enough to make your head spin! 🤯😖​​​​​​​​
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✅Remember this! ​​​​​​​​
💫You are an individual birthing woman​​​​​​​​
💫You and your baby are unique.​​​​​​​​
💫Your labour is NOT a linear process. ​​​​​​​​
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🚫and forget this! ​​​​​​​​
❌Physiological labour is not defined by a textbook, guideline or policy.​​​​​​​​
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Labour is defined only by the person experiencing it... and that is you! 💪​​​​​​​​
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Allowing your care provider to define your labour through examinations and box ticking means you hand your experience over to them. They, then get to decide how “good” or “not good” everything is going. 😳​​​​​​​​
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Physiological labour does not need to be determined by your care provider. It requires:​​​​​​​​
✨Patience​​​​​​​​
✨Trust​​​​​​​​
✨Surrender ​​​​​​​​
✨Encouragement​​​​​​​​
✨Safety - whatever that looks like for you.​​​​​​​​
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Did you feel confused and anxious about meeting all the stages in your labour? 🧐🤨​​​​​​​​
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*Note: This does not include medicalised births- yes, these births we do have definitions and stages for, this is part of how how we keep Mum and baby safe. ​​​​​​​​
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Thanks spot on!

25/02/2024

Perfectly said

What’s the price of a Freebirth?

This headline was used to condemn women and family’s that choose to birth without a medical provider on attendance. That for whatever reason do not want to involve the birthing system we have here in Australia

The implication being the cost is what? To high? That the cost would be the life of the baby and/or mother? That this is something that hasn’t been considered by the women?

The ego and arrogance to assume women choose to enter into birth with complete disregard for their or their babies lives is just appalling.

To also go on to say that they are doing it for a “fad” or that it’s a cult, Really? To those saying this it really shows how disconnected you are from what it is to trust women

Since when did birth Center the midwife and not the mother? And when did homebirth require their consent

This is so belittling, thinking that because someone has a University degree knows best. To say that a Midwife NEEDS to be present to make birth safe is wrong. That is your ego talking and that has no place in birth

Maybe instead we should be looking at the cost of the alternative offering

What’s the cost of birthing in the system?
*Induction rates at 44% for first time mothers (2021)
*Caesarean rates at 38% of all births (2021)
*1/3 women experiencing Birth Trauma
*Increase rates of PPD & PPA 1 in 5 (for what’s reported)
*Leading cause of death among women in the first 12 months of postpartum is su***de
*Perinatal mortality rates have not had a significant difference in the last 20+ years and sit now at 9.7 in 1000 (2021) 24% neonatal.

Women being broken during this very important rite of passage. Entering Motherhood disconnected from their babies, their bodies, their mind/heart/sole.

Yet you condemn women and accuse them or making the wrong decision because they walk away from this

You deflect the failings of the system you are tired to instead of looking inward and seeing what it is YOU are doing to cause the problems the women are moving away from.
Cont in comments…

14/02/2024

🙌🏼 Lauren Ohayon: Core, Pelvic Floor + More Movement strikes again for the win!!!

What is worse that pain?

A rigid cult like mind set that says pills are for the weak.

I was that mom who home birthed her babies and then fed the last one formula because my mental well being was at stake.

I was that mom who wished she could have grown her own food but was too tired to deal with wishes.

I was the mom who tried to co-sleep but then fell apart 8 am- 5 pm daily and hated her life.

I was that woman who got her kids doritos because she could no longer deal with the explanations to her kids.

And actually, she just wanted peace with them.

I am that woman who seeks peace. And it does not always look like the hippie, crunchy person she fancies herself to be deep down.

And it’s sometimes in misalignment with the circles she used to be in. That she left because their unspoken rules left her feeling unseen. And often ashamed that she chose her wellness over the “right way” to do things.

But, not that deep down - I am that woman who strives to be honest and unattached to “what they think.”

Cause they will ALWAYS think and I get just one chance to just do me.

Do peace

Do quiet

This is my wellness.

You know who you are that resonates with this. That wishes she might have been more “natural” in some of her choices but instead needs peace and to smile. The one with the wide and expansive arsenal and wide expansive heart. I see you.

🫶I feel you.

09/02/2024

I just love everything about • - the words, the artwork 🥰

I will never understand

How we send women into the battlefield of birth

Armed with nothing more than good vibes and a relaxing playlist

To combat a system built to break us

And with the heavy baggage of expectation

That birth will be nothing short of a transcendent spiritual experience

Where you’re supposed to meet god and find your power and become one with the universe

With your face buried in the sterile plastic of a hospital pillow

Doing your best to imitate those earthy hums from Instagram birth videos

While it feels like your insides are being ripped out

And then

We send women home

Shaken and stitched up

Leaking and bleeding—and grieving, too

To empty houses (They’re still expected to clean)

Filled with tiny humans (they’re still expected to feed)

With nothing more than some industrial pads and a water bottle with a straw

And then, when we dare express the soul crushing weight of

Trying to “bounce back” and carry on

As though we did not just go to battle and break open

And rebirth ourselves

Along with a brand new human

Who we are now sustaining with our body

While living on protein bars and freezer pizza and 2 hours of non-consecutive sleep

Waking up drenched in sweat and breast milk and uncontrollable tears

They slap a quick “postpartum anxiety” label on us

As though

Feeling the crushing weight of carrying humanity forward

Is a mental health disorder.



No sir.

We are not broken.

We are mothers.

The most beautiful, tender, fierce expression of existence.

Buried under the expectation that we must do life’s most sacred work

Silently, in the shadows, with no support

We are connection, softness, safety, ease.

Thrown into systems hellbent on destruction.

We are human. And we are hurting.

DM me “HELD” for a birth healing packet

16/01/2024

I’m beyond excited to announce I am hosting the amazing Dr Stu in Sept! 🙌🏼

Reteach Breech 2 Day seminar
Gold Coast 2 & 3 September
Earlybird $750 (ends April 1)
Full fare $950
MDs/Obs $1150

Breech birth is slowly becoming a lost art to birth professionals.
Gain hands-on vital learning at Dr. Stu’s Reteach Breech Workshops.

Reteach Breech is a two-day seminar created by Dr. Fischbein which offers hands-on training and didactic teaching about breech and twin birthing and informed consent as well as an explanation as to why the medical model sees breech vaginal birthing but not cesarean as synonymous with risk. This course is open to anyone interested in advancing their skills and honoring birth options. If you are a midwife, doula, other birth worker, medical student, resident or practicing physician you will, at some point, encounter a situation where knowledge of breech, breech extraction and internal podalic version techniques may be lifesaving.

Dr. Stuart Fischbein has been assisting families with birthing for over 40 years. He trained in an era where breech was considered just a variation of normal. Current obstetric training programs have abandoned teaching this core skill and rely heavily on cesarean section as the only alternative without informed consent or concern about the short and long term consequences to the baby, the mother and the mother’s future babies.