Dr. Lauren Davie-Cupido

01/14/2024

We have some new faces around here, so I thought it would be a great time to reintroduce myself!!
Professionally, I’m Dr. Lauren Cupido, chiropractor and acupuncture provider. I work full time at in the WSIB clinic working hand-in-hand with orthopedic surgeons and learn something new every day. I work at 1-2 days a week treating you fine folk! I have a special interest in treating the perinatal population however, happily treat teenagers-golden age!
Personally, I’m Mummy to 4 year old Madelyn and 2 year old Leah. I am also the wife of professional lacrosse player, . I am a Hamilton implant and most of the time, I love it here!
My life is wildly busy but I’m so grateful for every little bit of it!
Thanks for tagging along with me on this ride… hopefully you find this content interesting. If you ever have any questions don’t hesitate to DM me! ⭐️

10/10/2022

Happy thanksgiving from our family to yours. I’m so thankful for my 2 beautiful daughters, a husband who loves and supports me and the opportunity to help people every day!

I am also thankful for a brief moment of quiet and Peppa pig at my parents’ house🤣

I hope you all have a wonderful day with your loved ones!

10/04/2022

Since we have some new friends on here I thought it was good to reintroduce myself! Hi! I’m Dr. Lauren ⭐️

I graduated from CMCC in 2017 and before that, McMaster in 2013. I am trained in contemporary acupuncture and enjoy treating everyone (although I REALLY enjoy treating expecting mommas!)

I will always be that smiling face, willing to listen and guide you without judgement or bias. There is nothing I want more than to be by your side as you recover from whatever injury or navigate through whatever it is you’re coming to see me for! 🤩

My official start date at Heal is October 18th… also my 32nd bday so I’d love to spend some of it with YOU! DM me to book your spot! 📅

Ps. This is me in the Atlantic Ocean when I was visiting my brother and sister in law this summer!

09/23/2022

The cat’s out of the bag! 🐱

I am starting at Heal Health and Performance on October 18th (my bday… come visit 🎂 ) from 1-7 pm. For now, I will only be working Tuesday evenings.

For those of you I haven’t treated before, I practice evidence based chiropractic and have been trained in multiple different techniques to help you recover and rehabilitate in a way that you feel most comfortable. I also have additional training in contemporary acupuncture and prenatal care.

I’m so excited to start at this clinic. I have been a patient here for years and can’t wait to officially join the team!!

Follow this link to book:

https://healclinic.janeapp.com

See you soon, friends!

09/20/2022

Wow! Hi!

It’s been such a long time!

So much has changed since I last posted here. I am now a mother of 2 beautiful girls - Madelyn is almost 3 and Leah just turned 1. I have been working at St. Joe’s hospital in Hamilton doing orthopedic assessment with some phenomenal orthopaedic surgeons. Working with surgeons is an experience I never thought I would have as a chiropractor and I’m so grateful because I learned SO much.

That being said, I’m heading back to treating in clinic!! Tuesdays from 1-7pm (for now… maybe more soon!) I will be at Heal Health and Performance. Joey and I have been patients at this clinic since it opened in the pandemic and I can’t say more about this clinic, the owners and the practitioners. They have helped me get through my second pregnancy and Joey through a NLL championship… nothing but the best here!

I am attaching the booking link below. This clinic is very busy and these spots will be snatched quickly so don’t wait! I’m so excited to see some of you again, I missed you!

Heal Health & Performance is Hamilton's #1 choice for Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, and Massage Therapy, Osteopathy, Naturopathic Medicine services. We put your physical health at the top of our priority list with personalized one-on-one treatment plans to get you functional and strong again.

03/17/2020

Hi everyone. I hope you are all staying well during this challenging time. I just wanted to write a quick post because I’m getting a lot of questions.

1) PLEASE STAY AT HOME. Please practice social distancing. We don’t care if you don’t have symptoms, just stay at home! Symptoms for COVID-19 don’t make themselves apparent for over a week. If you leave the house and continue to spread this (unknowingly) you are defeating the purpose of all of the measures our government is taking.

2) wash your hands and stop touching your face. When washing your hands with soap and water, wash for 20 seconds at least. Hand sanitizer should be 70% alcohol, minimum 60%.

3) It doesn’t matter if you return from a trip and you “feel fine.” IT TAKES DAYS/OVER A WEEK for symptoms to make themselves apparent. Please stay at home and ride out the quarantine period. You could be spreading the virus to those you love.

4) Lastly and most importantly, we have to stop the spread (or at least significantly slow it down.) This virus is extremely dangerous and for the poor people who are seriously affected, there are not enough supplies or spots in the hospitals for our physicians to properly care for these people in LIFE AND DEATH situations.

PLEASE JUST STAY AT HOME.

My daughter, husband and I will be slowly making our way through 16 seasons of Hell’s Kitchen to pass the time! ❤️

03/16/2020

COVID-19 update

02/15/2020

And here we are, four months later and at the end of this story. I have obviously left out some of the more “gore-y” details but for those of you who have given birth before I’m sure you know what I’m talking about! This journey has been eye-opening, difficult, beautiful, messy and perfect. I have so enjoyed telling our story - thank you for following along with me! I find that with topics surrounding conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing, many people are afraid to talk, ask and learn. I truly mean it when I say I’m happy to answer ANY questions you may have. I had an above average knowledge of this whole “process” having gone through eight years of health science education and I STILL had a list of at least 10 questions every time I had a midwife appointment. The learning grew exponentially once Madelyn was here. I relied HEAVILY on my friends and family who had recently had children however, a very important lesson is that EVERY child is different.
IF YOU TAKE NOTHING ELSE FROM THIS STORY PLEASE READ THIS PART: For any of you struggling with conception, pregnancy aches and pains, birth anxiety, post partum depression, nursing questions... PLEASE reach out. If I can’t help you as a chiropractor, I can lend a caring ear and am happy to listen and discuss any topic you may have with love, compassion and absolutely no judgement.

02/14/2020

We were planning to stay for 24 hours post delivery but I quickly realized I wanted to get home ASAP. We had visitors throughout the day - some expected, some unexpected. I was able to shower, which felt amazing but I was sore and just wanted to be home. We had an amazing nurse who turns out was taught by both my mother and father-in-law! We asked for an early discharge - our midwives okayed it (they had been in earlier that morning) but we had to wait until Madelyn peed. This took forever. I was paranoid all of a sudden her kidneys weren’t working! In the mean time, she had her first bath, got dressed in her first clothes and had lots of amazing cuddles. We went home with my parents around 6:30pm after she peed!
I delivered at St. Joe’s hospital in Hamilton and it was truly the best experience I could’ve ever asked for. I walked away after a 38 hour labour with nothing but beautiful, peaceful feelings about the experience. I was educated, informed and respected through the whole process which is so key to avoiding birth trauma!
So many of you have messaged me - some of you calling me brave for sharing my story. Many of you saying how strong I was to get through the labour. It’s funny, I don’t view the labour as tough. I didn’t share this story to get praise! I shared this story to open the lines of communication for women who may need it!

02/14/2020

My parents, Joeys parents and his siblings were waiting in the waiting room to meet Madelyn. They didn’t get in to meet her until around 1 am. It was such a blessing to have them there. Some people want privacy post delivery and I completely understand that, but we’re an extremely close-knit family and I wanted them there. My poor Dad (who was sick - hence the mask!) had been in the waiting room since leaving work at 11 am! They didn’t get to stay for long - we needed to establish breast feeding and get me moved to my room.
I was up and walking around by 2 am I believe. My legs worked but I felt slightly shakey so I didn’t walk with Maddie. We chose to pay for a private room - THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS (not impressed about that considering I wasn’t even given food but I really did appreciate the privacy.) This was the point where my midwives and doula left and the nursing staff took over. They came in, checked Maddie, changed her diaper (she pooped already!) and then let us rest. Poor Joey had to sleep in this ridiculous chair thing so eventually we tried to squeeze in the single bed together! At this point we were instructed that Madelyn needed to feed every 3 hours, so we were up by 6 am. 3 hours (very broken) sleep in 48 hours is tough but there’s nothing like giving birth to keep you awake! .

02/13/2020

Our midwives came in, agreed it was go time and said they were going to go finish some paperwork before I started to push. I threw up again and needless to say they had to come back pretty darn quickly. They had me push a few times while I was on the stool and then they helped me lay down on my back. I did NOT want to deliver in my back because we were expecting Madelyn to be at least 9 lbs and anatomically, it’s extremely disadvantageous to deliver laying in your back (message me if you want to know more about this.) I remember looking over to Lara to see what she thought of this and she smiled at me and nodded. Alright cool, let’s do this.
I pushed her head out in one contraction, had to wait for what felt like 7 years for the next contraction and then at 11:14pm, Madelyn was born into her Daddy’s arms ❤️.
Side note: Lara somehow got some beautiful pictures of this moment - I didn’t even notice her doing it! I’m so grateful to be able to look back and see this beautiful moment!

02/12/2020

The time frame here becomes a bit hazy for me. I was checked (I think) around 8 o’clock and I was 8 cm and Madelyn was at +2 station - that means she was still high. Finally, another anesthesiologist came in and gave me something wonderful and for the rest of my labour I had no pain (thank you, you sweet, kind man!) I was checked I think 2 hours after that - so roughly at 10 ish and I was fully dilated! Yay!.... but baby girl was still at +2. I knew what this meant. Doesn’t matter if you’re fully dilated if your baby doesn’t descend. I was heading down the path to a C-section. My amazing doula at that time suggested a birthing stool. Now that was a sight to see! I had to pull myself up on this stool (on top of the bed) with a hole in the middle because as I mentioned before, my legs weren’t working properly due to the epidural. I was so happy up here. I just felt good and I said to my doula, I think the pushing is going to go really well. Now this is where stuff starts to get funny.
I spent my pregnancy throwing up. It’s just what I did. I mostly threw up when I was hungry - feed me and I was fine. During labour, I didn’t eat. I couldn’t. So, that meant I threw up a lot. It didn’t phase me, I was so used to it! When I was on the birthing stool, the monitor that was checking Madelyn’s heart rate kept losing the connection so Joey was instructed to sit in front of me and hold it. While he was sitting there, I was sick. All I hear from him was...”uhhhh Lara...you should come look at this.” Lara came around to the front of my body, had a peak and immediately paged the midwives to come back! Baby girl had descended and was well on her way to coming out! Lara always said that a good throw up is equivalent to several good contractions. The birthing stool and throwing up had brought our baby girl so very close to coming into this world.