Teri-Ann Coombes

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Teri-Ann Coombes

Bio Energy Healer, Channel, Breathwork facilitator, and Holistic Nutritionist.

01/29/2019

I'm truly going for it. My vision is clear. I am helping Moms better prepare for birth and birth recovery. I want to be the voice of Inspiration that helps Moms to be advocate for the best care and support they deserve in birth and after having a baby.

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My birth planning was successful but in my first 6 months after birth I was lost in the fog of my expectations vs reality. My anxiety was crippling my ability to ask for help. I ate icecream for dinner while bouncing with a screaming baby on an exercise ball. Not the most nourishing meal but it was the calories I needed.

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Breastfeeding was successful but the 8 to 10 hours a day of it was exhausting and draining my already depleted body. Hydration was an ever moving goal post that caused a UTI that was more painful than birth and I'm still recovering from the two rounds of antibiotics.

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Sleep came with co-sleeping. My body aches from the physical labor of birth. My body was constantly changing shape and in constant pain from holding a baby, breastfeeding, and a prolapse that I had no idea I had for 2 months. I'm still working to heal.

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There is no need to fear birth...its just a blip in the motherhood journey. Planning for your recovery will help you recover faster and the experience of motherhood will be far more enjoyable. It isn't supposed to be this hard. It takes a tribe to raise a baby. Let's end the silent suffering and advocate for our most ideal birth and recovery. Do that by creating a plan!

01/14/2019

Climbing mountains makes my soul sing. We got out and did 15000 steps climbing a mountain yesterday. Uncle carried Ryan for me as I'm still not fully able to carry her without experiencing pain in my pelvic bowl. She weighs 17 lbs and that extra weight weighs down on my pelvic bowl casing pain and discomfort for days. Having my family to help me look after Ryan truly benefits my health and hers. She goes to her uncle Joe or Auntie For comfort now too and this is building a strong bond that will give her support as she can go to her uncle and auntie for help with things that she may not want to go to Mama or Daddy for.
It truly takes a tribe to raise a baby. I'm so grateful for mine.

01/12/2019

Exploring this beautiful island with my daughter has been so refreshing to my mind and body. The air is clean and the sea makes my heart sing! Motherhood has been so much easier with help. Asking and accepting help is a muscle every Mama needs to flex. Without it being it all and doing it all for my daughter wears me too thin for my own self nourishment.

01/10/2019

It is in our nature to want to be accepted by our tribe for who we really are and what we really need to feel love, acceptance, and have our needs met. The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman discuss ways in which you can really communicate the actions you need to see to feel loved. Have you asked yourself that question yet?
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My partner and I have been working on our emotional attunement so that we can be interdependent with all of our needs met. Emotionally, physical, and spiritually. It has not been an easy journey, it takes a lot of conscious hard work.
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When Ryan was one month old my partner had to take an out of town job. This meant our relationship was pushed to even more new edges. Before this we has spent not more than one week apart. Now I was facing two weeks alone with a baby that some one has forgotten to deliver with an instruction manual.
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We have made our communication and interdependence a priority because the physical seporation has left us with the opportunity to really invest in our emotional interdependence and this has been key in helping us stay strong.
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Whether or not your partner works away make sure you make time to check in with your partner and ask what they need from you to feel loved. Assumptions cause the death of good relationships.

01/10/2019

Making life happen while she sleeps on my back is such a treat. I'll never be alone and I'll always be inspired to be my best mother self.

01/09/2019

2018 was a year of change for me. I became a Mommy to a beautiful little girl named Ryan. I found my calling to help new Moms plan for a healthy birth and a happy postpartum recovery because my journey was much harder than I anticipated.

I got engaged to the love of my life Nathan and we are planning on moving to British Columbia to start pursuing the life we have always dreamed of with lots of adventure and walks.

I want to thank all of you who have been part of my journey. This year wouldn't have been the same without your help and advice through the most challenging moments of my life.

Watch this space, 2019 will be the year I achieve my goal of helping 10,000 woman plan for and achieve the motherhood journey they most deserve. A healthy and happy one that supports the next generation in creating a postpartum revolution.

Moms deserve better.

01/03/2019

We used to live in tribes, we used to live with emotional and physical support built in by stories from elders and the physical efforts were a burden the tribe took on.
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Now we live in separate boxes, without stories to help us figure out our new roll and the isolation can be directly correlated to our western issue of postpartum depression.
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Our western world is very masculine,which is too independent. We need each other! Most of us ladies have never seen a breastfeeding Mama in action and yet we are expected to know how to do it without fear.
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We are expected to understand major changes in our bodies that happen during pregnant and birth and we have no examples of how real bodies look and how to recover from these changes.
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Receptivity is an ability to take guidance and advice in the immediate postpartum period. I was so vulnerable in my postpartum that and words of wisdom, support, and kindness would bring me to tears.
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Birth opens your body up physically which opens your mind and soul with it. If you are not in a privileged place to have support in receptivity then be sure to set this up for yourself.
You are your best Advocate for your vision of the postpartum recovery you deserve.
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Visualize a staycation where you and your partner bond with your baby. Where you are fed nutritious meals to support your ligaments, bones and blood. A place where you are safe and supported while you go through the emotional rollercoaster after losing your progesterone producing organ, the placenta.
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Your body brought life into this world which is as ground shaking as death. Take it seriously and rest and recover to a more than optimal space so you can be the best Mama you can be.

12/22/2018

Fresh British Columbia air and rain has brought smiles to our faces. Being together and being on adventures is exactly what the holidays are about for our family.

12/22/2018

Emotional attunement can solve the world's problems.

Emotional attunement should begin in infancy, with a mother or primary care river following the baby's emotional cues. Babies are born feeling deep emotions but lack the ability to regulate or manage the intensity and duration of those emotions.

Dr DAN Siegel, author of "Whole Child Brain" says attunement is when we sense a clear image of our mind in the mind of another. Or simply put, when someone is attuned to us, we feel they really get us, experience us and understand us. Emotional attunement has been practiced in the postpartum period for centuries in cultures who practice Ayurveda woman are to rest for 40 days, the Chinese culture call this "Sitting the month". In Hindu culture it is called "Purudu".

The West has lost any form of tradition around the mother and child bonding period to provide the best circumstances to enable them to become exceptionally attuned. The importance of emotional attunement can affect how well breastfeeding goes for Mom and baby as well as the length of time she spends doing it.

The mother baby relationship requires work and time to be successful. As Moms we need to be accountable to creating the environment for this to happen. The TO DO list will always be there but this special period is a small window of opportunity for us to set our next generation with successful tools.

Now the question is can we learn how to be interdependent, how to ask for help so we can be present with our half baked little humans.

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