18/05/2026
In 2023 my world was completely rocked when at 26 weeks pregnant I developed severe preeclampsia and my son was born via unplanned cesarean. 4 months later, despite the best care possible, he died.
I’m not sharing this with you to scare you, I’m sharing it with you because it completely shifted my perspective about life and death, especially when it comes to birth, and it’ll change your’s too.
When I started preparing for labour with my daughter in 2024, I believed even more in the power of physiological birth.
I reflected on my first birth, and my brush with my own mortality, as well as losing my son, the light bulb suddenly pinged that death comes for us all when it’s our time.
Crazy right.
I could do everything ‘right’ and the worst could still happen. For me, it already had. I accepted the necessary intervention (and would do again, it was life saving in that scenario) and he still died.
Learning, recalibrating, shifting. Really looking introspectively about what was important to me for my birth, taking death completely out of the equation.
Accepting interventions that aren’t evidence based, and where the risks and benefits didn’t align, to slightly lessen my risk of something that could absolutely happen anyway wasn’t the move.
So now I have a question for you: how many of your plans for your birth are centred around death?
“My birth plan is to not die and have a glass of fizz”
“All I want is for me and baby to make it home from the hospital, nothing else matters”
Sound familiar?
Let’s reframe that. Sit together over a cuppa and do the inner work, unpacking WHY you feel that way, and connect to the way forward.
No more making decisions based in fear. You deserve to feel the trust and confidence to make decisions from a place of knowledge and strength.
Comment I’M READY to organise a quick getting to know you call ♥️