Everyone Has A Story, This Is Mine.

My name is Fiona, and I’m a mum to two beautiful children. Both were, and still are, so different but my first experience of motherhood felt like a real baptism of fire.

I found myself struggling to breastfeed, barely sleeping, unable to get my baby to nap and feeling physically, emotionally, and identity-wise completely undone.

But what I didn’t realise at the time was how much pressure I was placing on myself. I believed that to be a good mum I had to put my baby first at all times, to do it all, to be it all and to do it without asking for help. As though nothing had changed.

And yet, deep down, something didn’t feel right. So I did what many women do, I tried to find the answer. I read, listened and researched trying to piece together how to do this “better”, and what I began to see was that in many other cultures motherhood is held very differently. New mothers are nurtured. They are supported. They are not expected to do it all alone. There is space for rest, for healing, for being looked after. Slowly, I began to realise the problem wasn’t me, and it wasn’t my baby. It was the lack of support.

That realisation changed everything.

It led me to train as a doula, and to begin this work supporting women through pregnancy and the fourth trimester, because I now see so clearly how powerful it is when a woman is truly held in this transition, often called matrescence. When she has space to be heard, to be supported and to not feel like she has to figure it all out alone.

My work is about gently bringing that back. Creating a space where you can be supported in a way that feels calm, steady, and deeply human. Because becoming a mother is a profound transition and you deserve to be held in it too.