New Mama's
Emotional Support Kit
Prepare for these unexpected challenges
and protect your joy in becoming a mother and your ability to bond with your baby
Motherhood is a journey of joy, change, and growth – but it's also filled with emotional ups and downs.
It's a whole new world with brand new challenges. Some of which are expected, and some that completely knock you down and you REALLY wish you'd been warned about. Here's your chance! The New Mama's Emotional Support Kit dives into unexpected challenges of new motherhood and tips and tools to do something about them, to protect your joy and your ability to bond with your baby...
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Preparing for Your Biggest Role Yet
You don't know what you don't know right?! You want a magical and blissful transition into motherhood, for yourself, your baby and your new family unit. You want to be the best mother you can be, but what can you do to make that happen?
The more you can prepare now, the better you'll be able to cope later, making your transition into motherhood smoother. You've felt the relief of knowing others have experienced the same challenges before, and this will be more powerful than ever in new motherhood when so much is unknown and you can feel so vulnerable and lost. Learning about these unexpected challenges of new motherhood can help you feel less alone when they come your way. This in itself is huge - when we feel we're the only one struggling with something it can cause added stress, spiraling and a disconnection from our baby and our partner. Many new mamas look back on the newborn phase, heartbroken they didn't soak it all up more and enjoy that precious fleeting period that they can never get back. I am one of those mamas. I want it to be different for you, I want you to be fully immersed in your love bubble with your baby. Knowing what to expect can help.
The New Mama's Emotional Support Kit is here to support you on your journey into motherhood and to help you to thrive; for you, for your baby and for your new family as a whole.
I'm excited for you
(and scared too)
I hope all is going glowingly well on your pregnancy journey. I’m so excited for you, and a teeny bit scared too.
My pregnancy was considered high-risk of being unsuccessful (I only had half a uterus and I was an older mama-to-be). So I just took it all a day at a time. I didn’t look too far into the future, if I did, it was just about physical things; the birth and what I needed to buy for the nursery. I didn’t think too much about the transition of becoming a mother and how I would handle everything that comes with this MONUMENTAL change and what challenges I might face.
Have you?
If you have, Go you! Because this is a BIG deal. A much bigger deal than I anticipated.
If you haven’t, don’t worry. Keep reading. We’ve got you covered.
Being the Best Mother
for Your Baby
You want your baby to have the best start and the best life. Research has shown that a key indicator in a child's ability to thrive, is their mother's happiness.
Learning about unexpected challenges of new motherhood helps you to reduce their impact. You'll be able to better manage your own emotions, helping you be more responsive to your baby to develop a beautiful bond and secure attachment.
What you feel, your baby feels. Your baby's nervous system feels what you are feeling - Its called co-regulation. Being able to reduce your stress and find calm, helps your baby in the moment to be calm, but also helps them long term developmentally, as chronic stress effects brain development.
The New Mama's Emotional Support Kit helps you to prepare for unexpected challenges of motherhood so you can be the best mother for your baby. Understanding and preparing for these challenges is the best gift you can give to yourself, your little one and your family.
My story
I found new parenthood a lot harder than I expected. I mean A LOT.
I had no idea the crazy ride I was about to go on. I was physically a shamozzle healing from a less than ideal birth. I was emotionally all over the place - anxiety through the roof. I experienced heart-expanding joy just watching my baby’s facial expressions in my oxytocin bliss bubble. I was shocked by the weight of the mental load and responsibility of learning on the job about my baby. I felt so alone; disconnected from myself, distanced from my partner and friends. I wanted to be the best mama I could be for my baby, and I felt like I was failing.
Here I was with a beautiful healthy baby and such a supportive hands-on husband, yet I was still struggling. What made it worse still was that I thought I was the only one. And being that bit older, I naively though I may be somewhat wiser. Other mothers seem to cope with far less support and here I am with so much and still struggling, and now spiraling.
From then I did what I always do when faced with a dilemma - I researched-a-go-go and I discovered the term matresence - meaning the major shift physically, emotionally, psychologically and socially we experience when we transition from woman to mother. I also found that many MANY new mothers all over the world were struggling too. It wasn’t just me! This is a big deal. These challenges were to be expected. But why isn't this spoken about. Why wasn't I warned so I could be prepared?!
I started to hold myself with more compassion rather than criticism. This knowledge was a powerful shift for me and I desperately wanted other new mothers, like you, to know about it too.
I’ve since dived deep into the world of stress relief, emotional regulation and self-care and delved back into my counseling and childhood development training. I’ve written books to benefit new parents and their babies and now I’ve created this course to further help support you mama - to protect your joy and your ability to bond with your baby.
New Baby Collection
Little things for big impact - Books to read to babies.
Read to your unborn baby. Read to your newborn baby.
Heartfelt rhymes for new mothers and fathers to engage and bond with their baby, while boosting their own mental health, because let's face it
- new parenthood can be tough.
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