Hi, I’m Emma. Working with mothers and babies is my passion and I have done so for over a decade now. I always knew that I wanted to work as a midwife, yet I left not long after my graduate year as I no longer wanted to be a part of the broken maternity system that regularly leaves women traumatised. I worked in maternal and infant health research for many years, during which time I had my two children. I had thought that my years of experience would help me when it came time to have my own.. how wrong I was. Underprepared and abandoned was how I felt.

I always knew I wanted to become a mother, yet the vision I held for motherhood, didn’t quite measure up to its reality. In fact, motherhood broke me. It stripped down the layers of who I used to be. I thought there was something wrong with me, and that I was failing.

Except I was not failing, I was being reborn.

So I started thinking, what if motherhood is supposed to do this to us? What if we are supposed to change - to grow and expand and instead it is society failing us in it’s complete lack of understanding for mothers as we go through this transition.