Hello again, I’m Lou.

First and foremost, I am the mother of two spirited boys and the wife of a thoughtful man, Shaun. We live on the Mornington Peninsula and couldn’t imagine raising our family anywhere else.

Becoming a mother changed me in ways I never expected.

In 2019, Shaun and I welcomed our first son. I felt completely untethered - disconnected from myself, from the people I love and from the world around me. That’s when I learned about matrescence - the profound transformation of becoming a mother and began to understand what I was moving through.

In 2021, in the middle of a lockdown, I birthed my second son just weeks after my father passed away. I was one of the most challenging periods of my life - navigating grief, recovering from birth and getting to know baby all at once.

Eventually the dust settled, I began to find my rhythm as a mother of two.

I felt a strong pull towards this work. It was a knowing that I wanted to support other women through some of these transitions. To help them feel more connected to themselves, their babies and their own intuition.

It is now a privilege to do this work as a Birth and Postpartum Doula, supporting families whether it is their first baby or their third.

I bring both lived experience and professional training to the way I support the women and families I work with:

  • Birth and Postnatal Doula Training | Australian Doula College 2022

  • The Hospital Birth Course Birth Worker Edition | Karli Smith Doula 2024

  • Birth Cartographer Training | Catherine Bell 2023

  • Spinning Babies Workshop Melbourne 2024

  • 200hr Yoga Teacher Training | Power Living 2018

  • Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga | Bliss Baby Yoga 2023

  • Current First Aid + CPR

  • Current Working With Children Check

  • Currently furthering my Yoga studies with Amy Carmody