Beneath The Palms Midwifery

Beneath The Palms Midwifery Bespoke midwifery care for the women & families of Cairns. NDC accredited practitioner

🌿Availability Update🌿My continuity of care places for January, February & March 2027 are now fully booked 🤍As a solo mid...
23/08/2026

🌿Availability Update🌿

My continuity of care places for January, February & March 2027 are now fully booked 🤍

As a solo midwife, I intentionally keep my monthly bookings small so each woman has the time and space to be heard, supported and held, giving room for the self-discovery that can unfold throughout pregnancy and into motherhood.

✨ January — Fully booked
✨ February — Fully booked
✨ March — Fully booked

I’m still welcoming enquiries for April 2027 onwards 🌴

If you’ve recently found out you’re pregnant and are considering private midwifery care, feel free to get in touch early to check availability.

Caitlin x

🌿 2027 Bookings Now Open 🌿If you are expecting a baby from February 2027 onwards, I would be honoured to walk alongside ...
15/06/2026

🌿 2027 Bookings Now Open 🌿

If you are expecting a baby from February 2027 onwards, I would be honoured to walk alongside you throughout this transformative journey.

My approach is built on a foundation of trust, connection, and the belief that every woman deserves to feel deeply supported, heard, and nurtured as she welcomes her baby into the world.

✨ Holistic care throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
✨ Support to make informed choices with confidence
✨ Individualised care that honours the unique needs of you, your baby, and your family
✨ Whole-body support, including scar release therapy, acuneedling, and birth debriefing

Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period are profound experiences that can shape families for a lifetime. If you are seeking a connected and nurturing experience, I warmly invite you to get in touch.

📧 Enquiries are welcome via email.

💫Supporting the Whole Woman.Healthcare systems can often feel rushed and fragmented, I offer something different—a space...
02/06/2026

đź’«Supporting the Whole Woman.

Healthcare systems can often feel rushed and fragmented, I offer something different—a space where women are truly known, deeply supported, and nurtured through every stage of their journey.

Pregnancy, birth, and motherhood are profound life transitions that deserve personalised, relationship-based care that honours the body, mind, and spirit.

✨Care Rooted in Relationship
As your midwife, I walk alongside you throughout your journey, building a trusting relationship and providing care that aligns with your unique needs, values, and goals.

✨A Truly Holistic Approach
What makes my care different is that I don’t see pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting as separate chapters. Each experience influences the next, and the body, mind, and emotions are deeply connected.

This is why I offer services that work together to support the whole woman:
- Birth Rewire & Release for whole body healing and processing birth experiences.
- Acuneedling to restore balance, ease discomforts, and support wellbeing.
- Possums-informed support for responsive, evidence-based guidance around infant sleep, feeding, and development.
- Caesarean Scar Release to support physical recovery, comfort, and reconnection after birth.

Together with continuity of care, these offerings support healing beyond the skin—honouring the connection between body, mind, emotions, and experience to nurture wellbeing at every stage of motherhood.

Honouring the whole journey in this way creates space for women to feel supported, understood, and connected to themselves as they move through pregnancy, birth, recovery, and motherhood.

Because motherhood is more than pregnancy.
Birth is more than a clinical event.
And healing is about more than physical recovery.

✨Gentle care. Deep connection. Whole-person support.✨

đź’«2027 Bookings Open. Enquire through the website

✨ There’s More to C-Section Scar Care Than Removing the Dressing on Day 7 ✨One of the biggest gaps in maternity care is ...
30/05/2026

✨ There’s More to C-Section Scar Care Than Removing the Dressing on Day 7 ✨

One of the biggest gaps in maternity care is what happens after a C-section.

Many women are told to remove their dressing around day 7 and then receive little to no guidance about caring for their scar or supporting their recovery.

The reality is that your C-section scar needs ongoing care long after the dressing comes off.

✨Proper scar care can help:
- Improve healing and comfort
- Reduce tightness and sensitivity
- Support core and breath function
- Minimise scar adhesions
- Improve the appearance of the scar

Once your incision is fully healed, there are a number of evidence-based approaches that can support optimal healing, including scar massage, desensitisation techniques, movement, and the use of TGA-approved silicone scar products.

Many people are surprised to learn that not all silicone scar products sold in Australia are actually TGA-approved. There are only a handful that meet these standards, making it important to choose products with proven safety and effectiveness.

A C-section is major abdominal surgery that involves 7 layers, yet many women are discharged without education on scar management, tissue healing, or how their scar may affect movement and function in the months and years ahead. This is a huge gap in maternity care that deserves more attention.

Your scar is more than skin deep—it’s part of your birth story and it deserves ongoing care.

✨Have you been shown how to care for your C-section scar beyond removing the dressing?

✨ There’s More to C-Section Scar Care Than Removing the Dressing on Day 7 ✨One of the biggest gaps in maternity care is ...
30/05/2026

✨ There’s More to C-Section Scar Care Than Removing the Dressing on Day 7 ✨

One of the biggest gaps in maternity care is what happens after a C-section.

Many women are told to remove their dressing around day 7 and then receive little to no guidance about caring for their scar or supporting their recovery.

The reality is that your C-section scar needs ongoing attention long after the dressing comes off.

đź’› Proper scar care can help:
• Improve healing and comfort
• Reduce tightness and sensitivity
• Support mobility and core function
• Minimise scar adhesions
• Improve the appearance of the scar over time

Once your incision is fully healed and you’ve been given the all-clear by your healthcare provider, there are a number of evidence-based approaches that can support optimal healing, including scar massage, desensitisation techniques, movement, and the use of TGA-approved silicone scar products.

Many people are surprised to learn that not all silicone scar products sold in Australia are actually TGA-approved. There are only a handful that meet these regulatory standards, making it important to choose products with proven safety and effectiveness rather than relying on marketing claims alone.

A C-section is major abdominal surgery, yet many women are discharged without education on scar management, tissue healing, or how their scar may affect movement and function in the months and years ahead. This is a huge gap in maternity care that deserves more attention.

Your scar is more than a line on your skin—it’s part of your birth story and it deserves ongoing care.

đź’¬ Have you been shown how to care for your C-section scar beyond removing the dressing?

✨ NEW OFFERING ✨I’m so excited to introduce the newest offering and something I know alot of you have been waiting for…...
19/05/2026

✨ NEW OFFERING ✨

I’m so excited to introduce the newest offering and something I know alot of you have been waiting for…..
🤍 C-Section Release Sessions🤍

This beautiful treatment is from the teachings of and has been designed to support healing after caesarean birth through gentle, intentional hands-on therapy.

A c-section release treatment works with the scar, fascia, abdomen, diaphragm, and surrounding tissues to help restore movement, connection, softness, and body awareness after surgery.

This treatment may help with:
✨ Tightness or pulling around the scar
✨ Numbness or altered sensation
✨ Lower back, hip or pelvic tension
✨ Core disconnection
✨ Nervous system regulation
✨ Emotional processing and reconnection with your birth experience
✨ Supporting overall postpartum recovery

Each session is a nurturing 75-minute treatment tailored to your body and healing journey.
đź’« $150

Online bookings will officially open from JULY ✨

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be opening a small number of appointments before online bookings are available.

If you’d love to secure a spot sooner, please email to enquire about availability 💌

I can’t wait to bring this offering into my clinic space and support more women in their postpartum healing journey 🤍

Happy Mother’s Day 🤍Today I’m feeling especially grateful for these two little humans who made me a mum and shaped me in...
10/05/2026

Happy Mother’s Day 🤍

Today I’m feeling especially grateful for these two little humans who made me a mum and shaped me into the woman I am today.

They’ve taught me patience, resilience, unconditional love, and so much about myself along the way. They challenge me, strengthen me, and test me beyond limits I never knew I had.

Motherhood in today’s world can feel incredibly heavy at times. The constant mental load, the pressure to do it all, the comparison, the exhaustion, the worry, the balancing act of caring for everyone while trying not to lose yourself in the process — it’s a lot. So many mothers are pouring from empty cups while still showing up every single day with love, strength, and devotion for their families. And in the middle of caring for everyone else, I think it’s so important we don’t forget ourselves as women too. Our needs, our identity, our wellbeing, our rest, our dreams — they matter just as much 🤍

To my beautiful mum friends — you are incredible. Watching the love, strength, sacrifice, and care you pour into your children every day is so inspiring. Having women around you who truly understand the highs and lows of motherhood is something I’m endlessly grateful for.

I also know today can feel heavy for many. For those grieving their mums, longing to become mothers, carrying the heartbreak of losing a baby, or holding silent grief behind the smiles — my heart is with you today too 🤍

Motherhood and the longing for motherhood both carry so much love, strength, and emotion.

Sending love to every kind of mum and every woman today 🤍

Today is for the relationship between midwife and woman 🤍For the strength you carry, the trust you give, and the stories...
05/05/2026

Today is for the relationship between midwife and woman 🤍

For the strength you carry, the trust you give, and the stories you allow us to be part of — from pregnancy through to birth and into those tender, transformative postpartum days.

Midwifery is so much more than birth. It’s in the quiet moments after, too — supporting you as you heal, adjust, and grow into motherhood. It’s in the listening, the reassurance, and the care when it matters most.

On International Day of the Midwife, I feel especially grateful for every woman who has invited me into her journey. You have shaped me, taught me, and made me the midwife I am today.

And to the incredible midwives I’ve had the privilege to work alongside — thank you for your wisdom, support, and the way you continue to inspire and guide me.

Thank you for trusting me in such powerful moments of your lives đź’ś

14/04/2026

✨Birth Rewire & Release✨

You can do all the “right” birth preparation… and still feel unsafe in your body.

Because birth isn’t only something you prepare for with information — it’s something your nervous system experiences.

If your body is still holding fear, tension, or unresolved memory from a previous birth, it can quietly shape how you move into your next one.

This is where Birth Rewire & Release comes in. Built from the teachings of reconnected birthing through Core & Floor Restore.

This work supports you to:– gently release stored birth trauma– rebuild safety in the nervous system– reconnect to your body’s natural capacity to birth– move into your next birth with more trust, clarity, and grounded presence

And for midwives and birth workers, it also supports you to:– process what you’ve witnessed– reduce emotional carryover– stay grounded and present with each birth experience

Because when the body feels safe… everything changes.

✨Important Update for 2026✨I am now fully booked for pregnancy and postpartum care through the remainder of 2026.Closing...
11/04/2026

✨Important Update for 2026✨
I am now fully booked for pregnancy and postpartum care through the remainder of 2026.

Closing my books is always a difficult decision to make. I truly wish I could walk alongside every family who reaches out, especially knowing how much a continuity of care journey changes women’s journeys. My philosophy is built on providing deeply personal, heart-centered support, and to stay true to that, I choose to work with only a very limited number of women each month. Honoring these capacity limits is the only way I can stay deeply present and provide the level of care that every individual journey deserves.

To the families I’ll be supporting this year: I am so deeply honored to guide you through the transition into parenthood and provide the dedicated care you deserve.

🌿Space for New Healing Offerings!
One of the reasons for my limited capacity at the end of this year is to make intentional space for Birth Rewire & Release work and my specialised Body Work sessions.

🌿Reach out, just in case!
I know how much it means to have the care you’ve envisioned. While I am currently at capacity, I always encourage you to send me an email with your details. Life is fluid and schedules can occasionally shift—I’d love to have your information on hand so I can reach out if a spot becomes available!

🌿Please don’t give up on your search for a private midwife!
I encourage you to contact other Private Midwives in the Cairns region. We are so lucky to have an incredible group of private midwives in Cairns who offer Homebirth and continuity of care for pregnancy and postpartum.

🌿Working Harder, Better, Not Faster and Stronger!
It’s never too early to start the conversation. My calendar for 2027 is open for inquiries.

Thank you for letting me be a part of your village 🙌

Address

55 Marshall Street
Machans Beach, QLD
4870

Telephone

+61417016638

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