Meet Me Downstairs (2026)

12/08/2024

2️⃣ Spots available in our upcoming group birth classes 🌺

Message me to sign your couple up to this deeply informative experience. Getting you empowered and ready to bring your baby into this world.

💫 Understand what’s happening in your body
💫 Learn how to manage contractions with power
💫 Provide your partner with all the tools they’ll need support you
💫 Understand the language so you can speak to your team in labor
💫 Learn about pushing techniques
💫 Get educated about pain relief both chemical and natural
💫 Discover the world of breastfeeding
💫 Create a solid birth plan
💫 Meet other expectant families
💫 Have fun

Classes start August 24th at 9am and run for a total of 4 Saturdays.

Message me directly for info or to secure your spot 💬

(ideal stage in pregnancy to take these classes is in your third trimester 🌺)

08/03/2023

from girl to woman. from woman to mother.⁣
we mustn’t forget the girl, for she, she was the one who held the match.⁣
we mustn't forget the woman, for she, she was the one who ignited the flame.⁣
we mustn't forget the mother, for she, she was the one who spread the fire. the fire of life, of creation. the abundant glow of humanity.⁣
each identity is a stake in the ground that carries the world forward.⁣
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11/02/2023

Two of my mamas getting ready to embark on their journeys. It’s the most wonderful privilege to be a part of such an intimate part of peoples lives. To get to do this is such a blessing.

Both one week out from their due dates and both taking things on with such grace. From birth education, to yoga, to heartfelt chats and lots of giggles, being their doula is a gift 🤎

09/02/2023

A c-section whether by choice or by circumstance is still birth. It’s still the beginning of life. It’s still a portal. ⁣
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C-sections have a massive stigma attached to it and whilst we need bring awareness to the surgery, bring reality to the experience and properly prepare women for it, we shouldn’t be shaming those who have them. ⁣
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I’ll be talking a bit about cesareans over the next week 🤎

02/02/2023

Contractions are not the enemy. They get a bad rep but really they are the main driver of labor and birth. ⁣
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It’s this incredible contraction of a beautiful organ that helps guide baby through a woman’s body. ⁣
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Because contractions come with surges of big intensity that can seem painful and feel really difficult to cope with, it’s often resisted or deeply feared.⁣
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This I can understand, and for all those women who feel of have felt this way I’d love to guide you to a new perspective. ⁣
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Which is a surrendering. ⁣
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It’s a natural human response to tense up when we feel pain and it does take active consciousness to release through a contraction.⁣
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But oh man does it make a hugeee difference. ⁣
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The role of a contraction is very vital and when we resist we delay it’s job. We have to find out how to work with this contraction and allow it to move through ones body instead of tightening and holding that pain in place. ⁣
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Contractions are often referred to as a wave and I love that because a wave is fluid. It moves, sways, shifts, and that is how our bodies should be. ⁣
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The more we can learn about our body, and understand the roles of contractions, the more we are placed in the hands of doulas & midwives who give guided support through a contraction, the more we can surrender to the experience. ⁣
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It’s not about having a ‘painless’ labor, it’s about connecting the body wholeheartedly. ⁣
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More to come 🤎

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30/01/2023

The beauty of birth 🤎

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12/01/2023

Every time I doula a birth I am awe struck by the strength of a woman. Sipping the most soothing cup of tea, I go back to the night before. ⁣
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The beginnings always start with curiosity, a wave of contractions that awaken the birthing experience within the body. ⁣
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Looks of excitement between partners are exchanged, whilst the unknown lingers in the air. ⁣
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Intensity begins to grow and the experience changes from wonder of the future to acute presence. I watch as she dives, immersed into what is happening, the rest of the world fading into the abyss. ⁣
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Waves of contractions consuming her. Her body sways, her breath is the only physical tool to move that contraction through her body. ⁣
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Her partners hand on her back acting as the purest anchor, holding her to this world. Words of affirmation and coaching leaving my lungs, that she follows precisely. ⁣
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The hours pass and the intensity grows. I see it all over her body now, her face is the most honest description of her experience. She is in it. Deeply. Her baby traveling through her body. They’re a team. ⁣
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Needing relief, we call on water. A warm shower that aids for a moment. I watch her face struggle to push through this new level and I know that she’s close. Her two pillars of support on either side, keeping her tethered. ⁣
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And then…the primal urge to birth her life arrives. There is nothing else. Only this. Holding her hands it begins…the release. ⁣
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My eyes welling up as I watch the crown make it’s appearance. The mother using every sensation, and every wave to guide baby’s descent. It’s the bravest, and sincerest act of will. ⁣
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The portal opens and baby is born. Dad finally giving in and tears of love stream his cheeks. Mum in awe of what she just did. I dwell in the honor of witnessing the start of someone’s life. ⁣
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Two become three and it is everything 🤎

05/12/2022

Tis the season for inductions. ⁣
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As we come up to the end of the year and Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are upon us, there is a dramatic increase in inductions. ⁣
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Around the holidays many pregnant people feel pressure from their healthcare providers to induce a perfectly healthy pregnancy. The truth is, very few doctors want to be roaming around the halls of hospitals on a holiday, but this is a s**t excuse to induce a healthy pregnancy. ⁣
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So…be aware of the conversations you’re having with your care providers. If the word induction starts making the rounds please question why!⁣
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An induction may seem easy, but it very much makes the experience for baby in labor more distressing. It increases the likelihood of pain medication, tearing and c-section. ⁣
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Ask those questions, stand your ground, and trust your body. ⁣
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15/11/2022

Group birth classes that are fun, educational and empowering (hopefully 😜) ⁣
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It’s been such a wonderful time getting to evolve these prenatal classes to allow for groups as well as privates. ⁣
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I think my personal favorite thing to witness when I teach these classes is the moment where minds change. The realization that there are better options. That there is control. That you do have a say in this experience.⁣
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This is what drives this business forward. I’m watching change happen in every class and in every birth story that follows. Reminders to me that this work has value. ⁣
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Classes are fully booked until 2023 so for all those expectant mamas out there wanting to have empowered birth experiences. Reach out and book for the new year ✨🙏🏼🤎

09/11/2022

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Imagine if when we were exposed to the storytelling of birth we were seeing imagery of women in more intimate settings, we were seeing a variety of birthing positions, we were seeing the deep groans that come through a contraction instead of the dramatized scream on a film. ⁣
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The way we are exposed to birth has a massive impact on the engrained beliefs we build about the experience. When we see birth in movies it’s usually dramatic, scary and painful. It’s loud, it shows women talking down to their male partners, and everything feels very medical. ⁣
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When we hear stories from friends or family about their experiences, so often it reveals traumatic deliveries, a lot of which are as a result of birth being done in over medicalized settings. ⁣
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When something like birthing from home is brought up, it has this untrue stigma of being in unsafe. Not having an epidural can be met with…😧”woah you’re brave” or “yeah okay…just wait and see”. ⁣
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We are being told time and time again from many different outlets that the experience of birth should be feared. ⁣
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My sisters, I am here to tell you that it’s not. Birth is part of you in a beautiful, physical and euphoric way. That through empowered education, through transparent media sharing, through encouraged flexibility to birth in different ways, we can shift the narrative 🤎⁣
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12/10/2022

Motherhood brought me face to face with all the parts of myself that I hadn't been acquainted with yet. It opened me up raw. It took all the coping mechanisms I'd learnt over my years as a young adult and pushed them right up to the surface. A shift in the air, in the temperament of my innocent newborn, in the household, would very quickly erupt into one of the many colorful emotions of human existence. This young new mother was teetering between her valant new role of nurturer and her old freeing life of selfishness and independence. ⁣
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She hadn't been taught of the shift, of what to really expect. She'd only been shown the look of perfection portrayed by rose colored glasses. She felt as though failure was imminent, only failure wasn't an option. She awoke, and fed, and slept and the cycle continued. She smiled and admired and fell in love. She was re-born into a new woman, someone she didn't quite recognize, but would soon come to cherish. ⁣
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She missed a lot of her past life but couldn’t bare the thought of going back for this love didn’t exist there. Motherhood and womanhood became equal yet opposing forces and she struggled to find the balancing act in between. ⁣
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Sometimes the patience ran as deep as the deepest seas and other days the thread could barely be held between two fingers. Some days she played and laughed with her precious little life and others she yearned for bedtime to come. Some days she looked at her body and felt sorrow for it didn’t look the same as it used to and other days she placed it on a pedestal for the vessel of life that it was and still is. ⁣
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Matrescence…finally…she praised. A word that provided grace and embrace. Finally she understands the push and pull. Finally she can be kinder to herself for feeling some of the ugly and messy emotions. ⁣
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She knows that more shifts are to come as her role matures, but for now. Matresence has become a friend.⁣
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~ a letter to me from me 🤎

05/10/2022

Meet Me Downstairs was created to be a community that celebrates womanhood. A place that honours the woman within the mother and the woman within ourselves mother or not.⁣
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Somewhere that shines a light on the feminine experience and gives woman valuable tools, and information to thrive in their skin. ⁣
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Becoming a mother was a catalyst of change for me and the birth of this forum. I realised how little I knew about my own body as a woman. How little I knew about birth. And how much I ached for honest community in motherhood. ⁣
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The podcast was born. The Doula Training was completed. The Birth With Power Course was launched. ⁣
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We are at a time in existence where women are reclaiming their power in more ways than one. I’m honoured that I can be a part of this reckoning. ⁣
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Thank you for being here,⁣
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Brit xoxox

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