Pregnancy and Motherhood Nurse Coaching

 You might be newly pregnant and trying to work out what you are supposed to feel. 

You might be weeks from birth and quietly frightened.

You might be six days or six months postpartum, holding a baby you love, wondering where you went.

All of that is the same season. You are becoming a mother, and becoming is not a moment. It takes a while, and it takes something out of you. 

Nobody warns you about that part.

 I spent years in labor and delivery caring for women through birth before I had any experience of it myself. Then I had my son, and what I felt was anxiety, anger, and resentment. From the outside I was functioning. Inside I didn't recognize myself, and I felt ashamed of nearly all of it.

The tools I had spent a career teaching other women became the tools I had to use on my own life. That is a large part of why I do this work, and why I do not rush anyone through what they are feeling.

 Your OB care ends quickly. Your pediatrician is watching the baby. Mental health care has waiting lists and barriers, and you may not be certain you need it. 

Somewhere in the middle sits the question almost nobody asks you. 

What is happening to you? 

We talk.

About what you are feeling. What you were not prepared for. 

What nobody told you. What you need and have not asked for. 

Sometimes that is practical: sleep, feeding, going back to work, the division of labor at home that quietly stopped being fair. Sometimes it is not practical at all. Sometimes it is saying out loud, to someone who will not flinch, that you are not sure you like this yet.

I am a nurse first. Nearly twenty years in labor and delivery, in home visiting with new mothers, and in maternal child health leadership. I know what is common, what is worth watching, and what needs someone other than me. 

 This is not medical care and it is not therapy. I do not diagnose or treat. 

Postpartum depression and anxiety are common and treatable. If what you are carrying looks like more than this season, I will say so plainly and help you find the right person. That is part of the work, not a failure of it. 

If you need help right now: call or text 988, or reach the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-852 6262. Free, confidential, 24 hours a day.

Sessions are 60 minutes and virtual. 

The pace follows your season: weekly when things are hard, spaced further apart as you steady. 

Three sessions, $495. Six sessions, $930. 

Available in all 40 Nurse Licensure Compact States.

Choose three if you are in a specific stretch with a specific question. Preparing for a birth conversation with your provider. Sorting out a feeding decision. Getting through a return to work.

Choose six if you are in the middle of a transition and are not sure yet what you need. Most of pregnancy. The first year. Any stretch where the question is who you are becoming rather than what to do next.

If you start with three and want to keep going, you can add on at the same rate. Three more sessions are $435, which is the same as booking six from the start. Starting small never costs you more. Sessions flex to your life. Some women meet weekly. Some go a month between. Newborns do not keep a schedule and neither does this. If you want support across a longer arc, from pregnancy into the first year, we can talk about Life Support instead. 

On the price. These are priced below my other programs, on purpose. Pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood are a season of profound change, and support during it should not be the hardest thing to say yes to.