Devon Birth Co

Here’s something I bet you’ve never heard before

If you can push yourself in the gym, or find the motivation to finish your next set even though your legs are burning

Then you can 10000% achieve a hands off, unmedicated birth

Period.

You have the capacity within you to train your brain to keep going, to feel uncomfortable or in pain, or nervous to try a new exercise, and to bloody well do it anyway

So why should birth be any different?

No more “I’m too scared of the pain I can’t do it”

Let’s do the work together to figure out the key you need to unlock what’s already in there

“I can’t do this” to “I have GOT THIS”

DM me and let’s chat babes ♥️ you are READY!

In 2023 my world was completely rocked when at 26 weeks pregnant I developed severe preeclampsia and my son was born via unplanned cesarean. 4 months later, despite the best care possible, he died.

I’m not sharing this with you to scare you, I’m sharing it with you because it completely shifted my perspective about life and death, especially when it comes to birth, and it’ll change your’s too.

When I started preparing for labour with my daughter in 2024, I believed even more in the power of physiological birth.

I reflected on my first birth, and my brush with my own mortality, as well as losing my son, the light bulb suddenly pinged that death comes for us all when it’s our time.

Crazy right.

I could do everything ‘right’ and the worst could still happen. For me, it already had. I accepted the necessary intervention (and would do again, it was life saving in that scenario) and he still died.

Learning, recalibrating, shifting. Really looking introspectively about what was important to me for my birth, taking death completely out of the equation.

Accepting interventions that aren’t evidence based, and where the risks and benefits didn’t align, to slightly lessen my risk of something that could absolutely happen anyway wasn’t the move.

So now I have a question for you: how many of your plans for your birth are centred around death?

“My birth plan is to not die and have a glass of fizz”
“All I want is for me and baby to make it home from the hospital, nothing else matters”

Sound familiar?

Let’s reframe that. Sit together over a cuppa and do the inner work, unpacking WHY you feel that way, and connect to the way forward.

No more making decisions based in fear. You deserve to feel the trust and confidence to make decisions from a place of knowledge and strength.

Comment I’M READY to organise a quick getting to know you call ♥️

Conversations I’ve had this week as a birth worker 🔥

I’ve never been a ‘TMI’ kind of person, if you need to talk about it babes let’s talk I promise you won’t gross me out

Also, VEs are indeed kind of like magic eight balls where the answer is always ‘reply hazy try again later’, no two VEs are going to be measured exactly the same

PAIN ≠ suffering boo

I saw a Thread that pretty much said every woman should have an epidural and having to feel any pain in labour is a product of the patriarchy like WHAT 🫨

the patriarchy defo has a LOT to answer for when it comes to the over medicalisation of birth and the Grand Canyon distance between our conscious perception of birth and our innate knowledge built into our damn bones

But feeling pain in childbirth, that’s not a product of the patriarchy, that’s your body working EXACTLY how it needs to to birth your baby

If this is you right now —> 🤔
READ ON

Labour pain isn’t like broken leg pain, labour pain is like phew I’ve done 20 squats and my legs are burning but I’m going to do 20 more

It’s pain with PURPOSE, literally your muscles contracting to move babe down and out

And your body knows it

It’s perfectly designed, pain AND pleasure, to work in harmony

It hurts yes ma’am it does, but it can also feel incredible, powerful, even or****ic

That’s why your birth prep is so important!!! Understanding the pain, how it works, why you’re feeling it 100%, BUT ALSO, sit with the idea of being okay to feel pain. Being uncomfortable knowing the feeling won’t last forever.

If your only ‘pro’ to getting an epidural is not feeling pain, unpack that.

Even better, unpack it WITH ME. that moment of realisation, that AHA moment where you realise the pain can work FOR you not AGAINST you ahhh it’s just the best

What am I passionate about? Well that’s easy

I’m passionate about spreading the good word that everyone deserves to walk into their birth feeling confident, and away from it feeling overjoyed and empowered 🔥

I’m constantly blown away by the raw power of birth, and I’ve always been drawn to birth work. It’s come back to me time and time again in different forms, but each time it was quite the right fit.

Preparing to birth my daughter hit different though, I was researching more in depth than I’d ever gone before, and I could hear the voice getting louder. DO IT.

Soul searching and conversations with friends first planted the seed in my head that maybe this passion I have for birth could be translated into something that could serve more women than just myself, and Devon Birth Co was born.

I supported two incredible women in the lead up to their births, going over evidence and planning and connecting with their sense of self trust, and all of a sudden, I’d found the right fit. The birth work I was called to do.

I don’t want to teach stuffy antenatal bull, and I most definitely won’t lie to you that breathing and a wave comb with completely take away labour pain.

Holding space for you to connect to your self, and figuring out the key to unlock the knowledge your body already holds. Evidence based, confidence boosting, self trusting, best foot forward. Just raw, honest, birth prep.

Let’s do it together babes ♥️

here’s the honest truth, straight from me to you

1. Saying yes out of fear and saying no out of fear are two horns on the same goat 🐐 “just say no” isn’t the one
2. Feel the fear and bloody do it anyway!! Trying in vain to eliminate all fear isn’t realistic, we’re human and humans feel fear sometimes it’s what keeps us safe. Your birth prep should be focused not on eliminating all fear, but strengthening your connection to self and trusting your gut to know you’re safe
3. Birth is HARD and you WILL feel pain yes ma’am, but it’s pain with purpose not suffering, shifting your mindset is the first step to making that pain feel manageable and like a tool just like the wave comb you’re clutching

You: Frankie I’m so ready to jump in and take control of my birth experience!!

Music to my ears, let’s chat ♥️

you absolutely don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, that’s not my opinion that’s literally your rights as a pregnant woman in the UK

not everyone is going to feel the way I do about
interventions, and that’s okay

I’m not here to change your mind, or to save you, that’s your job babes ♥️ I’m just here to hold the space for you and support you to do that. To amplify your voice, to champion and encourage your self trust

It’s okay if we don’t align I won’t take it personally

If we do align and you’re curious about what having me in your corner might feel like, hit me up in the DMs and let’s have a yarn

I have very limited spots in the calendar for May babes because I’m going on 🌴holiday🌴

I have space for birth prep tasters, birth planning intensives, and scope to take on one or two clients for more bespoke support towards the end of the month 🫨

If you’re curious how this might look for YOU, hit me up in the DMs no strings attached ♥️

Or if you’re shy (a whole mood trust me) comment MAY and I’ll reach out to you with some more info x