I’m Nicole! Mom, prenatal educator, proud overthinker and someone who spent most of her life raw-dogging existence before realizing she was AuDHD. Somewhere along the way, I turned asking "but why?" into an entire career.
My relationship with birth began the way many people’s do: with fear.
Like many first-time parents, I genuinely thought home birth was something you graduated to after already having a baby. Then COVID happened and I was told I could have one support person at the hospital: my husband or my doula. How rude.
Choosing to stay home for the birth of my daughter gave me both, and completely changed the way I understood birth.
What surprised me most wasn't the intensity of labour itself (although it was f*cking intense). It was how much energy I had spent trying to gather enough information to control an experience that was never meant to be controlled.
Couples these days are drowning in information. Podcasts. TikToks. Reddit threads. ChatGPT. Opinions from complete strangers who somehow seem very confident about what you should do with your body, your baby, and your life.
What I find most expecting parents need isn't more information, it's somewhere to put all that information. My role isn't to tell you what kind of birth to have, and I definitely don't have a secret formula that guarantees a perfect outcome.
Birth isn't a vending machine. You don't put in the “right” choices and automatically get the outcome you ordered. You can have a beautiful birth and struggle postpartum. You can have a difficult birth and feel deeply empowered. You can do everything “right” and still find yourself wondering what the hell just happened.
What continues to draw me to this work isn’t just birth itself. It's the meaning we attach to it afterward. The moments we replay. The beliefs we carry. The sense of failure or not-enoughness that can linger long after the baby arrives.
That’s why my approach to birth education goes beyond labour stages and contraction timing. We’ll absolutely talk about physiology, interventions, and coping strategies. But we’ll also talk about fear, nervous systems, relationships, identity shifts, expectations, and the impossible pressure modern parents feel to get everything right.
I have a background in mental health nursing, Birth Story Medicine, and matrescence education, and am currently completing my Master's in Counselling Psychology. Together, these experiences continue to fuel my curiosity about the messy intersection of birth, identity, relationships, nervous systems, and the stories we tell ourselves about it all.
When I’m not teaching, you’ll likely find me eating cookies before dinner, throwing a ball for my border collies, hosting tea parties with my daughter, or explaining to my husband why a WestJet seat sale is obviously a sign from the universe to go on vacation.
You can work with me by booking Into the Deep.
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