THE NATAL NINE PROGRAM
Critical support for your entire pregnancy through early postpartum.
Have your healthiest pregnancy, a positive birth experience, and enter into parenthood with confidence.
You don't have to do this alone. Nor should you! This signature coaching program will give you everything you need to thrive throughout your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Get the support you need and deserve to feel empowered, informed, and nurtured by a pregnancy and holistic health expert during this critical time in your life.
Do You Feel...
- prepared for parenthood, newborn care, and newborn feeding?
- like you have no idea what to expect in term of what birth and early postpartum will look like?
- like you want to have a trusted source of information and to stop googling?
- like you need more nurturing and emotional support during such a transformational time in your life?
What If
- you had someone a pregnancy and holistic health expert in your corner for you entire pregnancy, to help you to navigate the maze of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum?
- had personalized recommendations to optimize your health as well as decrease stress and anxiety?
- a personalized follow up guide sent to you after each of our sessions that outlines next steps and gave potent, evidenced-based guidance.
- you felt at ease and prepared to navigate early postpartum, newborn feeding, and caring for your baby.
The Support You Need and Deserve
I was inspired to create this program after clients kept extending their three month coaching programs and eventually it turned into support for their entire pregnancy into early postpartum.
This is one of the most transformational times of your life. You deserve to feel nurtured and empowered and have access to trusted information. As someone who has cared for families x 17 years and mother myself, I know that this type of support is critical in helping you to have a healthy pregnancy, empowered birth, and restorative postpartum experience.
And what if this kind of support was right at your fingertips?
What if you could access to this critical layer of support, all from the comfort of your own couch?
EnrollA look at what is inside the program:
Logistical, Emotional, and Practical Support
Want to know how to safely and holistically relieve your heartburn? What is normal for fetal movement? How to prepare for your induction? What supplements do you really need to take? Put an end to googling and received trusted information.
Optimizing Pregnancy Health
Personalized recommendations on how to optimize your pregnancy health through nutrition, movement, and stress reduction. When you are nourished in this way, both you and your baby will thrive!
Mindfulness and Stress Reduction
Decrease stress through holistic ways including meditation, movement, pregnancy safe herbs and supplementation. Receive attentive, personalized emotional support and reassurance from our coaching sessions.
Your Own Medical Translator
It can be very difficult to decipher all of the acronyms, medical jargon, and all of the choices you will need to make throughout your pregnancy and birth journey. I am here to help you to put things into plain language and navigate the road ahead.
Preparation for Labor
What are your wishes and priorities? How can you prepare emotionally, physically, and logistically? I will craft personalized recommendations for you and send you relevant guides for hospital bag packing, coping with labor, and birth preferences.
Preparation for ALL Types of Birth
Whether you are having a planned cesarean birth, an induction of labor, awaiting spontaneous labor, or planning a VBAC, I can help you prepare for all different pathways.
Partner Preparation
If you have a birth partner along with you for this journey, how are they preparing? Would they like to learn how to support you during labor and help you to cope, know what to say, and help to optimize your baby's position for a smoother birth?
Planning for Postpartum
Everyone prepares for birth, but labor + birth is usually only a day in your life. Postpartum is forever! Learn all about physical healing, holistic mood support, and newborn feeding. Coaching sessions will help you plan for a restorative postpartum experience and enter into motherhood with confidence.
Basic Newborn Care and Feeding Support
Receive guidance whether you are planning bottle feeding, breastfeeding, exclusive pumping, or a combo feeding. Learn about baby care basics and sleep support for both you and baby in the early postpartum period.
Text/Email Access to a Pregnancy Expert
Receive support via phone and email from Lucy in between sessions to feel completely held throughout your entire pregnancy.
Hi. I'm Lucy
Hospital-based midwife, holistic health coach, and mother of two.
I started Mad River Birth and Wellness when I realized how many people were needing and wanting more than what they were receiving in their routine obstetric care.
Woven into all of my virtual sessions and online education is an integrative background as both a medical and holistic practitioner. As a Yale-trained, hospital-based midwife for over a decade and a clinical instructor for resident physicians, I am well-versed in modern obstetrics. I blend my medical background with a passion for holistic health. My philosophy of care is one of balance.
I am here for you each step of the way!
