Hi! I’m Sophie.
I’m the mother of a toddler, an ICF accredited matrescence and postpartum coach, a perinatal behavioral health coach, and motherhood hit me like a freight train.
I thought I was so ready.
I spent my entire pregnancy focused on my nervous system - regulating it, preparing it, nurturing it. I did all the reading, ate all the right foods, anticipated all the scenarios. I did the hypnobirthing, the home birth, everything I could to set myself up for the gentlest entry into motherhood that I could imagine. And then my son was born, and he was colicky with allergies and tongue ties and reflux and high sensitivity, and my entire system went haywire. I was so utterly unprepared for the reality of caring for a high needs baby who screamed all day and needed to be held all night, that there were times when I truly did not know if I would make it through, especially with any sense of myself left.
Three months was a turning point; the constant crying settled, but life still felt so heavy and hard. By six months I was able to enjoy moments with my son, bond with him, embrace my new normal a bit, but my nervous system still could not settle from the seemingly endless crying from my son, along with the shock of early postpartum. I was living in a constant state of fight or flight. I was angry at my partner, disconnected from myself, resentful of other well-adjusted mothers with calm babies, and above all, I felt so completely alone in my experience of motherhood.
When your child is colicky or sensitively-wired, motherhood is an entirely different experience. The exhaustion is deeper, the isolation is heavier, it feels like no one else can relate, and the support is often harder to find. I’m here to be that support for you, to help you find your footing again, to find tools that work for you to stay regulated, so you can actually start enjoying motherhood.
Because our sensitive babies have a way of teaching us profound things about ourselves.