I teach the thing I wish someone had taught me.

I'm Georgette. I'm a Masters-educated natural birth expert and a mother of five, living in Strathfield, Sydney. Over years of workshops I've guided hundreds of women and their partners through natural birth, giving them the presence and supportive environment they needed.

My first birth was long and frightening. I didn't want an epidural, but I also didn't understand what was happening to me. I resisted the whole way. It ended with intervention I didn't fully understand, a hard recovery, and a feeling that birth was something that had happened to me. The months after were heavy. The breastfeeding was harder than it needed to be, because I was running on empty.

My second birth, I prepared differently. I learned the physiology. I learned to trust my body and to surrender to it instead of fighting it. Two hours, and he was here. I looked up and felt something I had never felt before. I can do anything.

I met my strength the day I gave birth.

That is why Birthing Culture exists. The culture around birth has shifted. It is treated like an emergency, when most of the time it is one of the most natural things a body can do. I want to change that. I want women to trust the process again, and to know when the medical system is there to help and when there is time to breathe and ask questions.

I don't push opinions. Not a diet, not a politics, not one right way to give birth. I give you what is true about birth and the questions that put you back in charge of it. I teach you how to educate yourself, so whatever your birth becomes, you walk into it informed and you walk out of it strong.

Because when a mother feels strong, she mothers from strength. And that changes everything that comes after.