Melanie Caminiti
Why I want to support you.
I was 28 when I was pregnant with my first child. While I poured my heart and soul into learning everything I could about pregnancy and birth, diving into my values around health, spirituality and parenting and making choices to support having a healthy baby, I was not prepared for the intense adjustment into motherhood that was coming.
The fourth trimester of postpartum hit me with intense anxiety, fear and insecurity, panic attacks and depression. My baby had colic, crying constantly and we had breastfeeding issues that gave injury to both of my nipples leading to significant pain for the next two months. I had a voice in my head constantly telling me anyone else would be a better mother to my child and I consistently regretted the choice to become a mother. I felt lost and alone and didn’t know where to reach out for support.
Two years later, I learned that what I had been experiencing was postpartum depression and I began connecting to resources. I learned that the grief of the developmental traumas I experienced as a child was surfacing as I was providing so much loving care to my newborn baby and I learned tools to lovingly process that grief rather than judging my self for it.
I want every mother to have access to the support and resources they need to thrive postpartum. Sadly, PPD is too common of an experience and motherhood is significantly under-supported. I believe if mothers have the rich foundation of support they deserve, the transition and adjustment to motherhood can be the empowering growth experience it is meant to be.
The experience, heart and wisdom I offer:
I’m a warm, empathic RN, movement teacher, artist and a mother going on 13 years postpartum. I thrive in holding emotional space for others and helping them lean on their own intuitive wisdom.
I’ve spent more than a decade in my own deep contemplative practice through movement, expression of art and writing, radical self compassion, weaving the grief of my childhood traumas into solid integrated wisdom.
In my training as a nurse and postpartum doula, I have access to practical knowledge and resources to offer a supportive space in the postpartum experience.