After my first labour with Luke and not feeling all of it was positive and lacking support just for me, I knew with my twin pregnancy that I needed a support person/ doula / coach / a mother who knew exactly what I was experiencing.
Because of LucyLou’s help, I felt much more peaceful about my support ‘team’.
Norm remembered lots of LucyLou’s suggestions too. Sometimes it was just a cool facecloth, put on my face - exactly what I needed but didn’t even realise it. That was just LucyLou’s way - she seems to know what to do and would also give clear instructions too for my pushing, and i did it!
Before I went into labour I remember having a panic moment ‘I don’t think I can do this…’ but LucyLou had been so calm and had reassured me, that was a turning point for me.
I think the greatest thing a mother needs is to be supported and to have confidence going into labour and my pre/post natal/labour experience was so much richer because of LucyLou. Norm and I still talk about how grateful we were to have had her through that time in our lives.