Isabelle Amand

New Haven, CT

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My journey towards becoming a Whole Woman^® Practitioner started 4 years ago.

My son was 3 years old. I felt like I had finally turned the page of his hard hospital birth and was now ready to get my old body back. I had just started exercising again when I woke up one morning to a bulging sensation in my vagina and urethra. I was diagnosed with cystocele - stage 1 or 2 depending on the practitioner who examined me - and told there was nothing to do until I was done having babies. Then surgery would fix me.

I felt broken and incapacitated. I, the baby-wearing mama, was recommended to no longer lift anything heavier than 5 pounds! And to do lots of Kegels, which however only seemed to make things worse: now I was leaking some urine, too.

Then I decided there had to be other options. From my birth experience, I knew the paradigm under which the caregiver attending your birth operates is the most important parameter in your birth outcome. I had the intuition that things were no different when it came to prolapse. Just as there's a huge gap between managed hospital birth and the midwifery model, there had to be another paradigm than your-pelvic-floor-is-broken-let's-fix-it-surgically. I called an herbalist and started taking herbs. And I found Whole Woman.

I improved my posture, my diet, and I stopped Kegels. Posture alone went a long way: I no longer felt like my insides were falling outside of me and that was great relief. Then slowly the bladder and urethral discomfort faded.

I am now 4 years post diagnosis and I consider myself healed. I no longer feel any symptoms and I am enjoying life. I started studying home birth midwifery. I started running again. I even had another baby. Her birth was easy and beautiful and my postpartum, prolapse-free!

I feel grateful and honored to help others realize the strength and perfection of their own bodies and serving women on their paths towards restoring the beautiful support system Nature gifted them with.