From Personal Experience to Purpose: How My Postpartum Struggles Led Me to Become a Certified Fertility Doula
Sometimes our deepest struggles become our greatest calling.
When I share my entrepreneurial journey, people often ask how I knew to specialize in fertility support. The truth is, I didn't choose this path—it chose me through my own experience with fibroids, postpartum complications, and the discovery of an ancient practice that changed everything.
When Your Body Becomes Your Teacher
My reproductive health journey was far from smooth. Uterine fibroids. Hemorrhaging almost a year postpartum. Postpartum depression. A myomectomy. Two cesarean births—one emergency, one scheduled. Each experience taught me that women's bodies are complex, powerful, and often misunderstood by conventional medicine.
During my recovery—while juggling finishing my undergrad degree and working as a new mother—I discovered something that would transform not just my own health, but my entire life's work: herbal hydrotherapy, specifically yoni steaming.
Discovering Ancient Wisdom
As I researched this traditional practice while still in school, I learned it was primarily used for postpartum care. But the more I dug, the more I discovered its effectiveness for shrinking fibroids, addressing infections, balancing hormones, regulating irregular periods, reducing menstrual pain, supporting ovulation, and so much more.
Having struggled with fibroids myself, I decided to try this ancient technique. The results were so profound that I knew I had to share it with every woman I could reach.
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From Personal Experience to Community Impact
That's how the yoni spa was born—right in the comfort of my home after I finished my degree. I started working with women, educating them, attending workshops and pop-up events across the city. I shared my research, my findings, and most importantly, my personal story.
Women would ask where they could experience this therapy, and I'd invite them to my home. Weekend after weekend, women came seeking support. Over the years, I witnessed incredible testimonies: periods without pain, increased libido, hormonal balance, relief from chronic BV, and something I hadn't initially expected...
The Fertility Connection
By my third year, I noticed a pattern that stopped me in my tracks. Many clients were sharing that they had conceived—women who had never conceived before, women who had been concerned about their fertility, women who had been considering IVF.
The correlation became clear: when we addressed period problems, cycle irregularities, and ovulation issues through steaming, we were also addressing unexplained infertility and fertility challenges caused by irregularities in their menstrual cycle.
As long as a woman could tell me exactly what was happening with her cycle and intimate health, I could typically develop a solution. When we addressed the cycle, conception often followed naturally.
Pursuing Formal Training
I wanted to ensure this wasn't just happening by accident. I needed to truly understand fertility inside and out. That's when I found a fertility doula certification program.
The training covered cycle tracking, reproductive health, and fertility support—everything I wanted to master. While I had been doing extensive reading and research, I wanted formal education around fertility because I was so intrigued by the conception stories I was hearing from clients.
I went on to become a certified fertility doula and later a certified herbalist. Both certifications made me even more confident in my work, but the truth is, I had already been seeing the fruit of this practice—literally, in the babies being born and in every woman's testimony.
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Miracles and Modern Medicine
This work feels sacred to me, partly because I grew up witnessing the miracle of conception. I remember the biblical story of Sarah conceiving in her old age, and I attended church with a young woman who was told she'd never have children.
I'll never forget her testimony: She went to the doctor for discomfort, got an ultrasound, and the technician asked, "Do you see that?" When she said yes, they told her, "It's a baby. You're absolutely pregnant." She was so shocked—she had been considered barren, unable to conceive. She went on to have two beautiful, healthy children.
These stories reminded me that miracles happen every day, especially regarding our physical health. But I also realized I had something tangible—a key that could truly help women struggling with fertility.
The Universal Benefits
While fertility support became the forefront of my business, yoni steaming offers benefits for all women:
Physical Health: Improved circulation, balanced menstrual cycles, increased libido, relief from dryness
Mental Health: Mental clarity, deep relaxation, stress relief, brain rest and reset
Think about it: we use herbal teas when we're sick, herbal supplements for detoxing, herbal balms for topical treatment. Yoni steaming takes these same properties and delivers them directly where they're needed most through the vaginal canal—such an effective, direct entry point.
Returning to Our Roots
This practice has been used for centuries. We're simply returning to the original lifestyle habits that cared for our fore, fore, fore mothers. It's something I believe every woman should incorporate into her monthly self-care routine.
Taking 30-45 minutes to sit, relax, and receive direct herbal treatment is both ancient wisdom and modern necessity.
For My Fellow Practitioners
If you're a doula or wellness practitioner reading this, consider how traditional practices might enhance your work. Our clients need us to be bridges between ancient wisdom and modern support. They need us to hold space for modalities that conventional medicine might not understand yet.
Your own experience—whatever it looks like—might be preparing you to serve women in ways you haven't imagined yet. Trust the process. Follow the breadcrumbs. And never underestimate the power of combining personal experience with professional training.
The women we're called to serve are waiting for exactly what we've learned through our own struggles and discoveries.
What ancient wisdom is calling to you? What personal experience might be preparing you for your next level of service?
Ready to expand your practice with traditional fertility support methods? My Hydro Doula Program combines ancient yoni steaming techniques with modern fertility doula training.
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