the who & why behind kinected

Hello! I’m Mia, mother of two, creative and postpartum support extraordinaire.

I’m the help behind Kinected, here to help your family with the less fun, but real important stuff, so you can spend more time kinecting with what matters most, you and your kin.

I recently wrote a personal essay, which best summarises what I do, what I have done and what I can do for families through postpartum support.

Here is an excerpt, but you can read the whole thing if you click on the title:

‘i have the best job in the world.’

on becoming a postpartum support person.

“When someone asks what I do these days, they usually ask, nicely, what a postpartum support person actually does.

What I do varies greatly for each family, so long as it’s within our insurance parameters. From cleaner, to babysitter, to skating coach, to motherhood peer supporter, to house declutter-er, to cheerleader… it varies and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

A lot of it is about trust and intuition. Establishing trust and empathy with my clients allows them to feel seen, heard and held. With each client, I form a relationship that ebbs and flows. We read one another. With consent, we use our intuition to feel out what might need to actually get done for the day. I’m very conscious of the energy I bring into their homes. I do my best to put aside what might be happening in my life. But I also show them that I’m human too, as a way to model thoughts and feelings they are allowed to have too. That’s where the peer support comes in.

Highlights from my time as a postpartum support person include, but are not limited to:

  • Helping a client nest and prepare for their first home birth, drawing experience from my own home birth preparation and learnings

  • Supporting said mama in the early hours of labour and waking to the news of a beautiful birth and empowered mama of two

  • Weeding vegetables patches and hanging out with little humans in their grassy backyard while their mama gets a little bit of quiet inside

  • Holding the hand of a client undergoing an elective c-section, advocating for her in the minutes after birth to ensure she got the breastfeeding journey she had worked toward second time around

  • Teaching a four year old and mama to use the roller skates that were gathering dust in their closet

  • Hugging a grateful and healing single by choice mama, us both crying with happy tears as I finished up two weeks of intensively supporting her and her family

  • Helping a mama nest before major, life altering surgery

  • Rocking six week old twins to sleep and cuddling them while their warn out mama got some shut eye

  • Jumping on a trampoline with a four year old and eleven month old while their mama put in headphones, listening to a nourishing podcast and prepping dinner

  • Starting the new year with a complete declutter of a home, room by room, week by week

  • Dancing in the kitchen while baking.

a calling.

The privilege is not lost on me that I am invited into client homes during such beautiful but sometimes vulnerable moments and I do my best to honour each family accordingly. Becoming a postpartum support person felt like a coming home. It was that feeling of, oh this is what you’ve been working toward all along.

I’m a portfolio career kind of gal, picking up skills from all kinds of places and keeping them for future use. It’s a varied skillset that I carry around now. I thought that was a fault once a upon a time, that I couldn’t just stick to the one career and get good at that for forty years, but now I believe the portfolio approach to be a blessing. Above all else, I’m a creative and I it bring along with everything I do.

This work also allows me, and encourages me, to be my quirky creative self. Somehow the work doesn’t drain me, but fills my cup. It spurs me on to be the best mum and creative and wife. Now, with the encouragement of my clients, I’m incorporating my learnings of coming back to my creative self into client homes. To help the families find their creative selves again. For me, it’s what I used to love as a kid. Reading, writing, photography, skating, pilates, listening to music, books, podcasts etc and gardening. For them, it’s things like baking, sewing, dancing and gardening. It lights them up and that lights me up.

The journey has just begun in the scheme of things, but I don’t think a day will go by when I’m not humbled and in awe of the work I do and the families I meet. I want to learn more and keep evolving in the space of pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood and parenthood. For them, for me, for us.

If you are a client and are reading this, know that I appreciate you more than I could ever voice to you. To my early adopters and big believers, thank you thank you thank you.

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