About Suzanne
Suzanne Maier, registered midwife and founder of MotherHeal, is passionate about the transformative nature of birth and helping families journey into parenthood with strength, clarity and joy. A mother of four, she believes that women's health is integral to societal health and that women can be empowered through better maternal education, support and healing.
Having initially devoted her career to birth work with NHS Scotland and ensuring that women are well supported throughout their birthing year, Suzanne founded MotherHeal in 2022 to offer birth support and education across Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Suzanne's background
From her experience of attending more than 1000 women as they give birth, Suzanne draws on her understanding both of Scotland's maternity health system and of the range of birth experiences, from operating-theatre deliveries to home births.
She designed the MotherHeal programme of birth preparation classes and workshops to assist women and their partners as they navigate both the health system and their own range of emotions as they approach, experience and heal from one of the most important experiences of their lives: giving birth. You can hear more from Suzanne and her guests on The Mother Podcast.
Suzanne's experience
Suzanne realised midwifery was her path in 1995, while living in Vancouver where midwifery had just become a regulated profession. She moved to Scotland from Canada in 1998 and began her career as a midwife in the NHS maternity system in 2002. Suzanne has worked in labour wards, birth centres and in the community setting, attending home births. She believes in good quality antenatal education to help prepare families for birth and parenthood. A strong advocate for physiological birth and women’s right to individualised support, Suzanne creates her MotherHeal work to help women prepare for this powerful time with strength and clarity.
Suzanne is a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher and has trained with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa in Kundalini Yoga for Pregnancy. She is a certified Holistic Pelvic Care™ practitioner, taught by Tami Lynn Kent, and Natal Hypnotherapy practitioner. She has trained in medical herbalism with Heartwood, intuitive herbalism with Nathaniel Hughes, and has completed training in homeopathy for pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Suzanne has designed her MotherHeal services using all of her experience and training, to be able to get to know the family, using any healing modalities to best help prepare for the power of the birth and to heal afterwards.
MotherHeal's approach
Transformation
Connection
Strength
Birth is a transformative experience, and if we as women embrace this transformation into mothers we can use the gifts it brings. Connection with yourself - really knowing who you are - is important during any transformation and much of what Suzanne does helps women connect more deeply with themselves, heal from past trauma and feed their strength as mothers.
A few words from the motherhood
