Last week, I shared my birth story over on Instagram and TikTok, something I've been meaning to do for months but haven't had the headspace for.

The response blew me away. Close to 1 million views over on TikTok, people sharing their own birth stories, and thanking me for being real about the hard parts.

Now I'm a girl mom.

And something I’ve been thinking about lately is that one day, my daughter (we call her Bunny) will hear her own birth story.

The real story – including all the fear, uncertainty and the long recovery after.

But what I hope she takes away from it isn’t how hard it was for me... I hope she sees how strong she was.

How she was my partner through the whole process.

I want her to know she was born with determination. That from our very first day together, she has already inspired me.

And that a difficult start doesn’t mean a difficult future.

If anything, it’s proof that she came into this world already strong enough to face it.

What's funny is that I finally wrote that birth story during the most unlikely time – on a one-day turnaround trip to Madrid last week for passport paperwork.

I left the house at 5am for a 7am flight, took a cab straight to the Canadian embassy to process baby passports, then to the Maltese embassy, then back to the Barcelona airport and home in time for dinner. (Shout out to my husband for holding down the fort with our little ones.)

It was my first time traveling alone since having my second baby, and it's very rare that I travel solo these days anyway.

But having that physical space and time away – even for bureaucratic errands – gave me the mental clarity to finally write it all down on my phone during the flight.

Sometimes you need that time and distance to process things that happened right in front of you.

I'm planning on sharing more of these real moments - the messy admin, girl mom thoughts, my VBAC experience, and business insights that hit at 3am.

👉 Follow along on Instagram and TikTok as I experiment with more personal shares (TikTok is usually where I test things first).

Here's to the quiet determination and strength of all women...

Happy International Women's Day ❤️

~ Elise

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