Bernadette Lack | Midwife | Trainer | Previous pants wetter

We are thrilled to now offer Medicare Rebates for eligible chats. Woohoo! Here are the deets.

Who is offering them?

Meg is the only team member currently offering Medicare rebates for eligible chats.

Eligibility:

You will need to get a GP referral for ‘non-directive pregnancy support counselling’ BEFORE your appointment. Your rebate will be about $65 back per session and you can claim up to 3 sessions per pregnancy - YAY! Your chat will need to happen during your pregnancy or within 12 months of your baby’s birth.

How do I claim?

Send your GP referral to hello@coreandfloor.com.au before your appointment or show it to Meg at the beginning of your chat. You will be emailed an invoice after your session which you can submit directly to Medicare to claim your rebate.

Referral for Meg Rankin (PDF)

If you aren't sure if you're eligible or have any questions please email us at hello@coreandfloor.com.au

Bernadette Lack

Founder of all things Core & Floor Restore

Hey! I’m B. And I’m here to support you through pregnancy, labour, and postpartum.

I’m a midwife, personal trainer, wife, mother and published academic. I’ve
worked as a midwife in Australia and overseas since 2007, across homebirth,
large city hospitals and in remote First Nations communities.
I hold a Bachelor of Midwifery with honours and a Master of Public Health. I
was also awarded the Sidney Sax medal for best overall performance in my
masters.

While continuing to grow Core & Floor, helping people like you through the
mental and physical challenges of pregnancy, birth and postpartum, I’d also
like to complete a PhD on the epic outcomes I keep seeing across my
courses.

I understand your pregnancy and postpartum challenges from both a
professional and personal perspective. I’ve been through incontinence and
have an anterior wall prolapse. I get what you’re going through, I understand
the family juggle and can help you heal and feel confident in your body.
When I’m not connecting with amazing women the world over, or studying to
learn even more in this space, you’ll find me out in the bush camping, hiking
or splashing in the bath with my boys.

The Story Behind Core & Floor

I’ve experienced incontinence since I was 19 years old. In 2016, as part of
my preconception care, I finally went and consulted with a women’s health
physio. I was told to do my kegels, stop running and wait four months before
conceiving. I did my kegels. I stopped running. I kept leaking. And four
months later fell pregnant.

Pregnancy was a hoot. Vomiting and then wetting myself multiple times a
day. Often I would be stuck in traffic soaked in urine and vomit or at women’s
houses with nowhere to change my soaked incontinence pad. Here I was
young, intelligent and wetting myself daily. My mental health suffered. And I
resented my body.

But, as a lover of research I knew there must be something I could do. So, I
got to it. I researched, trialled exercises, slowed it down and took it back to
basics. And I started leaking less.

Then, for the first time in over a decade, I sneezed without wetting myself.

The more time I spent with mothers, I realised that I was not alone. Everyone
around me was having difficulty with both the mental and physical aspects of
pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

So I developed Core and Floor Restore to help the women in my local
community. And it really worked. So having had so much success with my
face-to-face program, my clients encouraged me to make it accessible to
more women so that they could heal and strengthen too. I took it online.

And here we are. I could not be more grateful to be on this journey having a
real impact on the physical and mental health of women like you.