Bernadette Lack

Hey! I’m B, founder of all things Core & Floor Restore

Walking with you through every threshold.

I’m Bernadette (B) midwife, mother, educator, and founder of Core & Floor Restore. I’m here because I believe in the power that already exists in you - whether you’re navigating birth and recovery or holding space for others in your work.

For two decades, I’ve worked alongside parents and professionals in homes, hospitals and communities across Australia and overseas. I’ve seen birth at its most raw and powerful. I’ve seen how systems can uplift or undermine. And I’ve felt, in my own body, what it means when healing doesn’t come easily.

I started Core & Floor Restore because my own journey showed me what was missing - real support that sees the whole person. When I struggled with incontinence from the age of 19 and then prolapse after becoming a mum, I was given quick fixes, but not real answers. I knew we needed more. I turned to research, exercise and my midwifery knowledge - and slowly, I found my strength again.

But what truly shifted things was connection - with my body, with other parents and with health care providers who understood. From this journey of connection, Core & Floor Restore emerged as a place where physical healing, emotional processing and professional wisdom come together. A place where we restore strength, choice and connection - within ourselves and the systems around us.

Whether you're here as a parent, a professional or a leader, this work is for you. We're not fixing you. We're standing beside you as you reconnect with what's already there: your strength, your knowing, your power.

My Journey

I’ve worked as a midwife in homebirth, large hospitals, and remote First Nations communities. I hold a Bachelor of Midwifery with First Class Honours and a Master of Public Health, receiving the Sidney Sax Medal for my work. Research is part of who I am - and a PhD is on the horizon - but my deepest learning comes from the people I walk alongside, every day. When I’m not holding space for transformation, you’ll find me camping, hiking, or splashing in the bath with my boys - because power and play always go together.

What I Believe

Power is already within you. Sometimes, it just needs space to return. Healing is physical, emotional, and systemic. It’s all connected.
Midwives, parents, birth workers—we are all stronger when we walk together.

Let’s Walk Together

Wherever you are - preparing for birth, recovering from trauma, supporting families, or transforming care - I’m here. Core & Floor Restore is here. Let’s move forward, together.

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.

Meet B