GOLD Speakers

Ibukun Afolabi, PT, MScPT, PCES, CCE, CD, SpBAP

• Speaker Type: Postpartum Care in Practice: Clinical Strategies for Physical and Emotional Recovery Lecture Pack
• Country: Canada

Biography:

Ibukun (Ibbie) Afolabi is an Integrative Pelvic and Perinatal Physiotherapist with a passion for all things childbirth. She works with clients prenatally to optimize function, treat pelvic health concerns, and prepare the mind-body for birth. Following childbirth, she helps women to feel at home in their bodies once again. Her approach to the body is foundationally trauma-informed, biopsychosocial, deeply holistic, and salutogenic.

Ibukun’s clinical interests include the pelvic health and birth outcomes, pain neuroscience within the context of birth, and the use of an embodiment approach during a rehabilitative process. Ibukun is regularly invited to speak at conferences, is an instructor to health and birth professionals, and a mentor to students. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada, where she has served women in the childbearing years through her private practice, The Mama’s Physio for over a decade. She also owns Hesed Birth, a local childbirth education company, and attends births as a doula. Ibukun’s most important vocation is ‘mama’. She is blessed to have five beautiful children all whom she birthed at home with the support of caring midwives. Learn more and connect with Ibukun via socials @themamasphysio.