ABOUT
Since she was in high school, Maggie Yount has wanted to change the world.
At first, that looked like becoming a journalist (a war correspondent was the dream), but when a near-fatal car accident derailed that plan in her early 20s, it was her recovery and the birth of her first child that pulled her into the perinatal/birth world. In taking her birth classes, taught by doulas out of the hospital, Maggie quickly saw an overlap between what she had needed to heal from her injuries, and what was required in order to have a healthy, empowered pregnancy and birth. With a personal trainer certification already under her belt that she earned soon after she learned she was pregnant in 2014, the path to finding her niche in the birth world was pretty direct.
After an overwhelmingly positive, unmedicated birth experience, and the unshakeable belief that the way babies come into the world can shape them for life, Maggie started Whole Healthy Mama in 2016 in order to help support birthing parents and improve outcomes/experiences for both mothers and their babies.
Essentially, “peace on earth begins with birth.”
Working with clients at every stage of the perinatal journey, Maggie empowers her clients to stronger, healthier, confident pregnancies, births, and life postpartum.
By using a holistic approach that starts with corrective exercise, Maggie guides her clients to balance their physical body, and uses nutrition and mindfulness practices for added support to strengthen their mind-body connections to make movement AND birth feel and function better.
Maggie is a Certified Birthsmarter Educator, a Certified Personal Trainer, a Certified Pre & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist, a Pre & Postnatal Diastasis and Core Consultant, and a Certified Professional Birth Educator under a separate training. She has also completed the Level 1 TriggerPoint Therapy Foam Rolling course, and Diastasis Done Differently and The Female Athlete L1 course with Antony Lo - The Physio Detective.
Even if you felt disempowered during your past birth(s), you are not alone, and you can heal in a way that fully restores and strengthens your power and your sense of self. Giving birth is experiencing and embodying true power, and it is Maggie’s hope that everyone she works with is able to experience that in the most positive way.
”I was able to jump on a trampoline with my 3-year-old and not worry that I would have leaky bladder.
Thanks to Maggie, I can stop calling my lady bits “old and leaky”.”
~ Christine DiPilla - PENNSYLVANIA
“When the day came to deliver our little girl everything Maggie taught me came flooding in and made ALL THE DIFFERENCE in how I navigated the experience with my midwives and own body.”
~ Kristen Beeler, OHIO
My trainings and certifications include:
• Certified Birthsmarter Childbirth Educator June 2024
• Fit For Birth Holistic Fertility and Pregnancy Safe Coach 2020-2024
• Antony Lo’s The Female Athlete Montréal, L1 - 2022
• Antony Lo’s Diastasis Done Differently San Diego, 2022
• Honoring Women - Certified Professional Childbirth Educator 2022
• Fit For Birth Pre & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist 2016
• Fit For Birth & The Bloom Method Diastasis and Core Consultant 2019
• NASM Certified Personal Trainer 2014 - 2024
• B.A. Print Journalism - Concordia University, Montréal 2010
“Maggie gave me exercises to do at home to not only correct my physical discomforts but to improve my mindset as well. Can’t recommend her enough!”
~ Aude Laliberté, QUEBEC, CANADA
Aside from my official qualifications, I’ve experienced two wildly different hospital births - one unplanned C-section, one unmedicated vaginal birth - to bring my sons into this world. Those two births turned out to be two of the most joyful and, yes, healing experiences of my life, even though they were also imperfect.
My preparation for these births, my knowledge of my rights in the hospital as a birthing mother, and my confidence rooted in the education I’d had, allowed me to advocate for myself and my babies, and enabled me to have largely positive birth experiences.
Those positive births healed something in me, despite my fears related to hospitals and surgery after the near-fatal car accident that I was in at the age of 23.
That accident left with me severe brain trauma, fifteen broken bones, and “pre-existing conditions” that made it impossible for me to get health insurance when I moved from Canada to the USA to be with my fiancé six months after it happened.
What it also left me with, however, was a determination to not put my life on hold, to not see myself as a passive victim, and to prove my neurosurgeon wrong by getting 110% better after he said I couldn’t.
Over the next seven years, I carefully fused the shattered girl that I was after my accident back together.
I learned how movement, nutrition, and mindfulness all played a huge part in how my body and soul could heal.
And my belief that I didn’t have to stay broken was proven true.
I could live my life, follow my dreams, have children, and be whole and healthy without pain or dysfunction.
It’s my goal for you to feel the same.
10 FUN FACTS ABOUT MAGGIE
1. She was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada!
2. She has a tattoo that took about 13 hours total.
3. Maggie first sat on a pony when she was two years old, and has been horse crazy ever since.
4. Maggie shaved her head at 14, inspired by the movie G.I. Jane. She later rocked a mohawk in high school
5. She has been an advocate for causes she cares about since she was 14
6. She is 6’ tall
7. Maggie is bilingual (English/French).
8. She HATES horror movies.
9. She LOVES riding horses, swing dancing, hiking, skiing, rock climbing, and just being outside.
10. Maggie has a B.A. in Print Journalism and wrote for her college paper, Montreal weekly newspapers, and worked as an editor at Surfer Magazine.
Maggie lives in Bozeman, MT with her husband, her kids, a dog, a pony, and two horses.