Bonnie Maplestone

Women’s Health and Paediatric Osteopath and Yoga Instructor

Bonnie is a dedicated osteopath with a passion for supporting prenatal and postnatal parents, babies, and children through every stage of their journey. She brings warmth, clinical precision, and a deep respect for the body’s capacity to adapt and heal, creating thoughtful, individualised treatment plans that reflect each patient’s unique needs. Bonnie is particularly drawn to working with families during the transformative seasons of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.

Bonnie commonly treats pelvic girdle pain and instability, lower back, rib, diaphragm and upper back pain, pelvic floor dysfunction, leg swelling and recurring cramping, and concerns around baby’s position in utero. She supports patients with birth preparation, breastfeeding-related aches and pains, mastitis, vasospasms, wrist pain, abdominal wall separation, return to exercise, and caesarean scar release work. Her approach is gentle yet effective, with a strong focus on restoring comfort, function, and confidence in the body.

In babies and children, Bonnie works with feeding challenges, plagiocephaly (flat head), colic, constipation, head preference, purple crying, birth trauma, nervous system dysregulation, milestone delays, and babies who dislike car travel or lying on their backs. She has a special interest in complex presentations and has completed further training in paediatrics and post-breast cancer osteopathic care. Bonnie also enjoys supporting patients through fertility journeys and menopause, and has a particular appreciation for working with dancers and yoga students.

Alongside her osteopathic practice, Bonnie runs weekly yoga classes at MIWM, bringing her strong anatomical knowledge and clinical insight into a supportive, inclusive movement space. Her classes focus on building strength, mobility, and body awareness, and are thoughtfully designed to complement rehabilitation, pregnancy, postnatal recovery, and overall wellbeing.

Bonnie thrives in a collaborative, team-based environment, which is why she is proud to practise at Maternal and Infant Wellbeing Melbourne. She is happiest working alongside patients and their broader healthcare team to problem-solve and achieve meaningful, lasting outcomes. With plans to undertake her IBCLC qualification in the near future, Bonnie remains committed to ongoing learning and providing the highest level of care to the families she supports.

See Bonnie at MIWM on Mondays for Face-to-Face consultations