The Natural Birth Podcast
By Anna The Spiritual MidWitch
The Natural Birth PodcastJun 03, 2023
Baby Born in the Carpark after a 3hr Labour
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia.
Olivia is a mama of two from the US.
As so many first time mamas, she was over confident about her ability to have a natural birth in a hospital and ended up having the typical American hospital birth flat on her back with an epidural and her legs up in the air being told when to push.
She put in a lot of work in preparing for her second birth, still planning on having a natural hospital birth, and ended up having a short but empowering labor and birth with my her daughter that ended in a surprising way.
As soon as Olivia got in to the car to go to the hospital, her body began pushing. The hospital was 20 minutes away, and her daughter was crowning by the time they arrived. Her head and body emerged with one final push after about a 3hr labour and her husband caught her before she fell on the floor of the car. It was an empowering experience that brought them closer together because it was something that just the two of them did.
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The Midwife who Free Birthed and Left the System
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lucy. Lucy is a Mama to my four from Australia.
She is a certified Doula and a former Midwife who just like me handed in her registration as working in the system was so traumatizing to her and she just couldn’t go on any longer.
She also finally came to the sad conclusion that she was never going to be able to serve women and families authentically while she was tied to the institution, so she left.
Although initially she held a lot of grief around letting this dream of being a Midwife go.. she now feels more aligned and inspired than ever. She has since co-created a business where she can authentically show up for women and where her voice is finally free.
In today’s episode you’ll hear about her journey through midwifery as well as the births of her babies.
Her first three were born at home with a registered Midwife and her last baby (who is 3 months old) was born with only her partner and children present.
This pregnancy and birth was the most healing and transformative experience of her entire life! It truly initiated her into the Mother after years of feeling out of her body and as if she was still a young Maiden.
Curious about Lucy? Find her on instagram as @mama_of_luna
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Footling Breech Home Birth & Irish Twins
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Blythe. Blythe is a mama of Irish twins from the US. This means her babies were born within the year of each other.
Her first birth was a standard hospital birth that left her feeling traumatized just like so many women around her.
So after becoming pregnant with her second, she knew things had to be better and began the journey to the healing natural breech home birth that might not have gone as planned, which birth rarely does, but gave her the peace and embodied sense of power that she knew birth could provide.
After her footling breech home birth she felt invincible and knew she’d never birth in the hospital again.
Curious about Blythe? Find her on instagram as @blytheduvvy
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It also includes The Nourishing Postpartum Course that is designed to help you plan a healing postpartum recovery and best start in life for your baby. It’s as big and as full of information and practical tips as the natural birth course and gives you all the information you need for an optimal start with breastfeeding, learning about baby care and communication as well as how to heal as a newborn mother.
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Home Water Birth with Baby en Caul
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fiona
Fiona is an actor and a mama of two from the UK.
Today we will hear about how she had her daughter at home in a birth pool as her son slept upstairs. It was calm, beautiful and even pleasurable!
Her baby girl was born en caul, which is when the amniotic sac is intact and has been believed throughout the ages to be a sign of luck, and her daughter also had a true knot in her umbilical cord. Something that is feared but most of the time totally fine.
She had a doula and an NHS midwife as well as her husband with her.
This birth was the complete opposite to when she had her son in the height of covid, where they threatened her with induction and where she ended up having loads of interventions like forceps and an episiotomy, even though she’d wanted as natural a birth as possible.
This birth was her magical redemption.
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“That was awesome! I could do that again!”
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia.
Olivia is a mama of one from Virginia, USA and is an elementary school teacher.
She and her husband consciously conceived their son on their first try and immediately after finding out she was pregnant she wanted to know everything about birth and of course she found the natural birth podcast!
This led her to switch from thinking she should have a hospital birth with her OBGYN to a birth center birth with midwives at 28 weeks pregnant.
Her birth ended up being a beautiful and sacred birth that left her feeling empowered and in awe off her body and how perfectly it was designed for birth.
The first thing she said after he was born was, “that was awesome! I could do that again”.
Curious about Olivia? Find her on instagram as @oliviadontigney
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Dana Roared her Baby Out
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dana.
Dana is a Mama of two from the Bass Coast, Australia.
Her first birth ended in an epidural, episiotomy, retained placenta and mastitis. And going from experiencing a catalyst of interventions with her first birth, Dana was determined to heal before having her second.
She wanted to fully understand what happened and where things went wrong so she could have a natural physiological birth with her next baby.
With the full support of her husband, Dana dove into a deep primal state and road her baby out. She achieved the birth that she’d so deeply desired. It was healing and transformative beyond words.
Curious about Dana? Find her on instagram as @dana_burgan
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Lotus Birth in a Tipi
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nicole.
Nicole is a Mama of two from Australia.
She is a gardener, performance artist, poet and a multi passionate birth nerd. She has lived on an off-grid intentional community in the forest, by the sea for the last 20 years, raising her kids and cultivating a deep trust in birth & life.
Her mission is to help women and families know what is possible in birth, why it matters, and to help them access a similarly blissful experience for themselves.
Nicole knows in her bones that birth is powerful, as she was blessed with incredible, undisturbed birth experiences. She draws on these memories or imprints, every day of her Mothering life.
Nicole's lived experience of birth as beautiful, bountiful, and full of potential as a doorway to healing - along with her 15 years of work with birth imprints confirms her beliefs in birth as a tool of conscious evolution.
In today’s episode she will share about her two home births and about the beautiful practice of Lotus Birth which means to not separate baby and the placenta until it naturally does so by itself days after birth. A spiritual practice she shares some of her own pearls of wisdom about.
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A Fast Birth Under 6 Hours in a Hospital in Berlin
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia.
Olivia is a mama of one from New York, who’s currently living in Berlin.
Being very freedom-driven and having lived in several places around the world, Olivia wasn’t sure pregnancy, birth and motherhood was for her. But after much intentional questioning she decided to take the leap of faith and became pregnant very quickly after moving to Berlin for her job in the music industry.
Today we will hear her story about her natural birth in under 6 hours as a first time mama at 39 weeks in a hospital with a team of supportive midwives in Berlin.
Curious about Olivia? Find her on instagram as @oliviacoleon
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Quick Unassisted Home Birth in the UK
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Patricia
Patricia is a mama of two from the UK.
As so often on this podcast she has a story of having a medicalized first hospital birth and then a redemptive natural home birth for her second.
In this episode she shares briefly about her first and then we dive on into her second which was a planned home birth with a midwife, that ended up being an unplanned unassisted home birth.
Her second birth happened so quickly. Patricia had her friends over in the morning expecting to go for a walk at 10.30 but by 11.57 she was birthing her baby.
Such a difference from her first hospital birth which ended with an episiotomy and vacuum delivery.
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Midwife to Midwitch - Anna's Story
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast I will be the guest.
Usually on this podcast I am the host and I interview mamas from around the world who’ve had a natural and empowering birth experience.
The intention with this podcast was to spread an alternative birth narrative to the dominant fear based medicalized one. And I’ve come to be known as The Spiritual Midwife around the world doing so.
And that is what I am here to talk about today.
Because I will no longer be called The Spiritual Midwife, but the The Spiritual Midwitch.
As of this year 2023 I am no longer a registered midwife and can therefor no longer legally call myself a midwife.
And so in today's episode I will share my her story.
My journey of becoming a midwife to then the choice to de-register and taking on the title of Midwitch.
I will start with reading a part of the chapter HerStory in Rachel Reed’s book Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage to set the scene and this will then weave in perfectly into the reasons why I am stepping out of the system and why I can no longer call myself a midwife due to the powers to be who have stolen the word and made it criminal for me to do so.
If you want to understand why our birth culture is the way it is then this episode will explain that to you.
And if you’d like to know more about our her story, about midwives and how our birth culture came to be as it is today, then I invite you to read Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage and/or download HerStory by Jane Hardwicke Collings from the links below.
This episode will introduce you a bit deeper to me, your host, Anna The Spiritual Midwitch.
Curious about me? Find me on instagram as @thespiritualmidwitch
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Birth Time’s Jerusha Sutton’s Own Home Birth Stories
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jerusha.
Jerusha is a doula, and birth and family photographer and videographer from the Northern Rivers NSW Australia.
She is one of the co-creators of Birth Time: the documentary, an international award winning documentary about the maternity system in Australia, and around the world.
In today’s episode you get to hear about Jerushas own two home births. The first being featured in the documentary with her whole birth team present, and her second being a fast and furious birth of 33min!
Jerusha is full of birthing wisdom and insight into the birthing system and this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Curious about Jerusha? Find her on instagram @jerushasutton
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Asabea Britton’s Home Birth Story
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Asabea. Asabea is one of Sweden’s most famous midwife’s as well as an author, podcaster, and influencer.
She is a mama of 2 children earth side and one cooking away inside her womb.
And today she will share her take aways from her first medicalized hospital birth and why she chose to have a home birth for her second. As well as sharing all the amazing details of her home birth and her pearls of wisdom about birth both in the hospital system and at home from a mama and a midwife’s perspective.
It was such an honor having Asabea on and I am sure you’ll find her story filled with birthing wisdom.
Curious about Asabea? Find her on instagram @asabea
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A Natural Birth after Preeclampsia
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Devin. She is a Hispanic-American mama of 2 living in a “family village” in Southern California USA.
Devin is an International Coach, speaker and creator of the award-winning program Sacred: 7 Pillars of Self-Love and Liberation.
Through her coaching, Devin helps women embrace self-compassion, liberate their spirit and embody their wildness through the power of self love. Devin’s work is informed by mystic spirituality, somatics, the natural world and birth.
In todays episode Devin shares about her healing journey after her first traumatic birth with preeclampsia and how she worked on trusting that she can have a natural and empowering birth for her second.
She shares about being very selective with her birth team and finding the right midwife.
In her second pregnancy she unleashing her inner rebel, after being a good girl most of her life in firing her OB & exiting the system.
She released the ideas of how she “should” birth and let it all happen as raw and naturally as she could.
This episode is about Devin finding her self trust and having her natural redemptive birth.
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Christian Hypnobirthing & Home Birthing with Grandma
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nicole. She’s a mama of 2 from the US.
She has a degree in Family Life and is the founder of the blog, Family Reality and Joy, where she seeks to help married couples and parents navigate the difficulties of family life.
In this episode Nicole shares about her second birth after a medicalized hospital birth, which was a natural home birth with her independent midwife, husband and she was surrounded by women. Her sister, mother and grandmother came abound for her labour and birth. And Nicole thought it made a huge difference to birth at home.
Curious about Nicole? Find her on instagram as @familyrealityandjoy
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Lauren's Euphoric Homebirth in her 40’s
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lauren. Lauren is a mama of 2 from the Gold Coast, Australia.
She is Australia's first professional instagramer and before she became a mama she worked as a full time travel influencer and speaker.
Today she is the co founder of Makia the baby journal, a digital baby journal designed for parents to use to document their journey to parenthood.
In this episode Lauren shares about how she became pregnant the first time at 37 after just trying being off the pill for 3 months with her husband in Zimbabwe and how she became pregnant the second time in her 40’s on the first try.
Becoming pregnant as an older mama wasn’t an issue for her. However, having her natural birth the first time around was. She ended up having a medicalized and traumatic birth with her first, which she didn’t really heal up until the weeks before birthing her second.
And it was really through having a physiological birth at home that she really did heal and wake up to the strength she holds as a woman in her feminine power.
The euphoria and high she was on after birth is not comparable to anything else she’s ever experienced. And she has experienced some amazing things on her travels. And in this episode you get to hear about her full journey to this moment.
Curious about Lauren? Find her on instagram as @laurenepbath
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Irish Mama Sarah’s Home Birth in The Netherlands
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah.
Sarah is a mama of one originally from Ireland, living in the Netherlands.
Sarah was resistant to become pregnant initially because of the traumatic and painful experience child birth seemed to be.
It wasn’t until her friend and previous podcast guest, Natalie, shared her positivity and empowering birth story that Sarah decided to go for it.
And shortly thereafter she became pregnant.
This tells you truly of the importance of sharing positive birth stories with the world.
And talking about the importance of sharing, well I’ve been telling you something inaccurate about the birthing culture in the Netherland. The 30% home birth rate is apparently a thing of the past and today that number is closer to 13%. I’ve also found out that hospital births in the Netherlands, according to a dutch midwife, is much more medicalized and it’s truly only via independent midwives you can have a physiological natural birth.
And this fact is something that gets mirrored in Sarah's story. Sarah decided to change her birth team in week 39 as her care providers that she was with continued to stress about her presumably BIG BABY and the need for induction after her guess date.
Sarah ditched the fear mongering care providers and found a midwifery team with which she had a natural home birth in peace right up until it’s fierce and fiery end.
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Home Birth in the UK with an Interesting Crowd
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rebecca.
Rebecca is a mama of two from Bristol, UK. She is a civil servant working in forestry as well as a yoga and hypnobirthing teacher. A profession she stepped into after the birth of her first.
Her first birth was a planned a home birth that it didn't go as she’d hoped, which we will dive on into in the beginning of this episode before we continue on with the birth that she just had, only weeks before this interview, with her baby Scout.
She birthed him at home, attended by an unusual big crowd of paramedics, her doula and her midwives who all showed up just in time for the birth of her baby. A natural birth that Rebecca describes as being very healing.
She has some great pearls of wisdom on how to prepare for the birth you want.
Curious about Rebecca? Find her on instagram as @rebecca.naylor
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Home Birth after Caesarean in Rural Australia
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Elke.
Elke is a mama of two from South Australia.
She’s a senior secondary science teacher currently on leave to raise her two babies.
Her first birth ended up in an ”emergency” caesarean due to failure to progress, however if you’ve listened to this podcast you know that 99.9% of the time it is the failure of the medicalized maternity system not upholding the physiology of birth and not the woman who failed. Something that Elke discovered as she healed and learned deeper about birth after her first traumatic experience.
Her first birth and entrance into motherhood blew apart everything she thought she knew, and her healing journey altered the way she looks at everything. It led her to the path of becoming a doula and Mother Blessing facilitator and her own redemptive, empowering home birth after Caesarean which made her the VBAC advocate she is today.
Curious about Elke? Find her on instagram as @womenswaydoula
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A Breech Birth at The Farm in Tennessee
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Heather.
Heather is a mama of two little girls and a step son from Florida.
She experienced deep transformation and awakening from her birth experiences and her transitions into motherhood, and has found a passion discussing the sensational power that physiological and instinctual birth is for women.
She recently founded MovementWithMom.com, a community to celebrate and support the mother-baby connection through movement and music.
In today’s episode Heather shares her first semi accidental unassisted home birth with her first that led her into diving deeper into the birth world.
And as she became pregnant again and her little bubba decided to stay breech she ended up driving 11 hrs, at 40 weeks pregnant, to Tennessee to birth her baby with midwives at the Farm escaping Florida's law that prohibits midwives attending breech births at home.
Her stories are so beautiful and rich and I can’t wait for you to hear them!
Curious about Heather? Find her on instagram as @heatherdrozdowski
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Birthing with a Publicly Funded Midwifery Group Practice in Australia
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Gianne.
Gianne is a mama of one from the Gold Coast, Australia.
She's always been so deeply fascinated with the mystery that is pregnancy and birth, knowing just how much of a miracle it truly is.
Gianne and her partner Summit consciously conceived their daughter Indira on their first try. Her partner, being a chiropractor, knew about the Midwifery Group Practice through his client who was working in the program. And after applying they were accepted.
This meant that Gianne had continuity of care throughout her pregnancy and into her postpartum with a known midwife and it was publicly funded. However she always felt that the appointments were rushed and she never got the deep trusting relationship she desired with her midwife. She felt like the sacred and spiritual part was missing.
On the night when her daughter was born her water broke and within 4 hours she had her baby in her arms. It was a wild and intense birth filled with sacredness and magic, as well as some unnecessary interference from her own midwife and the hospital staff.
Gianne's experience was the catalyst for her to fulfill her own dream of working in the birth space and at 10 months postpartum she commenced her studies to become a doula and hypnobirthing educator.
Curious about Gianne? Find her on instagram as @mothersinstinct_doula
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A Peaceful Home Birth After a Traumatic First Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rebecca
Rebecca is a mama of two from the UK, now living in Sweden with her Swedish husband.
Rebecca and I met after Rebecca contacted me to be her Spiritual Midwife here in Stockholm, Sweden.
At our first meeting we discussed her previous traumatic hospital birth and how this time she was considering free birthing as she didn’t really want to go back to the hospital, but this was fully 100% aligned with Rebecca and not something that her husband was happy about. So we came to the conclusion that home birth with a registered midwife for safety was the way to go.
As I am no longer a registered midwife after leaving Australia and moving back to Sweden, I helped Rebecca find a registered Swedish home birth midwife who carry medications and can provide that extra medical assistance in the rare chance that Rebecca or her baby needed it and I would assist Rebecca as her Spiritual Midwife, emotionally, mentally, physically and spiritually.
With the presence of her husband, me and the other home birth midwife, Rebecca birthed her baby peacefully in her birth pool at home after a few days of prodromal labour.
Both Rebecca and her husband were amazed at how peaceful and calm her birth was compared to her first hospital birth. And I feel so very blessed to have been invited into her home to sit with her at the birth altar.
Curious about Rebecca? Find her on instagram as @rebecccaunderwood
Now this redemptive physiological home birth experience that Rebecca had sparked an interest in her in becoming a sacred space holder for birth herself, which you hear us mentioning in the episode.
And she is now applying to join the September Cohort of The Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program. And I couldn’t be more proud, honored and excited for her to join.
Here is some feedback from one of my mentee's:
To be a sacred space holder one must be a clear channel- this is not some woo-woo or foo-foo lingo. It’s the truth.
This requires a full on excavation of our cellular imprints, lineage traits, collective wounding; a house keeping effort that leaves no crack nook or cranny untouched.
I have to be conscious of what I am bringing into that holy sacred vast and powerful portal that is birth. Every thread of energy matters. That means every intent, thought, action, word, and resonance. Every drop matters.
So we unearthed Herstory, our red thread lineage, our own birth imprints, our blood rites or first menarche, our own birth portal experiences, our relationship to our bodies, sacred yoni’s, sexuality and more.
The container set and held is solid and deep. We get to be witnessed by a cohort of vetted sisters that have agreed to also take the plunge. We listen to each other with our full hearts. We get to be witnessed as we unravel and weave ourselves back together.
This mentorship is most certainly not a “doula” training. Oh no. It is a soul calling. It requires 100% commitment to yourself, your future self and the women within the cohort.
It is a reclamation of the Divine Feminine. It is a re-membering of the Matriarch. It is healing the collective Witch and Sister wound and so much more.
If you would like to know what liberation looks, feels and tastes like; if you want to be a part of the true healing needed so desperately within humanity on our planet today; if you wish to serve at the birth altar or anywhere within its sphere- women’s circles, preconception, pregnancy, postpartum, our blood rites, then I invite you to lean in.
Anna has set a container that can hold you, wherever you may be along the path. If you feel the call, it’s time to answer.
Thank you so much Emily for sharing your experience of the mentorship with us.
And yes, it’s time to answer.
The doors for the September intake are open.
If you felt moved by this mentees words and feel a resonance and a yes then don’t hesitate to apply to join us.
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Birthing Assisted by the Song of the Frogs
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rachel.
Rachel is a mama of 2 from the US.
Her first baby boy was born 5 years ago in the hospital by induction for going over 40 weeks. A practice that is getting more and more common despite its risks to mother and baby and without benefit for a normal mama and baby.
After her first birth Rachel decided to educate herself and to have a home birth for her second and ended up having an empowering and quick birth in the pool, in her sunroom bathed in the sound of the song of the frogs from the pond outside.
She found her birth to be calm, quick and pain free and wishes that all women could know that birth can be like this.
Curious about Rachel? Find her on instagram as @rachelutkewicz
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Holly's Full of Gumption 4 Fast Home Births
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly.
Holly is a mama of four from the UK and she is a veterinarian, a feminist and passionate about women’s experiences of birth and motherhood.
As a veterinarian, she has seen many mammal births and know that this works best when the mother is undisturbed. It was therefore a completely logical choice for her to have home births.
She went on to have all four of her babies at home. They were each amazing, empowering and all different births.
Her first was born after only a four-hour long active labour stage, after her midwife claimed she wasn’t in enough pain to be in “real” labour.
Her second has born in a pitch black room after 90 minutes of her waters breaking and the most intense non stop contractions where Holly booted the midwives out to the kitchen and had her baby on her own.
Her third was born with her two sisters in the pool together with Holly ready to meet their baby sister.
And her fourth was born in a hurry on the bathroom floor after just seven contractions.
Holly’s stories are wild and beautiful and another variation of normal. And I love how assertive and full of gumption she is. I hope her stories will inspire you to claim your birth and rite of passage!
Aimee Aroha’s Powerful Birth Stories & Initiation into Motherhood
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Aimee Aroha.
Aimee is originally from New Zealand, today living in Australia and she is a Wild Mother and Transpersonal Birth Mentor.
She generously takes us through her first hospital birth at the young age of 24 and her initiation into motherhood.
We then dive into red threads, birth imprinting, rites of passages and women’s power in her rites and birth.
Aimee continues to share how her life took a turn as she moved from the big city smoke of Sydney into nature in Northern NSW, meeting a new partner and then becoming pregnant again and how this time she made very different choices.
She employed an independent home birth midwife for her second pregnancy but ended up birthing before her midwife arrived, and when she became pregnant a third time she decided for a fully wild pregnancy and free birth with just her family.
Curious about Aimee? Find her on instagram as @ripsnorter
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Breech Home Birth at 22 years old
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mya.
Mya is a young mama of one from Texas USA.
She is a spiritual yogi and a certified yoga teacher as well as a full time college student, majoring in Child Development.
In today’s episode Mya will share about becoming pregnant and just knowing she didn’t want to birth in a hospital so she decided to birth at a birth centre, but when her baby wanted to be breech the birth centre told her she could either have c-section or she needed to change care providers.
Mya decided to change care providers and found her perfect team and had a beautiful breech birth at home.
I’m so happy she wanted to share her natural home breech birth story with us as we need to change the narrative that breech is dangerous and needs to happen, dictated by an obstetrician with a woman up in stirrups in hospital with a room full of spectators.
Breech is a variation of normal!
Curious about Mya? Find her on instagram as @myalou.yoga
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Birthing Surrounded by Feminine Wisdom
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fatima
Fatima is a mama of two from New Zealand.
She is a lover of pregnancy and birth and really found her true calling when she became a Mama. She experienced a home birth for her first baby and then decided to have a free birth for her second.
Fatima’s two empowering births led her to become a transformational pregnancy and birth coach and Mother’s Blessing facilitator for the women in her community.
In this episode Fatima shares both her birth stories with us and the preparation she did for her free birth, especially the inner work needed.
For her second birth it seemed like the universe aligned, the right people were able to be present and she spent most of her labour on the land surrounded by women she deeply trusted and her husband.
Curious about Fatima? Find her on instagram as @birthinggoddess
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Healing Birth Imprints for an Empowering Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jet.
Jet is a mama of two from The Netherlands.
She is a holistic sleep coach for young children and a childbirth educator.
In today’s episode we will hear about her two births, starting with the pearls of wisdom she gained from her first birth that didn’t go to to plan, and was a transfer to hospital with some medicalization of her birth process.
In the years that followed she did a lot of personal inner work and research. Wanting to give her next baby the best possible chance to having a good start in life. When she conceived her daughter she was more than ready after all the healing inner work and research she had done and had her empowering, redemptive home birth that we will dive deeper into today.
Curious about Jet? Find her on instagram as @jetdingemans
The Wisdom of Letting go and Lean into the Pain in Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stephanie.
Stephanie is a mama of 2 from Sydney, Australia and she is a painter and a high school arts teacher.
Her first baby was born in hospital via induction, epidural and episiotomy at 42 weeks and it was not the birth experience she wanted.
So when falling pregnant again and buying their first house, she felt like she wanted and could give birth at home and she did!
Stephanie is a mountain climber and this helped her in birthing her second baby as she understood this time around that preparing mentally was crucial for birthing, just as it is in mountain climbing.
She shares all about her preparation with us today as she tells us about her empowering home birth.
Curious about Stephanie? Find her on instagram as @_fulgora_
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A Natural Birth Tear to Horseback Riding 3 weeks after Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jessica
Jessica is a mama of one from Texas where she lives with her husband and run a horse training business as well as selling real estate.
She loves horseback riding and rode her horses up until 9 months pregnant.
Today we will hear about her birth centre birth and how she, after 24hrs, birthed her baby in the center but had a tear they were not confident stitching for her there so she went to the hospital where she was received in a friendly and helpful manner and got the help she needed.
And in 3 weeks after her birth she was back up on her horse, riding with no issues.
The magical healing capabilities of our body’s, and especially vaginas after birth is remarkable.
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Awakening to Birth as Sacred Ceremony
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Grace. Grace is a Mama of one from British Colombia, Canada.
She is the creator of Polyrhythmic cranial healing and holds women’s circles and retreats to help us connect the dots back to each other.
In today’s episode we speak of so much more than Grace’s powerful natural birth story. I even have a hard time putting it into words.
We both have goosebumps throughout. Mary is with us in spirit. And this conversation holds the vibration of the new earth, of women’s awakening to birth as sacred ceremony, of us remembering our herstory and our rite of passages and connection to the divine.
Grace’s hope is to share her birth story of her daughter to help remind women of their scared connection to the divine and the spirit of their baby.
Curious about Grace? Find her on instagram as @conscious.queendom
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Ellen Fisher’s 5 Home Birth Stories
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellen Fisher
Ellen is a mama of 5 living on beautiful Hawaii. She is a home birthing and home schooling mama who loves growing her own food and is a vegan of 16 years.
She’s also a podcast host of her own podcast called The Ellen Fisher Podcast which I very much recommend you check out, and she just launched The Empowered Pregnancy & Birth Course sharing her own birth wisdom as well as that of selected experts.
In today’s episode you get to hear about each of her 5 natural and empowering home births. She dives on into the pearls of wisdom she gained from each and every one of them and the difference between them.
There is so much valuable birthing wisdom in this episode so strap on in as we dive on into her beautiful birth stories.
Curious about Ellen? Find her on instagram as @ellenfisher
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Chelsea Lee’s Irish Twins - A Road Side Birth & A Wild Free Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Chelsea Lee.
Chelsea Lee is a mama of two living in rural South Australia. She is a hairdresser gone wild stay at home mama after birthing her two babies.
Her first baby was an intended free birth but ended up being a road side birth with a whole team attending. When she hit transition she made the decision to go to hospital, however didn’t make it all the way.
Only 8 months postpartum she conceived again and with her second she decided to have a wild pregnancy and to again free birth her baby.
This time around she was much more prepared for what to expect and in a totally different head space.
She ended up having her desired free birth and is now wanting to soon step onto the path of becoming a space holder for birth herself.
Hopefully joining a future Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Cohort once her babies are a bit bigger.
Curious about Chelsea Lee? Find her on instagram as @chelsealeebutler
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A First Time Mama’s 3 hour Home Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Roz. Roz is a mama of one from British Colombia, Canada.
She is personal trainer and runs her own health and wellness Arbonne business.
Roz teaches yoga, leads adventure retreats and is raising her 1 year old babe with her partner Grant.
And in today’s episode she shares about her fast home birth that was around 3 hours from the first contraction to having her baby in her arms.
Roz hopes that in sharing her empowering birth story that women in her community and all over the world will do the work to be empowered when it comes to making sovereign choices from conception into motherhood and beyond!
Curious about Roz? Find her on instagram as @roz.jacobson
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SPECIAL EPISODE: The Art of Sacred Space Holding in Birth with Anna The Spiritual Midwife
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast I am sharing a special episode with you about The Art of Sacred Space Holding in Birth.
It is an episode bringing some embodied wisdom for mamas to be about why it is so important who you invite into your birth space and it’s a resource for you who are attending or are planning on attending a birth.
Maybe you’re a sister, mother, partner or friend. Maybe you’re a doula, midwife or even an OB or aspiring to be a birth worker.
The intention with this episode is to awaken you to the importance of the quality of your presence in the birth space, and how it can positively or negatively impact a woman’s physiological birth process and her birth experience.
Emily, also known as the Birth Advocate, joins me in this conversation. She’s a retired nurse, an initiator of the medical freedom movement in Maine and now a Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program Mentee.
She helps me bring you the juice of why sacred space holding is needed in the birth realm, what it looks like and how to cultivate it, and in the end of this episode we also dive a bit deeper into The Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program for you who might be interested in knowing more.
I hope you will find value in this special episode with me.
If you do, please let me know and maybe I’ll do some more of sharing my embodied wisdom with you.
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Free Birthing in Bali
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily.
Emily is originally from Poland and married an American man and birthed her first two babies in America.
She then moved to Bali during her 3rd pregnancy and ended up having a nourishing and supported free birth in a culture that honors, celebrates and cares for mothers, throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum in the original ways humans have always cared for mothers but that the west forgot.
In today’s episode Emily shares about all 3 births with the focus on her 3rd in Bali.
Curious about Emily? Find her on instagram as @yourbloomingbirth_com
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Going from 3cm to Birthing in less than 2hrs
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Caroline. Caroline is a mama of two from Scotland and a beautiful client of mine.
Her first birth was a traumatic experience for her which, when she fell pregnant again, she reached out to me to heal and work through which I am so grateful she did. When she emailed me about her positive natural home birth with her second on Christmas Eve I was so delighted and couldn’t wait to hear her story.
So here it is!
Carolines redemptive home birth, which started out similar to her first with seemingly ”slow progress”. But then she opened from 3cm to birthing her baby within less than 2 hrs.
Which again, as so often in this podcast, tells you that cervical checks really can’t tell us when you’ll birth your baby!
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Find her on instagram as @caromckay
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A Magical, Spiritual, Redemptive Home Birth in Arizona
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalia.
Natalia is a mother of two living in the desert in Scottsdale, Arizona!
She is a freelance artist and doula in training.
Natalias first birth was a medicalized birth with an epidural and a vacuum birth with a tear as a side effect, which she experienced as traumatic.
However, it didn’t make her doubt her ability to birth naturally.
Quite the opposite.
When she fell pregnant again, she knew she wanted a natural home birth and so she did! She had a quick, potent and powerfully redemptive home birth with her doula and partner by her side.
Curious about Natalia? Find her on instagram as @itsnataliiaaa
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Trusting your own Mama Wisdom over the NHS!
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily.
Emily is a mama of two from Scotland.
She moved back to the highlands of Scotland, where she grew up, when she was pregnant to have her first born Betty.
Just as she was considering what line of work to go into after being a full time mum she was blessed with another baby and continued to stay at home to raise Jim who, at the time of our recording, is 3 months old.
With both her babies Emily hasn’t been deemed ”low risk” by her care providers but went ahead and had two home births despite of what the NHS told her.
Her first born Betty was born at home 3.5 years ago after a battle with the NHS who were putting pressure on her to have a hospital birth due to her baby seemingly measuring big.
And her second, Jim was born at home after lying transverse for all of his 3rd trimester. Emily was advised that she’d have to go to the hospital if he didn’t move head down before birth.
In the end he moved and was born within 3 hours of Emily waking with contractions.
Always listen to your mama wisdom and intuition. You are the expert of your baby, body and birth, always.
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Fearful of Birth to aspiring Spiritual Midwife
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Britney.
Britney is a mama of one from Salt Lake City, Utah.
She spent most of her life afraid of birth and swore she would never do it!
But after years of doing her own personal healing work, she felt called to motherhood.
When she found out she was pregnant, she dove head first into the world of pregnancy, labor and birth.
And she dedicated herself to preparing physically, emotionally and spiritually to bring her baby earth side.
She chose to have a home birth with a midwife from her local birth center and had an incredible support team who really believed in her and trusted the process.
Like most first time mamas, and birthing women in general, she struggled to believe and trust in herself from time to time throughout the labour process.
The physical sensations were challenging but the emotional and mental aspect was even harder for Britney. She went back and forth between trust and doubt the entire 24 hours of her labour.
In the end, she felt the incredible power of her ability to birth her baby and birthed her in her living room.
Through her own empowering birth experience, she is now passionate about birth as a rite of passage and has just joined the first cohort of The Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program beginning in May.
Such an honor to be her spiritual midwife mentor as she embarks on the magical journey of becoming a sacred space holder for birth herself!
Curious about Britney? Find her on instagram as @britneybeckstrand
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Highly Sensitive Empath Emmas Home Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.
Emma is a mama of one originally from Australia, now living in Sweden.
She is an amazing artist and highly sensitive being which was very evident during her birth. She is a client of mine and in this episode you get to hear both of our versions of Emmas birth.
This episode is a really beautiful resource for you who know you’re a highly sensitive empathic woman and can inform you of the importance of where you birth and with whom.
Emma had a long birth journey, ultimately perfect for her and her baby. And she birthed in water, catching her own baby as she’d always envisioned.
Curious about Emma? Find her on instagram as @emmase.art
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Unassisted Birth in Regional Australia
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tayla.
Tayla is mama of one from Victoria, Australia.
She is a diesel mechanic turned pilates instructor.
In today’s episode she shares about her decision of having an unassisted birth due to living in an area that didn’t have home birth as an option through the regional hospital and also no independent home birth midwives.
She sought out a doula and educated herself enough to make the decision to birth with just her partner and her chosen support team at home.
At 41+3 weeks she went into labour and had her baby in the water just like she always wanted.
Curious about Tayla? Find her on instagram as @tayla_kayy
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Katharine’s Empowering Natural Breech VBAC
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Katharine.
Katharine is a mama of two from Maine, USA, where she lives in her hand built off-grid house with her family.
She is a jeweler and artist working out of her home studio so she can be a full time mama and work around her kids needs.
In today’s episode Katharine shares about her three births.
Her first was a stillbirth for anyone wanting to skip this part, jump ahead 10min into the episode. I do find so much value in talking about miscarriages and stillbirths as it is a reality for 1 in 4 women and I want to reduce the taboo and hush hush culture around this sad reality for some women. These stories need to be told as well and Katharine had such beautiful wisdom and healing come through for her and her maternal linage through this experience.
Her second baby was a breech baby and in her state there was no option for her to birth vaginally at the time and she was ushered into having a caesarian which affected her bonding and postpartum experience.
When she fell pregnant for the 3rd time and her 3rd baby was also wanting to be born breech she decided to go to the next state, hire a midwife and have a breech VBAC.
So much breech wisdom in this episode.
Curious about Katharine? Find her on instagram as @katharinejanejewelry
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Desert Home Birth with GDM at 42 years old
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Letitia
Letitia is a 42-year-old mama of one from Alice Springs, Australia.
She knew even before she got pregnant that she wanted to birth at home after witnessing her friend do so in her 20’s. And as soon as she fell pregnant she booked in with the midwifery group practice for a home birth.
However, early in her pregnancy she got diagnosed with gestational diabetes and had to fight and advocate for herself to not be booted out of having a home birth.
In the end she had her dream birth at home with her partner Tim and home birth midwives who held a safe, physiological birth space which led to Letitia experiencing the fetal ejection reflex where your body takes over and births your baby.
Curious about Letitia? Find her on instagram as @letitiazoe
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C/S to VBAC to Home Birth with Fetal Ejection Reflex
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kaitlin.
Kaitlin is a mama of 3 from the US.
Kaitlin has experienced it all!
She’s had an induction turned C/S with her first baby. A successful unmedicated VBAC in hospital with her second and a home birth with a midwife for her third.
Her second birth really transformed her understanding of her self and birth and she became a doula 5 months after and now her business behervillage.com, which is a gift registry for parents to get gifts of support instead of things.
Curious about Kaitlin? Find her on instagram as @behervillage
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Holly’s Quick First Birth in her Green House
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly.
Holly is a mama of one from from Wales. She is a small business owner who loves organic gardening and hiking in the Welsh mountains.
In today’s episode Holly shares about her extensive preparation for a natural and positive birth experience.
While preparing for a long first birth as a first time mama of 37, she ended up having a fast unassisted birth in her poly tunnel, or green house if you like me don’t know what a poly tunnel is!
Holly followed her body’s wisdom and whispers and labored and birthed mostly by herself. She contributes her fast natural birth to the knowledge she gained through listening to endless birth stories throughout her pregnancy.
Curious about Holly? Find her on instagram as @hollymaysgoodlife
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Birthing in one of the Worlds Best Maternity Systems
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Eline.
Eline is a mama of two from The Netherlands. She is a dancer and has developed different workshops and created self-expression dance programs for children and adults.
Eline's mission is to teach children from a young age to love and fully own their bodies as well as working with women, focusing on healing wounded femininity and discovering womb wellness and womb wisdom.
In today’s episode Eline takes us on the magical dutch pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey that we all wish our countries provided.
Women in The Netherlands have publicly funded hospital, birth center and home births for all women as well as postpartum full time support in the form of a maternity nurse for the whole first week postpartum. It’s what should be provided by all governments if they truly loved and cherished women and families as well as our future generation.
Eline shares both her birth stories, her first in a birth centre and her second at home, and all the wisdom she gained through them. We speak to the depth of personal development and the transformation that is birth and what a beautiful opportunity this rite of passage holds for healing and deeper self awareness.
Curious about Eline? Find her on instagram as @elinedava
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A Birther of Big Babies at Home
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellie.
Ellie is a mama of 2 from Stockholm, Sweden.
She works with storytelling and experience design as well as photography.
However, after learning in depth about pregnancy and the birth process during her second pregnancy, a little seed of curiosity around working with birth and birthing people has been planted and Ellie might be one of the aspiring Spiritual Midwives of my upcoming Spiritual Midwife program.
In today’s episode Ellie will share about both her births with the focus on her second bubba, only 12 days at the time of our recording.
In her first pregnancy, at the 41 week ultrasound, the medical staff freaked out about Ellies big baby and recommended instant C/S or induction. Ellie, being a first time mama, and not knowing what she knows today, agreed to an induction that turned out to be more traumatic than she first realized.
When she became pregnant again the memories flooded back and she knew she needed a home birth this time. She sought out her independent home birth midwives who reassured her that her baby’s size didn’t matter and she ended up having her 4.6kg baby at home, in the water without a tear.
Curious about Ellie? Find her on instagram as @ellieganza
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Sarah Changed her Midwives and had her Stargazing Baby at 40 Weeks
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah.
Sarah is a mama of two from New Jersey, USA. And this is her second time on the podcast!
Sarah shared her natural birth centre birth in October of 2021, which was a huge step for her from thinking at the beginning of her first pregnancy that she could never birth naturally and that she’d need a doctor to save her.
When she became pregnant again, only 8 months after the birth of her son, she right away sought the care of the group of midwives that assisted in her first birth.
However, they were so short staffed that at 39 weeks and 5 days pregnant, those midwives told her that it was extremely likely that instead of the natural birth she had planned inside the birth center, she was going to have to move into the hospital with OB’s that she had never even met.
This lit such a fire in her that despite being literally days away from giving birth, she left the birth center, found an independent midwife who agreed to take her on at 40 weeks, and met her midwife in person for the first time as she was in active labor with her daughter.
If her first birth was a lesson in recognizing her power to birth her own baby without the need of doctors, this birth taught her how important it is to protect the birth that one has envisioned for herself and that it’s never too late to change your care providers!
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Having a Home Birth in Over Medicalized Austria
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Pirita.
Pirita is a Finnish mum of one, a menstrual cycle coach and yoga teacher living with her family in Austria.
Pirita knew already long before getting pregnant that she wanted to have a peacefully birth at home and at 6 weeks pregnant, she put together her dream birth team of midwives with her husband.
In today’s episode she shares about her pre conception prep, having a natural home birth in an over medicalized Austrian maternity system and her 3 days of early labour before active labour kicked in and she had her bubba.
Pirita describes her natural home birth as raw, intense, powerful as well as peaceful and transformational.
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Brazilian Soprano Carla’s Fast Natural Home Birth
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Carla.
Carla is a mama of one from Brazil who’s currently living with her Hungarian husband in Berlin, Germany.
She is a Soprano committed to her psycho-spiritual growth through transpersonal therapy and shamanic work.
When Carla fell pregnant she knew she wanted to break the cultural norm in Brazil of having a c-section. Brazils c-section rate is more than a whopping 55%. The WHO recommends to not exceed 10% and the global rate is 21%!
Carla wanted to bring her baby earth side in the most gentle and natural way. So she booked in with a home birth midwife and was also planning on hiring a doula, but the midwife didn’t want her too. She said she works alone and that she likes to support women just as deeply as a doula does.
In the end Carla had an empowering, fast, natural birth at home with a champion of a supportive husband all the way through. However, as you will hear in her story, she didn’t get the supportive midwife that she hoped for.
Carla’s story shows that preparation and following your own inner voice and intuition is key in having an empowering birth experience.
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