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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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You still have a few more days until the end of November to get a bargain on my The Bundle. There’s 4 more days of the 50% BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
The Bundle includes The Natural Birth Course, my signature childbirth education course that helps you optimize your chances of having a physiological and empowering birth experience wherever you choose to birth.
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 new born mother.
And that’s not enough.
You also get a full years membership inside my maiden, mother & mama village. My online community full of amazing women from all over the world living a natural, conscious and alternative lifestyle. Here you can get advice and support from other mamas as well as monthly Q&A and sharing circles with me.
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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
Now next week the big sales are on for Black Friday and of course I’ll be joining and will be offering you an amazing deal.
From today until the end of November I’m announcing a 50% SALE on The Bundle.
The Bundle includes The Natural Birth Course, my signature childbirth education course that helps you optimize your chances of having a physiological and empowering birth experience wherever you choose to birth.
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.
And that’s not enough.
You also get a full years membership inside my maiden, mother & mama village. My online community full of amazing women from all over the world living a natural, conscious and alternative lifestyle. Here you can get advice and support from other mamas as well as monthly Q&A and sharing circles with me.
It’s a bargain to get this bundle that’s already discounted at a 50% SALE.
Instead of the original price of 397 you can now access all these products for only 199!
Pop on over to thenaturalbirthcourse.com and use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY to get this very special discount.
That’s coupon code BLACKFRIDAY as one word in capital letters for 50% off The Bundle.
Enjoy!
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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.
Curious about Fiona? Find her on instagram as @fionahampton
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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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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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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.
Curious about Nicole? Find her on instagram as @birthintobeing
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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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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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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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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
Watch the documentary at www.birthtime.world
This episode is sponsored by Needed, a world leading woman's health supplement brand.
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