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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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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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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.
Interested in The Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program?
This program is now known as The Sacred Birth worker Mentorship! Find out more and apply here:
https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/thesacredbirthworkermentorship
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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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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!
Curious about Caroline?
Find her on instagram as @caromckay
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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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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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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
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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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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