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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Curious about Pirita? Find her on instagram as @piritahilton
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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.
Curious about Carla? Find her on instagram as @carlacottini
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Merry Xmas podcast family!
I hope you’ve had a beautiful weekend with family and friends, enjoying good food and company. Here is your Christmas Day episode!
A bit of a longer episode today with one of my longest standing fans Lisa. She’s been listening to the podcast since it began in 2020 and today she’s guesting us sharing, in depth about her journey in finding the perfect midwife match for her dream birth.
I thought xmas was a great time for a bit of a longer episode as you digest all that food on the couch you can drift off to birth land through our conversation.
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lisa.
Lisa is a first time mama from Wollongong, Australia.
She’s an outdoor adventure guide that is now enjoying her time as a stay at home mum, tending to her permaculture garden and food forest.
Lisa dreamed of having a natural and empowering birth even before falling pregnant.
When she did fall pregnant she instantly booked in at the local Midwifery Group Practice program at her hospital as well as with a doula.
However, falling into the low risk category proved to be hard and after getting booted off the program in the 3rd trimester she went on to have the birth she had envisioned with privately practicing midwives at 42weeks and 6 days.
Curious about Lisa? Find her on instagram as @lisaforrestwalker
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