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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellie
Ellie is a mama of one from Australia, who consciously conceived her baby and knew from the get go that she wanted a natural home birth for her and her baby.
However, Ellie comes from a family where both her mother and her husbands mother had caesarians with all their children, and were convinced that all their babies wouldn’t have survived without them.
There was a lot of reconditioning and reprograming that needed to take place during pregnancy to counter act the fear that their families had over their choice to birth at home.
And when Ellie did have a natural and empowering home birth, not only did that heal her own throat chakra but was deeply healing for her whole family.
Curious about Ellie? Find her on instagram as @elliegutsilverman
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Allison.
Allison is a Canadian mama of three boys, living in Geneva, Switzerland.
She is a human rights lawyer and even so, she struggled to advocate for herself in the over medicalized maternity system to have the natural births she wanted for her two first births.
After two unnecessary inductions, that she experienced as somewhat traumatic, she was determined to have an empowering natural birth with her third.
She went on having a spiritual and conscious conception, the story she tells us in detail in todays episode. As well as an unintentional and unassisted home birth with a whole village supporting her.
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natasha
Natasha is a mama of two from South Africa, currently living in Australia.
Her first birth was in London 4 years ago.
She planned to birth at a birth centre but ended up having a water birth in the hospital, as the birth center was full on the night. It was a natural birth but it wasn’t all that Natasha wanted it to be.
So with her second one year ago in Melbourne, Australia, she chose another path.
She started off going through the hospital system, but didn’t feel supported or trusting of the system so she hired a doula.
She then watched the documentary BirthTime and felt sure she didn’t want to birth at the hospital.
So she shifted and chose a private midwife at 28 weeks pregnant.
She ended up giving birth to her baby the night before her due date, in the water, at home with her wonderful birthing team while her first born slept through it all and woke up soon after she birthed the placenta.
That night was absolute magic and she didn’t want it to end.
Curious about Natasha? Find her on instagram as @_natashafarley
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Anna
Anna is a mama of three and one on the way, from
Colorado, USA.
She’s currently a stay at home mom, homeschooling her oldest.
She’s a hair stylist and love interior decorating and home renovations.
But above all she’s passionate about home birth and come from a long line of home birthing and free birthing women.
In today’s episode Anna shares about falling pregnant the first time and choosing to fly home to Wisconsin to birth her baby in the water at her sister’s house.
It then took 7 years, after struggling with secondary infertility, before she fell pregnant again. She planned to birth at home in Colorado this time. But at 40 weeks it was discovered that this little baby decided to be breech. Which meant she was no longer allowed to have a breech birth at home in Colorado.
So again she hopped on a flight to Wisconsin the next day to have a natural breech birth at home.
She got invited to stay at an experienced breech birth midwife house and ended up having a wonderful breech birth in water.
When falling pregnant with her third baby she decided to go back to the same midwife who’d helped her birth her breech baby and had another water birth where she got to catch her own son.
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Claire
Claire is a mama of one from Australia.
She’s a sustainability activist and passionate feminist, and the founder of the fashion advocate.
In this episode she shares about falling pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and how she knew she wanted a home birth with a known midwife.
Her pregnancy proceeded well, but as she came up to 42 weeks the ultrasound showed low amniotic fluid under the normal range.
This lead to a few days of anxiety and a change from home birth to a hospital induction.
But when she came in for her induction it just didn’t sit right with her, so she asked for a second scan. And after having to fight for it, when she finally got it, the scan showed normal range fluids.
She ended up going back home, against medical advice, and starting labour spontaneously the day after and had a quick straight forward home birth with her partner and midwife.
This episode highlights the importance to trust your own inner voice and intuition and to stand up for yourself and what you want.
Curious about Claire? Find her on instagram as @thefashionadvocate
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly.
Holly is a mama of 2 from New Zealand. She’s an art teacher who’s currently a stay at home mum for her two boys at 2yrs and 10 weeks old.
In this episode she shares about her well planned first pregnancy and birth, that ended up happening at the beginning of the pandemic and covid lockdowns.
After planning a home birth she ended up transferring after a very long pushing stage, something that got it’s explanation when she birthed very soon after arriving at the hospital.
Before her second birth she informed herself even further and planned for another home birth. But at the end, her baby boy decided to arrive at 36 weeks, which is considered preterm.
She did however have a natural birth centre birth with him.
And today we get to hear all about her experience and decision making during both birthing naturally in covid times and with a preterm baby.
Curious about Holly? Find her on instagram as @hollymichelleevans
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mia
Mia is a young mama of one from Idaho, USA.
She fell pregnant the first month of meeting the father of her baby and now partner.
She felt a great peace come over her when she fell pregnant and let her intuition guide her her whole way through her pregnancy and birth.
She came down with a rare condition during pregnancy called hydro nephrosis, which essentially means her urethra got blocked by her pregnant womb which prevented her from releasing urine. She had to wear a tube to help her empty her bladder, until she, upon a strong intuitive feeling, asked to take it out. And all was fine.
She went from wanting a home birth to accepting a hospital birth due to this condition happening in pregnancy.
And she ended up having an empowering and natural birth with a lovely group of midwives.
Curious about Mia? Find her on instagram as @mia.inpeace
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Niko
Niko is a mama of two from New Zealand. She is an artist and makes mini huts.
In today’s episode she shares about her first home birth and how it was a total shock becoming a mother and how it changed her entire life. We dive on in to the fact that as your first one is born, the old you, the maiden, dies and about all that that entails.
For her second, she consciously conceived and prepared even further than the first time around, fully accepting the change that would happen with the introduction of a new being in their family.
She ended up having a beautiful undisturbed water birth at her home with her 5 year old daughter, partner and sister present.
Curious about Niko? Find her on instagram as @kemi_niko
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan
Megan is a mama of one from Arizona, USA.
She is a wife and a stay at home mum who loves art and plants and plans on getting into birth work soon.
She ended up having a fast and furious first birth.
It started with a bang, and she did her best in breathing through the contractions with the help of her husband and doula.
She did her own internals and felt her own cervix and the bag of waters as she progressed through labour.
She chose to birth in her birth pool. Allowing her body to take over and feeling the release of the pushing stage.
Birthing her baby was an amazing and empowering experience for Megan.
Curious about Megan? Find her on instagram as @therodriguez
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tierney
Tierney is a Mama of two from the UK.
In this episode we are going to hear about her Natural Hospital Birth with Gestational Diabetes.
More and more women are diagnosed with GDM as the parameters changed to being narrower a few years ago, leading to an increase in induction rates due to the fear of big babies.
Tierney wouldn’t have it.
She did a lot of research and stood her ground and ended up having an empowering and positive natural birth experience at over 41 weeks gestation.
Hopefully this episode will give you confidence, if you are diagnosed with gestational diabetes.
And as always, it’s your choice to have the GDM test at all, as with everything that is offered in pregnancy.
Curious about Tierney? Find her on instagram as @tierney_giles
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