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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie.
Melanie is a registered nurse from the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
She has a passion for natural health and fitness and all things outdoors and is currently studying yoga and mindfulness with the hopes to open her own yoga studio for mums and babies in the future.
In this episode she shares why, as a medical professional, she chose home birth over hospital birth and her own natural and empowering birth at home.
Curious about Melanie? Find her on instagram as @Melaniejoy___
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Today is International Womens Day and I want to put out an extra episode with a conversation I just had with Jane Hardwicke Collings, a former midwife and the founder of the school of shamanic woman craft.
Jane is affected by the flooding in NSW, Australia but not as badly as my old home town and area of the Northern Rivers.
We both feel deeply for the community we know and love and want to offer our help to them, and to pregnant and birthing women from all over the world faced with war and natural disasters leaving them birthing in crisis.
This episode will go into the full process of labour and birth and how to keep it as safe and physiological as possible in the midst of crisis as well as instruction and guidance for All Women around the world to offer their moon blood to call in peace and safety for all sentient beings on this earth.
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Today is International Womens Day.
We celebrate the strength, resilience and generosity of women.
I celebrate you for being a woman in my community.
I thank you for helping me help women in crisis by sharing this episode.
Blessings on your hearts
Want to connect with Jane.
Find her on Instagram as @janehardwickecollings
Find out about Mamatoto support for birth in crisis on instagram @hygieiahealthltd
Download Jane's Unassisted Birth Checklist >>> HERE
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HOW TO BIRTH UNASSISTED - SPECIAL EPISODE
This episode is a response to the state of emergency that pregnant and birthing women are faced with around the world.
This episode was prompted by reports reaching me of women having to birth unassisted in underground shelters in the Ukraine due to the war and the natural flooding disaster that has happened the last week and still is happening on the east coast of Australia to my beloved community in Northern New South Wales.
My heart is broken to hear of the devastation in my old home town and area. And I want to help, so using this platform to spread some support.
Of course there are other conflicts and disasters around the world leaving women without birth support so this episode will be timeless to assist women faced with this situation.
This is NOT an exhaustive checklist on how to birth unassisted.
There is plenty more that can be shared.
But it is a basic guide, and a start and an attempt to support those who find themselves desperate and fearful of birthing alone.
Please share this episode far and wide so it might reach the mamas that are truly finding themselves in need of this support.
Thank you podcast community!
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emelie.
Emelie is a mama of two from Umeå, which is in the north of Sweden.
She is a freshly baked doula and I met her when she came to one of my Sacred Birth Worker Circles here in Stockholm.
She’s also a lover of ice bathing. She’s actually tried to invite me in joining her ice bathing but has had no success, yet…
In this episode we will dive into her two hospital births that she had before she got more birth savvy and decided to become a doula.
Her first birth did have some routine medical interventions that way too many women experience these days.
When you don’t do your research and prepare then it’s easy to get swept up in the flow and routines of the hospital or the care provider, which Emelie so wisely states in this episode.
So we do dive a little deeper than I normally do into this medicalized one to explore how these interventions might not have been needed and could have been avoided and why.
Then we continue to explore Emelie’s second labour and birth with her son where she had an empowering and natural birth.
She had educated herself this time around and got to experience her baby self attach to the breast and initiating breastfeeding.
The big take away I think from Emelies story is that you are ultimately in control over your experience of your birth. It’s less about what happens or doesn’t happen in the end and so much more about how you perceive it.
And at the end of the day you need to claim your birth, otherwise the risk is that someone else will.
Curious about Emelie? Find her on instagram as @doulandet
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalie.
Natalie is a mama of one from the US.
She is a chiropractor, a toxin free and juicing mama and the podcast host of the Igniting Consciousness podcast.
In this episode she shares her accidental unassisted breech birth at home. Now this is definitely not a story that you find many of. Natalie is quite the unicorn.
Breech babies are mostly delivered by caesarians now days as very few doctors and midwives are skilled and confident with breech and it has been seen as a more dangerous presentation since a faulty trial called the term breech trial was published in 2000.
And even though breech is now seen as a variation of normal, the skills of handling a breech birth has been lost due to this trial over 2 decades of believing vaginal breech birth was dangerous.
Today me and Natalie dive into her unassisted breech birth story and then go on a few different tangents about the burning of midwives and herstory, ultrasounds, taking responsibility for your choices in pregnancy, birth and beyond and claiming your sovereignty as a birthing woman.
Curious about Natalie? Find her on instagram as @drnataliehorine
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Julia Rose.
Julia Rose is a mother of two living on Darkinjung land on the NSW Central Coast.
She is a Palliative Care Nurse passionate about Natural Death Care and the ceremony and ritual of death as a rite of passage. She is a writer, an artist and a gardener and is passionate about permaculture and the cyclical nature of life, death, rebirth.
In this episode we will dive into her two births.
Her first which she intended to be a home birth but that needed to teach her something deeper about her self and brought her on a self healing and self discovery journey.
And her second that was a natural and healing undisturbed home birth in which she unlearnt so much conditioning and deeply connected her to her own inner wisdom. It was a beautiful daytime birth surrounded by her 3 year old, her husband and privately practicing midwives.
Curious about Julia Rose? Find her on instagram as @the.mother.bone
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tanya
Tanya is a mama of two from London, UK.
She is an early years teacher with an interest in finding ways in which nature can be more fully a part of children’s lives. This uncovering of nature’s power to educate and strengthen our children helped inspire her to seek nature’s power in the birthing space too.
She planned a home birth for her first birth but ended up transferring to hospital as her labour stalled, something that we found when working through her birth trauma from her first birth in a one on one session with me, was due to the shifting of midwives and the feeling of anxiety and unsafety created by that new birth team that stepped into her home.
For her second birth Tanya reflected more deeply on what her personal needs were, worked through her birth trauma and fears with me and communicated her needs with her birth team, optimized her birth space and had the tools needed to meet birth from an empowered state.
She ended up having the most beautiful, empowering, natural home birth and this is the story we will focus on in this episode.
She hopes that her story can inspire others to find what makes them feel safe, held and secure when preparing for their own precious birth experience.
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ksenia
Ksenia is a mum of 2 originally from the Ukraine, now living in Germany with her partner and daughters.
Today we will hear about her two births.
We will briefly touch on her first birth which was a medical induction due to being considered overdue by the medical establishment that took 3days as her body wasn’t ready to labour and birth.
Ksenia experienced this birth as traumatic and so when she fell pregnant again she chose to have a home birth and to do all in her power to educate herself and prepare herself for a natural birth, including taking The Natural Birth Course.
Her second birth ended up being a natural and physiological home birth just like she had wished and worked so hard for. The birth was life-changing according to Ksenia and what’s interesting about her story is that her labour process was very unique in its unfolding, a birth story that really surprised me.
Her empowering home birth healed her previous birth trauma and made her inspired to start a blog about natural pregnancy, birth & raising kids.
Curious about Ksenia? Find her on insta as @naturalbirthblog.
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.
Emma is a mum of one from Atlanta USA.
She had a 31hr natural and empowering labour and ended up birthing at a birth center with her partner, mother, midwives and a doula by her side.
Emma feel like her support system was amazing and that her doula was vital in helping facilitate her positive birth experience.
In this episode we talk about coping mechanisms in labour, vaginal examinations, anterior lips, laboring in water and so much more.
Curious about Emma? Find her on instagram as @emmalongdotcom
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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fiona
Fiona is a mum of 3 boys.
Her five year old and her 2.5 year old were both born in the UK, and her (at the time of the recording) 14 week old Hamish, was born at home in Australia.
Fiona is a birth and postnatal doula, a hypnobirthing childbirth educator and runs the positive birth program and local pregnancy and postnatal support groups in her hometown of Ballina in NSW Australia.
She is committed to supporting families through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood and helping them to do this in an informed, empowered and supported way.
She recently had a gorgeous, empowering and fully supported birth at home with her family around her, bearing witness to their newest member of the family joining them earthside.
She was attended by her midwife Libby who’s previously been on the podcast sharing her birth stories, and a Doula.
In this episode we will hear about all of her three births today the focus on the last home birth with Hamish.
Curious about Fiona? Find her on insta as @bumps_birth_and_beyond
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