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Welcome to Season 5!
Today we have Rachel Reed.
Rachel is a mum of two and a midwife and doctor of philosophy committed to the promotion of physiological birth and women’s rights.
She has just finished her book ”Reclaiming childbirth as a rite of passage: weaving ancient wisdom with modern knowledge” which I can't wait to read. And today we get to hear about her two birth stories (one medicalized one and one natural home birth) and take part of her embodied knowledge on reclaiming birth as a rite of passage.
There are plenty of laughs in this episode and some real gems of birth wisdom!
Curious about Rachel? Find out more at @midwifethinking on insta or her blog MidwifeThinking.
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www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have the Natural Therapist Rita sharing her natural birth story.
Rita is the author of Hippies in the City and Hippie Mamas and also a mama of one, living in Sydney Australia.
As a natural therapist she will be giving us so much more than just the birthing wisdom from her natural birth.
She shares what herbs and tinctures she recommends and used herself to prepare for a smooth and natural labour and birth.
Curious about Rita? Find her on Instagram as @hippiemamas or @hippiesinthecity
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kristin.
Kristin is a mama of two, originally from Sweden (Actually from a little village where my father grew up called Gislaved, it's such a small world!).
However she is now living in QLD Australia with her little family in a mobile home on wheels.
Today we will hear about how she found a home birth midwife even before she conceived her first baby, and then how she had a long labour at home with her first and then another long labour in her little mobile home on wheels.
Listen in to hear how she endured these two long labour naturally, due to posterior babies, and how she found them empowering and positive.
Curious about Kristin? Find her on FB as Kristin Scherdin
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
In today’s episode of The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah!
Sarah is originally from Aotearoa, New Zeeland but is now living with her family in Byron Bay, Australia, where she also birthed her 2 babies in the local birth centre.
Sarah is a designer and the founder of Bon Bola, necklaces for pregnancy.
Inspired by ancient mamas wisdom, bola necklaces were traditionally worn by pregnant mamas to help soothe and bring contentment to both mama and bubba.
Today we will dive into her birthing wisdom having birthed two babies naturally in a birth centre with the same midwifery team.
She has some very unique ways of coping with the intense labour and birth sensations that I am sure you will find interesting and helpful.
Curious about Sarah? Find her on Instagram as @bonbola
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stephanie.
Stephanie is a mother of two from San Diego, USA.
She is a chiropractor and lactation consultant and the podcast host of The Holistic Parents Podcast.
Today we get to listen to her birthing wisdom that she has gained after going through a miscarriage, a home birth turn medicalized hospital birth and finally a successful home birth where her husband caught her baby on the toilet.
Stephanie is a wealth of knowledge both as a professional and as a birthing mother and she shares some valuable wisdom with us all today.
Curious about Stephanie? Find her on Instagram as @drstephlibs
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Thinking that there is no difference between public and private midwives practice? Think again.
Emily learned the hard way with her first baby what the difference is and shares freely in this podcast about the wisdom she gained and how she changed from a publicly funded midwife to an independently practicing private midwife.
Emily is a mother of two from Perth, Western Australia. She is a doula, a podcast host of the heymumma podcast and she also holds conscious mothers groups in Perth. Today we are going to hear about her 2 births.
Her first didn’t end up going the way she was hoping as she was faced with her care providers policies and guidelines and wasn’t supported in the way she would have wanted to birth her baby. We will touch upon this first birth and what wisdom she took away from it while then focusing on her second birth that was an empowering home birth.
Curious about Emily? Find her on instagram as @consciousmothersgroup. Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
In todays episode we will hear about Judy's two water birth stories.
One a home birth in the UK and one a hospital birth in Australia.
Judy is a midwife and a teacher and practitioner of woman’s mysteries and a mother of two from Australia.
Judy gives us an insight, by her own lived experience, of the subtle but great difference of an undisturbed, physiological home birth vs a seemingly straight forward natural water birth in hospital.
How the environment, her care providers and the people around her had a great impact on her birthing experience and how her experience of an altered state of consciousness only happened during her first undisturbed home birth.
Curious about Judy? Find her on instagram as @Artemis_Rising7
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Jazzy is a single mum of one from NSW Australia.
Jazzy left a violent relationship at 5 months pregnant, choosing to be a single mum and ended up having an empowering vaginal breech birth in the hospital with her mother, midwife and sister at her side.
She says that her birth experience totally changed her whole existence. That she went from girl to woman as she birthed her baby and realized she can do anything.
She is now passionate about birth, has become a doula and is aiming to become a midwife in the near future.
Curious about Jazzy. Find her in instagram as @diary.of.a.single.mum
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
In today's episode we get to hear from Andrea, a mother of two from Sweden.
Her first birth was a medicalized birth that initiated her interest in doula work and what home birth could be like. She ended up pursuing her interest and became a doula and prenatal yoga teacher and for her second birth, the birth we will explore today, she had an empowering home birth where she even experienced the bearing down process of birthing her baby as pleasurable.
Andrea is a doula, prenatal yoga teacher and birth preparation instructor in Stockholm, Sweden.
If you’re curious about her you can find out more on instagram @doulabyyourside.
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
In todays episode we meet Kira, a mum of 3 from Victoria, who will share her birthing journey from an emergency caesarian, to a hospital VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarian) and finally to a dream water home birth.
I know Kira from The Natural Birth Course and have been looking forward to hearing her story. I am so very happy that she finally had her dream birth that she prepared so hard to have and that she wanted to share her birthing wisdom with all of you.
Curios about Kira? Find her on facebook as Kira Phillips.
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
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