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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Güte
Güte is a mama of one from South Africa, and a coach with a passion to support mothers with connecting to their intuition and a natural way of living, especially in the perinatal phase. Contrary to modern myths, Güte has found natural birthing and mothering, and the lead up to it, to be the most self-actualising process she’s ever experienced and that she continues to enjoy.
During her pregnancy she decided to pivot her coaching practice to support mothers, as she realised how isolated they tend to be. She is co-creating a world where mothers are part of a loving network, with the perspective and knowledge to find joy and meaning in pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
In today’s episode she shares about her pregnancy and home waterbirth in London as a South African Expat, and how it took her on a journey to lean into self-responsibility and intuition as a way of avoiding medical intervention, without needing to fight, but by creating a safe and nurturing environment, with support from wise mamas.
Her first surges came when her parents landed from South Africa early in the morning. She was supported by her loving husband and doula throughout her labour until she roared and raged and birthed her baby into the water shortly after the midwife had arrived.
Curious about Güte? Find her on instagram as @gute.immelman
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily.
Emily is an author and mama of two under 2 from the Highlands of Scotland. She is known on social media as Prepping for Everything and has built an online following for sharing homesteading, prepping and motherhood.
I started following Emily for her homesteading reels and Emily found The Natural Birth Podcast when she got pregnant with her first 3 years ago.
And here we now are, full circle, as Emily comes to share her 2 birth stories.
Her first being a planned home birth turning into a long prodromal affair ending in a non emergent hospital transfer where Emily’s mama lioness was born. Her baby was born naturally, healthy, pink and screaming without the need of any interference from the hospital even though they tried their best.
And her second redemptive, normal home birth with physiological plateaus that in hospital would have been classified as abnormal and a bigger postpartum bleed without the bells and whistles of the hospital.
Curious about Emily? Find her on instagram as @preppingforeverything
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Abby
Abby is a mama of one who’s always been in allopathic medicine as a nurse and in different areas of health care and business.
But even before she became pregnant, she was beginning to lean into a more holistic ways of living.
And after attending a womb healing, she felt this deep, undeniable call to motherhood, and with it came the knowing that she was meant to birth at home.
From there, she began a conscious conception journey, immersing herself in education and preparation, and developed a real passion for physiological natural birth.
She’s now here today to tell her story as a first-time mama who had a fast three-hour home birth at 41 weeks with gestational diabetes, and to her surprise, a breech baby.
Curious about Abby? Find her on Instagram as @of_earthandher
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda.
Amanda is a mama of 3, a stay-at-home, home-birthing mama with a passion for natural living.
Over the years, that passion grew into a mission of guiding women and mothers toward more natural ways of birthing, eating, and healing.
Since 2012, she’s been using social media to inspire thousands to live healthier lives, from reading food labels and making better choices to questioning the mainstream narrative around wellness.
Today, she’s the founder of @nuvitaglobal, a women-centered health and wellness brand designed to help women feel better, live better, and thrive naturally.
In today’s episode Amanda shares about her first hospital birth experience as a young 20 year old to her 2 home water births after that.
How she howled as a wolf and birthed her baby into the hands of her husband.
Curious about Amanda? Find her on Instagram as @supermodelmomma1
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Phoebe
Phoebe is a pediatric acupuncturist and herbalist who supports families through natural healing. She’s also a gardener, a student of culture, and a lifelong learner. Phoebe lives off-grid in an intentional community, in a home her husband built, where she shares life with her three teenage step kids, two dogs, and their six-month-old baby girl.
Today she shares the story of birthing her breech baby girl, supported by her midwife, squatting as her husband catches their baby.
A story full of birthing wisdom I can’t wait to share with you all.
Curious about Phoebe? Find her on Instagram as @abundantnaturalhealing
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Taylor
Taylor is a mama of two from Maryland, United States.
She has her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Psychology and along with being a stay at home mom, she spends her time seeking out new ways to fuse her passions for the Earth and the mind into a nourishing and well rounded lifestyle and career.
Whether she is dancing, creating native community garden spaces, foraging, or passionately sharing her love of sacred physiological birth, you can always find Taylor searching for deeper connections with the land and people around her.
Today she shares about her 2 birth stories. Her first in the hospital which Taylor found to be a positive experience, but still with lots of interventions and medicalisation and then her second, a freebirth with just her family present.
Curious about Taylor? Find her on Instagram as @t.schroyer21
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lucie.
Lucie is a mama of two from the Czech Republic.
She is a wife and a doula who has been holding space for women in the birth space and her community for over 10 years including pregnancy circles, birth blessings and different workshops.
Today we get to hear about her first pregnancy and birth as an expat in Ireland with only her doula present as her husband and home birth midwife didn’t make it on time and arrived shortly after the birth!
Her second baby was also born at home in the Czech Republic with her midwife and friend while her husband and son slept in the next room.
Lucie felt very inward during her births and trusted her process while knowing that she had her chosen support women around her if she needed it.
Both of Lucie’s stories show us the magic of home birth and to trust in your body's intuitive wisdom!
Curious about Lucie? Find her on Instagram as @dula_pribram
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
In this special update episode, I take you behind the scenes of my world right now. 🌿 I share about the beautiful in-person gathering I just hosted on my land with the women in my Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship — a weekend filled with sisterhood, ceremony, and deep connection.
I also share some exciting news: I’ve launched a brand-new podcast! 🎙✨
It’s called The Sacred Birth Work & Biz Podcast, and it’s dedicated to those of you who feel called to birth work or are already on the path. It’s where I’ll be sharing my personal journey, stories, and the wisdom I’ve gathered about building a soul-aligned, feminine way of doing both birth work and business.
If you’ve ever been curious about my story, the mentorship, or how to step deeper into your own calling, this update is for you.
Here are the 3 Episodes out Now:
Episode 3: From Midwife to Midwitch – The Dark Night That Birthed Sacred Birth International
Thank you for listening!
Connect on IG @sacredbirthinternational
Website sacredbirthinternational.com
I know I know, if you’ve been listening the last 2 weeks you are now expecting no 4!
And no 4 is epic!
It’s called “The Wisdom of Letting go and Lean into the Pain in Birth” with Stephanie. But I couldn’t retrieve the video recording of it and because the poddy is now on YouTube as well I decided to not share it.
But YOU can go to thenaturalbirthpodcast.com to find it at no 4 of the top 10 episodes of all time (meaning since 2020).
BUT don’t get too disappointed because this is truly one of my favs.
I interviewed Aimee just as I was about to start the first round of the Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship in 2023.
I didn’t know it was going to be called that at the time and used the working name the spiritual midwife program as I was still known as The Spiritual Midwife.
Anyway, today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Aimee Aroha.
Aimee is originally from New Zealand, today living in Australia and she is a Wild Mother and Transpersonal Birth Mentor.
She generously takes us through her first hospital birth at the young age of 24 and her initiation into motherhood.
We then dive into red threads, birth imprinting, rites of passages and women’s power in her rites and birth.
Aimee continues to share how her life took a turn as she moved from the big city smoke of Sydney into nature in Northern NSW, meeting a new partner and then becoming pregnant again and how this time she made very different choices.
She employed an independent home birth midwife for her second pregnancy but ended up birthing before her midwife arrived, and when she became pregnant a third time she decided for a fully wild pregnancy and free birth with just her family.
Curious about Aimee? Find her on instagram as @aimeearoha
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
So you might be wondering why I’m not sharing our top 2 today but out top 3?
That’s because our top 2 is A Midwife's Top Tips on How to have a Natural Birth and I think its just time that has brought this episode up so high on the rankings.
My more recent Anna Solo Episodes are so much better than this first one which I shared in 2020 just a couple of months after starting out as a podcaster.
But if you wanna hear baby podcaster me sharing my midwifery tips back in the day, then head on over to thenaturalbirthpodcast.com to listen in.
Oh yeah, I have a new website for the poddy!
You can see and listen to the top 10 podcast episodes there, as well as all previous episodes of course!
Anyways, Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kemi Joy Johnson which is our no 3 most loved episode.
The OG episode was called “6 Steps to a Natural & Empowering Birth with Kemi & Anna”.
Kemi is a Mother and a former registered Midwife turned Birthkeeper & Birth Activist.
She de-registered as a midwife a few years back and is now a Whistle Blower, Truth Speaker & Teacher.
And we are coming on the podcast today together to have an honest conversation about the reality of our current maternity system and what you need to know and the steps you need to take to optimize your chances of having a Natural and Empowering Birth Experience whether it is in the hospital, birth center or at home!
Get ready for some edgy talk and truth bombs.
To have a Natural & Empowering Birth in our modern world means taking full responsibility and claiming your rite of passage!
You can also download the 6 Steps that we talk about in the episode in a handy PDF to refer to as you prepare for your upcoming birth!
Find it in my free resources via the link below.
Curious about Kemi? Find her on instagram as @kemibirthjoyjohnson
Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?
Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
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