birthawakening - for sovereign women

Krystal Trammell
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Birthawakening is for holistic-minded, sovereign women who lead with their intuition and think differently about our food, our relationships, and even how we give birth and raise children. Holistic, conscious living means we're in for a grand re-envisioning of what we've been told is 'the good life'.

  1. 10/18/2023

    Foundations of prenatal health: Movement, sleep, nutrition, and intuitive self-love

    Sleep, fitness, and nutrition are foundational aspects of living well, and that doesn't change when you're expecting. To optimize your prenatal health, do these three things: Take care to move your body every day, prioritize your rest and sleep, and eat real food. Want a 4th? Listen to your intuition.

  2. 10/15/2023

    protect your mental space: seek out positive natural birth stories!

    A long time ago, I didn’t understand the point of birth stories. I thought once the baby was here, the birth was more or less incidental. After all, "the only thing that matters is that you have a healthy baby," right? Uh, no. I take major issue with that statement. Having a healthy baby is obviously very important--but the mother’s experience of birth is far from incidental. Birth involves both you and your baby--it’s a cooperative act between your body and his/hers. Really, there’s no such thing as a baby. There’s a baby AND ITS MOTHER. This is called the mother-baby dyad, or the 4th trimester works, too.

  3. 10/12/2023

    how to ruin a perfect pregnancy: the cascade of interventions

    Be aware (beware!) of the “cascade of interventions”. Why is it so necessary to be a thorn in your care provider’s side when it comes to refusing procedures or tests? Why rock the boat? Why not just go along with the routine procedures? How can an extra blood test, or refusing a vaginal exam now, make a difference in my birth experience later? Enter the cascade of interventions:

  4. 10/10/2023

    ‘fighting’ for your birth choices? ask questions and question the answers

    Ask questions, and don't just accept the answers blindly. There’s not really any such thing as a “routine” procedure, except for what's part of your care provider’s typically-preferred routine. It’s all Optional. Recommended. Suggested. Commonly practiced.  If your care provider tells you to get a test or procedure done, ask what it’s for, and whether it’s medically necessary. Is this just something he or she likes to do to fill in a blank on a chart somewhere, or is this procedure actually highly beneficial for YOU and your baby, in your unique situation? Read this as an article on my Substack Check out my homebirth courses at RethinkBirth.com

  5. 09/29/2023

    birth in the system? you'll need research, intuition, and discernment

    Are you committed to having a better birth? Do your own research! Don't rely on your health care professional to tell you everything you need to know, because they won't. Not because they're a jerk or anything of the sort. It's just that they don’t have the time to spend telling you things that aren’t medically necessary for you to know. The medical community, on the whole, is trained to look for and deal with pathology - which a normal pregnancy and labor do not fall under. Your OB might give you some handouts to read, or even give you a book to take home - but those information sources are going to be woefully incomplete. Pregnancy is not a disease, and our babies do not need to be rescued from our bodies. Trust birth. Read the rest of this as an article on my Substack. Check out my Navigating Birth in the System course.

  6. 08/03/2023

    what's the point of empowered birth? electric meat-suits vs. a conscious worldview

    Why do we need empowered childbirth? How would we even cultivate such a thing? Women often experience fear throughout pregnancy in our culture--and tend to look toward modern obstetric care to “deliver them” from the unknown experience of birth. We have become disconnected from the true nature and ability of our bodies. The intense, primal, transformational experience of an unfettered birth is something that far too many women today miss out on. Being aware of the fact that you have choices is one of the first key steps to having a calm and confident birth experience. You always retain the power of CHOICE - whether you're planning a homebirth, a surgical birth, or anything in between. Read the article to go with this episode on my Substack: KrystalTrammell.com Explore my courses at RethinkBirth.com Watch this on YouTube instead

  7. 06/14/2023

    birthkeeping beyond the system - my journey into (and out of) attending hospital births

    Welcome to the RELAUNCH of my podcast, now with a video component on YouTube. In this episode, I talk about my reluctant path of becoming a doula, supporting Cesarean births, and how I slowly realized that I didn't quite fit into the typical world of birth pros! Watch this on YouTube instead: https://youtu.be/PPuSKHM_Sn4 Read my Birth articles on Substack: https://www.krystaltrammell.com/s/birth Enroll in my courses and download a bunch of free offerings on my website: https://www.rethinkbirth.com/

  8. 07/06/2021

    Doulas just don't get Freebirth

    Why doulas are trained to distrust birth  Ancestral wisdom whispers, and fear drowns it out Freebirth doens't need to mean ALONE How to balance professional liability with trust in birthing women Freebirth isn't radical, it's simply a response to how the system treats women

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Birthawakening is for holistic-minded, sovereign women who lead with their intuition and think differently about our food, our relationships, and even how we give birth and raise children. Holistic, conscious living means we're in for a grand re-envisioning of what we've been told is 'the good life'.

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