The Natural Birth Podcast Anna The Spiritual Midwitch
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The Natural Birth Podcast is here to bring Embodied Birth Wisdom from Women from All over the World sharing their Natural & Empowering Birth Stories, with the aim to Inspire and Encourage Mamas to Believe in their Bodies and in the Natural Birth Process.
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The Maternity Nurse who Home Birthed
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rachel.
Rachel is a mama of two from the US.
Her passion for birth and babies started when she went to nursing school and wanted to work on a maternity floor. When she finally landed a job as a mother & baby nurse, she quickly was not impressed by how birthing mamas and newborns were cared for.
She stayed working in the system for four years, but was constantly unlearning what she saw, and trusting birth in a whole other way through podcasts and Instagram.
It really goes to show the power of storytelling, women to women. So thank you for listening to these stories and spreading them far and wide.
I can’t tell you how amazing it is to get your messages and emails, especially from birth workers who share this poddy with their clients or tell me how it's changing their practice and trust in women, babies and birth. Gives me goosebumps. Truly.
Anyways, back to Rachel.
When Rachel became pregnant with her first, she planned her dream home birth with a slightly wild pregnancy and left the maternity system at the very beginning of her first pregnancy.
She’s now worked as a pediatric home care nurse and home birth assistant with a traditional midwife in the past few years, but mostly has been home raising her two babies.
She just started her journey on encapsulating placentas.
And today we will hear about her home births.
Curious about Rachel? Find her on Instagram as @_love_dahlia
Did you know you can now watch all the podcast episodes on our YouTube channel? Every Sunday the new video version of this podcast is aired on The Spiritual Midwitch YouTube channel.
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Twin Home Birth in Sweden
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fanny.
Fanny is a mama of four, something she says she never thought she’d ever be, from Sweden.
She is currently a stay at home mama and used to work in HR.
Today we will hear about all of her 4 four births but the focus will be on her most recent amazing home birth with her twins.
Fanny says her home water birth was a fantastic experience where she just let her body do the work. She breathed and talked to her babies and just let go into the power of the birth portal. Her older kids were there and so was her mum and her husband of course.
It was just a really natural, safe and ordinary birth according to Fanny.
And it is!
However these stories are few of twins born at home nowadays, so I am very grateful she wanted to share it with us.
Curious about Fanny? Find her on Instagram as @fannyplato
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An Unassisted Painless Birth after 3 Epidural Births
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dailah.
Dailah is a Mother of 4 from the US living in Africa. She is a Quantum life coach and a Painless Birth™ Worker.
She assists Women to give birth without pain using a series of brain wave techniques and tools.
In this episode she will share about her first 3 hospital births with epidurals and the shift that led her to birthing her fourth child at home with no pain and how she became a painless birth worker after her own experience.
Curious about Dailah? Find her on Instagram as @the.painless.birth.worker
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Hands off Empowering Home Birth in New Zealand
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lauren.
Lauren is a mama of 1 originally from England, now living in New Zealand for seven years.
She’s a pastry chef and qualified personal trainer, now focusing on raising her baby girl. She’s been vegan for ten years and is trying to live a low tox holistic kinda lifestyle.
During her whole pregnancy she felt very skeptical about inviting her midwife to her birth as she was aware how a medical midwife can unfortunately get in the way of a physiological birth.
She ended up labouring with her partner and dog for 18.5 hours until her body started pushing and she decided to call her midwife.
Her baby ended up coming 1.5 hours later shortly after the midwife arrived and her midwife stayed hands off, no one else touched her baby besides her or her partner for a few hours until she wanted her to.
She also had a 2nd degree tear and decided against advice to not get any stitches and really believe she healed better because of it.
Lauren feels very empowered and proud to have had her first birth at home.
Curious about Lauren? Find her on Instagram as @Laurenhadfieldpilcher
If you didn’t know already I have 3 really epic free resources that you can access and download at sacredbirthinternational.com
There’s two E - books, one called 6 Steps to Having a Natural & Empowering Birth Experience and one called Routine Hospital Birth Procedures Inform yourself and make an Educated Decision!
This is a comprehensive E-Book with 28 full pages for your information and assistance in creating an informed birth plan. Whether you are having a hospital, birth center or home birth as you never know where your birth journey will take you. Knowledge is power.
Finally, if you are planning a home birth like Lauren then download my free home birth checklist. There will definitely be things in there that you might not have thought of.
Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:
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Amanda’s Tight Nuchal Cord & Asynclitic 9 pound Baby’s Home Birth
Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda.
Amanda is a mama of 2 from Texas.
She’s a birth photographer, birth assistant, doula and placenta encapsulator and a secretary and social media coordinator for a birth center.
She says that she is blessed to mostly work from home and have the ability to homeschool her daughter.
In todays episode we get to hear about her two birth stories. The last one I saw powerful photos of on Instagram where Amanda was squatting in such a primal powerful position birthing her baby and I just had to reach out and say ”Hey do you want to share your story on the poddy”, and here she is doing just that.
Curious about Amanda? Find her on Instagram as @loverandbeloved
200 Episodes & Special Offer!
This is the 200th episode of the natural birth podcast!
WOW! And we are coming up to 4 years in a few weeks but first things first!
Can you believe it!?!
I know many of you listen to each and every one of these episodes to prepare for your natural birth and I am so pleased that I now have 200 unique natural and positive birth stories to help you reprogram your subconscious mind!
What an epic resource!
And speaking of resources.
To celebrate this 200th episode you are welcome into my Online Community The Village for free for a whole month when joining this week!
Being a part of my village means monthly live Q&A and sharing circles with me and the village sisters.
It means accessing resources and birth nerds, maidens, mothers and magas as well as my sacred birth worker mentees 24/7.
It’s a warm, friendly, cozy and hearth centered village that truly supports women in all stages of life, especially around birth and child rearing.
And this week you can join for free and get a whole month in the village and meet me and hang out totally free of charge!
Yay!
Join the Village here!
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Use the code THENATURALBIRTHPODCAST for 20% off your first month.
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The Pelvic Floor Physio Specialized in Tearing & Trauma after Birth who Choose Home Birth over C/S
Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Carla.
Carla is a mama of one from Sydney.
She’s a pelvic floor physiotherapist who has worked in some of the largest maternity hospitals in Sydney.
Her work has involved supporting women as they recover from third and fourth degree tears, bladder and bowel incontinence, sexual and pelvic pain and prolapse concerns.
Carla is also a yoga and meditation teacher and during her pregnancy she went on a journey to resolve her birth fears, especially the one about tearing and injury to her vagina and pelvic floor, and explore birth's spiritual dimensions.
By listening to women’s stories on this podcast and being in community with other women who have had physiological births she was able to go from thinking she’d opt for an elective Cesarean to save her pelvic floor to having a home birth in her bathtub.
This episode is so good for you who might have a fear of tearing, a fear that is so common.
Carla is excited to share her story with other women to help continue to alleviate birth fears and navigate the often paternalistic nature of maternity care.
Curious about Carla? Find her on Instagram as @carlasank
If you didn’t know already I have 3 really epic free resources that you can access and download at sacredbirthinternational.com
There’s two E-books, one called 6 Steps to Having a Natural & Empowering Birth Experience and one called Routine Hospital Birth Procedures Inform yourself and make an Educated Decision!
This is a comprehensive E-Book with 28 full pages for your information and assistance in creating an informed birth plan. Whether you are having a hospital, birth center or home birth as you never know where your birth journey will take you. Knowledge is power.
Finally, if you are planning a home birth like Carla then download my free home birth checklist. There will definitely be things in there that you might not have thought of.
Well that’s me and my free resources folks. Find them all via the link in the show notes or at sacredbirthinternational.com
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Customer Reviews
Great podcast for anyone who is pregnant
This is such an amazing podcast. Listening to other women tell their stories of empowering birth is so powerful and inspiring. I binged the show the last 6 weeks of my pregnancy. I definitely think hearing all the positive birth stories helped me get in the right mindset to have my 3rd unmediated birth and first homebirth.
Too many ads
Way way way too many disruptive ads and you’re trying to sell us too much :(
The best birth podcast out there!!
I used to be terrified of birth until I dove into the research on natural, physiological birth and educated myself on the topic. I listened to Anna’s podcast religiously during my pregnancies and it was such a vital part of my birth prep.
Anna holds SO much wisdom and knowledge around birth and just listening to her tips and words of advice is extremely informative. Her energy is positive & encouraging and she’s so peaceful to listen to.
Thank you, Anna, from the bottom of my heart for creating the natural birth podcast and for all of the wonderful information that you share. You are a true light in this world!