Unschooled Homebirth

Journey to Birth podcast coaching sessions are special episodes where you get to sit in with me and one of my Natural Birth Compass Program students while I help coach them in their pregnancy to prepare for their upcoming birth. These episodes give you the opportunity for an intimate and up close look at the experience of preparing for childbirth using a very unique method that we call the Natural...

Today's episode focuses on the postpartum or 4th trimester time and getting to know your new family, so to help us understand a bit about what that transition looks like, I have invited Kristy Hogue, a Seattle based postpartum doula from Creative Cusp Doula to share her insights about what every parent should know about the transition into the new family unit and how a postpartum doula can he...

Healthy baby, healthy mom, at the end of the birth, this is what everyone wants, right? Well, yes, but the problem with this statement and this intention is that it implies the outcome is the only thing of true importance in birth. But there is so much more to birth than the outcome and to dismiss the experience of preparing for birth, the journey to birth, is to dismiss the transformation that yo...

Are you curious about this whole hypnobirth thing? This episode is for you! After having a positive hypnobirth in California, Angelica Grunwald moved to Washington state and had another positive hypnobirth experience. After one of her friends asked her about how to have a positive birth, Angelica recommended hypnobirth but they couldn't find any classes in their area. So she decided to fill t...

Journey to Birth podcast coaching sessions are special episodes where you get to sit in with me and one of my Natural Birth Compass Program students while I help coach them in their pregnancy to prepare for their upcoming birth. These episodes give you the opportunity for an intimate and up close look at the experience of preparing for childbirth using a very unique method that we call the Natural...

In this solo episode, we will take a deep dive into communication, one of the most important and under appreciated topics in childbirth education.  In the episode, you will learn: Why communication between patients and providers can be complicated by cognitive bias The two ways to prepare for better communication with everyone on your birth team, including your birth partner Why it's importan...

Journey to Birth podcast coaching sessions are special episodes where you get to sit in with me and one of my Natural Birth Compass Program students while I help coach them in their pregnancy to prepare for their upcoming birth. These episodes give you the opportunity for an intimate and up close look at the experience of preparing for childbirth using a very unique method that we call the Natural...

Welcome to the Journey to Homebirth Podcast! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey to homebirth, I am absolutely humbled that we are connecting here!  My hope is for this podcast to help homebirth families have a source of information that goes beyond the everyday homebirth topics, that encourages you to explore who you are and who you are becoming on your journey to homebirth. He...