Baby Magic, Granny Sense: talking about women's bodies: reproductive rights, running, birth attendan...

I am honored to present four volunteers from Embrace Refugee Birth Support. Embrace serves families who find their new homes in Clarkston, Georgia, which is one of the most ethnically diverse towns in the US. These women recount their stories as mothers, as volunteers, as women. Listen up!

Combat Midwife speaks from her heart! In this episode, we explore how we hold experience - childbirth, going to a museum, attending trauma - we could have chatted for hours but we condensed it all into a full, rich hour....Listen up! Visit her on Instagram @combatmidwife Check out Combat Midwife's Midwife Monday ... every Monday on Instagram!

What was birth like in the 1970's? How were we trying to change policy back then? Bringing partners in to the birth room, lowering episiotomy rates, fighting for natural childbirth ... Baby Magic speaks with Janet Torge who was in the forefront of the birth movement back in the olden days, and teaches prenatal classes to the new generation. How have things changed? For the better? Or ... for the w...

Want to find out what your birth options are here in Montreal, Quebec? Have a listen! YOU HAVE CHOICES! Get in touch for more detailed info @mbcdoulaschool, or email me here

This International Women's Day, I have been thinking a lot about my goals for women during their reproductive lives. Here is my joyful manifesto: find out how YOU can join the cause! You can always reach out to me @montrealdoulaschool or here. Happy International Women's Day and every day! Let's celebrate: joy, power, love and peace!

Part three of the Placenta Miniseries presents business partners Emma Mogg and Shelby Duggan, from Toowoomba (Australia). Eating the placenta does have the Ew factor.... but if you get it dried and encapsulated, you have a ready-made product that can ease postpartum blues, increase milk production, and more. Have a listen!

What is Lotus Birth? Baby Magic chats with two women who decided to keep their baby's placenta attached to the umbilical cord until it falls off (3-9 days after birth). And here is an article written by a mother of two: Elizabeth Adams describes her home birth and Lotus Birth. Yes, it might not be for everyone. Is it dangerous? Scientists weigh in here, in the Journal of Clinical Pediatrics. Did y...

In the first of our Mini-Series on the placenta, we chat with Patricia Edmonds, a longtime midwife and placenta expert. She takes us on a journey to explore the placenta, its relationship to the mother, and how it keeps baby alive during the months of pregnancy. Want to know more about this magical organ? Listen up!

This is a guided meditation for any pregnant woman to use, daily if she wants. A doula can also share it with the women she supports. It helps you relax, energize, and connect with your baby.

Racism in maternity care in the US is something we all may have heard of, but many families are living it. Baby Magic Podcast wants to help you learn more so you can act more, so that together we can make a change. Racism doesn't just mean someone acting in a racist way to a birthing woman. Institutionalized medical racism in the US goes back to the times of slavery, and is informed by it. I spoke...

Here in Montreal,Canada, and around the world, pregnant women and their families are facing new challenges. Do I have to wear a mask while I'm giving birth? Do I have to pick between my partner/mother/friend and my doula to be present with my in the hospital/birthing centre? Can I have a home birth? What does a virtual doula do? Life goes on, and people are still having babies. I spoke to Sylvia O...

Lewis Mehl-Madrona is a healer. He is a medical doctor, specializing in obstetrics, geriatrics, family medicine, and in psychiatry. He is also a storyteller, drawing on his indigenous heritage to create a breed of narrative medicine that is true Coyote. I have personally witnessed his magic as he accompanied a mother working through a traumatic event in her childbearing life: he guided her as she...

Sovereign birth? Sovereign music! Here is our chat from the livestream we made on Dec 22 ... we talk about autonomy, babies, homebirth, homeschooling, and artistic endeavour. Have a listen to this beautiful woman, a powerhouse of love and change!! Mother of seven, birth companion, home-birther, wife, artist and sister: you'll be inspired!!

I spoke to Alison about her experiences as a new mother. Her baby was born in October, 2020, and she shares with us her plans, expectations, challenges and joys of her childbearing year. Are you expecting a baby and wondering about your choices? Drop me a line!

What does it mean to give birth in a sovereign state? What would it be like to be birthing without anyone telling you what you should or shouldn't be doing? How can we accompany women on this journey, if that's what they choose to do? How can a woman find the circle of love that she seeks, that she can give birth within? What can we do to move away from fear-based, traumatic, aggressive birth prac...

Robin Lim is a renowned midwife, founder and director of Yahasan Bumi Sehat in Bali. I spoke to her on her birthday, about babies, birth, love, the pandemic, Bali during the shutdown (think small gardens, babies being born, no tourism), and about her yearly birthday campaign. Giving Tuesday is December 1, 2020. If Ibu Robin's words touched you, donate today to support her work in Bali and around t...

Billie Harrigan is one of our elders. She is a mother, a grandmother, a traditional birth companion, and a mover and shaker of change in our birth world. She works gently, with kindness and love, for a truly woman-centred birth reality. She respects and empowers. She is humble, intelligent and skilled. We spoke about birth, trauma-informed care, and the current maternity system. You can reach her...

How has life as a birth doula changed during the pandemic? Is it possible to support birthing families virtually? How do you work within the system to change it? Did your work as a science teacher and radical educator influence your doula voice? Baby Magic speaks to Mika Rock, birth doula, about these topics and more.

Tanya Zajdel: mother, trauma survivor, author, nurse, and creator of Rewire Therapy! We chat about the repair after rupture, healing after abuse, transformation through birth, and the sovereign power that resides in us. Thank you to Avraham for sound, Kahil ElZabar for music, and the women I have served for inspiration. For any comments, suggestions, questions, stories please visit our Facebook pa...

Wombs with a View: Sylvia Otvos and Jenny Bee chat with me about the Birth Conspiracy, radical birth choices, safe birth, sacred birth. Check out more here!

MBC was a radical, epic, unique organization. I write more about it here. If you want to be part of Radical Change in birth, reach out!

Maha Al Musa is a force of nature! We spoke about the innate power of women, changes in maternity care over the decades, what Free Birth really means, and more. To learn more about her, please visit here

An Interview with Doula Han of Chicago. We speak of rainbow babies, radical birth companions, the work of a doula, mothering and racial inequality in maternity care.

I interviewed Debra Pascali-Bonaro of Orgasmic Birth! We talked about love, pleasure, support, change, struggle, honouring birth and so much more!

A doula in Athens today. Please donate to help feed families on the street! http://greece.amurtel.org/ https://cribsinternational.org/