The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma. Emma is a mama of two from New Brunswick, Canada.  She is incredibly passionate about physiological birth and a woman’s personal intuition of this natural event.  Unfortunately there is very little access to natural pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support in her province in Canada, so navigating this world was challenging in both her pregnancies. ...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Hanna. Hanna is a mama of two daughters now based in Uppsala, Sweden but living from time to time in Melbourne. Her husband is Australian and her 1st born was born in Melbourne in the hospital, while her second was a home birth bubba. Hanna and her family has chosen to step out of the every day hamster wheel life and is now living in a little red cabin in...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rocio. Rocio is a mama of one originally from Cuba, a citizen of the US now living in the Dominican Republic. She's a writer, seeker, and huge birth nerd. Flying out to have an autonomous birth in the Dominican Republic at 38 weeks was a big part of her life long search for true freedom. She is a political refugee from Cuba and the daughter of an ObGy...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Saide. Saide is a mama of one little new born baby from Canada. She always knew she was going to have a home birth as her own mama birthed her and her siblings at home and all of her friends were home birthed too, so it was just the norm in her circles. She went on a journey to find the right midwife for her and she wouldn't settle until it felt just...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rose. Rose is one of my sacred birth worker graduates and one of the longest listeners to this podcast. It’s so fabulous to finally get to invite her onto the show. Rose is a very private person who is active in her Brooklyn in person community, but not at all online. She is absolutely fascinated by birth and it’s her calling to serve in this field. And w...

After the positive feedback we received from the Mother’s Day Special featuring the top 13 women from 2026 sharing their best natural birth advice and birthing pearls of wisdom to first time mamas, we have done it again. Today is Mother’s Day in Sweden (happy mother’s day to my mom and to all the Swedish mamas out there) and it’s also the end of the Mother’s Day Month and what better way than to g...

This week on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kate. Kate is a mother raising three wild and beautiful boys amongst barefoot days, intentional family living, and the everyday magic of home in northern NSW Australia. In the area I used to live. She is deeply passionate about soulful birth, motherhood, ritual, connection, and creating a life that feels soft, grounded, and true. In this episode, Kate...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kirsty. Kirsty is a mama of two from the Scottish Highlands and it’s her second time on the natural birth podcast. Her first time ended up being the episode called “Cholestasis and Rh negative First Time Mama Kirsty’s Home Birth in Rural Scotland”. In that episode she discussed how she naturally medicated her cholestasis diagnosis and in today's episo...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have taken out the pearls of wisdoms and natural birthing advice from 13 mamas who've been a guest on the podcast in 2026! We have Cindy, Natalie, Jolanda, Malou, Miranda, Kaela, Jelena, Shiva, Stephanie, Paris, Kiata, and Stephanie all sharing their top natural birthing advice to mamas hoping to have a positive and natural birth. From birthing in the hosp...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jelena Jelena is a mama of one from Sweden. She is a modern medicine woman, artist and mother to Nahuel. She’s also a mentor for women who want to reconnect to their cyclical rhythms, nature and the sacred.  She lives some parts of the year in the Swedish forest and some parts of the year in Colombia together with her husband Omar Romero and their son. To...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jolanda Jolanda is a mama of one beautiful six-month-old daughter from the Netherlands now living in the forest of Sweden. She is a Holistic Coach, and a Deep Rest Facilitator.  Her journey through years of illness and trauma guided her back home to her body and taught her how to truly receive the gift of rest. It also led her to Sweden, where she followe...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Miranda. Miranda is a mother of 5 and soon to be 6 from the US, now living in Berlin. She has always believed in the power of pregnancy and birth and thinks the legacy of both is one of the great honors of being a woman. Miranda first came to natural birth 12 years ago primarily out of curiosity but has evolved into a woman who owns this rite of passage a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Cornelia. Cornelia is a mother of two from Sweden and a midwife, having attended around 50 home births and nearly 400 hospital births. She’s the daughter of my friend and home birth midwife Kirsten who’s a guest teacher for the Swedish midwifery craft training I am starting this summer here in Sweden and it’s such a pleasure to have her on. Her mother bei...

Today on the natural birth podcast we have Saide. Saide is a mama of 3, one spirit baby and two living children. She is a stay at home mama from the US who’s a seeker of God’s light and truth as I focus on becoming my best self through mothering, homemaking, serving, building relationships, and making time for my passions for exercise, nutrition, family history, birth, and learning new skills and...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Shiva Shiva is a mom of three and stepmom of one, originally from Turkey and now raising their four boys with her husband in Denver, Colorado. Half Iranian and half Turkish, she’s a bilingual psychotherapist whose work in health psychology, PTSD, perinatal mental health, and parenting is shaped by cultural diversity and a commitment to health equity acros...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Casey | Casey is a mama of two from Illinois. As a NICU nurse she’d only ever been exposed to extremely medicalized birth and all of the worst case scenarios. And she was one of the worst sceptics to home birth in the earlier years of her career and was very vocal about it. She’d always assumed that whenever she had her first baby she would go to the hosp...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stefanie Stefanie is a functional Nutritionist, women’s health and fertility expert and childhood nutrition specialist. She lives in Colorado with her husband, son and is expecting her second child.  Today she comes on to share about her beautiful homebirth.  While her labor followed a pretty non traditional pattern with contractions and her midwife &...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natali Natali is a mama of two from South Africa who birthed both her babies in the UK. She is a holistic vocal coach and the founder of the Vocal Liberation Method, dedicated to helping individuals awaken their connection to their voices. She nurtures authentic expression and grounded confidence, empowering people to step into their power and express the...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kiata Kiata is a mama of 1 and currently 30 weeks pregnant from Tasmania Australia. She’s a social worker who has worked with children and families for many years. Once she became a mother she found her passion for supporting families in parenting and she is now in the process of becoming an aware parenting instructor. For Kiata, trusting birth began long...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dyshni. Dyshni is a social worker, holistic therapist, and girl mom. Her work is rooted in helping women, especially daughters of immigrants, heal cycles of survival and reconnect with their bodies, intuition, and sense of safety. Becoming a mother deepened that work for her, and her natural birth experiences became a powerful reminder of what’s possible...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Liz. Liz is a mama of 3 from the US She is a sonographer who started out with the standard american medicalized hospital birth story with pitocin, broken waters, epidural, and finally a vacuum birth that really affected her pelvic floor. For her second, she knew she wanted something different. She educated herself about natural birth and found the natural...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Paris. Paris is a mama of one from from Brisbane, Queensland Australia. She is a lover of health and fitness, do CrossFit for sport, reading, going to the beach, being in nature, love music, concerts and festivals and have always questioned why and how everything is the way that it is and is a bit of a rebel when it comes to conformity. Today she shares h...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kaela. Kaela is a mama of one from Australia. In today’s episode she shares about her empowering and natural home birth that turned into a hospital transfer as she had a 3rd degree tear. Hospital transfers and tears are the 2 biggest fears amongst pregnant mamas and especially you who listen to this podcast. So what better way of facing those fears than b...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah! Sarah is our biggest fan and have listened since the beginning 6 years ago soon, and during this time had 4 babies and always come on the show to tell us all about them and this her fourth and final baby. This 4th birth was totally different in that it did not follow her usual pattern of having prodromal labour first. Her fourth baby had his own ag...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Malou Malou is a mama of two from the Netherlands and the co-founder of Natural Heroes, which she runs together with her partner Nevil, the father of her two children. She is the head of R&D and a formulator, so her daily life is all about blending science, plant-based ingredients, and a very intuitive approach to wellbeing. That same blend of intuiti...