The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melissa. Melissa is a mama of 3 from Irland and she’s a yoga and pilates teacher in Dublin. She has a very special birth story to share with us. Her first pregnancy went, according to her dating scan, to 44 weeks gestation. A very rare occurrence, especially in our modern days of inductions at earlier and earlier gestations. It’s a bit of a longer episode...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie. Melanie is a registered nurse from the Sunshine Coast in Australia.  She has a passion for natural health and fitness and all things outdoors and is currently studying yoga and mindfulness with the hopes to open her own yoga studio for mums and babies in the future. In this episode she shares why, as a medical professional, she chose home birth o...

Today is International Womens Day and I want to put out an extra episode with a conversation I just had with Jane Hardwicke Collings, a former midwife and the founder of the school of shamanic woman craft. Jane is affected by the flooding in NSW, Australia but not as badly as my old home town and area of the Northern Rivers. We both feel deeply for the community we know and love and want to offer...

HOW TO BIRTH UNASSISTED - SPECIAL EPISODE This episode is a response to the state of emergency that pregnant and birthing women are faced with around the world. This episode was prompted by reports reaching me of women having to birth unassisted in underground shelters in the Ukraine due to the war and the natural flooding disaster that has happened the last week and still is happening on the east...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emelie. Emelie is a mama of two from Umeå, which is in the north of Sweden. She is a freshly baked doula and I met her when she came to one of my Sacred Birth Worker Circles here in Stockholm.  She’s also a lover of ice bathing. She’s actually tried to invite me in joining her ice bathing but has had no success, yet… In this episode we will dive into her...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalie. Natalie is a mama of one from the US. She is a chiropractor, a toxin free and juicing mama and the podcast host of the Igniting Consciousness podcast. In this episode she shares her accidental unassisted breech birth at home. Now this is definitely not a story that you find many of. Natalie is quite the unicorn.  Breech babies are mostly delivere...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Julia Rose. Julia Rose is a mother of two living on Darkinjung land on the NSW Central Coast. She is a Palliative Care Nurse passionate about Natural Death Care and the ceremony and ritual of death as a rite of passage. She is a writer, an artist and a gardener and is passionate about permaculture and the cyclical nature of life, death, rebirth. In this e...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tanya Tanya is a mama of two from London, UK. She is an early years teacher with an interest in finding ways in which nature can be more fully a part of children’s lives. This uncovering of nature’s power to educate and strengthen our children helped inspire her to seek nature’s power in the birthing space too. She planned a home birth for her first birth...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ksenia Ksenia is a mum of 2 originally from the Ukraine, now living in Germany with her partner and daughters.  Today we will hear about her two births.  We will briefly touch on her first birth which was a medical induction due to being considered overdue by the medical establishment that took 3days as her body wasn’t ready to labour and birth.  Ksenia e...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.  Emma is a mum of one from Atlanta USA.  She had a 31hr natural and empowering labour and ended up birthing at a birth center with her partner, mother, midwives and a doula by her side.  Emma feel like her support system was amazing and that her doula was vital in helping facilitate her positive birth experience.  In this episode we talk about copin...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fiona  Fiona is a mum of 3 boys.  Her five year old and her 2.5 year old were both born in the UK, and her (at the time of the recording) 14 week old Hamish, was born at home in Australia.  Fiona is a birth and postnatal doula, a hypnobirthing childbirth educator and runs the positive birth program and local pregnancy and postnatal support groups in her h...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have a special episode about toxin free living for a healthy conception, pregnancy and ultimately a healthy and as much as possible toxin free baby. In this episode I speak to Deborah who is a renowned interior design consultant, author, educator and pioneer of the ethical/wellness design movement.  Her company, DiMare Design, is the only 100% cruelty-free des...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Annemieke. Annemieke is a mum of one from San Francisco where she lives on Tom Hanks old houseboat with her husband and baby. She’s the founder of Golden Glow Mama - a holistic health community helping women nurture their bodies so their bodies will nurture their baby. Today we get to hear about how she birthed her 9 pound baby girl in water on water on t...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Anna Anna is a mum of 2 from the UK now living in the outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. When Anna fell pregnant with her first she wanted a home birth but couldn’t afford a midwife so chose to birth in the hospital. Annas labour and birth with her first could and was seen from the onlookers perspective like a natural and straight forward birth, but not to A...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lonneke. Lonneke is a mum of one from The Netherlands. She grew up with a mother and in a culture that saw birth and home birth as a normal and natural choice for women, so when Lonneke fell pregnant she started searching for a midwifery practice with the same strong beliefs in women’s bodies and intuition as she had. Today we will hear about her amazing...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda Amanda is a mum of 2 from Virginia, USA. She planned to have a natural birth with both her babies, the first cared for by an obstetrician and her second with midwives.  And though she had prepared for and wanted a natural birth with her first she ended up going down the medicalized route guided by her OB. The second time around she changed practiti...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Keezia Keezia is a mum of one from New Zealand now living in Australia. She is a women’s coach unlocking women’s abundance in inspired action to expand their business, radiance, pleasure and love through her program The Devoted Woman. And today we will listen to her free birthing story that took a different turn than planned, and how in the end Keezia had...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lizzie Lizzie is a mama of one from South Carolina USA, and she’s also a pregnancy counselor for an adoption agency. In this episode, Lizzie will share about her empowering hospital birth story.  How she started out from a place of fear and thinking she’d never have a natural birth to understanding how this powerful rite of passage that is birth has been...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Abby Abby is a mama of one from Perth Australia. She is a Tantric and Kundalini Yoga Teacher and Modern Mystic. In todays episode we dive deeply into Abbys very shamanic birth process.  She very vividly shares with us her birth process of meeting ancestral trauma passed down through her matriarchal lineage and how she truly understood, in hindsight, how S...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sabrina. Sabrina is now a mama of 2, but at the time of this recording she was still pregnant with her second.  In this episode we will therefor only hear about her first home birth.  However I can report the second one was also an empowering natural home birth.  Maybe we need to get her back on the podcast to share about that soon too. Sabrina lives on a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tahlia. Tahlia is a mama of two from NSW, Australia. She is a Clinical Nutritionist with a special interest in women's health. She has an interesting story about how she prepared to become pregnant with over a year of preconception preparation. Today we will speak to her conscious pre conception preparation, her first birth at 14 weeks to her spirit b...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a mama of one from New Jersey, USA.  Before falling pregnant Sarah was terrified of labour and thought that the only way to birth was to give her power away to a doctor, take the drugs and wake up with a baby.  However when she fell pregnant she educated herself, listened to natural birth stories and used the power of a positive mindset to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia. Olivia is a mum of one from San Diego, California.  She has a MA degree in Spiritual Psychology, is a practicing Reiki Master and has been in the health and healing industry for over a decade. In today’s episode we talk about her natural pregnancy and quick and intense home water birth at 39 years old.  We dive into topics like sovereignty and how...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Keari Keari is a mum of 5 with a wealth of knowledge of the whole range of birth options available to the modern woman. She started out as a young uninformed woman choosing the most common option in our modern age, an obstetrician and the medicalized route, being induced and experiencing a range of interventions with her first pregnancies, births and babi...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jami Jami is a mum of 3 from the US. Her first birth was 7 years ago and at that point she didn’t really prepare for her birth and ended up having a standard medicalized hospital birth with an epidural that gave her negative side effects. When she fell pregnant again she had a lot of fear about birthing again, but realized what she really feared was the e...