The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Monica The Organic Naturopath Monica is a mum of one from Australia.  She is a naturopath and nutritionist and in this episode she will be sharing her wealth of knowledge with us in helping us learn all the medicine nature has in store for us.  We will dive into herbs, steams, mushrooms and tinctures for pre conception and how to prepare your body vessel...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have one of my oldest friends, Sanna.  Our mothers were best friends and so were we, on and off throughout our childhood and teenage years, as you do.   And today we get to hear her sweet hospital birth story with her first born.   And Sanna is actually pregnant again!   And I hope to be much more involved in her pregnancy and birth journey this time around as...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a mum of 3 from New Zealand.  She is a birth and postpartum doula, coach and ceremonialist. Sarah's own births were a catalyst for her own healing and self growth and put her on the path of supporting other mothers in remembering their sacredness, intuition and strength. In todays episode we get to hear about her 3 births in Australia....

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have my dear midwife colleague and friend Libby. Libby is a mama of 3 from NSW, Australia.  She is an independent, endorsed midwife in the Byron Shire and surroundings, and in my opinion the best. Libby has incredibly fast births.  Her first baby was born in the car on the way to the hospital, her second was monitored in hospital due to her history of fast bir...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have a returning mama, Emily. Emily came on the podcast in November 2020 and shared about her two first births in the episode ”Why going with an Independent Midwife was the answer to Emily’s Positive Home Birth Story!” In this episode we will hear about how Emily and her partner came to the decision to chose a free birth and the radical self responsibility the...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Joanna Joanna is a mum of 3, 2 living children and a baby who left already in the first trimester.  She’s originally from Poland but now lives in the UK.  She works as a project manager for a building control company, however she has now trained to be an NLP and Hypnobirthing coach.. Joanna had her first daughter 10 years ago in a medicalized birth she de...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Karlyn. Karlyn is a mum of one from NSW, Australia. She specializes in guiding people through transformational processes drawing upon her training in breath work mastery, life coaching, yoni mapping therapy, tantric bodywork and sacred sexuality, yoga and conscious birth. She is also a trained doula. So not only do we get to hear about her first and only...

Bubaloo is a mama of 2 living children from NSW, Australia.  She is a boundary crossing artist, de-colonising advocate, access bars practitioner and an organic gardener.   And today she will speak to her 6 pregnancies and 2 full term births to her son and daughter.  Bubaloo was late in deciding to become a mother.   Not until her 36th year did she come to the decision that she wanted to have child...

Trigger Warning: Early Pregnancy Loss Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have a different kind of birth story. Today me and the beautiful Amy that I will soon introduce will talk about early miscarriage. Miscarriage is more common than we think. And even though it is rapidly changing the way we as women relate to our bodies, our monthly bleed, our sexuality, pregnancy and birth, we rarely talk...

Freya is a mother of 3 from Australia. She is a birth keeper and the host of the podcast Remembering birth that she got inspired to start after her free birth. Today we will hear about her first natural hospital birth, her second home birth with a hospital visit and finally her romantic conception of her third baby and how she chose to fully free birth her third. Curious about Freya? Find her on i...

Happy Mothers Day beautiful Mamas out there! May you be fully loved up as the goddess you are! Today is not only the celebration of all the Mamas in the world but also the one year anniversary of The Natural Birth Podcast! Happy Birth Day to The Natural Birth Podcast! I can’t believe it has been a year! 6 Seasons and 60+ episodes! And Over 34K listeners!  What a ride. And what amazing stories we’v...

Rachael Rose is a mum of 2 from NSW, Australia. She is a writer, women's circle facilitator, doula and passionate supporter of the innate wisdom of mothers and babies. In this episode we will hear about her two births that completely transformed her. Her first became a medicalized event in the hospital against Racheals wishes, and through the birth trauma a fire was ignited and Racheal dove in...

Nathalie is a mum on one from the Netherlands. I know Nathalie from our monthly online mamas sharing circle and have followed her throughout her pregnancy and it’s so wonderful to now take part in her birth story. The Netherlands has one of the highest percentages of home birth in the world. Around 30% of dutch women give birth at home. It’s really common and no big deal there. Isn’t it fascinatin...

Today we have Amanda Amanda is a mum of 2 from Sweden and she is a MindBody therapist and spiritual coach. I had the honor of assisting Amanda in her healing of her birth trauma from her first birth, in the lead up to her second birth, through one on one birth trauma healing and debriefing session. It’s important to understand why things unfold as they do and to allow yourself to fully meet all th...

Isabella is a mum of 4 from Byron Bay, Australia. She is a shamanic drum maker and aspiring doula. Today we will hear about her 3 birth centre births and her last birth, which was a free birth in nature. Last week we heard the birth stories of Ashley who choose to free birth due to not being able to find a care provider willing to assist her at her home birth. Today we get to hear the other side o...

Ashley is a mother of three from QLD, Australia. She is the founder of the motherhood circle and the VBAC home birth stories podcast and today she will share her own VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarian) freebirth story. We will start by exploring the reasons to her first two caesarians and the wisdom she gained through and from her birth trauma within the medicalized hospital system. We will then...

Star is a mama of 2 from Byron, Australia. She is a nervous system specialist and woman’s work facilitator and a good friend of mine. And I’ve wanted her to share her two home birth stories for a long time. Star had her two daughters almost 20 years apart. Her first daughter in her early 20s and her second daughter in her late 30s. Today we talk about her beautiful births and the importance of fea...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jackie. Jackie is a mum of one from Florida, USA, and at the time of recording only 2 weeks postpartum! She and her husband decided to go off birth control and try for a baby during the lockdowns in 2020 and ended up falling pregnant almost immediately. Jackie decided to go with a OB clinic, and even though they didn’t believe that she would have a natura...

Today we have Katie! Katie is a lactation consultant and midwife with exceptional breastfeeding knowledge. She is also the co host of The Midwives Cauldron Podcast with Rachel Reed that I interviewed previously in this season. And it’s such an honor to have her on for a bonus episode ALL about breastfeeding! She is giving you so much amazing information in an easy to digest format that will make a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Vicky. Vicky is a mum of one originally from Germany, now living in Japan. She arrived in Japan at three months pregnant with her husband, and at that time she new very little about giving birth and she noticed that very few of the hospital staff spoke English so she quickly realized she needed to do her own research about birth, which lead her into learn...

Today we have Tori Tori is mom of two from Calgary, Canada. In this episode we will hear about her two natural birth stories. Her first ended up being an unplanned home birth and it went so well that the second was a planned home birth. Her experiences led her to write a book called Ready to Unpop, which aims to normalize the less popular practices surrounding birth including home birth, doulas an...

Maha is a mother of 3 from northern NSW, Australia. She is originally Palestinian which has informed her work in the world as an award-winning International Birth Mentor, Author, Speaker and Independent Childbirth Educator. In today’s episode we will hear about her 3 natural births.  Her first being a premature birth at 34 weeks and her second and third being home births. She had a water lotus bir...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dionne. Dionne is a mama of 1 from Indiana, USA. She was extremely fearful of childbirth in the beginning of her pregnancy, but by going with a continuity of care midwifery program where she met the same midwives throughout her pregnancy, birth and postpartum as well as going to a counsellor to deal with her fears she ended up feeling calm and excited to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tayler. Tayler is a mum of two living on a boat in Brunswick river in NSW, Australia. She is a qualified nurse and doula and supports women throughout their pregnancy and postpartum as well as with Ayurvedic pregnancy massage. Tayler became a doula even before having her own children. So when the day came that she fell pregnant she already had a dream bir...

Jessie is a mum of two from Boston, Massachusetts, USA.  She is a middle school Spanish teacher and also training to be a doula.  She is interested in the anthropological study of birthing traditions around the world and passionate about promoting and supporting natural birth. In todays episode we will hear about her two natural births.  Her second baby was born just a few months ago during the co...