The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan. Megan is a mama of two who’s had two hospital births.  She really wanted a home birth but her husband was not comfortable with that and so she wasn’t either. To have a natural birth in a hospital today is almost impossible, especially without a kick ass birth advocate by your side and lots of education beforehand.  You’re stepping into their territ...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Karina. Karina is a mama of two from Australia and the creator of The Cosmic Mother Pregnancy Oracle. After feeling disconnected during her first pregnancy, and ending up with a home birth transfer and a medicalized first birth, she sensed an opportunity for healing with her second. She recognised in hind sight her disconnection and mind played a big part...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jessica Jessica is a mama of one from Dorset, UK. She is a first time mama who chose to have a wild pregnancy and a freebirth. She has been obsessed with birth for about 4 years now after discovering she no longer wanted to have a relationship with the medical system and had to work out how to do that when it came down to pregnancy and birth. She now work...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jasmine Jasmine is a mama of one from Auckland, New Zealand. She works as a HR Business Partner while studying law and she used to be a professional nanny which gave her a deep appreciation for caregiving and family dynamics . She’s very connected to her spirituality, and that connection gave her the confidence to trust her body and have a home birth. It...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Carly Carly is a mama of 3 from Australia. She’s a Midwife, Lactation Consultant and Parenting Mentor. She’s had the privilege of supporting families from different cultures through the childbearing journey into parenthood and invite people to take ownership of their experiences during their childbearing, infant feeding and parenting journeys and recognis...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Hanna. Hanna is a mama of one from the US. She is a therapist, photographer, doula and all around birth and baby nerd who spent her entire 20s preparing to become a mother; while also navigating grief, being a caretaker, and her own mental health/career challenges. Hannah desired a birth beyond it being a medical event, she craved a spiritual celebration...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Patricia. Patricia is from the US now living in South Korea and is a former Air Force military, now a veterinarian, birth doula and yoga teacher. Her and her husband are a military family stationed in South Korea due to her husband's job. They moved there when Patricia was 35 weeks pregnant and today we get to hear about her fast unplanned home birth with...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jesse. Jesse is a mama of 3 boys under 3 and she lives outside of Idaho, USA. She is a stay at home mama and have known she wanted to be a mother ever since she was a little girl. In today’s episode she shares her journey of wanting a natural pregnancy and birth from the getgo, being an avid listener to this podcast from her first pregnancy, but how she w...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a super fan of the podcast. She has been listening since the beginning in 2020 and this is the 3rd time she comes on to share her own natural birth story and it’s an honor to have her back. Her previous episodes are called “A Natural Birth Center Birth” & “Sarah Changed her Midwives and had her Stargazing Baby at 40 weeks” if you’d like to...

In this heartfelt and powerful episode of The Natural Birth Podcast , I’m offering you a special gift in honor of Mother’s Day. 💝 I’ve gathered together 35 mamas pearls of wisdom from across the globe—each one a sacred story holder who has walked through the rite of passage of birth and had a natural and positive experience. These women share their most potent advice from the other side of labor...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stacey. Stacey is a mama of two from the US.She is a mental health therapist who is certified in peri and postnatal mood disorders. She is also a trained EMDR therapist and yoga teacher. Stacey discovered this niche in therapy through her own healing journey after her first born was born at 32 weeks and was in the NICU for 30 days. Today she spends the fi...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Brett Brett is a mama of 8 spirit babies, 2 daughters and a son. In this episode she shares about her unique journey of birthing her daughter as a 20 year old only to experience 8 more losses in between her first, second and third baby. She has the embodied experience of a birth center birth, a home birth after a stitch in her cervix called cerclage and t...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Marju.  Marju is mama of 3 girls from Finland. She is a Sacred Birth Worker who fell fully in love with birth when she was preparing for her own home birth, which was her 3rd birth after 2 hospital births! In today’s episode she shares her journey of wanting to have natural hospital births, her experience of both before realizing that she could actually j...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Another Surprise Breech Birth, today by a mama and a sacred birth worker graduate of mine Jessica who chose a wild pregnancy with her 4th baby. Jessica begins her story by sharing about her surprise breech baby at home and how she for the first time had felt a lot of fear before this birth. Her intuition told her this birth would be different from her 3 p...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Victoria. Victoria is a mama of one and a bonus mum of two. She is an Irish immigrant now living in Ohio.  She is an EMDR therapist and works with clients who have ptsd, depression and anxiety. She has her own practice called Anima Counseling, in Dublin, Ohio.  Today she shares her surprise breech birth at home with her pastor doula and home birth midwife...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lindsey Lindsey is a mama of 2 from Denver Colorado. She grew up dancing, running, practicing yoga and loving the outdoors. She owns a bakery with her husband Matt, dances professionally and is a hardcore extrovert. Today she shares about her first birth at a 33 yrs old that was set to happen at a birth center. She was eventually transferred to the hospit...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Abbie. Abbie is a mama of two from Australia, and the sister of Freya who shared her three births on the podcast way back in the episode called Remembering Birth. I loved my interview with Freya and her sister did not disappoint I tell you! Abbie comes on to share about the perfect natural water birth at home after her first birth left her with unshakable...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Paula. Paula is a mama of two from the Gold Coast, Australia, originally from NZ.   After having two empowering births of her own and discovering the power of the mind and breath connection she started her own business as a Functional Breathwork Coach and Meditation Teacher.  She love all things birth since having her own children as well as having suppor...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma. Emma is a mama of three from Michigan, USA. She is a doula who used her three births to educate herself and spur a love for feminine energy, birth, and helping other women. From a ‘failed’ home birth, to a doula-protected, unmedicated hospital birth, to an unassisted birth with just her and her husband, Emma’s greatest teachers in life have been bir...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nina. Nina is a mama of one from Germany. She is a sacred space holder and one of my sacred birth worker mentees. She is all about empowering and inspiring people to trust themselves, their intuition, their voices and their own truth. Her work is to hold space for and support souls in remembering that everything is connected, and to be living, breathing,...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast Anna gathers together with a Doula, a Midwife, a Doctor and a Sacred Birth Worker to talk about How They Knew Birth Work was Their Soul Calling. She asks them questions about how they got into birth work in the first place, if they believe birth work IS a soul calling and what they would say to anyone thinking about becoming a birth worker of any sort (doula, mid...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mia  Mia is a mama of one originally from Montreal, Canada, now living in a cozy house by a river in the woods of Norway with her Norwegian husband. Mia is a certified doula, prenatal yoga teacher and Mama Blessing ceremony facilitator who is absolutely passionate about natural birth. Her work extends to facilitating women’s circles, retreats, and organiz...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sonia. Sonia is a mom to three and currently resides in North Carolina. At just 22 years old, after meeting the love of her life, she became a mother to her two adoptive kids (now teenagers!) After a long journey to conceiving their first baby, Sonia and her husband were overjoyed to welcome their baby into the world and had spent a lot of time figuring o...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Chelsea. And my oh my is this a special and unique story. Chelsea is actually a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee of mine. She started the 2nd cohort last year but got severe hyperemesis with this bub that we are going to hear the birth story off. So she’ll be joining the 4th cohort starting in April. She’s also been on the poddy before on the episode Chelsea Le...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have our host Anna, a former midwife, share about how to prepare for a home birth. She shares her best tips on how to prepare the birth space, labour stations to set up and use, water birth prep, what you need as well as the best nourishment in labour and birth! For anyone curious about home birth or planning a home birth this episode is gold! Save it and shar...