The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie the Midwife from The Great Birth Rebellion. Mel is a mama of two from Australia and a Private Midwife, a Midwifery Mentor, Researcher and a Podcast host. I am a huge fan girl of Mel’s and so excited to have her on the podcast. And many of her episodes are a part of the resources for The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship and I highly recommend it to m...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Aubrey. Aubrey is a mama of two from New Jersey, USA. She has had two natural births with two completely different experiences. Her first bubba was conceived with the help of IVF and her birth was a hospital transfer from a birth center. It was over 24 hours long, exhausting, and looking back Aubrey could see that she was scared and alone for almost all o...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tam. Tam is a psychotherapist of Holistic Therapy where she merges the Clinical with the Spiritual, and take her clients on a journey of deep healing through energy work, and intuitive guidance.  She created EmpowHER Healing from the need to shift psychology into a deeper spiritual realm. Fascinated by the human condition, and the Psyche of the Soul, she...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie. Melanie is a mama of 3 from Idaho. She is a nurse anesthetist and as such she was working on the front lines through Covid as well as providing anesthesia to laboring women and often seeing the worst of the worst. She was also told as a 20 year old by her OBGYN that her hips were to small and that she’d need a C/S. Total un evidence based, unsoli...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jan. Jan is a 43 yr old nurse and mama of four beautiful souls. She has dedicated her life to nurturing the health and well-being of others. Alongside taking care of her patients and homeschooling her children, she has embarked on a deeply personal journey of rediscovering the power and magic of holistic health and was given the chance to use that knowled...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Alexandra. Alexandra is a mama of one from California. She runs a farm with her partner and has been a performing dance artist for the last 10 years. Alexandra comes from an area where the home birth movement was big back in the 70’s and 80’s. One of her brother’s was home birthed when she was three and a half years old and she was also present for the ho...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lindsey Meehleis. Lindsey is a fellow spiritual midwife, medicine woman and storyteller who I absolutely adore and I am so excited to have her on the podcast. It feels like talking to myself. I am certain you’ll all love the beautiful storytelling and wisdom that pours through Lindsey. In today’s episode we dive on into Lindsey’s own two birth stories. He...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly. Holly is a mama of two from the UK.  She is a clinical psychologist and working with children is her passion.  Today we will dive on into her two birth stories. She thought she was well informed with her first birth which was a fast hospital birth, but in retrospect she wishes she knew more. For her second pregnancy, she dove deep into the research...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nix. Nix is a mama of 2, originally from Cape Town, but have lived in the UK since the age of 5. Nix is trained in finance and has spent the last 6 years working for a large music and arts festival as well as a tech company.  But now she is following a different calling and career path after training as a yoga teacher and joining The Sacred Birth Worker M...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Helen. Helen is a stay at home mother of two, airbnb superhost, and a property developer who lives on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.  Today we will hear about how Helen became pregnant with her first baby at 39 years old using IVF and then experienced secondary infertility until she became pregnant with her second. A long, painful but essentially...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kayla. Kayla is a mama of one from South Africa.  She is a doula and a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee who is passionate about supporting mothers and families during the precious journey of childbirth.  Today we will hear about her journey of knowing at a very young age she needed to become a mother and how the desire to become a mother and a birth worker was...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rachel. Rachel is a mama of two from the US. Her passion for birth and babies started when she went to nursing school and wanted to work on a maternity floor. When she finally landed a job as a mother & baby nurse, she quickly was not impressed by how birthing mamas and newborns were cared for. She stayed working in the system for four years, but was...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fanny. Fanny is a mama of four, something she says she never thought she’d ever be, from Sweden. She is currently a stay at home mama and used to work in HR. Today we will hear about all of her 4 four births but the focus will be on her most recent amazing home birth with her twins. Fanny says her home water birth was a fantastic experience where she just...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dailah. Dailah is a Mother of 4 from the US living in Africa. She is a Quantum life coach and a Painless Birth™ Worker.  She assists Women to give birth without pain using a series of brain wave techniques and tools.  In this episode she will share about her first 3 hospital births with epidurals and the shift that led her to birthing her fourth child at...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lauren. Lauren is a mama of 1 originally from England, now living in New Zealand for seven years. She’s a pastry chef and qualified personal trainer, now focusing on raising her baby girl. She’s been vegan for ten years and is trying to live a low tox holistic kinda lifestyle. During her whole pregnancy she felt very skeptical about inviting her midwife t...

Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda. Amanda is a mama of 2 from Texas. She’s a birth photographer, birth assistant, doula and placenta encapsulator and a secretary and social media coordinator for a birth center. She says that she is blessed to mostly work from home and have the ability to homeschool her daughter. In todays episode we get to hear about her two birth stories. The last...

Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Carla. Carla is a mama of one from Sydney. She’s a pelvic floor physiotherapist who has worked in some of the largest maternity hospitals in Sydney. Her work has involved supporting women as they recover from third and fourth degree tears, bladder and bowel incontinence, sexual and pelvic pain and prolapse concerns.  Carla is also a yoga and meditation te...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sophia. Sophia is a mother of 3 from the UK, living in Corfu Greece. She is a midwife, who is obsessed with bringing pregnancy and birth back into the hands, hearts and wombs of women and families. And she is a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee of mine. Imagine my delight to have her both in my mentorship as well as coming on here to share her amazing natural an...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalie. Natalie is a mama of one from the UK, now living in Thailand. She is an artist and a property developer, and a lover of meditation and alternative health and living a unique, authentic life.  Natalie found out she was pregnant whilst on a snowboard season in Japan and was initially absolutely terrified at the thought of birth. She made it her mis...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a mama of 2 from Cornwall, UK. She is a holistic nutritionist and passionate about all aspects of health and wellness, the importance of our connection to nature and living as empowered beings for a happy, healthy life. When Sarah first became pregnant she was fearful of birth, but through claiming it and educating herself and doing daily...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Maria. Maria is a mama of 3 from Sweden. She has a background in journalism and has written three books about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum as well as working as a doula and a massage therapist. She’s also the co-founder of Braido Organics with Kristina that you heard from just a couple of weeks back. And this year she is also starting her journey t...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Cory. Cory is a mama of three and soon four from Texas, USA. Her first baby was born in Hawaii where she met her husband. She planned a natural birth that turned into a C/S which she wasn’t happy about and therefore was adamant in having a VBAC for her second. Her second became her redemption birth and she ended up having her baby in the luxury of her own...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kristina Turner. Kristina is a writer, birth activist, sacred birth keeper and red tent women’s circle facilitator with over 25 years of experience. She wrote the book Natural Birth – A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding after giving birth to her three children. The births that we will hear all about in this episode. The spiritually...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma back. Emma is a meditation and yoga teacher as well as an author, podcaster, mentor and speaker from Byron Bay Australia and now a mama of two! Emma was on the poddy in May 2022 sharing her first fast empowering home birth in the episode ”Breaking Ancestral Patterns and choosing Home Birth” Now she is back breaking all the assumptions about second bi...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Denise. Denise is a mama of one from Arizona USA. She is a stay at home mom and an Airbnb host. After watching The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake, her now husband told her, even before they were married or thinking of having babies, that they should home birth. And Denise became fascinated by pregnancy and birth by listening to The Natural Birth Pod...