The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sofia. Sofia is a Swedish mama of 5 who is currently living with her family in France. She is a yoga teacher and homeschooling mama and today she is sharing all of her 5 births and her interesting life journey. She birthed her first baby at home as a 23 year old and then had her second also in Sweden which happened so fast it was an accidental free birth....

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Veronica. Veronica is a mama of two from the US. She is a somatic & trauma trained practitioner and educator as well as a doula. Today she brings you the pearls of wisdom from her first home birth hospital transfer and some really amazing takeaways as an embodied woman and birth worker. She then proceeds to share about her redemptive second birth cent...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Maria. Maria is a mama of one living in Glasgow, Scotland, originally from Lithuania.  She struggled with PCOS for most of her late teens and twenties, but was only diagnosed later in life. This allowed her to finally try to heal herself, because conventional medicine doesn't provide a way to "heal" PCOS. After a 2 year detour into detoxing...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Catherine. Catherine is a mama of one from the US. She believes that a HUGE reason she was able to have a completely unmedicated, wonderful hospital birth was because throughout her pregnancy she was empowered by listening to the stories of so many amazing, strong women on the natural birth podcast! So she came on to give back! And what a story she has! S...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ryan. She is a mama from Los Angeles, California, the US. Ryan is a mama of one daughter and one son on the way as well as two rescue mutts.   She is also the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Needed, a company championing better nutrition for women, their families and our earth.   She is a lifelong environmentalist and a holistic nutritionist with training in fol...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mae Yoshikawa. Mae is a mama of 2 from Japan. She is an author and yoga and meditation teacher as well as a global ambassador for Adidas.   She has been on 42 consecutive covers of the Japanese Yogini magazine and was awarded the Yoga Journal People's Award in 2016.   Her offerings have been featured on many media outlets including Vogue Japan, GQ, an...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sophie. Sophie is a mama of one from the UK, now living in Costa Rica.   In this episode we will hear her story of trusting the maternity care she was given as most first time mamas do and how it only created anxiety and stress, ultimately derailing her home birth to a hospital birth.   This episode will highlight the risks with ultrasounds and inform you...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Agata. Agata is a mama of 2 from Sweden and one of my dear clients. And today we have a very special story to tell.   Agata is quite the unicorn. She waited calmly for her baby to be ready and for labour to start naturally after her waters broke for over 96 hours. Which in our modern birth climate is unheard of.   With my assistance and guidance and her d...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stella.   Stella is a mama of two from Florida, USA. She works in the health & wellness space and lives a natural, holistic lifestyle.   She went from being terrified of birth, thinking she would never have children because of her fears, to having two beautiful home births in the house built by her and her husband.    Her first birth was long and chal...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Poppy. Poppy a mama of two from New Zealand. She is a singer and musical theatre performer. And in today’s episode she will share the births of her two babies. Her first was a midwife attended home birth and her second, which we will dive deeply into today, was an unassisted free birth in her home together with her sister and partner. And Poppy went on to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia. Olivia is a mama of two from the US.  As so many first time mamas, she was over confident about her ability to have a natural birth in a hospital and ended up having the typical American hospital birth flat on her back with an epidural and her legs up in the air being told when to push. She put in a lot of work in preparing for her second birth, s...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lucy. Lucy is a Mama to my four from Australia.  She is a certified Doula and a former Midwife who just like me handed in her registration as working in the system was so traumatizing to her and she just couldn’t go on any longer.  She also finally came to the sad conclusion that she was never going to be able to serve women and families authentically whi...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Blythe. Blythe is a mama of Irish twins from the US. This means her babies were born within the year of each other.  Her first birth was a standard hospital birth that left her feeling traumatized just like so many women around her.  So after becoming pregnant with her second, she knew things had to be better and began the journey to the healing natural b...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fiona Fiona is an actor and a mama of two from the UK. Today we will hear about how she had her daughter at home in a birth pool as her son slept upstairs. It was calm, beautiful and even pleasurable!  Her baby girl was born en caul, which is when the amniotic sac is intact and has been believed throughout the ages to be a sign of luck, and her daughter a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia. Olivia is a mama of one from Virginia, USA and is an elementary school teacher. She and her husband consciously conceived their son on their first try and immediately after finding out she was pregnant she wanted to know everything about birth and of course she found the natural birth podcast! This led her to switch from thinking she should have a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Dana. Dana is a Mama of two from the Bass Coast, Australia. Her first birth ended in an epidural, episiotomy, retained placenta and mastitis. And going from experiencing a catalyst of interventions with her first birth, Dana was determined to heal before having her second.  She wanted to fully understand what happened and where things went wrong so she co...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nicole. Nicole is a Mama of two from Australia. She is a gardener, performance artist, poet and a multi passionate birth nerd. She has lived on an off-grid intentional community in the forest, by the sea for the last 20 years, raising her kids and cultivating a deep trust in birth & life.  Her mission is to help women and families know what is possibl...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia. Olivia is a mama of one from New York, who’s currently living in Berlin.  Being very freedom-driven and having lived in several places around the world, Olivia wasn’t sure pregnancy, birth and motherhood was for her. But after much intentional questioning she decided to take the leap of faith and became pregnant very quickly after moving to Berlin...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Patricia Patricia is a mama of two from the UK. As so often on this podcast she has a story of having a medicalized first hospital birth and then a redemptive natural home birth for her second. In this episode she shares briefly about her first and then we dive on into her second which was a planned home birth with a midwife, that ended up being an unplan...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast I will be the guest. Usually on this podcast I am the host and I interview mamas from around the world who’ve had a natural and empowering birth experience. The intention with this podcast was to spread an alternative birth narrative to the dominant fear based medicalized one. And I’ve come to be known as The Spiritual Midwife around the world doing so. And that...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jerusha. Jerusha is a doula, and birth and family photographer and videographer from the Northern Rivers NSW Australia. She is one of the co-creators of Birth Time: the documentary, an international award winning documentary about the maternity system in Australia, and around the world. In today’s episode you get to hear about Jerushas own two home births...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Asabea. Asabea is one of Sweden’s most famous midwife’s as well as an author, podcaster, and influencer. She is a mama of 2 children earth side and one cooking away inside her womb.  And today she will share her take aways from her first medicalized hospital birth and why she chose to have a home birth for her second. As well as sharing all the amazing de...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Devin. She is a Hispanic-American mama of 2 living in a “family village” in Southern California USA. Devin is an International Coach, speaker and creator of the award-winning program Sacred: 7 Pillars of Self-Love and Liberation .  Through her coaching, Devin helps women embrace self-compassion, liberate their spirit and embody their wildness through the...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nicole. She’s a mama of 2 from the US. She has a degree in Family Life and is the founder of the blog, Family Reality and Joy, where she seeks to help married couples and parents navigate the difficulties of family life. In this episode Nicole shares about her second birth after a medicalized hospital birth, which was a natural home birth with her indepen...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lauren. Lauren is a mama of 2 from the Gold Coast, Australia. She is Australia's first professional instagramer and before she became a mama she worked as a full time travel influencer and speaker.  Today she is the co founder of Makia the baby journal, a digital baby journal designed for parents to use to document their journey to parenthood. In this...