The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a mama of one originally from Ireland, living in the Netherlands.  Sarah was resistant to become pregnant initially because of the traumatic and painful experience child birth seemed to be.  It wasn’t until her friend and previous podcast guest, Natalie , shared her positivity and empowering birth story that Sarah decided to go for it.  An...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rebecca. Rebecca is a mama of two from Bristol, UK. She is a civil servant working in forestry as well as a yoga and hypnobirthing teacher. A profession she stepped into after the birth of her first. Her first birth was a planned a home birth that it didn't go as she’d hoped, which we will dive on into in the beginning of this episode before we contin...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Elke. Elke is a mama of two from South Australia.  She’s a senior secondary science teacher currently on leave to raise her two babies.  Her first birth ended up in an ”emergency” caesarean due to failure to progress, however if you’ve listened to this podcast you know that 99.9% of the time it is the failure of the medicalized maternity system not uphold...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Heather. Heather is a mama of two little girls and a step son from Florida.   She experienced deep transformation and awakening from her birth experiences and her transitions into motherhood, and has found a passion discussing the sensational power that physiological and instinctual birth is for women.  She recently founded MovementWithMom.com, a communit...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Gianne. Gianne is a mama of one from the Gold Coast, Australia.  She's always been so deeply fascinated with the mystery that is pregnancy and birth, knowing just how much of a miracle it truly is.  Gianne and her partner Summit consciously conceived their daughter Indira on their first try. Her partner, being a chiropractor, knew about the Midwifery...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rebecca. Rebecca is a mama of two from the UK, now living in Sweden with her Swedish husband. Rebecca and I met after Rebecca contacted me to be her Spiritual Midwife here in Stockholm, Sweden.  At our first meeting we discussed her previous traumatic hospital birth and how this time she was considering free birthing as she didn’t really want to go back t...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Rachel. Rachel is a mama of 2 from the US. Her first baby boy was born 5 years ago in the hospital by induction for going over 40 weeks. A practice that is getting more and more common despite its risks to mother and baby and without benefit for a normal mama and baby. After her first birth Rachel decided to educate herself and to have a home birth for he...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly. Holly is a mama of four from the UK and she is a veterinarian, a feminist and passionate about women’s experiences of birth and motherhood.  As a veterinarian, she has seen many mammal births and know that this works best when the mother is undisturbed. It was therefore a completely logical choice for her to have home births. She went on to have al...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Aimee Aroha. Aimee is originally from New Zealand, today living in Australia and she is a Wild Mother and Transpersonal Birth Mentor. She generously takes us through her first hospital birth at the young age of 24 and her initiation into motherhood. We then dive into red threads, birth imprinting, rites of passages and women’s power in her rites and birth...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mya. Mya is a young mama of one from Texas USA. She is a spiritual yogi and a certified yoga teacher as well as a full time college student, majoring in Child Development.  In today’s episode Mya will share about becoming pregnant and just knowing she didn’t want to birth in a hospital so she decided to birth at a birth centre, but when her baby wanted to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Fatima Fatima is a mama of two from New Zealand. She is a lover of pregnancy and birth and really found her true calling when she became a Mama. She experienced a home birth for her first baby and then decided to have a free birth for her second. Fatima’s two empowering births led her to become a transformational pregnancy and birth coach and Mother’s Ble...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jet. Jet is a mama of two from The Netherlands. She is a holistic sleep coach for young children and a childbirth educator. In today’s episode we will hear about her two births, starting with the pearls of wisdom she gained from her first birth that didn’t go to to plan, and was a transfer to hospital with some medicalization of her birth process.   In th...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stephanie. Stephanie is a mama of 2 from Sydney, Australia and she is a painter and a high school arts teacher. Her first baby was born in hospital via induction, epidural and episiotomy at 42 weeks and it was not the birth experience she wanted. So when falling pregnant again and buying their first house, she felt like she wanted and could give birth at...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jessica. Jessica is a mama of one from Texas where she lives with her husband and run a horse training business as well as selling real estate.  She loves horseback riding and rode her horses up until 9 months pregnant. Today we will hear about her birth centre birth and how she, after 24hrs, birthed her baby in the center but had a tear they were not con...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Grace. Grace is a Mama of one from British Colombia, Canada.  She is the creator of Polyrhythmic cranial healing and holds women’s circles and retreats to help us connect the dots back to each other.  In today’s episode we speak of so much more than Grace’s powerful natural birth story. I even have a hard time putting it into words. We both have goosebump...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellen Fisher. Ellen is a mama of 5 living on beautiful Hawaii. She is a home birthing and home schooling mama who loves growing her own food and is a vegan of 16 years. She’s also a podcast host of her own podcast called The Ellen Fisher Podcast which I very much recommend you check out, and she just launched The Empowered Pregnancy & Birth Course sha...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Chelsea Lee. Chelsea Lee is a mama of two living in rural South Australia. She is a hairdresser gone wild stay at home mama after birthing her two babies. Her first baby was an intended free birth but ended up being a road side birth with a whole team attending. When she hit transition she made the decision to go to hospital, however didn’t make it all th...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Roz. Roz is a mama of one from British Colombia, Canada. She is personal trainer and runs her own health and wellness Arbonne business.  Roz teaches yoga, leads adventure retreats and is raising her 1 year old babe with her partner Grant. And in today’s episode she shares about her fast home birth that was around 3 hours from the first contraction to havi...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast I am sharing a special episode with you about The Art of Sacred Space Holding in Birth. It is an episode bringing some embodied wisdom for mamas to be about why it is so important who you invite into your birth space and it’s a resource for you who are attending or are planning on attending a birth. Maybe you’re a sister, mother, partner or friend. Maybe you’re a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily. Emily is originally from Poland and married an American man and birthed her first two babies in America.  She then moved to Bali during her 3rd pregnancy and ended up having a nourishing and supported free birth in a culture that honors, celebrates and cares for mothers, throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum in the original ways humans hav...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Caroline. Caroline is a mama of two from Scotland and a beautiful client of mine. Her first birth was a traumatic experience for her which, when she fell pregnant again, she reached out to me to heal and work through which I am so grateful she did. When she emailed me about her positive natural home birth with her second on Christmas Eve I was so delighte...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalia. Natalia is a mother of two living in the desert in Scottsdale, Arizona!  She is a freelance artist and doula in training.  Natalias first birth was a medicalized birth with an epidural and a vacuum birth with a tear as a side effect, which she experienced as traumatic.  However, it didn’t make her doubt her ability to birth naturally.  Quite the...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily. Emily is a mama of two from Scotland. She moved back to the highlands of Scotland, where she grew up, when she was pregnant to have her first born Betty.  Just as she was considering what line of work to go into after being a full time mum she was blessed with another baby and continued to stay at home to raise Jim who, at the time of our recording...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Britney. Britney is a mama of one from Salt Lake City, Utah.  She spent most of her life afraid of birth and swore she would never do it!  But after years of doing her own personal healing work, she felt called to motherhood.  When she found out she was pregnant, she dove head first into the world of pregnancy, labor and birth.  And she dedicated herself...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.  Emma is a mama of one originally from Australia, now living in Sweden.  She is an amazing artist and highly sensitive being which was very evident during her birth. She is a client of mine and in this episode you get to hear both of our versions of Emmas birth.  This episode is a really beautiful resource for you who know you’re a highly sensitive...