The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Claire Claire is a mama of one from Australia. She’s a sustainability activist and passionate feminist, and the founder of the fashion advocate. In this episode she shares about falling pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and how she knew she wanted a home birth with a known midwife. Her pregnancy proceeded well, but as she came up to 42 wee...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly. Holly is a mama of 2 from New Zealand. She’s an art teacher who’s currently a stay at home mum for her two boys at 2yrs and 10 weeks old. In this episode she shares about her well planned first pregnancy and birth, that ended up happening at the beginning of the pandemic and covid lockdowns.  After planning a home birth she ended up transferring af...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mia Mia is a young mama of one from Idaho, USA. She fell pregnant the first month of meeting the father of her baby and now partner.  She felt a great peace come over her when she fell pregnant and let her intuition guide her her whole way through her pregnancy and birth. She came down with a rare condition during pregnancy called hydro nephrosis, which e...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Niko Niko is a mama of two from New Zealand. She is an artist and makes mini huts. In today’s episode she shares about her first home birth and how it was a total shock becoming a mother and how it changed her entire life. We dive on in to the fact that as your first one is born, the old you, the maiden, dies and about all that that entails. For her secon...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan Megan is a mama of one from Arizona, USA. She is a wife and a stay at home mum who loves art and plants and plans on getting into birth work soon. She ended up having a fast and furious first birth.  It started with a bang, and she did her best in breathing through the contractions with the help of her husband and doula. She did her own internals an...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tierney Tierney is a Mama of two from the UK. In this episode we are going to hear about her Natural Hospital Birth with Gestational Diabetes.  More and more women are diagnosed with GDM as the parameters changed to being narrower a few years ago, leading to an increase in induction rates due to the fear of big babies. Tierney wouldn’t have it.  She did a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Susannah Susannah is a mama of two, from Sweden. She’s an osteopath specialized in women's health, pregnancy and postpartum.  And she is also a birth worker, doula trainer and the co:creatix of the Sacred Birth Keeper Course here in Sweden. In today’s episode she will so generously share about her two natural births, with the emphasis on her most rece...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kate Kate is a mama of 4 from Gold Coast, Australia. She is a free birth birth worker, postpartum supporter and placenta encapsulator amongst many things. In todays episode we discuss her 4 birth stories.  The first being in the hospital, the second a planned home birth with a midwife and her third a planned free birth, not fully going the way she had wan...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ammie Ammie is a mama of 2 and expecting her 3rd baby in just a few short months, from Mississippi, USA. She recently left her full time teaching career to be a full-time mum to her little ones.  Ammie’s first birth was a quite traumatic hospital birth.  She was pushed into induction and interventions she didn’t want, but didn’t know enough about to refus...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan. Megan is a Mama of one from the UK. She is a wild hearted creative traveller & crafter of divine arts, and the founder & creatrix of Alta Ritual Apothecary. She was determined to have a sovereign & sacred birth as nature intended, to honor her rite of passage & welcome her baby earth side. She decided to opt  out of the system and e...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Makensi Makensi is a mama of one from Australia. She is an Energy Healer, working with clients on their emotional, mental and spiritual selves. She creates dream catchers on intuitive guidance, paints and sews. Makensi has a background in nutrition and naturopathy and a keen interest in alternative therapies.  Makensi is a first time mumma in her 40’s who...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jessica Jessica is a mama of two from Alaska. She is a home birth midwife and the Director of Development for the Pacific Birth Institute.  She is on the leading edge of shaping community birth infrastructure nationwide, working at the Pacific Birth Institute to strengthen student midwifery and birth assistant education, and training access that honors cu...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Shiva Shiva is a mama of two originally from Turkey, now living in Denver, Colorado. Besides being a mama, she’s also a psychotherapist and yoga teacher. Today we are going to talk about her two natural births.  Her first was at a birth centre, and even though it looked from the outside as a natural and normal birth, in the wake of that birth, Shiva found...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Anna. Anna is a mama of 3 boys from Byron Bay, Australia.  After an unpleasant first medicalized hospital birth she met a doula who changed her mind from thinking birth is what happens in hospital, to claiming her rite of passage and going on to experiencing two magical water births at her local birth centre. And after her first magical experience with he...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kaelynn. Kaelynn is a mama of one from San Diego, USA. She is a lifelong competitive professional dancer, podcaster & seeker of truth. Through a holistic approach & radical self love she is overcoming the conditioned self, & claiming back her power as a Sovereign Woman. She and her partner chose early on in their pregnancy to free birth their...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jade Jade is a mama of two at the age of 23 from Kansas, US. She’s a photographer documenting women in their most honest, raw and poetic way possible, simultaneously as she’s studying to become a doula and yoga teacher. A lot of people might think that she is too young to have already brought two souls into this world but she believes that this is what sh...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Nabi! Nabi is a mama of one originally from Bolivia, now living in Oklahoma USA. I’ve known Nabi for almost a year now.  She joined The Natural Birth Course and my community soon after finding out she was pregnant and so I have had the privilege of walking alongside her, virtually, throughout her pregnancy, birth and postpartum. And in todays episode she...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma. Emma is a mama of one from Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia.  She is yoga and meditation teacher, speaker and writer, and she runs an online business with her partner called Flow States Collective.  She offers an online prenatal yoga series called Flow Baby, A 10 day meditation course for mothers to be, as well as courses for new mothers designed to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie. Melanie is a mama of 2 from Sweden, currently living in Spain. She and her partner sold everything to travel the world 9 years ago and ended up birthing their babies in two different countries. They are digital nomads known under the name of Love Conscious Family and have made a living out of sharing their alternative lifestyle online. Their firs...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kat River. Kat is a mama of one from Western Australia. She had yearned to be a mother for years before conceiving her son Rafi.  Because of this yearning she intentionally chose every aspect of the journey into parenthood, starting before her son was even conceived, then into conscious conception, pregnancy, home birth and intentional postpartum.  Before...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Juliet Allen. Juliet a mama of two living in the Northern Rivers NSW Australia. She is Australias leading Sexologist and the host of the Authentic Sex podcast and head teacher at Pleasure School.  In this episode we will dive deeply into her conscious conception journey and years of preparation and miscarriages with her partner Nick, as well as her first...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sam Sam is a mama of one from the US. She is a three-time Certified Breathwork Facilitator with 200+ hours of teacher training. She is also trained in Yoga Nidra Meditation and Energy Therapy.  She creates an experience in transformative healing using spiritual teachings, conscious breath work, somatic integration, meditation & energy work. She is dee...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Narin. Narin is a mama of one from Sweden.  Her and her Italian husband Stefano decided to have a home birth with me and my home birth colleague Elisa about 4 months ago. In this episode we will both weave our stories together, she as the birthing mama sharing her experience and me as her birth supporter and space holder. Narin went from fearing birth to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Amber Luna. Amber is a mama of 3 from California. She was a young mum of 17 with her first and 20 with her second and didn’t do much preparation and just followed the hospital and the standard medicalized birth route which she states were negative experiences. When she fell pregnant with her new partner and husband she instantly knew she didn’t want anoth...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Taylor Taylor is a mama of 3 from New Jersey, USA. She is a self proclaimed free spirit, lover of nature, baking, and an avid learner of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. In this episode we will hear about her 3 natural births and the big difference between her first hospital birth, her second planned home birth becoming an accidental free birth and her t...