Wombs of the World Podcast

On this week's episode of the Wombs of the World Podcast, we explore the role of Ayurveda in postpartum care, emphasizing the importance of warmth, nourishment, and self-care. Nupur shares her journey and transition to postpartum work, highlighting the cultural confusion in postpartum care and the beauty of the mother in Ayurvedic care. The discussion delves into the basics of postpartum Ayurvedic...

This week's episode features Nina Spears, of the "Baby Chick" as we explore the role of a baby planner and doula, the Baby Chick Guide to Positive Pregnancy, challenges of motherhood and postpartum care, global perspectives on maternal care, and more! Show Links: The Baby Chick: https://www.baby-chick.com/ The Positive Pregnancy Book by Nina Spears: https://www.baby-chick.com/positive-pregnancy-bo...

The conversation explores the intersection of cultural identity, diaspora, and the challenges faced by families in the diaspora. Macy shares her background, work as a doula, and the importance of cultural sensitivity in caregiving. The discussion delves into the complexities of identity, whiteness, and the revolutionary nature of the conversations held at the Wombs of the World Summit. The convers...

Most birth stories are seen as a checklist of medical interventions, but Vanessa Lachmann reveals how integrating shamanic ceremony and ancestral wisdom transforms the birthing experience into a deeply sacred, embodied rite of passage. Moving beyond the medicalization of birth, she offers a revolutionary perspective on how ceremony, lineage, and presence can restore trust, vitality, and true power...

In this insightful episode, I sit down with Hannah Gray, a Doula who transitioned from healthcare tech to full-time birth work. We explore her journey into the world of doulas, where she combines digital skills with traditional care to create a thriving practice. Hannah shares her experiences of building authentic relationships, valuing her work, and fostering community support. We discuss the bal...

We are so honored and excited to have Dr. Nicole Rankins on the Wombs of the World Podcast! With over two decades of experience as an OB-GYN, she explores how centering birthing people can reshape a system.; Dr. Rankins shares her journey from traditional medical practice to advocating for cultural shifts in birth care. She provides a grounded look into the realities of hospital births, highlighti...

In this episode, Charlotte sits down with Edwina Koch, a prison doula with the Ostara Initiative, to explore what it means to support pregnancy, birth, and postpartum within the carceral system. Edwina shares her journey into this work and offers a deeply grounded look into the realities of birth while incarcerated. From weekly prenatal and postpartum support to navigating hospital births under cu...

You asked, and we answered. In this Instagram Q&A episode, Charlotte, founder of Wombs of the World, joins Kyndrick Peachey to talk birthwork origin stories, global trips, ceremony, baby-doula enthusiasm, unexpected moments (yes, including baboons), and what it really means to be called into this work. This conversation is heartfelt, unfiltered, and full of stories from the road, the birth roo...

In this episode, I sit down with Shreni and DJ of We Have Kids Now for a conversation that spans continents, birth systems, and the deep work of partnership. Shreni shares her two very different birth stories: giving birth to her first child during COVID in China, where she experienced a fascinating and deeply supportive model of postpartum care, and then welcoming her second baby in the midst of...

FR 🇫🇷 (Pour celles et ceux qui ne le savent pas, j’ai grandi en France et je vis à Paris aujourd’hui.) Dans cet épisode en français, je reçois  Mama Cam, Camille Denois , doula basée en Colombie et de retour en France cette saison. Camille est un pont, profondément respectueuse des pratiques ancestrales, tout en honorant la puissance de la médecine moderne quand elle sert les mères avec humanité....

In this episode of the  Wombs of the World Podcast , I sit down with  Nina Vermeulen , a doula, artist, and space holder based in Belgium and the founder of  Your Voyage Home . Our conversation moves gently through the quiet, often hidden chapters of becoming: preconception, pregnancy loss, longing, grief, and the deeply tender question so many carry,  am I a mother?  Nina shares her journey into...

In this episode of the Wombs of the World podcast, Charlotte sits down with the incredible Chantal Blake, a menstrual health educator, mother, and founder of Honored Womb, as well as the author of  Peaceful Periods: Holistic Womb Care for Teens . Together they explore vaginal steaming as ancestral medicine and modern therapeutic tool. Chantal shares how steaming can support painful periods, infect...

In this beautiful episode, I sit with my dear friend  Mariela , a traditional Mexican midwife whose story flows from the heart of Mexico City to borderlands birth centers and beyond. We talk about the journey of becoming a midwife, from learning placenta medicine at sixteen to catching babies across cultures, and how midwifery bridges both  ceremony and clinical care . Together we explore what it...

Today we remember. We talk about birth as ceremony- for the mother, the parents, for the village, the land, the waters, and all our ancestors. Rosa Amarilla joins me to share Andean-rooted wisdom on naming rituals, caring for the placenta, the medicine wheel, and what it really means to decolonize our care. We also get practical: how to weave altar work, dreamwork, and small acts of reverence into...

Charlotte is joined by South African birth pioneer  Theoni Papoutsis  to explore conscious birth, postpartum care, and the realities of South Africa’s maternity systems. Together they talk about doulas and independent midwives, liability culture and rising cesarean rates, and why trust and surrender are central to birth. Theoni shares her wisdom on postpartum support, belly binding, closing ritual...

Charlotte sits down with Berlin-based birthworker and policy researcher  Clara Arenas  to explore why birth is both the most intimate act and a deeply political one. They trace how postpartum care reflects a society’s values, compare community care and paid leave across cultures, and unpack what it really means to  decolonize birth , pluralizing perspectives, respecting sovereignty, and keeping ce...

In this very first episode, Charlotte Brielle, founder of Wombs of the World, sits down with doula and communications manager Kyndrick Peachey to ground us in the basics of birthwork. Together they explore what a doula is, how doulas and midwives differ, and why the doula’s role is such a vital bridge between ceremony and medicine. From the rise of doulas worldwide to the traditions of rebozo and...