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Oxytocin is a hormone whose effects on the body are hugely celebrated yet largely unknown. Dr Sarah Buckley's work on Oxytocin has extensive insights into how it affects women in pregnancy and birth.

Focus points

• The Oxytocin, Pregnancy and Due Dates
• Hormones and the essence of Pain in childbirth 
• Oxytocin and Induction
• Impact of interventions on Labor such as Epidural and Csec
• Birth Bliss and the experience of unmedicated , undisturbed births
• Oxytocin along Breastfeeding and Postpartum

Dr. Sarah Buckley is a GP, researcher, and mother of four, best known for her bestselling book Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering and her influential research on oxytocin and the hormones of labour.

For more than 20 years, Dr Sarah has written, taught, and spoken around the world for various elite newspapers, midwifery journals , tv and news to help families make informed, intuitive choices. She has been featured in documentaries like Orgasmic Birth, Birth Time, and Born at Home

https://sarahbuckley.com/

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Series: Midwives around the world

What is traditionally midwifery and what do midwives have to say about Birth work, licensure and the shifting dynamics among birthworkers. As a pregnant couple listening to this episode you will have clarity in your decision making when choosing a midwife or support team for your birth.

Discussion Points

1. Licensure in the world of birth.

2. Do skills matter in unlicensed midwifery?

3. Division in the world of midwifery on medical vs non medical - helpful or regressive?

4. Stories on supporting Plus sized pregnancy.

About the Guests

Maryn Green is a traditional homebirth radical midwife with over 15 years of experience in supporting women throughout the perinatal period. She co-founded Indie Birth Association and hosts -Taking Birth Back and co-hosts Raising 10 kids with her husband. 

Margo has been a midwife since 2016 having apprenticed with Maryn for 5 years along with undertaking a midwifery course.  Margo works with women virtually, mentoring new midwives while single mom-ing and homeschooling her two gorgeous children. She is also a magical money coach. 

Find them:

maryngreen.co

magicalmama.org

https://indiebirth.org/

YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MomGoesSurfing

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Birth work is a complex territory. It is coming together of an expecting family with a birth worker and they work together with consistent dialogue about the changing desires and needs of a family and in Reba , our guest's words, the line or boundary of the Birth worker. 

Reba Daniel is a health journalist, birth doula & childbirth educator with over 17 years of experience providing healing and recuperative support for birth trauma experiences as well as deep inner work support to pregnant couples. 

Also, there is more nuance to this topic than what I can possibly sum up in this description. So straight to the... 

Focus Points

1. Reba's Story of Unassisted Birth

2. How Birth changed Reba's inclination further into the intuitive and spiritual container that life is. 

3. The methodology Reba used to surrender or find a direction.

4. Birth and the various layers of Fear in it. 

5.  Authenticity and Birth 

6. Inner work for Birthworkers

7. Birthwork and Activism

8. Birth and Safety

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Sarah Schmid is a medical doctor, author, and mother of ten children. Nine of her children, including a set of twins, were born in planned unassisted home births. For many years, she has been active online in various ways on the topics of self-responsible pregnancy and autonomous childbirth. She has written several books on the subject, the best known of which is “Freebirth – Self-directed Pregnancy and Birth” Other key areas of her work include traditional nutrition, gut health, and dental health.

She narrates 

• The story of her first birth with a midwife
• The preparation and self direction in Birth
• Intuition and Education as the two pillars of responsibility.
• Due dates with different births
• Was there Fear after experiencing birth a few times
• How did Sarah work with her fears?
• Preparation for a home birth - nutrition and beyond. 

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Find Sarah's Youtube Channel 

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What if we learnt that our menstrual cycles were a tool for growth. It is something that makes us women special and powerful. 

If we are looking at helping women see the Shakti or the power in themselves, the road begins at Menarche. 

I have been meaning to have an episode on this topic and keenly follow the work of elder home birth Midwife of 30 years, Jane Hardwicke. She is a grandmother , teacher, writer and educator in the realms of menarche, childbirth and menopause. 

She offers training on the spiritual practice of menstruation, pregnancy and founded 'The School of Shamanic Womancraft' and she has created the first holistic menstrual cycle charting app – Spinning Wheels.

Focus points: 

1. Menarche as a spiritual pathway.

2. Role of mums in passing down the wisdom of Menarche.

3. Are we victims of our periods or there is more power, wisdom and teachings it can unleash if we knew better.

4. Role of fathers in setting the right protective environments for menarche.

5. Our association of pain through Menarche and its impact on Childbirth. 

6. The significance of building rituals for Menarche , Childbirth and Postpartum.

Tune in now !

More about Jane:

Website: https://janehardwickecollings.com/

E courses: https://janehardwickecollings.com/ecourse/

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There was a news article recently that said India’s fertility rate is down , First dip in two years. 

Generally , we are all observing a rise in the need for fertility as well. More and more IVF clinics and centers are coming along. 

When we think of supporting our conception or having a baby, we think the medical route, tests , pills and hormonal therapies, what if there was an alternative pathway, efficient and workable for couples , an area they can explore. 

That's the focus of today’s podcast. 

I sit down with Nicole Lange , founder LifeHealingLife, a fertility expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupuncturist and educator specializing exclusively in trauma informed care, pregnancy, and post-infertility care in Minneapolis Minnesota.

We have a fabulous conversation today going peeling off the general understanding of fertility and TCM. Nicole is passionate about her work and it comes through the conversation.

The Podcast focuses on 

• Holistic approach to Fertility treatment with TCM
• Role of accupuncture in TCM 
• How TCM works with the whole body and not just a single area
• Trauma informed care and infertility
• Should we use the term infertility ?
• Is there a midway where Medical system and Holistic approaches converge? 
• The understanding of PCOS /PCOD and its affect on a woman's fertility.

Nicole is offering a 10% off for our listeners on her programs and some free education resources: 

Online education — programs, mini-courses, blog, youtube channel, podcast conversations, etc can all be found at:

https://www.lifehealinglife.com/online-fertility-education

Fertility Freebies:

https://www.lifehealinglife.com/fertility-freebies

Code for $10 off any of Nicole’s online program for podcast listeners: 

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This is the story of Kriti's Labor and Birth and how they made the decisions moving through each phase. The highlight of the story is 'Self direction' . It is not important where you really birth, what is important at the core of it all is how 'self directed' a family is in their birth choices. Kriti and Ashish are a grounded couple who take time to decide what is good for them, they listen in and are great examples of strength, inner strength. There is vulnerability and charm in their story. 

Discussion points:

• Passing Due Date and the start of spontaneous labor.
• Partner's support during Labor and Birth.
• How Labor Pain feels in the body.
• Sleep during Labor
• Decision to transfer to the hospital.
• The experience at the hospital
• Experience of Breastfeeding and how our bodies as women can hold so much.
• Experience of Breastfeeding as healing and liberating

Kriti is the founder of the permaculture farm ‘Slowness Himalayas’. Natural dyer and ethnobotanist. 

Find her on insta: @digitalbatutta

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Kriti and Ashish left behind a city life to build a farm and live in a remote village - all because it meant a slower life of connection. 

"We would not have had a baby had we been in the city", Kriti says and then goes on to share how living with nature, they started craving to have a third energy in her own words in the world around them.

In this episode, Kriti also shares how the collective women echoed a sense of strength in birth but when she went the regular route of going to a doctor, they were always reminded to be cautious , not joyous. 

This contrast and an episode of misconduct from the doctor shifted their approach to a more natural birth .

Tune in to hear us discuss:

• Kriti's journey of Pregnancy
• The Women's experience and wisdomm of Birth around her.
• The circumstances with the doctor that led to a shift in their approach.
• The decision to birth at home
• The choice of a local dai to support them

Kriti is the founder of the permaculture farm ‘Slowness Himalayas’. Natural dyer and ethnobotanist. 

Find her on insta: @digitalbatutta

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Postnatal Depression - My experience...

This is a Retake of the first episode of Birth Agni, postpartum depression, because it is an important discussion area. It’s me, vulnerable, traumatised by the Birth experience , cornered in the family power dynamics and sleep deprived.

I share what my own experience in this episode along with 

• Symptoms of Postnatal Depression as different from Postpartum Blues.
• Ways you can recognise it
• What helped me heal from it
• What should Father/Family/Partners do
• How family dynamics affect Postpartum and how men can protect their women in it.

If you’re a new parent, expecting, or just want to understand what it feels like when things don’t look picture-perfect after birth—this is for you. 

Let’s make space for the messy, the scary, the raw, and remember that you are not alone. 

Also check out: Postnatal Depression for Men with Joshua, Dad Coordinator for Postpartum Support International. 

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 Fear and birth—two words that often get tangled together. 

Katharine Graves, an internationally recognised hypnobirthing expert and trainer , founder of KGhypnobirthing takes us through the grounding methods in hypnobirthing and working with fear in Birth.

We discuss:

• Overcoming fear in Birth
• Discerning Fear from Intuition
• Water Birth and the role of mind in Birth
• Weather all fear can be wiped out before Birth 

About the Guest:

Katharine Graves is an internationally recognised expert on hypnobirthing, and author of The Hypnobirthing Book.  She is the founder and leader of KG Hypnobirthing. Katharine has also trained thousands of KG Hypnobirthing teachers who have spread her method across many countries.  She has been invited to speak about hypnobirthing in many countries worldwide. 

She is the author of the Hypnobirthing Book.

Link of her online hypnobirthing course: kghb.org/kgonline

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