Weaving the reality of traditional wisdom and modern science, Leila Naderi sits with women in spontaneous unmedicated physiological birth. She offers a special kind of birth coaching steeped in the Wise Woman paradigm of wellness, herbalism, support-based living. Get into the depths, and feel empowered, informed, and responsible in your birth process as she successfully supports the vitality of healthy well women from pre-conception through post-partum and beyond. In this podcast, she speaks to her own birth journeys including her freebirth first trimester miscarriage of twins, and her two living births of her now 11 and 14 year old daughters. For more, please visit www.barefoot-birth.ca and stay tuned for her Barefoot Birth Wisdom Circle Q&A online offering this September!

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What does a wise woman witness bring to birth? Carmel brings this question home with her two birth stories. One hospital birth and then later in life, with the perfect partner, a beautiful homebirth.

One of the things Carmel mentions that made a huge difference for her was reading Whapio's Wholistic Stages of Birth. You can find further discussion of this on Alice's episode. And, of course, check out The Wholistic Stages of Birth for yourself.

Carmel's doula is Carissa from Home Body Birth and from the first episode of Through the Veil.

Michelle from Monarch Mothering was her placenta encapsulator.

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Leslie Ann joins me to discuss the sacred in the suffering. She is a former backroom birthworker and a deeply spiritual and intuitive woman. We discuss birth, death, creating sacred spaces, crystals and so much more.

About half way through the episode Leslie Ann shares the story of her daughter Paris' birth. and her passing, Paris was born with Trisomy-18 and passed on a few days after her birth.

You can find Leslie Ann working at Amethyst Creations in Kitsilano or on Instagram or Facebook.

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Gemma's story starts with an accidental wild pregnancy in Indonesia and culminates in her second pregnancy being an intentionally wild one, ending in a beautiful freebirth.

Gemma's story offers so many opportunities for us to undo our culturated thinking. She takes full responsibility for her and her baby's health and wellbeing and in doing so she is able to deal with her fears head on and find herself fully resourced in her own inner Knowing.

Tapping into this Knowing allowed Gemma to differentiate between fear when something is "wrong" and fear that is often a natural part of birth. Here we see that we don't need to run from fear, outsource it, or escape it. Fear is present not because something has gone awry, but because the threshold and passage are so big. And that's the medicine.

You can connect with Gemma on Instagram @wyldbirth

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Lauren shares her journey of choosing a home birth and navigating the decisions along the way. She discusses her desire to have a birth outside of the medical system and her search for a traditional midwife. Lauren highlights the importance of finding a supportive birth team and creating a calm and empowering environment.

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Adelaide and I chat the art of creating true community and sisterhood. And guess what, it's not done by seeking that echo chamber. How do we learn, evolve, grow? We do it in community. And how do we create community? I know we're all struggling with this and have an awareness that something is missing. Adelaide breaks it down and provides the blueprint for sitting in service to and community with women.

Bookmark this one as I think you'll want to revisit it.

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Or on her website

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Alice's story begins with a beautiful birth centre, water birth story, supported by registered midwives. The perfect birth that everyone dreams of, and the birth that left her feeling bereft and grateful that it was over.

In her second birth she's able to journey through the rite of passage with no one talking or telling her what to do and in her own power and cross the rite of passage through the dance of birth, together with her baby.

In this episode Alice recommends Ina May Gaskin's book, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.

She also empahsiez the impact of Whapio's Wholisitc Stages of Birth on the experience of her second birth. I've linked the podcast she refers to below.

Holistic Stage of Birth Part 1

Holistic Stages of Birth Part 2

You can connect with Alice on her website or on instagram @nourish.on.earth

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Desiree shares her two birth stories, first a C-section -- a good C-section, followed by a home VBAC. She started out with registered midwives but for the birth she only invited her doula and hired a TBA (traditional birth attendant). This birth process was a long one, spanning four days!

Trust the process, trust your body, trust your baby.

Desiree mentions the impact that Michelle's My Powerful VBAC course had on her. You can check out Michelle's courses here.

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You have wisdom to share. Take up space. Tell your story. Be part of the movement toward more powerful and peaceful births.

What an incredible birth story, stories, really, Ariel shares here. So many quotable moments that you're going to want to revisit. The Wise Women of our generation are all around us, my friends. Enjoy this story from one of these wise women; one who has taken the time to learn from birth and has allowed it to transform her.

By the way, you can still take a training from Wise Woman Way of Birth. Jessica is no longer with us but her lineage lives on. If you're considering birth work, this is a beautiful starting place.

The Business of Being Born is iconic and comes up in several episodes. It's still worth checking out if you haven't already.

Find Ariel on Instagram at Nook Births and on her website.

Ariel co-hosts monthly birth circles. You can find details on her instagram page. If you're local, you're going to want to attend.

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You have wisdom to share. Take up space. Tell your story. Be part of the movement toward more powerful and peaceful births.

In this conversation, we discuss the importance of advocacy in life and specifically in pregnancy and birth. Michelle asks the important question, "who do I want to meet on the other side of this?". She highlights the role of informed decision-making and the importance of understanding the regulations and limitations that care providers must adhere to and how to know when you've found the right team. We also discuss the power dynamics between medical professionals and patients and the need for clear communication and boundaries.