This Episode is jam packed with 4 birth stories! Topics arise include: Born in the Caul, Post dates, Unassisted Birth, Placental abruption, hemorrhage, Rainbow Births, A Butter Birth and so much more! Do not miss this courageous and empowered Mama share her birthing journey with us! 

*Original recording in Sept. of 2017. Details of how to locate her live streamed birth video can be found at https://www.birthwithjoy.love/podcast-blog

You do not want to miss this brilliant woman share her wisdom! Marya Gendron was planning a home birth. But the unsuspecting pressures of external forces brought on by a "post dates" pregnancy led her to induce at home. She never could have guessed the journey this would ultimately take her on.  A journey that lead her to find her voice and become an absolute powerhouse of a healer, mother and advocate of self responsible, earth-centered wholeness. *OG recording on 5-2-17

Mother, Sara Place shares about how much fear the medical establishment tried to instill in her during her pregnancy. They insisted that her baby was too big and that she needed excessive testing and would need medical intervention to get her baby out. But mama's instincts knew better!  

Cecelia Yao is an inspiration! She is the essence of an empowered mama who knows exactly what she wants for herself and her baby and is unwavering in her convictions. She gives us many tips regarding Chinese Medicine, pregnancy and childbirth. She tells us her incredible ecstatic birth story and shares the unexpected challenges that arose in the immediate postpartum and how she overcame them without compromising her sovereignty.

*Revived from the archives. Original recording 5-8-2016

Birth Stories from Texas, Mexico, and the Bay Area. We talk about some of the  political climate surrounding post dates, meconium, evolution and gestational diabetes. 

Midwife Adele Rose is a sage who has attended births for over 30 years. She is also an exceptional story teller and shares some funny, intense and profound birth stories.

In this first ever episode of the Birth With Joy Podcast, Midwife Joy shares her wisdom for creating a sacred and ecstatic birth experience. She talks about the spectrum of birth philosophies among birth attendants and their effects on the birthing space. Joy counsels mothers and the ones with the mother to seize the magic of an undisturbed birth and immediate postpartum.