By Elsie
Hosted by Elsie. Homebirth mama x2, mental health nurse, and an ex-student midwife that still has a strong passion for birth and supporting women.
Sharing stories from births at home aroun
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Epsiode 52 is shared by Sam from NSW who tells her huge vulnerable, honest, and beautiful story of how her homebirth baby boy, Archie came to be.
Sam’s story starts in her 20’s where, alike many women, she chose to have an abortion, partly influenced by her birth imprint. Some years later, when the timing was better, she was excited to become pregnant, then experienced a miscarriage.
These events had significant influence on her journey and experience in being pregnant with her now 16 month old, baby Archie. She also shares her experience with a post partum haemorrhage after her homebirth, and then 2 weeks later, a secondary post partum haemorrhage which required surgery. Whilst this is a longer episode, it is a great story that includes many different topics and experiences.
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In this month midwife story episode, I chat with the amazing Abbey who is a midwife in Western Australia. The story to how Abbey found homebirth for her own 2 children is amazing, and as she goes on, you can tell, she was destined to be a homebirth midwife. She shares her journey to midwifery and homebirth midwifery. What a special story, I felt so amazed to hear it!!
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In episode 51, Jess from the Northern Territory shares the births of Matilda (hospital), Edith (freebirth) and Angus (freebirth > hospital transfer).
After years of trying, Jess finally became pregnant through IVF with her 1st baby Matilda, and gave birth in 2020 with little insight into the medicalisation of birth. For her second baby, Edith however, she chose to birth at home, however was unable to access homebirth midwifery care where she lives in the Northern Territory, and so had little other options, other than to freebirth. Empowered by this experience, for her third baby Angus, she chose to lean deeper into that experience and have an anxiety free wild pregnancy and planned to have another freebirth.
Whilst we talk about all 3 births in this episode, it is worth highlighting in this intro that during her labour with Angus, she felt that something wasn’t quite right, and so made the decision to transfer to hospital for medical support. Whilst Jess has and will continue to work through the common emotions that this decision evokes, I hope sharing this story with you today, the listener, demonstrates how amazing jess is - how she trusted and listened to her body and in the end, she listened to her intuition and sought help to birth all 4.9kg of baby Angus.
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This is another episode in the partners supporting birth at home series, and today Dan, husband of Rosie who shared her birth at home stories in episode 43, shares his experience. As dad to 4 baby’s all born at home, it was great to get some insight into his thoughts about preparing and supporting a birth at home.
As with all the partner episodes, sometimes they can be tricky to find, so please give this a share.
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Episode 50!!!
In this ep Georgia from Victoria, a nurse, midwife and mum to Amelie & Ellidy shares her two homebirth stories!
Georgia shares with us her journey to homebirth before being a midwife, and her journey with Elidy as a midwife.
She shares about her anxieties, her long labours, her post partum experience during COVID 19, and her drama’s when a scan revealed abnormalities with her baby’s liver.
Part of Georgia’s story is also briefly sharing her experience planning homebirth when her sister had previously delivered a baby born sleeping - so for this reason, please take care of yourself if listening to this amazing episode.
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Episode 49 and the first Northern Territory episode is shared by Asa, a first time mum who shares her beautiful experience with the birth of her daughter Zoe.
What is also special about her story is that with the Defense Force, she was able to claim her entire homebirth back on her private insurance - not without a fight of course! She also shares her preparation for birth and motherhood, how her doula supported her and about her transfer to hospital for retained membranes after the birth of Zoe’s placenta.
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Episode 48 is shared by Australian 'Salina', who shares her 2 homebirth stories from Banff, Canada.
She also shares the multiple reasons why she chose midwifery care, how she came to choosing homebirth late in her first pregnancy and the benefits of doula care. And all these whilst being labelled by the system as geriatric! These are 2 beautiful stories showing the power of having truly informed pregnancy care.
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In episode 47, we hear Hannah share her story. Hannah is based in Canberra and shares her hospital birth story and then homebirth story. Honestly, after you hear of everything Hannah endured in both her pregnancies, you’ll be amazed and inspired by her strength to listen to her body and baby, and her mother’s intuition to achieve such an incredible homebirth.
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In this months midwife story episode, I chat with Jo Hunter who many of you may know from being one of the creators of Birth Time (& if you haven’t seen it, it’s essentially mandatory for anyone planning to give birth). She is also a homebirth midwife, former doula & former convener for Homebirth Australia.,,just to name a couple of things she has done. I invited Jo to come and chat with me to give some context around homebirth in Australia in the past 30 or so years, also given that 3 of her 4 children were born at home in the late 90’s and early 2000’s and to also talk about the current issues affect homebirth in Australia right now. The issue around Public Indemnity Insurance for private midwives, including homebirth attending midwives is evolving as the weeks go by, so make sure to follow Homebirth Australia and join their newsletter for the most up-to-date information. I hope you love this episode as much as I do.Support the show
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Today in episode 46, we hear from Emma in South Australia who is a midwife, nurse, and lactation consultant. She shares her 2 hospital births and homebirth story intertwined with stories of her life as a midwife, including her journey of unlearning and relearning about physiological birth, challenges with breastfeeding, bleeding during pregnancy, falling in love with your newborn, and the impact of birth related trauma from her work as a midwife.
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