Please welcome Kelsey to Birthing on the Prairies !!!!Kelsey offers a beautifully organic perspective on birth. As a first time mom she worked hard to go into her first birth informed, educated and supported! Join her as she shares Her very rural precipitious birth. This is one your not going to want to miss!I Can’t wait for you all to share in it. Thank you again Kelsey for making the time in to share your experience so others can learn and shape their own birth.DOULA: @littledoulaontheprairieNURSE SHOUT OUT: Cammie 

Evidence based birth podcast   

The birth hour podcast  

Bridget Teyler on YouTube   

Ina May’s guide to child birth 

Welcome back to this weeks episode of BIRTHING ON THE PRAIRIES! 

This episode is from a live birth story I recorded in 2020. Justine was one of my clients who birthed in February, right before COVID hit. I’m so excited for you guys to hear from Her as she shares with us her incredible surrogate journey! What led her down this path, her journey, the birth & her postpartum experience. 

@sacredsurrogacy 

@cfc.families 

@thejourneyofastork

Teresa from Ohaton, AB, walked into my life during the early weeks of her first pregnancy! Everything was pretty “textbook” until a late term ultrasound threw a little curve ball when they discovered that their sweet little prairie baby was sitting comfy in a complete breech position!

We discussed all her options including a vaginal breech delivery & I connected her with the area’s vaginal breech experts. After weighing it all out Teressa was hungry to learn more!

This goal in general, if choosing a vaginal breech birth is not easily attainable with our current outlook of breech birth in our society. Majority of moms are steered towards a cesarean birth once it is learned baby is in a breech position. This is mainly to the fact that breech vaginal delivery is a fading art and there are a limited amount of confident trained providers in our communities. 

Here is a quick list of amazing people:

• Spinning Babies Parent educator @lifesourcedoula 

• Webster trained Chiropractor Joanna Galasso @lunahealth.yeg 

• Breech CONFIDENT & friendly OB’s at RAH @loisholehosp 

And guess what....

With a supportive partner and team behind her, Teressa believed in her body to birth her breech baby successfully. She VAGINALLY BIRTHED HER BREECH BABY, unmedicated, no complications & into confident hands with no interventions.

Teresa, every barrier you faced you tore down with grace. Your a birth warrior & positive example for future birthers facing the same barriers you did. 

Huge shoutout to Milly @lifesourcedoula for helping a girl out for backup on this one.

(* quick disclaimer * I am in no way saying that a cesarean birth isn’t a good option for your family when your faced with a breech baby. That decision is solely yours. I do feel it’s important that you are given any and all options like any other intervention to explore and discuss in order for you to make an informed & educated decision. You will never regret your decision when you had all the proper information to make it )

Welcome back to another episode of birthing on the Prairies! 

This weeks episode is from a past LIVE birth story I did with my dear friend Stacy in April 2020 during Cesarean Awareness Month. 

She will be sharing with us her pregnancy journey and emergency Cesarean birth of her son Miller!

Stacy tells us the truths about navigating an unplanned emergency birth due to a prolapsed cord and the emotional hurt & anger that comes with it . She also goes on to share with us the difficulty she had with delayed bonding with Miller Following her unplanned general anesthesia birth. 

Thankyou Stacy for sharing the realness that follows births that we don't plan for and allowing us to listen and learn along side you. 

Welcome back to another episode of Birthing on the Prairies!

August 22 was NATIONAL RAINBOW BABY DAY! So I thought it would be a perfect fit to share Carmen’s birth story!Carmen is a long time “online” buddy of mine & I originally recorded this episode with her last year so I am so excited for you all to listen again. I feel so lucky to have her coming on to share with us her pregnancy journey and Cesarean birth of her rainbow twin girls.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains talk of loss & fertility. If this is not a good time in your life to hear stories containing this content.

BIRTHING LOCATION: RAH Edmonton AB.
 

Welcome to another episode of Birthing on the Prairies with ME!!!!! This week I will be sharing my Secondary Infertilty journey that led me to the birth of my rainbow baby Mary!

TRIGGER WARNING! There is some talk of pregnancy loss & fertility issues. If you are not ready to hear about this please come back at a time you are ready to listen. 

Join me as I share my journey on secondary infertiliy, ttc and preparing for the birth of my rainbow baby in rural alberta. 

BIRTHING LOCATION: CAMROSE AB

Welcome to another episode of BIRTHING ON TH PRAIRIE'S! Our episode this week is wVith Megan Wakefield from Wainwright AB. She shares her two previous csection births and her incredibly powerful and healing VBA2C. 

BIRTHING LOCATION: GREY NUNS

RESOURSES: VBACLINK SPINNINGBABIES

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Please welcome Lauren mary to Birthing on the Prairies !!!! @ellewellnessca

Lauren offers a beautifully organic perspective on birth. These holistic, spiritual, unassisted, empowering birth experiences are ones your not going to want to miss!

Lauren’s first birth with Freya was magical, divine, serendipitous & well supported. Her second birth with Forest was wild, free, unassisted, dark, sensual & fast.

These are going to be a extremely beautiful birth stories & I Can’t wait for you all to share in it. Thank you again Lauren for making the time in to share your experience so others can learn and shape their own birth experiences

DOULA: @yegmama
BIRTH PHOTOGRAPHER: @vannessa.brown.photography
MIDWIVES: @albertamidwives
Janelle McCloud (forest). Barbara Scriver (Frey’s)

Holle Formula: holle-formula
Shop her potions @ellewellnessca

Find her at @welle.home & @moon.well 

• L I V E B I R T H S T O R Y •

“ Breathe ”

Welcome Bailly Mac Millan to Birthing on the Prairies !!!!

We will talk about Pregnancy depression and anxiety. Her pregnancy and birth after a loss that was very close to her & how finding the support and care you need in pregnancy, birth and postpartum is so so important.

“ Depression and anxiety. My beautiful niece was still born when I was 20 weeks pregnant. My son was measuring well, but turned out to be very small and with an anterior placenta, I almost never felt him kick. Fear, anxiety and guilt really took a toll on me. I went on leave two months early. I couldn’t get myself to work. On top of that I have Hypermobility, and a couple autoimmune Diseases which were undiagnosed at the time, so it added up to a pregnancy that was tough physically and mentally. I want another baby someday. But I often wonder if I’m strong enough to go through that again. “ - Bailly

This is going to be a extremely special story. I Can’t wait for you all to hear it .
MIDWIVES: @hope_midwives
Other support : @thebirthcove 

Find Bailly on IG @baillymacmillan 

“ The doula becomes the birther ”

Welcome Sophiane Fawcett to Birthing on the Prairies !!!!

“I planned a late switch to a homebirth mid pandemic. My husband was initially uncertain and now he is the biggest fan of home birth! Early water breaking followed by smooth labour with long pushing. Midwife and doula supported. “ -Sophiane

Find Sophiane pm IG @sophianefawcett

I CANT WAIT for you guys to hear this one . 🥰

MIDWIVES @passagesmidwifery
DOULA @kira.leigh_hygge.holistics