October 09, 2024

From Birth Control to Birth Choices: Briana’s Journey to Cycle Awareness and Freebirth

1 hour 34 minutes

Today, on the podcast, we have Briana Girard, a woman who has chosen massive transformation for herself and her family. Briana shares her stories of being a young girl, not knowing her bodily anatomy, going on birth control because she thought she could get pregnant on any day, working as a nurse and having a csection to learning the Fertility Awareness Method and giving up birth control for good, speaking to her baby in the womb and intuitively knowing he was okay, honoring her womb and her cycles and free birthing her second boy in total peace and power. Her story has a true, beautiful arc of growth and personal responsibility, and you’ll love the way Briana passionately, openly, and honestly, tells her story.

In this episode…

The postpartum period without a cycle as being in a tideless ocean and how Briana is prepping for her period to return

How Briana doesn’t remember her Menarche despite having an incredibly strong memory, but she does remember trying to (unsuccessfully) put a tampon in for the first time

Growing up without knowledge of female anatomy and thinking you can get pregnant any day of the cycle

Briana’s 10 years on birth control and how it kept her from becoming herself

Her journey from birth control pills to a copper IUD to finally learning the Fertility Awareness Method and developing a relationship with her womb for this first time

Briana’s time as an RN, having an overly medicalized first pregnancy

How Briana learned to talk to her baby in the womb and began to “wake up”

The story of Briana’s C-section and the criminal mistakes and lack of consent on the part of her medical providers in her initiation into motherhood

When Briana fully woke up and began choosing what she actually wanted for herself and her children (after an abusive pediatrician visit)

Briana’s second pregnancy, skipping all her OB appointments, hiring and then firing her midwife, and enjoying the last few weeks of her pregnancy as a retreat

Briana’s free birth story and how it was the catalyst that changed her family’s lives for the better

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