Healing Birth

Kaylee's first birth experience ended in a cesarean, after having been dropped by her midwives' care for going over 40 weeks. She partially credits the events of 2020 as being a huge awakening for her, so when she became pregnant again she knew she no longer wanted to engage with the medical system, and planned a free birth.

When she went into labor with that baby, what transpired was a six day long ordeal, with many twists and turns, reasons and opportunities to give up, but she never did.

This is officially the wildest story I've ever shared - and that's saying something!

Here is a link to Kaylee's YouTube channel and birth video!

https://youtu.be/rbKgHg9Dz8o

You can follow Kaylee on IG @kreativekay_wilson

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Intro / outro music: Dreams by Markvard

Transition music: Chill Night by Amine Maxwell & MICHAL

After two hospital births, Danielle decided she wanted her third to be born at home. However, she happened to live in one of the five (now four) states which do not allow licensed midwives to attend VBAC births at home.

Listen to find out how she navigated this, and if she got her home birth!

Danielle is also a fellow podcaster. You can find her show @birthjourneyspodcast

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Intro / outro music: Dreams by Markvard

Transition music: Cool Cats by Smith the Mister

After the unplanned, but not traumatic, cesarean birth of her first child, Danielle felt a sense of grief she didn't understand.

Despite having a successful VBAC in the hospital subsequently, that same feeling of grief and failure found her in her postpartum time. She eventually experienced post-partum depression severe enough to need medication.

Something inside her knew there was a better way.

This is part one of Danielle's story. Be sure to tune in next week for part two!

Danielle is also a follower podcaster! You can find her show @birthjourneyspodcast

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Intro / outro music: Dreams by Markvard

Transition music: Oceanic Space by Aryll

After a traumatic, unnecessary cesarean in an Australian hospital, Rebecca knew that she'd get pregnant again, and would not enter the medical system.

She had a completely wild, peaceful pregnancy, and free birth with just her family present.

(Be sure to check out our instagram page this week @healingbirth to see photos of this birth, and the "potato embryo"!)

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Intro / outro music: Dreams by Markvard

Transition music: Free by KV

Rebecca's first experience with birth was a miscarriage, which, in her words, left her with the beautiful message that "we are mother nature." When she conceived again, she was hit with the firewalk of hyperemesis, an initiation all of its own.

She gave birth to that baby in an Australian hospital with midwives. Her story, sadly, is a perfect example of the ways that defensively practiced medicine, intervening in the natural process that is birth, is leaving so many of us with unnecessary surgery, trauma, and lifelong repercussions.

But this is only part one! Rebecca has a second child, and you'll hear the story of that pregnancy and birth next week. You do not want to miss how her journey unfolds!

(I am adding the disclaimer to this one that I am not a doctor and nothing that I say on this podcast should be taken as medical advice.)

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Intro / outro music: Dreams by Markvard

Transition music: Letting Go by Hotham

Leah shares her four birth stories with us. Her journey includes suffering a serious birth injury, a devastating second trimester loss, a hospital birth after that loss, and finally, a blissful home birth.

Of that homebirth Leah says, "I trusted my gut, my lived experiences, and the team that I had. I instantly felt this release of all of the trauma I had experienced. It was exactly the experience I needed."

Photo Credit: Courtnee Pirozzini, @courtneepphotos

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Audrey shares her three birth stories, all quite different, and all of which reflect her powerful nature.

You can connect with Audrey on instagram @ajoyfulbirth and at www.ajoyfulbirth.org

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

PLANNING FOR YOUR VBAC EVENT! On Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @5PM EST

Join Healing Birth and Dr. Sarah (@birthuprising) for a women-centered approach to planning for your VBAC!

Through the combined powers of modern research and the ancient wisdom of sisterly storytelling, we will cover:

• How to choose a provider & birth setting that aligns with your personal needs
• Utilizing the power of your mind-body connection
• The statistics & social evidence of VBAC
• Planning for your VBAC with Logic + Deep Intuitive Trust
• The hindsight wisdom of VBAC preparation, as told by women who have been there!

Your $22 investment includes:

• Admittance to the Live Event with Q&A
• The event recording sent directly to your inbox
• A copy of Dr. Sarah's Birth Plan
• Our OVERCOMING THE TOP 10 VBAC OBSTACLES instant download, printable PDF

LINK TO REGISTER HERE

During her first pregnancy, Chaya was dropped from her midwife's care for the sin of going past 40 weeks. She gave birth to that baby in the hospital, an experience that left her feeling a lot of anger.

When she quickly conceived again, a series of life circumstances (and some slight denial), led her to have a wild pregnancy, and to freebirth her baby.

Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

PLANNING FOR YOUR VBAC EVENT! On Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @5PM EST

Join Diana, Lynnea, and Dr. Sarah (@birthuprising) for a women-centered approach to planning for your VBAC!

Through the combined powers of modern research and the ancient wisdom of sisterly storytelling, we will cover:

• How to choose a provider & birth setting that aligns with your personal needs
• Utilizing the power of your mind-body connection
• The statistics & social evidence of VBAC
• Planning for your VBAC with Logic + Deep Intuitive Trust
• The hindsight wisdom of VBAC preparation, as told by women who have been there!

Your $22 investment includes:

• Admittance to the Live Event with Q&A
• The event recording sent directly to your inbox
• A copy of Dr. Sarah's Birth Plan
• Our OVERCOMING THE TOP 10 VBAC OBSTACLES instant download, printable PDF

LINK TO REGISTER HERE

www.healingbirth.net/events

Only in recent years has there finally been a recognition that birth trauma, affecting about one in three women in most Western countries (I would argue that number is much higher), has profoundly deleterious effects on a mother's mental health. But to my knowledge, there is no formal study or discussion about how traumatic births can affect our babies, who experience the birth right along with us.

My guest Amber shares the dots she connected between the traumatic birth of her second daughter, and the unique challenges that daughter has experienced, referencing the brilliant work of author and researcher Gabor Mate.

I learned so much from the conversation about how to support my own child, who experienced a very similar birth as Amber's.

Amber is a former English teacher with Teach For America and a founding staff member of an all-girls charter school in Saint Paul, MN. She left her career to pursue writing alongside caring for her children full-time. She has three daughters and loves to think and talk deeply about motherhood, womanhood, parenting, and personal growth.

Amber is on Instagram @radical.homemaker. She blogs at Alternativegrace.com, and is planning to start her own Substack soon.

Here is a link to Gabor Mate's Scattered, which we discuss in this episode.

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Do you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net.

Every now and then a story takes a twist I am not expecting during the interview - and it always makes for an even better story than the one I thought I would hear! This episode is a perfect example of that.

Rebecca shares two birth stories with us. First, a traumatic, unnecessarian (major kudos to whoever coined that term), and a redemptive, led by faith freebirth.

It is the extraordinary experiences around that second birth that gets us into talking about spiritual warfare, the spirit realm, and the truth that birth is designed to be a holy experience.

Check out Rebecca's instagram for many beautiful reels that show images of her births @theradiantmission

If you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast, I'd love to hear from you. Send me a note at the contact page at www.healingbirth.net!

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