Healing Birth

Nelia was assaulted during her first birth experience at her local hospital. Stories like hers are tough to hear, but unfortunately, common.

What is uncommon is that she understood immediately what happened to her was wrong, and sought legal counsel to get justice and to heal. The second time she gave birth, she took back her power in a massive way. We mention @birthmonopoly as a great resource for anyone who has experienced obstetric violence. You can find the map of obstetric violence, read other survivor's stories, and other resources here: https://birthmonopoly.com/obstetric-violence/ Follow Nelia @neliathedoula www.neliathedoula.com If you have a story you'd like to share on the podcast, I'd love to hear from you! Send me a note via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net. Be sure to follow us on IG! @healingbirth If you love the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! www.patreon/healingbirth

Carla's planned home birth with her first baby ended in a hospital transfer.

Two years later, she conceived again. Armed now with more knowledge about the birth, she hoped and planned for a physiologic birth, without interventions, at home.

This is part two of her birth stories.

You can find Carla on instagram @carla.sage.birthwork

Her website is www.traditionalhealingbirthwork.com

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Carla's mother passed away on her first baby's due date. A week later, still grieving, she went into labor.

She had planned for and desired a home birth, but was transferred to the hospital. This is not, however, the traumatic story it could have been.

While there it was evident that her mother's spirit was present, protecting Carla and her baby. And this birth experience, in the miraculous way that birth can, allowed for deep healing of her matrilineal line.

This is a truly magical story.

And it's only part one! Tune into next week to hear Carla's other birth stories.

You can find Carla on instagram @traditional.healing

Her website is www.traditionalhealingbirthwork.com

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Do you have a birth 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.

If you love this show, please consider supporting us on Patreon! We have bonus episodes, video podcasts, and lots of other exclusive resources. www/patreon.com/healingbirth

Lynsi Eastburn is the world's established expert in the field of hypnosis to promote fertility. She began professionally using hypnosis to facilitate pregnancy before anyone else had actively considered or pursued its benefits.

Blending the scientific with the spiritual, she is also gifted with the intuitive capacity to sense spirit babies around their mothers.

In this fascinating conversation, we talk about:

• How spirit babies come through to her
• Do we all have spirit babies around us?
• How do they communicate with us?
• What could be the deeper spiritual reason for miscarriage?
• Who are the pink starlights, and the spiritual shift that is happening on the planet
• The 3 keys to conception

You can find Lynsi via her website www.hypnofertility.com

on Instagram @lynsi.eastburn

Link to her books

Do you have a birth 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.

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After the devastating loss of her first pregnancy, Sharna became acutely aware of the lack of professional support for, and understanding of, the uniquely painful experience of pregnancy loss.

Sharna is now a pregnancy loss life coach supporting women through miscarriage or pregnancy loss. She has also founded The Institute of Healing through Pregnancy loss, out of the need for there to be other perinatal and coaching professionals who know how to truly support women going through pregnancy loss.

This is deep, very important work, and a wonderful conversation especially for anyone who has experienced pregnancy loss. Sharna wants you to know that you can heal, and you are not alone.

Find Sharna at www.sharnasouthan.com

On Instagram @instituteofhealing_pl

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

The power, mystery, love and rawness surrounding pregnancy and birth have intrigued Carla since childhood. In 1998 she became New Zealand's youngest graduate from the Direct Entry Midwifery program, and began work as a midwife.

Her experience as a midwife was eye-opening, to say the least. She became aware that the power and mystery of birth had, for many it seemed, been flipped on its head, with medical minds, hands and machines seeking to control, categorize and sanitize the innately unique and unpredictable experience of birth.

Leaving midwifery behind, Carla has now stepped into the role of supporting the emotional needs of parents who are struggling to come to terms with a traumatic birth experience.

Carla is doing very important work!

Her website: www.healingbirth.co.nz

Instagram: @healing.birth

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/healingbirthwithcarla

Book: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/mybook

Birth trauma survey report: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/_files/ugd/d9a2d7_e161fa673d704be386f2a83b5301927d.pdf

Podcast: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/TcDUwP4Atxb

If you have a birth story you'd like to share, please reach out! Contact me at www.healingbirth.net.

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Sarah's journey includes multiple losses, two cesareans, two VBACs, and births both in and out of the hospital. Her story encompasses so much richness, that I had to break it up into two parts.

In this part two, you'll hear about her third birth, a traumatic cesarean, and her fourth birth experience, a total reclamation of her power. Be sure to check our instagram page this week to see photos of this amazing birth and her perfectly huge baby! We are @healingbirth.

There are also a few resources we talked about during this conversation that I'd like to drop here:

Everything Below The Waist by Jennifer Block (a must read book if you have a female body)

Why Not home (a documentary about medical professionals who chose home birth)

Sarah is a listener who reached out to me to share her story. If you have a birth story you'd like to share, please reach out! Contact me at www.healingbirth.net.

I love to hear from you!

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Sarah's birth journey includes multiple losses, two cesareans, two VBACs, and births both in and out of the hospital. Her story encompasses so much, that I had to break it up into two parts.

In this part one, you'll hear about her first birth, which ended in a cesarean after the classic cascade of interventions in the hospital.

Despite that experience, she still felt that people who gave birth at home were crazy, and planned to VBAC her second baby at a different hospital (spoiler alert: she will later join the ranks of us crazies. Do not miss part two!).

Sarah is a listener who reached out to me to share her story. If you have a birth story you'd like to share, please reach out! Contact me at www.healingbirth.net.

I love to hear from you!

Thank you for supporting brands that help support the show! Treat yourself with Puffs for the Public. They make high quality, CBD & CBG products that I absolutely love.

As a listener of this show, you get 10% off at check out with code "healingbirth" (one word).

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Use the link below to purchase! It lets them know you heard about them from me. Thank you for helping to support the show!

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Corinne shares the story of giving birth in a birth center during the height of Covid. After the birth, her baby was transferred to the NICU where she spent her first few days, seemingly unnecessarily.

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As a listener of this show, you get 10% off at check out with code "healingbirth" (one word).

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Nelson and Alison were so inspired by the home birth of their first baby, that it lit a fire in them to share what they learned through this experience with others. They believe that conception, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and fatherhood are all sacred experiences and should be honored as such.

Five minutes into speaking with them, I fell in love with their passion, their light, and infectious energy. It was also a real treat to get to hear, for the first time on this show, a male partner's perspective about what it was like to have a baby at home.

If you are in the Austin, TX area (or feel inspired to go there like I now am!), join them for the Sacred Birth Symposium March 11-12 at Casa De Luz.

You can find tickets, the speaker lineup, and all other relevant info here:

www.sacred-birth.com

Use code "HBSAVES15" for 15% off tickets!

You can find them on Instagram @sacredbirthsymposium