Healing Birth

Miranda was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome near the end of her first pregnancy, which led to an induced, traumatic birth experience. As she began to heal herself, she also helped to heal her son.

This is a story of healing, transformation, and spiritual growth.

Follow Miranda on IG @rooteddaughter

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Serendipiti Day is a radical feminist who has spent the last ten years of her life hitchhiking all over the world, mostly by herself.

Her passion for women's work was influenced by her childhood, when she experienced firsthand what it meant to be exploited because of her sex. At the age of 12, she was taken out of a sexually abusive home and put into the foster care system, where she stayed until she aged out. From there, she launched herself into the world, visiting over 40 countries, witnessing what womanhood looks like all around the world.

We talk about the importance of understanding what menopause looked like for our elders, miscarriage, abortion, and forced birth control within the foster care system.

Follow serendipidi @astarte_rose_in_confidence

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A bonus episode with some thoughts on homebirth for this day.

Hannah shares her two birth stories, both at 35 weeks gestation.

One, in a hospital with all the standard things that come with a pre-term birth, and the second, freebirthed at home.

Her story is one of a journey to trust herself, her body, and her baby to be born at the right time. There are also some wild twists and turns!

Follow Hannah @tovarhomestead www.hannahandbabes.com

Katie Sutherland is an energy medicine healer, teacher and holistic wellness practitioner who supports mothers to thrive and reclaim their empowerment and vibrancy while navigating the journey of motherhood and childbirth.

Katie had a powerful initiatory experience through the birth of her daughter almost a decade ago. It was one of the most intensely challenging rites of passage in Katie's life, yet held an important key in the awakening of her greater purpose, and was a catalyst for much of the transformational work Katie now shares in empowering and supporting other mothers. Her birth story is one of my favorite ones I have ever shared!

Katie's work and offerings can be found at www.innerwisdommotherhood.com

Join us on Sunday, May 23rd, 5PM PST / 7PM CST for a FREE community call. Share your birth story, journey with healing, or anything else that is on your heart. Sign up on our website at www.healingbirth.net/events

Bethany is a holistic womb-pelvic bodyworker, wild mama, and author of the book Pelvic Awakening. She guides women and mothers through deep-dive journeys into womb and pelvic healing, weaving together the physical and energetic and cultivating deep magical awareness, that makes big shifts. She believes that when a woman roots within her pelvic bowl, she finds the deep well of power and knowing that lives within – she comes back home to herself.

This is a wonderful, healing conversation for any woman who has experienced a surgical birth, a traumatic birth, or any trauma to the pelvic area (and if you can, join us at around the 35 minute mark, when Bethany takes us through a meditation called "Cultivating Joy," that nearly brought tears to my eyes).

Bethany has put together a special offer for listeners of this podcast. You can find it on her website here:

http://www.bethanywilde.com/healingbirthpodcast/

Follow Bethany @bethany.wilde

www.bethanywilde.com

Arielle was induced at 41 weeks. During the induction process, it was discovered that her baby's cord had prolapsed, which led to an emergency cesarean birth. Arielle shares how she emotionally processed this experience, and the important role that healing plant allies played in her journey.

Join us this Sunday, April 18th, for Healing the Heart, a collaborative webinar between Healing Birth + my guest this week! Arielle will share her knowledge and experience using plant allies to support healing the emotional heart and wombspace, in regards to birth trauma.

We will cover plant allies associated with:

Grief

Protection

Boundaries

Heart Healing

Wombspace Connection

The Nervous System & Energetic Dosing

Reserve your spot at healing birth.net/events

Follow Arielle:

@arielledemartinez

www.arielledemartinez.com

Chaya shares her three birth stories which include a loss, a cesarean twin birth, two subsequent cesareans, and a fairly harrowing experience with post-partum birth control and PPD. Throughout her story is the theme of having to push through these difficult experiences in order to survive them.

Mentioned in the episode: Nancy Wainer Cohen's Silent Knife and Jennifer Block's Everything Below the Waist (a must read!)

Follow Chaya: @themindfulwoman365 and www.themindfulwoman.org

Join our upcoming webinar with the wonderful birth educator Maha Al Musa on April 11th! www.healing birth.net/events

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I am often asked to define birth trauma. Or other times, new moms will ask me, how do I know if I was traumatized by my birth experience?

For some the answer is clear as day, but it's not a dumb question at all. For many of us, we emerge from the birth experience grateful to be alive and have a healthy baby, and yet can still be haunted by certain parts of the experience.

If you enjoy the show, please support us on patreon!

www.patreon.com/healingbirth

We have several amazing virtual events happening in April! Please go to www.healingbirth.net/events to hang out with me and other wise women.

During labor with her first baby, Gemma's midwives transferred her from home to the hospital due to her waters being opened "too long." This experienced ended as it so often does in a coerced, unnecessary surgical birth.

Gemma got extremely clear during her second pregnancy on the kind of support she wanted, and found a radical birth keeper to support her autonomy. She gave birth to her posterior, ten pound son wildly and freely in her own home, with only her partner and family present.

Just four months postpartum at the time of recording, she shares how healing this experience was for her, and the joy she's found in motherhood. Thank you Gemma, for sharing this beautiful story!

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