E39 – Making Sacred-Transversing Through the Dance of Birth-4 Birth Stories-Hospital Home & NICU

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The body moves when we birth inside and out we are dancing to the beat of the earth the woman roars and we become mother. After this interview with the amazing Talulah from Making Sacred, I felt all my senses heightened, I felt in awe of this journey and a closeness to all mothers, women, in what ever form. These four birth stories will truely take you on the road of transformation. Finding out how important we are in this process is crucial and Talulah shows us in each of her journeys, that, no matter what, support, care and love to the birthing mother is vital for us to grow. This podcast dives deeply into the cosmic womens mysteries and each with its own lesson that you will be sure to see the gifts that birth can bring.

Look at the name Talulah and it signifies water. Look at Talulah near water and you will see why! Talulah and I connected via the Eight Seasons Journey with the School of Shamanic Womancraft. She is guiding our group in all the relevant womens mysteries, collectively together we are supporting and nurturing our truths. There is no wonder that I wanted to share her journeys, for as the podcast revels itself, so will Talulah water divinity.

We begin with her first birth journey with her now 14 year old boy Taj. Talulah talks about her family dynamic of a linage of shame for having babies out of wedlock, a pattern that brought a interesting outlook for Talulah growing up. Turns out they discovered she was pregnant just days after her engagement! How the healing path works! Talulah and her partner were after a home birth yet could not afford the cost. They booked into the birth centre. Labour progressed and the journey began, they headed to the birth centre and it was closed! So they got admitted to the labour ward and after a internal examination they found an anterior lip. And as you can image this can go either one way or another depending on many things. Talulah was advised not to push for two hours and she describes this as a tough time as all she wanted to do was push! Once she was given the green light she pushed out baby Taj in 15 minutes! After this they noticed tachycardia Taj ended up in NICU for four days. Talulah talks in the podcast about how the stay was for her emotional and physical self and what her reflections and lessons were from this birth.

After this birth, Talulah just felt that every one needs a trained birth attendant at their birth. So she went on to do her Doula training while she was pregnant with her second baby. At this time home birth opened up to this family again and they were ready, however during her doula training lots of fears come During her doula training she learned and absorbed allot of information, yet realised that this made her realise what could go wrong. She held this information in for a long time and it all come out at 41 weeks which was a big release! Lessons here, that pregnancy will bring many things up for us – talk and find that safe space to let it out. Talulah went into labour at 42 weeks and baby was born well into water 4 hours later. With breathing difficulties after the birth they decided to go to the hospital after baby was struggling and began to turn blue. They ended up having another NICU stay with baby Eden, he recovered well with no real explanation as why. We talk about the way she was questioned and treated at the hospital because she was a home birth transfer. Talulah felt she was not supported and lots of questions were raised about her birth choices. All in all Talulah felt fortunate that they had access to the hospital and things worked out the way they did.

We talk here about Talulah’s Doula work and birth hypnosis. Mixing up with her life as a Ballet teacher, Talulah talks about the first time she worked as a Doula, I feel many of us Doulas can relate to the way she described the feeling of ...