Mum's The Word

EPISODE 005 SHOWNOTES (with Aya Mass Forstner)

VBAC Birth and inspiration for becoming a Doula.

In this Episode 5 of Mum’s The Word we have Aya Mass-Forstner sharing her very real and raw birth experiences. The birth of her first child, albeit every effort to have it be otherwise, ended in a cesarean section. She felt helpless connected to all the iv’s and not being able to take care of her own newborn in her daughter’s first few days of life.

Following this experience she educated herself tirelessly and researched all that she could and her second birth was a VBAC birth.

Listen in and you’ll resonate with her authenticity and you’ll be truly inspired by her story.  Although this is (released as) episode #5 this was my first podcast interview ever!! and I was so so happy and uplifted after speaking to Aya, her excitement and passion were totally infectious.

BIO

Aya is a loving mom of two girls that came into this world via two very different births. These birthing experiences have paved her way to become the enthusiastic Doula she is today. As a Doula in The Netherlands she provides birth support for women from different countries, holding various birthing ideas and preferences. Her passion is for them to make conscious birth decisions, to be aware of their strength and to believe in their body! Her experience taught her that an empowering birth can have a positive ripple effect on our journey as mothers. As women.

Aya’s Website http://www.mamadoula.net

Aya’s Email: [email protected]

Aya’s Links from the episode –

Placenta Previa

CMV

Book – Active Birth – Janet Balaskas

I’d love if you could please rate and review Mum’s the Word in iTunes here, it only take a few seconds!! and join us over on the Facebook Page.

GUEST QUOTES

1 “if you don’t know your options, you don’t have any”

2 “she needs to feels that she was empowered, that she was in control, that she made the decisions and nothing was done to her and that’s the biggest contribution of a doula”

3 “I underestimated the effects of an empowering and a positive birth experience on a woman”

4 “she believed she could, so she did”

The post MUM 005: Aya Mass-Forstner : VBAC Birth and Inspiration for Becoming a Doula appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this Episode 4 of Mum’s The Word we have Julie Sharon from Balance You sharing with us some of her wisdom about a very important topic that affects almost everyone and is also so very rarely spoken of. How does the relationship change between a couple once their baby arrives?

Listen in and you’ll learn that we all have similar worries, challenges, and experiences as new parents. Knowing what to do beforehand and then if and when things happen is really the key

Julie Sharon is a licensed clinical counselor who offers individual, couples and family therapy at her private practice in Amsterdam. She also is a Gottman Bringing Baby Home educator. After earning her bachelors degree in Psychology at Skidmore College, Julie completed her Masters in Counseling at Webster University. She specializes in working with people transitioning into parenthood who face issues related to pregnancy, birth (trauma) or postpartum adjustment, couples who feel disconnected but want to make things work, and parents who feel overwhelmed by parenthood or who are seeking parenting support. A Dutch-American, Julie speaks Dutch and English fluently and offers her services in both languages. She lives with her husband and two kids in Amsterdam.

Julie’s Website: Balance You

Julie’s Email: [email protected]

Julie’s Links from the Episode –

Book – John Gottman And Baby Makes 3

Course – Bringing baby home

I’d love if you could rate and review Mum’s the Word in iTunes here, it only take a few seconds!! and join us over on the Facebook Page to help us in this growing community to help more mums everywhere.

GUEST QUOTES

“Small things often”

Wishing a Happy, Successful and Healthy New Year to Everyone and especially all the listeners who are expecting a baby (or possibly 2?) in 2016.

Spread “the Word”.

The post MUM 004: Julie Sharon : Keeping your Relationship Strong After Baby Arrives appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

Its Episode 3 and we have Jennifer Mercier sharing with us some of her wisdom.

Jennifer Mercier

Movie – http://www.merciermovie.com

Email: [email protected]

http://www.merciertherapy.com

Jennifer’s Book – Women’s Optimal Pelvic Health with Mercier Therapy

Jennifer’s passion is serving women with fertility issues, pelvic pain, general wellness matters, holistic breast care and newborn/infant cranio-sacral balancing.

During her undergraduate years Jennifer was preparing to attend medical school and at the same time was diagnosed with endometriosis and went to massage therapy school. It was a busy time indeed. In the early 90’s she worked as a clinician for the Center for Human Reproduction and learned so many amazing things as well as how broken the system really is in regards to how women are treated with fertility challenges. The cycles very rarely worked and when they did there were a lot of pregnancy losses. It started her thinking about the pelvic organs and how could we get this area to work more effectively. Especially if women were going to undergo numerous medically assisted cycles how could this process be less emotionally and physically charging?  Jennifer observed marriages end and couples second mortgage their home just to undergo one more IVF cycle just for it to fail again. It broke her heart. Years later when she decided not to go to medical school she gave it some thought on how to proceed so she could effectively serve women with fertility challenges in a non-invasive way.

Jennifer ultimately decided to go into Midwifery and trained by apprentice  in a myriad of different settings such as birth center, home and hospital. Over a span of 15 years she took care of women and their babies in a very gentle and respectful manner.

Jennifer also trained as a Naturopathic Doctor and graduated in 1999 from a wonderful program that had to close it’s doors due to low enrollment. Since graduating she’s traveled the world from the US, Caribbean, Central America, Mexico ,Canada, Europe and the Middle East studying with some amazing teachers in the field.

Jen is a healer, teacher, mother, director/producer, and practitioner.

Jen’s Links –

Centre for Human Reproduction, Chicago

Ina May Gaskin 

Book – Susan Weed – Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year

Book – Kate Jordan – Bodywork for the Childbearing Year: Student Handbook

Book – Suzanne Arms – Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth

Book – Miriam Zoll – Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility, and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies

Book – Brene Brown   – Daring Greatly

Find us on the Facebook page and join the community at https://www.facebook.com/mumsthewordpodcast

And I’d love if you could rate and review Mum’s the Word in iTunes and subscribe to The Newletter on www.mumsthewordpodcast.com

Enjoy the episode!

The post MUM 003: Jennifer Mercier : (In)fertility, Optimal Pelvic Health and Mercier Therapy. appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this second episode of Mum’s The Word, I have the pleasure of interviewing Birth Advocate Karen Brody and she shares her experience of discovering Yoga Nidra and how she has then been inspired to share it with other mums. She drops so many pearls of wisdom in this episode.

After years of severe anxiety, mother of two Karen Brody walked into a yoga studio and discovered yoga nidra, a sleep-based meditation technique. This led her to create Bold Tranquility, a yoga nidra meditation company for women. As founder of the company, Karen’s mission is to help busy women go from worn out to a well-rested woman using yoga nidra. Since establishing BoldTranquility.com, Karen has become an emerging voice and advocate in women’s health and wellness on the power of yoga nidra meditation and the importance of rest to support women’s health and power. She has created an extensive yoga nidra meditation system for women, available as an app or via the web, to help women relax, get some sleep, and start embracing the way of the well-rested woman. Karen also runs Well-Rested Woman yoga nidra retreats and programmes for women online and live and has also written the play Birth.

LINKS

Book – Naomi Wolf: Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood

Book – Marian Woodman – Holding Tension of Opposites

Book – Pema Chodron ; When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

BOLD Tranquility Website

BOLD Tranquility (App)  

Birth -a play by Karen Brody

” CHUCK PERFECT ” A Quote from Anna Quindlen – New York Times ” The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

A Quote from Ina May Gaskin  – ” The energy that get’s the baby IN, get’s the baby OUT.”

Top 25 Quotes from Ina May Gaskin 

The post MUM 002: Karen Brody : Blissing out with Yoga Nidra appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this first episode I’m lucky enough to interview Jacky Bloemraad de Boer, my midwife for both my children’s births! She is a woman of wisdom and has immersed herself in all things Birth for decades. I am so thrilled that I was able to have her share with the Mum’s The Word listeners

We discuss in this episode;

• The role of a Midwife

Jacky Bloemraad de Boer is a mother, a wife, the Director of Education for Birth Institute, CPM (Certified Professional Midwife), a Doula, a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, a Nutritionist, Herbalist & a Doula Trainer. She lives in both Amsterdam and Cape Town.

Jacky is passionate about fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and women’s health and is continually exploring the various aspects of global maternal health and in particular midwifery care and the continuum of care.  Midwifery care can improve maternal outcomes because experience and research has clearly shown that pregnancy and childbirth care which has been de-medicalized and restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth by returning the control to the birthing woman has proven to be the safest approach.

Jacky is dedicated to educating midwives, the world needs more midwives and as Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Jacky has also published a book: A-Z for a Healthy Pregnancy and Natural Childbirth, ISBN: 978-1-4343-2832-8.

“My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.”

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

 “The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.”

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

A healthy woman who labours and births spontaneously performs a job that cannot be improved upon.

~ Sarah Buckley

Jacky’s book: A-Z for a Healthy Pregnancy and Natural Childbirth, ISBN: 978-1-4343-2832-8.

Resources mentioned in the conversation:

Ina May Gaskin Spiritural Midwifery and More of her book titles

Dr Sarah Buckley

Michel Odent (Obstetrician)

Marsden Wagner

Marianne Littlejohn

Evidence Based Research http://www.childbirthconnection.org

Film – The Business of Being Born

Film Orgasmic Birth

Film The Face of Birth

Dr Rachael Reed’s Midwife Thinking

Dont’ forget to Subscribe to Mum’s the Word in iTunes and rate and review so more women get access to this empowering information.  Share the message and let’s change the meaning of Mum’s The Word.

Find us on the Facebook page and join the community at https://www.facebook.com/mumsthewordpodcast

The post MUM 001: Jacky Bloemraad de Boer : Keeping Birth Normal with Midwife Led Birth appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

In this FIRST episode of Mum’s The Word, your podcast host, Kaz Jaffe, Family Chiropractor and Mum of 2 is interviewed by Laurence Tham from “The Wellness Guys” and shares her:

• passion for birth and natural parenting

Subscribe to the MUM’S THE WORD Newsletter at http://www.mumsthewordpodcast.com to get the Show Notes for Each Episode delivered to your inbox every week. And also Subscribe to THIS podcast on iTunes and I’d love you to please Rate and Review the podcast to have your feedback.

Links

MUM’S THE WORD Faceobook Page

Jacky Bloemraad-de Boer A-Z for a Healthy Pregnancy and Natural Childbirth, ISBN: 978-1-4343-2832-8.

Ina May Gaskin Spiritural Midwifery and More of her book titles

Dr Eric Plasker The 100 Year Lifestyle

The post MUM 000: The who and why of Mum’s The Word appeared first on The Wellness Couch.