In today’s podcast is with Caitlin from Her. Womens Health Physio. Caitlin is a Women’s Health Physiotherapist & Birth Doula as well as a Pre & Postnatal Pilates & Yoga instructor. Caitlin is passionate about serving, supporting & empowering new mums by combining her physiotherapy-expertise & knowledge of birth with the eastern philosophies of yoga & exercise principles of pilates!

In todays podcast we discuss:

• What is the pelvic floor (PF) and how does it work
• How the PF can impact the birth experience either promoting or discouraging a natural birth.
• Signs and symptoms of a balalnced and imbalanced PF
• How the PF balalnce, and subconcious reactions can be counter intuitive in the pushing phase, and why it is important to change that

This podcast is for you if:

• You’re a pregnant mama who wants to have a natural birth
• You are unsure on the range of your pelvic floor and want to get it checked and sorted
• You are postnatal and and have not seen a womens health physio yet
• You are pregnant and have not seen a womens health physio yet

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Today’s Birth story was with one of our NBC mamas Kodi. Kodi is an amazing example of holding the delicate balance of holding on tight to what you can control and accepting and releaseing what you can’t control. I have absolutely loved watching Kodi play with this balance throughout both of her pregnancies. Kodi started with NBC in her first pregnancy doing regular yoga and the Body Balance workshop with her husband Jack. She then continued to have an amazing birth starting off with an induction and progressing to a normal vaginal birth. Her second pregnancy Kodi practised yoga and pilates from 20 weeks and did the ‘How to Cope with Pain in Labour’ workshop (A segment of our Appetence Active Birth Workshop) to ‘get her head back in the game’ of coping with intense sensation. She then went ont o have a completely natural vaginal birth with no induction. I absolutely loved discussing the comparison of the 2 with her as this is such a rare experience and contrast to have. 

In todays podcast we discuss:

• How to have a successful induction
• How she prepare for a natural birth experience
• How she endured the intensity of an induction
• Her fears toward birth how she overcame them
• The comparison of a water birth and non water birth
• How Kodi being so intune with her body help guide her to her 2 normal birth experiences
• Lots of techniques on How to cope with pain in labour

This podcast is for you if:

• Your a first time mamas wanting to feel empowered during pregnancy and birth 
• You have lots of fear surrounding an induction and feel it is ‘worst case scenario’
• You want to feel more intune with your body and trust in your intuition
• You love a good birth story

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Today’s Birth story was with one of our NBC mamas Jum. She is the epitome example of our NBC mamas. The dedication to her birth prep, the epic responsibility of her CHOICE to be empowered, the ownership she took of her birth is HER responsibility and the amazing perspective of with birth and motherhood isn’t right or wrong, fully embodying the concept of I get to write my own individual birth and motherhood experience I just adore.

In todays podcast we discuss:

• How Jum re-wrote how she perceived birth after experiencing friends and family who had birth experience she didn’t desire for herself
• How she prepare for her natural birth experience
• How she endured her 24+hr labour experience
• Her fears toward birth and motherhood and how she overcame them
• How she rewrote, created (and in my opinion manifested) her perfect birth
• How she does motherhood on her terms remaining in line with her value, still being able to have an epic social life, have fitness as a priority, life with a FIFO partner.

This podcast is for you if:

• Your a first time mamas wanting to feel empowered during pregnancy and birth and wanting to hear how to take full responsibility of your decision making
• You have some negative beliefs towards birth and want to rewrite them
• You have a fear that motherhood will completely change your life, and you will loose yourself through the process, and how exactly to avoid that
• You love a good birth story

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Nat is one of our Amazing NBC mamas and I am sooo happy to have her a part of our community <3. She is on the podcast today telling her about her amazing first birth experience of her natural vaginal birth with her posteriour baby. During the time of this podcast Nat is pregnant with her second babe at 38 weeks.

In todays podcast we discuss:

• Nats preparation for her first birth (before NBC times hehe)
• How her posterior labour went down exactly
• Her favourite positions for her posterior labour
• The most difficult part of her whole labour and birth experience (HINT its actually after the birth)
• Her thoughts on her physiological third stage (Natural placental delivery) and what she may do differently this time
• Her postnatal journey returning back to her passion of Basketball
• Her mindset and approach entering her second birth

This podcast is for you if:

• You enjoy surrounding yourself with positive birth stories
• You have a posterior baby on board and want some tips to birth a posterior baby
• You are scared if you do have a posterior baby on board that your birth will not be amazing
• You are rigid into birth has to follow this exact patern/ plan and you need to realise how all births can look different

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In today's podcast we discuss firstly 3 reasons WHY we want our partner to be prepared for birth, their 6 ROLES during labour, and lastly HOW to prepare your partner for birth. 

Here at NBC we place a hige responsibility on the partners and their role during birth- However it is oly because their role during birth is actually HUGELY impactful to the mothers birth experience- And whether she will birth naturally or not.

In today's podcast we discuss:

• 3 overarching goals of the birth partners role in labour and birth
• 6 imperative role of the birth partner and how it effects your natural birth exactly
• How to prepare your partner for these roles 

This podcast is for you if:

• You are pregnant and you desire a natural birth 
• You want your birth partner to be involved in birth
• You want your birth partner to be useful and confident during the process of birth- knowing exactly what to do
• You want to cultivate and amazing connection with you brith partner 
• In reflection your birth partner wasn’t that involved with your briths and your wondering what more they could have done to help you?

I really hope you enjoy the podcast!

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This is the podcast where I discuss the Launch of our 6 week preganncy yoga series for a midwifery-led wholistic preparation for your natural birth.

With 6 videos, 6 different focuses, created by our midwife Amy, these pregnancy yoga flows are specifically designed to:

• Help you connect with your breath and your baby
• Find and tune into your intuition
• Build awareness of your body
• Cultivate mobility through the pelvis
• Specific postures to bring balance into the ligaments and muscles that surround and are within the uterus and the pelvis
• Encourage Babe into the optimal position for your individual pelvis (For more information listen to #35 of our podcast)
• Alleviate pregnancy discomforts
• Practise mock contractions
• Learn how to push our edge of labour
• Build strength where your body needs it to birth naturally

Who is this video series for?

• The pregnant mama who desires a natural birth, and wishes to prepare herself wholistically
• This mama doesn’t live on the Sunshine Coast and is unable to come to pregnancy classes in Maroochydore with me hehe
• Or even a mama who lives on the Sunshine Coast, but has toddlers and can only get to class 1/week or no classes/week 

Videos included in the series

1. Introductory Video
2. Body Balance Flow
3. Intuitive Flow
4. Hip opening and Glute strength
5. Labour Preparation with your birth ball
6. Restoritive Flow
7. Pelvic Floor Awareness

Learn more and purchase your ONLINE 6 week preganncy yoga series here.

http://www.naturalbirthco.com/nbconline

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In today’s podcast episode we discuss How to prepare MENTALLY for your natural birth experience. I often say to my mamas how birth is more of a mental game thana physical one and due to this we here at NBC put a HUGE emphasis on your mental preparation for birth.

In todays podcast we discuss:

• The 3 top aspects of preparing your midn for birth 
• Why we want to rpepare our minds for birth and how it enhances our ability to birth naturally
• The different between our frontal lobe and reptilian brain when it comes to birthing naturally
• We discuss how to cope with pain in labour and the 7 practical strategies to do that
• We discuss our edge of tolerance, how to find it, and what to do about it once we are there. 

This podcast is for you if:

• You are a first time mama wanting a natural birth
• You are afraid of contractions and how you will cope
• You are a second time mamas who was shocked by labour the first time and would like some tools on how to cope better this time around 
• You have a lack of faith in your body to birth naturally
• You have this unwavering doubt about your body to birth naturally

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I started doing just HOW TO PREPARE FOR A NATURAL BIRTH, however realised very quickly that would take wayyyyy to long so I decided to break to break it up into the 3 part framework I use in Natural Birth Co to help mamas prepare for their natural birth experience. 

PART 1 PHYSICAL PREPARATION

In todays podcast we discuss:

• Why we want to physically prepare for a natural birth and how it exactly helps us to birth naturally
• The 4 aspects we include in our physical preparation
• How to build mobility in the joints during pregnancy and why
• How to build strength during preganncy and why
• How to create balance throughout your preganncy body and why
• How to optimise your postnatal recovery with physical preparation in pregnancy

This podcast is for you if:

• You are a pregnant mama wanting a natural birth
• Your are a pregnant mama experiencing discomforts throughout the body 
• You are a pregnant mama who wants to maintain a pregnancy exercise routine as you are used to hitting the gym regularly but you are unsure the best type of exercise to maintain for your changing pregannt body
• You are not pregannt but just curious on what to do for future pregnancies

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Today I dive deep into VBAC’s, the different types and how we can prepare depending on WHY the C-section happened in the first place. 

In todays podcast we discuss how to prepare with previous C-sections being due to:

• Placenta Previa
•  Breech
• Did your labour never start…. Leading to induction….. Leading to a cascade of intervention (including the epidural)
• Did labour start and was going fine and within 10(ish) hrs ‘something’ happened to make you go for an emergency c-section
• Labour was 24hrs+ leading to a c-section due to baby not moving down (obstructed labour) cervix not opening (Failure to Progress)- This may or may not include babies head being in an awkward position in the pelvis (tilted to the side up looking up (de-flexed))
• We also discuss the mental game behind VBAC’s and the process of rebuilding the trust in the body and the natural process of birth that has been lost, while the importance of learning how to surrender to what we cannot control. 

This podcast is for you if:

• You have had a C-section and wondering what happened?
• You are pregnant with your second babe post C-section and are anywhere on the spectrum of aboslutely NOT going for a VBAC to a VBAC is the only option.
• You are just interested in the topic (it is a bloody interesting one!)
• You didn’t necessarily have a C-section with your first but you did have intervention and wanting to get some little tips for your next birth
• You are pregannt with your first knowing you will have a C-section and already curious about your second birth and your options

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Previously we discussed WHY some babies may be in a posterior position and when it is optimal for them and when it is not.

We also delved into how to avoid a non optimal positioned posterior baby.

This podcast we discuss how to labour with a optimally posterior positioned babe. 

How to allow the labour to be fluid and how to utilise 2 primary forces to help baby to be born vaginally.

In todays podcast we discuss:

• How to know if your babe is posteriour
• How to utilise the force of gravity to help baby rotate to an anterior position
• How to create space in the pelvis for baby for baby to be able to not only rotate but descend in the pelvis for labour
• How posterior labour work
• Common contraction patterns and sensation of posterior labours that are VARIATIONS OF NORMAL rather than ‘complications’

This is for mamas who

• Have a posterior baby on board and want to know how to have a vaginal posteriour birth
• In the past have had a posteriour labour (or are skeptical of having a posterior labour) ad desire to reflect and learn about the experience
• Mamas who are just curious to learn because the pregnant and birthing women is just so bloody fascinating!

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