Positive Birth Australia

By Skye WatersHealth & Fitness Education Parenting Kids & Family

Positive Birth Australia episodes

June 09, 2021 S2 EP42 - Meg Clein - Homebirth midwife - Two birth centre + Homebirth + Freebirth
On today’s show I interview Meg, homebirth midwife and co-founder of “It Takes a Village Midwifery” here in Brisbane.
Meg takes us through her journey from maiden to mother, sharing how each of her births impacted her and the diversity she experienced over those four births. From her first birth where she felt inspired by her labour but traumatised by her baby needing special care, to a healing but quick second birth, a third euphoric homebirth that left her feeling high for days afterwards, and her fourth precipitous birth leaving her feeling almost stunned.
Meg gives us some great insight into life as a midwife, sharing some of her wisdom and knowledge gained over a career supporting and nurturing women on their own journey from maiden to mother.
Instagram: @megclein
Private practice: @ittakesaviallagemidwifery
Website: www.itavmidwifery.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
1 hr 11 min
June 02, 2021 S2 EP41 - Grace Weatherley - Homebirth
Today’s show features Grace taking us through the birth of her daughter at home. She explains her search for care as a journey within itself that pushed her to look deeper into how women birth, exploring the option to free birth, but ultimately deciding to birth at home with the support of a doula and midwife. We chat about the emotion-charged conversations she had to herself during labour and how she managed to dig deep to get through what was a long, strenuous but powerful birth.
Instagram: @graceweatherley
Doula: @maggiestorm__
Mentioned in this episode:
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
39 min
May 26, 2021 S2 EP40 - Kate Holm - Hospital birth + Homebirth
Today I interview Kate about her two positive births. Although wanting a homebirth, financially at the time it wasn’t a viable option so she opted to get into the local hospital’s Midwifery Group Practice. She went on to have a natural, water birth.
When her family decided to relocate to New Castle, knowing they offered publicly funded homebirth was a great bonus in their decion to move, giving her the dream homebirth she desired. Kate shares how some valuable last minute advice from her doula helped her relax enough to bring on labour and she explains what the acronym BRAIN means, a favourite she uses with her clients as a naturopath and nutritionist.
Instagram: @kateholm_
Business page: @holismhealth.co
Website: www.holismhealth.co
Midwives: @friends_of_belmont_birthing
Mentioned in this episode:
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
48 min
May 19, 2021 S2 EP39 - Maha Al Musa - Preterm birth + Two Home-Lotus births
On today’s show I chat with Maha, founder and creator of Bellydance Birth and Embody Birth, about the births of her three children and her life’s work as an award-winning author, educator, and birth advocate.
Maha describes birth as a transformative experience; a spiritual alignment that brings connection and awareness to everything in life.
We chat about the difference between imposed fear and innate fear, and what each of her births revealed to her about her shadow self.
Instagram: @maha_al_musa
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mahaalmusabirthvisionary
Website: www.mahaalmusa.com
Online Program Links
FULL
https://sales.mahaalmusa.com/embodybirth
MINI VERSION
https://mahaalmusa.kartra.com/page/mini-program
BellydanceBirth Bundle (video series, book and bonuses)
https://mahaalmusa.com/bellydancebirth/
Dance Of The Womb book (hard copy and e book)
https://mahaalmusa.com/danceofthewomb/
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
38 min
May 12, 2021 S2 EP38 - Sarah Blue - Two hospital births with private midwife + Freebirth
Today’s show features freebirthing mama, Sarah, sharing her three births. Her first two girls were born in a hospital with a private midwife, completely straight forward and somewhat fast. When she fell pregnant with her third baby, she took the approach of tuning into her intuition and being mindful of how she felt throughout her pregnancy, never feeling the need to call on anyone and ultimately deciding to freebirth at home.
Sarah takes us through how she handled any fears that arose and how the prodromal labour she experienced leading up to her birth made her question whether she was in real labour.
Instagram: @sarahjblue
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
38 min
May 05, 2021 S2 EP37 - Tegan Georgette - Homebirth
Today’s episode features Woonona artist, Tegan, sharing the birth of her daughter. For as long as Tegan could remember she knew she wanted to birth outside of the system. After a surprise pregnancy, she immediately found the perfect midwife to educate and support her on her rite of passage into motherhood.
She describes her early labour as being crucial preparation and practice for the deep surrender and rhythmic flow she needed to birth, and she explains how a random text from her father turned out to be a pivotal point of her labour.
Instagram: @tegan.georgette
Website: www.tegangeorgette.com
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
47 min
April 28, 2021 S2 EP36 - Meme Tuohy - Homebirth
Today’s episode I chat with Meme about the birth of her daughter. Meme already had a great sense of what true physiological birth looks like from her work in the field as a doula, hypnobirthing practitioner and photographer, so it was a no-brainer that she chose to birth her baby safely at home.
We chat about the positive impact getting in tune with her cycle had on her and what she learned from her birth about the suggestibility of women in labour.
Instagram: @lalunabirthcollective
Doula: @birthingfromtheheart
Midwife: Kelly Walker
Photographer: @rewildherbirth
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
47 min
April 21, 2021 S2 EP35 - Elysha Buckingham - Drug-free Hospital birth
Today I chat with Elysha about the birth of her son at her local public hospital. Originally planning to go with the flow, a sudden onset of anxiety persuaded her to do a hypnobirthing course that changed her entrie mindset about birth and enabled her to stand firm on her decions along the way. She went on to have the drug-free, physiological birth she desired, receiving her son en caul at 42+3 weeks.
Instagram: @elysha_buckingham
Hypnobirthing Practitioner: @belly2birth
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
45 min
April 14, 2021 S2 EP34: Rhea Dempsey - Hospital birth + two homebirths - Author of "Birth with Confidence"
Today’s show features childbirth educator, birth attendant, counsellor and author, Rhea Dempsey. Rhea’s well-known book “Birth with Confidence” has helped awaken and guide so many of us along our own journeys, and her latest release “Beyond the Birth Plan” is of equal magnitude.
Rhea shares her three birth stories, focusing a lot on her first birth and unpacking how that whole sequence of events impacted her. Although extremely confusing and confronting at that time, she attributes a lot of her ‘why’ to that experience and the work that unfolded throughout her many years as a birth activist.
We chat about life before the epidural and how this initially welcomed drug has fuelled the misconception around pain during childbirth, and she shares advice for the “willing woman” wanting a normal physiological birth, on how to navigate the current birth culture within the hospital system. It gives me the greatest pleasure to share this wonderful, wise woman with my listeners today.
Both of Rhea's books are available for purchase on the Positive Birth Australia website: www.positivebirthaustralia.com
Instagram: @rheadempseybirth
Website: www.birthingwisdom.com.au
Mentioned in this episode:
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
1 hr 12 min
April 07, 2021 S2 EP33 - Elise Apps - Two Induced Hospital Water births
On today’s show we chat with Elise, a midwife and cofounder of Shine Postnatal Services, about her two hospital births. Diagnosed with PCOS, it took two years and a major lifestyle change to concieve thier first child. Elise chose to have a “social induction” at 39 weeks using prostin gel and was lucky enough to have the water birth she desired with no other interventions. During her second pregnancy a cholestasis diagnosis heavily influenced her decision to be induced at 37+6 weeks, and again she went on to have another beautiful water birth.
Instagram: @shine_postnatal
Mentioned in this episode:
Sacred Birth Affirmations Track
This gentle affirmation track was created to help you feel safe, confident, and connected in pregnancy and birth. Perfect for daily mindset work or to play during labour.
Positive Birth Australia
Esfera Designs Wellness (Birth) Ball
Create a calm, supportive space during pregnancy and postpartum with Esfera Designs. Use code: PBA20 for $20 off your order.
Esfera Designs
35 min

About Positive Birth Australia

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A heartfelt Australian podcast sharing real, empowering birth stories to inspire, educate, and heal. Hosted by Skye Waters, a Gold Coast mum with deep reverence for physiological birth, Positive Birth Australia brings together meaningful conversations with women and birth professionals from around the world - helping you reconnect with your intuition, trust your body and remember the innate wisdom of birth through the ancient art of storytelling.