Positive Birth Australia

By Skye WatersHealth & Fitness Education Parenting Kids & Family

Positive Birth Australia episodes

March 31, 2021 S2 EP32 - Teisha And Marcus - Two hospital births + Birthing on country
Today’s show is an extra special episode because for the first time on PBA we’ll be hearing from the partners perspective as well. Teisha, a proud Wiradjuri-Yuin woman whose songlines sing from the mountains to the ocean, and Markus, a proud Maori man from Aotearoa, New Zealand, take us on the journey to birth their son on aboriginal land, under a gum and she-oak tree.
Although having two drug-free hospital births with her first children, Teisha felt excluded and suppressed by the maternity system. When her and Markus consciously conceived their son, they went on a mind, body and spirit journey to bring him earthside; honouring the old ways of their indigenous culture and implementing sacred practices.
Teisha describes this birth as being the last part of her healing journey, regaining her true power within by “Birthing this way. My way. Our way”. An incredibly inspiring story of deep connection to their ancestral lines, and each other.
Instagram: @teisha_mcguinness @creatorofj0y
Midwife: @midwifejohunter
Doula: @jerushasutton
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 1 min
March 24, 2021 S2 EP31 - Danae Cappelletto - Induced hospital birth + Drug-free hospital birth
On today’s show I chat with Danae about her two hospital births. While volunteering in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, Danae was placed in a unit that looked after birthing women. She describes that experience as "stepping into an old pair of shoes", and the inspiration she needed to find her passion in supporting women as a doula.
Her first birth, she was induced at 40+6 weeks and although classified as a successful induction, she knew with her second birth that she wanted to work with her birthing body and allow the time and space for her baby to come naturally.
We chat about how she got her surges to come back after the car ride to the hospital, and how her yoga practices helped to heal her mind and body.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaeBirthDoula
Instagram: danae.birthdoula.pregnancyyoga
Website: www.danaebirthdoula.com.au
Doula directory: www.birthary.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
58 min
March 17, 2021 S2 EP30 - Loz Arthur - Birth Centre with a Private Midwife + Homebirth
On today’s show I chat with the incredibly knowledgable Loz about her two empowering births and what her work as a postpartum doula entails.
Loz describes her fist pregnancy as her spiritual awakening, having a deep impact on her in the greatest way. Her waters broke at 38 weeks putting her on the clock for her birth at a birthing centre with a private midwife. Although a beautiful experience, she wanted to eliminate the extra pressures that came with birthing within the system and chose to birth her second baby at home. Suffering a loss between pregnancies she discusses how not processing that loss then impacted her mindset during her labour and how the space held for her by her support team allowed her to overcome those fears when they dropped in.
She shares her tips on how to create space for your baby during a posterior labour and answers some questions sent in by you, the listeners, about being a postpartum doula. Get ready to learn guys, there is some really great information in this episode!
Instagram: @motherbloom_
Website: www.motherbloomholistic.com
Yoga & Active birth: @yogababyaustralia
Midwife: @mother_seed
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 17 min
March 10, 2021 S2 EP29 - Roxy Belford - Homebirth
Today's show features the beautiful, divine Roxy - my partner's cousin and a fellow Aries sister. Roxy always knew she wanted to be a mum but she had some deep ancestral fears associated with birth that she knew she had to work on to release. We chat about the deep dive she took into learning and living by her cycle, conscious conception and her euphoric labour and birth. Roxy put some serious work into her journey from maiden to mother so there is a vast amount of knowledge we can take away from her story. You can view Roxy's magical birth video over on her instagram page.
Instagram: @roxybelford
Midwives: @ittakesavillagemidwifery
Videographer: @kate_nel_birthkeeper
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
56 min
March 03, 2021 S2 EP28 - Brylie Chivell - Homebirth
On today’s show I chat with Brylie about her empowering homebirth. After initially planning a hospital birth, Brylie found she didn’t feel aligned with the clinical “ticking all the boxes” type feeling she was left with after each appointment. When she stepped back to think about what she truly desired most during her birth, a woman's nuturing support was at the top of her list. This led her to join a local women's circle to connect with homebirthing midwives and mothers, arming herself with all the tools and confidence she needed to manifest her own empowering homebirth.
Instagram: @bryliesmiley
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
43 min
February 24, 2021 S2 EP27 - Lahni Bullock - Preterm Labor, hospital setting + two homebirths
On today’s show I chat with Lahni about the births of her three daughters. Lahni’s first pregnancy ended early, just shy of 35 weeks, when her waters broke and she was induced to 'get things going'. Although feeling traumatised by that birth experience, she says it was her spiritual awakening. Choosing to homebirth her second and third babies, she speaks about unexpected anxieties that arose and the contrast between her births.
Instagram: @wildflower_journeys
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
49 min
February 15, 2021 S2 EP26 - Terri Vanderwerf - Drug-free Water Birth at hospital
On today’s episode I chat with first-time mum, Terri, about her empowering, drug- free, water birth in a hospital setting down on beautiful Gold Coast. Terri’s approach to her birth was of the mindset that knowing less is more, she chose to ignore any traumatic birth stories she was told, and she trusted her innate ability to birth her baby.
Instagram: @terrivanderwerf
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
39 min
February 08, 2021 S2 EP25 - Anita Byrne - Homebirth + Freebirth
On today's show I have the privilege of interviewing Anita, from The Midwitch Podcast and Instagram, about her two empowering births.
Having women around her that only had birth stories filled with trauma and interventions, Anita honed in on her intuition and decided to birth her first child safely at home with the support from a private midwife.
After moving states she quickly realised it was financially not an option to have a homebirth midwife present with her second child and she wasn’t feeling aligned with a birth centre. After a conversation with her doula, she awakened that deep knowing within her that she didn’t actually NEED anyone to birth her child, and so began her journey down the path to freebirth her son at home.
We discuss how she worked through her fears on an energetic level and why she believes intuition is our strongest power as women.
Just a trigger warning for some viewers - we do touch on a loss Anita had between her two births.
Instagram: @themidwitch
Podcast: The Midwitch
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
58 min
February 01, 2021 S2 EP24 - Kirsten Trevor - Twin birth + Hospital birth
On today’s show I chat with a fellow twin mum about the birth of her fraternal boy/girl twins, and her youngest daughter. Kirsten is a go with the flow, cheerful type personality, so it was a welcomed surprise when, after taking Clomid to help conceive, they discovered they were having twins. She went into spontaneous labour at 35 weeks and had the vaginal birth she desired with the use of an epidural. Her second pregnancy she was determined to experience a physiological birth without the use of any drugs, and she did just that…
Instagram: @angus_amanda_ahlia
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1pKPTFoYLE
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
58 min
January 25, 2021 S2 EP23 - Natalie Alaska - Homebirth + Freebirth
On today’s show I have the privilege of chatting to Natalie about her two empowering births. Her first son she birthed at home with the support from a private midwife, and although it was an empowering experience, she looks back and can recognise moments of fear and stress throughout her pregnancy and birth. Two weeks into her pregnancy with her second child, she stumbled across a freebirthing video that ignited her innate intuition and forged the path ahead of her to freebirth her second son, Oakie. We chat about clear boundaries she put in place to protect her mental space and how she dealt with any fears that arose before she freebirthed her son at home.
Instagram: @nataliealaska__
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
47 min

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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.