Welcome Back!

It's been a hot minute since our last episode with the birth of my third bubba. Now it's time to get recording again!

In this episode we speak with Angelique Wood, a mother of two who lives here in Perth, Australia. Angelique had two beautiful water births but the experiences leading up the births were very different.

Angelique shares how the pressure to have a c-section created immense stress and how she advocated for herself the entire pregnancy for the birth she wanted.

Angelique then shares how healing her second sons birth was with the support and trust of her birth team.

We discuss:

- The birth of her first son who was born during the pandemic in a birthing centre in Mexico, where she birthed at 42 weeks

- How she had to advocate for herself and fight the system for her natural birth and rights in labour

- How the pressure from the medical team impacted her birthing experience

- Angelique's birth of her second son in Perth, Australia at the Family Birthing Centre

- How this was a very empowering, supportive and healing experience for her

- How the birthing environment can impact the birth experience

- How to advocate for yourself and your natural birth amongst external pressures

We welcome Laura Chappell to the podcast for this incredibly inspiring deep dive into her two very different birth stories.

Laura is a mum of two girls aged 5 and almost 2. Her first daughters birth was a medicalised hospital birth where she felt completely disempowered and just "a number" in the system. Her second birth was the complete opposite where Laura had a beautiful, peaceful, natural water birth where she felt in her power and supported the entire time.

In this episode, we also discuss:

- The fears Laura was fed leading up to her first birth

- The impact other womens birth stories can have on us, leading up to our own birthing experience

- How the hospital system was disempowering for Laura and how she had to go against her body's instinct

- The euphoria she felt by avoiding a c-section

- How this first birth led to different decision for her second daughters birth

- The importance of setting boundaries with her family and others in her second pregnancy

- The power of manifestation practices that supported Laura's birth outcome

- How she prepared differently for this birth compared to her first

- Her daughters beautiful water birth story

- Advice she has for any mama who desires a natural birth but questions her ability to do so

Connect with Laura:

Visionary Souls facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/369412563728445

Instagram: www.instagram.com/laurapchappell

Connect with Bianca:

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facebook: www.facebook.com/biancajanelangstaff.xo

Website: www.biancajane.com.au

In this episode I have a conversation with Emily Patterson about her two sons very different births and then her daughters incredible freebirth. Emily is a mama of three who has a passion for gentle, conscious and respectful parenting and at the age of 18 completed her doula training which developed her passion for birth.

Take a walk with us as we discuss:

- Emily's first babies planned home birth which resulted in a traumatic hospital birth

- How this birth led to her decision to have a home birth with a private midwife for her second baby. This being a "dream birth".

- Why Emily decided to freebirth her third baby, her daughter

- What fears she faced along the way and how she released them

- How she conversed with her husband who was not in agreance to a freebirth

- The importance of tuning in rather than listening to external noise

- Her beautiful freebirth story

- How to trust birth so deeply that you believe in yourself more than ever

Connect with Emily here:

www.wearenaturenetwork.com

www.instagram.com/consciousmothersgroup

Podcast: Heymumma

Connect with Bianca here:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/biancajanelangstaff.xo

facebook: www.facebook.com/biancajanelangstaff.xo

Website: www.biancajane.com.au

Pregnancy brings up a lot, as does birth. In todays episode we explore how mantra can be used to

We discuss:
- The common fears and worries we experience while pregnant and in birth

- How an empowered mindset it absolutely key for an enjoyable pregnancy and a positive, natural birth

- My experience of mantra during all of my pregnancies and in birth

- How this simple mantra allowed me to let go of control, release fear of the unknown and TRUST

- My biggest challenge this pregnancy and how mantra is supporting my moving forward

- How you can use the power of mantra to support your pregnancy, birth and motherhood experience

You can grab yourself a copy of my co-authored book 'Intuitive Goddess' here:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/bianca-jane-langstaff/intuitive-goddess/paperback/product-mpykrp.html?page=1&pageSize=4

We’re back.

It’s been a long while since the last episode but I’m pregnant and life has been full! So I’ve been giving back to myself in all the ways needed. However, I’ve had the nudge that it’s now time to do what I love and that is…this podcast! Woooo.

We explore:

- How this fear can be all-consuming and often unspoken

- You are not alone in feeling this way

- Why we have this fear, from this lifetime and other lifetimes

- The importance of your Village in pregnancy

- Many ways of releasing the fear through and out of your body

- The power of healers and practitioners to support your healing journey

- That we are so capable of learning how to release these fears ourselves

You can grab yourself a copy of my co-authored book 'Intuitive Goddess' here:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/bianca-jane-langstaff/intuitive-goddess/paperback/product-mpykrp.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Connect with Bianca here:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/biancajanelangstaff.xo

facebook: www.facebook.com/biancajanelangstaff.xo

Wesbite: www.biancajane.com.au