I'm so excited to have my dear friend Tania on for the first full-length episode of The Wild Woman's Guide to Motherhood! Tania's birth of her son Koa back in 2018 was the second birth I had ever attended as a doula, so it's pretty special and poignant that she's my first podcast guest as well. I'm so grateful to her for choosing again to walk with me and share her life with me when I'm taking the first steps of a new journey. In this episode Tania shares about both of her pregnancies and births, as well as her transition from maiden to mother which she felt took several years, in contrast to how it's often portrayed as being an almost instantaneous change. She felt unfortunately that the birth centre birth of her son, Koa, was deeply interfered with and sabotaged by the midwives present and the narrow restrictions of the medical system. When she fell pregnant with her second baby, she delved into the deep internal work examining and healing the trauma from her first birth and connecting with her power. Through this she decided that she wanted to give birth this time on her own terms, and had a beautiful, primal, healing freebirth of her daughter Minka. 

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