Dr. Sarah Buckley — GP/family physician, author of the best selling book

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering and mother to four home-born children —

shares her passion for natural childbirth and the "beginning of the great

love affair" between mother and child. She takes us through the hormonal

physiology of childbearing from pregnancy to after birth.  

Episode Breakdown:

* Wisdom vs. science

* Sarah’s history with childbirth

* Some of the differences between hospital births and home births

* Healthy birth pathways

* The stresses of Caesarean sections

* Why some stress is good for you

* The beginning of the great love affair

* The pleasure hormones between mothers and babies

* Alter-native

* Unique altered state of birth

* What happens after birth

* Importance of skin-to-skin contact

* How much of our behavior is affected by our beginning

* Sarah’s natural birth membership website