Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Laura
Laura is a mother of 3 from just outside of Indianapolis, Indiana.
She gave birth to her first two children in the hospital, unmedicated, with midwifery care, but she realized after her 2nd birth that the hospital system was still getting in the way of her achieving her ultimate dreams for birth.
She decided on a homebirth for her 3rd baby, and despite moments of doubt along the way, she ultimately birthed her baby in water, entirely on her own terms, into her own hands, in the comfort of her bedroom.
Laura works as a bridal hairstylist and as a marriage and family therapist. She wishes people gave as much intention to their births as they do to their weddings, and she recognizes the reverberating power that a connected birth experience can have on the family system.
Curious about Laura? Find her on instagram as @laurasnyderhair

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Simone

Simone is a life coach and speaker for visionary moms committed to living deeply fulfilling and rich lives with kids that aligns with their purpose and authentic self.

She is the host of the podcast, the Creatrix Codes, and has a membership community called Magic Mamas; leading a movement of empowered motherhood that helps shed the martyr motherhood archetype and reclaim their power to be the Creatrix of their lives.

She has spoken at workshops, live events, retreats, and women’s circles throughout the country and online and is deeply passionate about helping more people show up for their dreams on their terms.

She believes that motherhood is magic, and is one of the most hands on ways we get to experience being the goddess, the portal, and Creatrix of our best lives.

Today she shares about her empowering and deeply supportive tear free birth in a tub at a birthing center surrounded by the people she loves. She shares how birth taught her so much about life and how powerful we are as women and how her labor was a deeply spiritual and transformative experience.

Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:⁠⁠ ⁠www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sami

Sami is descended from a long line of natural birthing women, intuitives, and midwives.

As the granddaughter of the founder of the Utah College of Midwifery, she has been surrounded by home birth her whole life, and didn't realize it wasn't the typical way for Americans to give birth until she was a teenager.

Sami is the mother of 5 children, four daughters and one son.

She is a stay at home mom who has dabbled in birth photography, birth support, personality typing, and writing romance novels.

She has always felt called to the sacred space of natural birth, and is waiting for her time to follow in her family's footsteps as a future midwife.

Today she shares all of her 5 births, including the partial placental abruption that brought her into the hospital from her home.

Still owning her birth every step of the way.

And the most amazing part of this story for me is that her grandmother and her mother in law were midwives for each of her births.

Something I just find absolutely amazing!

Sami has shared 37 photos with us from her 5 births that we will share inside the Podcast Inner Circle for you who are members of my Online Community The Maiden, Mother & Maga Village.

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Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:⁠⁠ www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Güte

Güte is a mama of one from South Africa, and a coach with a passion to support mothers with connecting to their intuition and a natural way of living, especially in the perinatal phase. Contrary to modern myths, Güte has found natural birthing and mothering, and the lead up to it, to be the most self-actualising process she’s ever experienced and that she continues to enjoy.

During her pregnancy she decided to pivot her coaching practice to support mothers, as she realised how isolated they tend to be. She is co-creating a world where mothers are part of a loving network, with the perspective and knowledge to find joy and meaning in pregnancy, birth and motherhood.

In today’s episode she shares about her pregnancy and home waterbirth in London as a South African Expat, and how it took her on a journey to lean into self-responsibility and intuition as a way of avoiding medical intervention, without needing to fight, but by creating a safe and nurturing environment, with support from wise mamas.

Her first surges came when her parents landed from South Africa early in the morning. She was supported by her loving husband and doula throughout her labour until she roared and raged and birthed her baby into the water shortly after the midwife had arrived.

Curious about Güte? Find her on instagram as @gute.immelman

Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:⁠www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emily.

Emily is an author and mama of two under 2 from the Highlands of Scotland. She is known on social media as Prepping for Everything and has built an online following for sharing homesteading, prepping and motherhood.

I started following Emily for her homesteading reels and Emily found The Natural Birth Podcast when she got pregnant with her first 3 years ago.

And here we now are, full circle, as Emily comes to share her 2 birth stories.

Her first being a planned home birth turning into a long prodromal affair ending in a non emergent hospital transfer where Emily’s mama lioness was born. Her baby was born naturally, healthy, pink and screaming without the need of any interference from the hospital even though they tried their best.

And her second redemptive, normal home birth with physiological plateaus that in hospital would have been classified as abnormal and a bigger postpartum bleed without the bells and whistles of the hospital.

Curious about Emily? Find her on instagram as @preppingforeverything

Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:⁠www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Abby

Abby is a mama of one who’s always been in allopathic medicine as a nurse and in different areas of health care and business.

But even before she became pregnant, she was beginning to lean into a more holistic ways of living.

And after attending a womb healing, she felt this deep, undeniable call to motherhood, and with it came the knowing that she was meant to birth at home.

From there, she began a conscious conception journey, immersing herself in education and preparation, and developed a real passion for physiological natural birth.

She’s now here today to tell her story as a first-time mama who had a fast three-hour home birth at 41 weeks with gestational diabetes, and to her surprise, a breech baby.

Curious about Abby? Find her on Instagram as @of_earthandher

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda.

Amanda is a mama of 3, a stay-at-home, home-birthing mama with a passion for natural living.
Over the years, that passion grew into a mission of guiding women and mothers toward more natural ways of birthing, eating, and healing.

Since 2012, she’s been using social media to inspire thousands to live healthier lives, from reading food labels and making better choices to questioning the mainstream narrative around wellness.

Today, she’s the founder of @nuvitaglobal, a women-centered health and wellness brand designed to help women feel better, live better, and thrive naturally.

In today’s episode Amanda shares about her first hospital birth experience as a young 20 year old to her 2 home water births after that.

How she howled as a wolf and birthed her baby into the hands of her husband.

Curious about Amanda? Find her on Instagram as @supermodelmomma1

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Phoebe

Phoebe is a pediatric acupuncturist and herbalist who supports families through natural healing. She’s also a gardener, a student of culture, and a lifelong learner. Phoebe lives off-grid in an intentional community, in a home her husband built, where she shares life with her three teenage step kids, two dogs, and their six-month-old baby girl.

Today she shares the story of birthing her breech baby girl, supported by her midwife, squatting as her husband catches their baby.

A story full of birthing wisdom I can’t wait to share with you all.

Curious about Phoebe? Find her on Instagram as @abundantnaturalhealing

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Taylor

Taylor is a mama of two from Maryland, United States.

She has her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and Psychology and along with being a stay at home mom, she spends her time seeking out new ways to fuse her passions for the Earth and the mind into a nourishing and well rounded lifestyle and career.

Whether she is dancing, creating native community garden spaces, foraging, or passionately sharing her love of sacred physiological birth, you can always find Taylor searching for deeper connections with the land and people around her.

Today she shares about her 2 birth stories. Her first in the hospital which Taylor found to be a positive experience, but still with lots of interventions and medicalisation and then her second, a freebirth with just her family present.

Curious about Taylor? Find her on Instagram as @t.schroyer21

Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:⁠www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lucie.

Lucie is a mama of two from the Czech Republic.

She is a wife and a doula who has been holding space for women in the birth space and her community for over 10 years including pregnancy circles, birth blessings and different workshops.

Today we get to hear about her first pregnancy and birth as an expat in Ireland with only her doula present as her husband and home birth midwife didn’t make it on time and arrived shortly after the birth!

Her second baby was also born at home in the Czech Republic with her midwife and friend while her husband and son slept in the next room. 

Lucie felt very inward during her births and trusted her process while knowing that she had her chosen support women around her if she needed it. 

Both of Lucie’s stories show us the magic of home birth and to trust in your body's intuitive wisdom!

Curious about Lucie? Find her on Instagram as @dula_pribram

Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?

Find Anna’s Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast