Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mia

Mia is a young mama of one from Idaho, USA.

She fell pregnant the first month of meeting the father of her baby and now partner. 

She felt a great peace come over her when she fell pregnant and let her intuition guide her her whole way through her pregnancy and birth.

She came down with a rare condition during pregnancy called hydro nephrosis, which essentially means her urethra got blocked by her pregnant womb which prevented her from releasing urine. She had to wear a tube to help her empty her bladder, until she, upon a strong intuitive feeling, asked to take it out. And all was fine.

She went from wanting a home birth to accepting a hospital birth due to this condition happening in pregnancy.

And she ended up having an empowering and natural birth with a lovely group of midwives. 

Curious about Mia? Find her on instagram as @mia.inpeace

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Niko

Niko is a mama of two from New Zealand. She is an artist and makes mini huts.

In today’s episode she shares about her first home birth and how it was a total shock becoming a mother and how it changed her entire life. We dive on in to the fact that as your first one is born, the old you, the maiden, dies and about all that that entails.

For her second, she consciously conceived and prepared even further than the first time around, fully accepting the change that would happen with the introduction of a new being in their family.

She ended up having a beautiful undisturbed water birth at her home with her 5 year old daughter, partner and sister present.

Curious about Niko? Find her on instagram as @kemi_niko

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan

Megan is a mama of one from Arizona, USA.

She is a wife and a stay at home mum who loves art and plants and plans on getting into birth work soon.

She ended up having a fast and furious first birth. 

It started with a bang, and she did her best in breathing through the contractions with the help of her husband and doula.

She did her own internals and felt her own cervix and the bag of waters as she progressed through labour. 

She chose to birth in her birth pool. Allowing her body to take over and feeling the release of the pushing stage.

Birthing her baby was an amazing and empowering experience for Megan.

Curious about Megan? Find her on instagram as @therodriguez

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tierney

Tierney is a Mama of two from the UK.

In this episode we are going to hear about her Natural Hospital Birth with Gestational Diabetes. 

More and more women are diagnosed with GDM as the parameters changed to being narrower a few years ago, leading to an increase in induction rates due to the fear of big babies.

Tierney wouldn’t have it. 

She did a lot of research and stood her ground and ended up having an empowering and positive natural birth experience at over 41 weeks gestation.

Hopefully this episode will give you confidence, if you are diagnosed with gestational diabetes. 

And as always, it’s your choice to have the GDM test at all, as with everything that is offered in pregnancy.

Curious about Tierney? Find her on instagram as @tierney_giles

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Susannah

Susannah is a mama of two, from Sweden.

She’s an osteopath specialized in women's health, pregnancy and postpartum. 

And she is also a birth worker, doula trainer and the co:creatix of the Sacred Birth Keeper Course here in Sweden.

In today’s episode she will so generously share about her two natural births, with the emphasis on her most recent one, the birth of her daughter only 3 months ago.

We dive deeply into the layers of healing that is offered in pregnancy and through rite of passage that is birth and motherhood. 

Curious about Susannah? Find her on instagram as @liv_moder

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kate

Kate is a mama of 4 from Gold Coast, Australia.

She is a free birth birth worker, postpartum supporter and placenta encapsulator amongst many things.

In todays episode we discuss her 4 birth stories. 

The first being in the hospital, the second a planned home birth with a midwife and her third a planned free birth, not fully going the way she had wanted.

And then her forth, the one we really dive into, which only happened 8 weeks ago.

This birth was all she had ever wanted and dreamed of. 

A free birth with her closest sisters and family present. 

A nourishing postpartum. A dream come true.

Curious about Kate? Find her on instagram as @sacredbirthkeeper

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ammie

Ammie is a mama of 2 and expecting her 3rd baby in just a few short months, from Mississippi, USA.

She recently left her full time teaching career to be a full-time mum to her little ones. 

Ammie’s first birth was a quite traumatic hospital birth. 

She was pushed into induction and interventions she didn’t want, but didn’t know enough about to refuse. 

When she fell pregnant again she did a lot more research and decided on a home birth with a midwife.

She believes birth is truly a rite of passage that so many women are deprived of in today’s traditional birth setting and loves sharing her story in hopes to empower other mamas.

In todays episode we will dive into her empowering and positive birth story and how she is preparing for her 3rd baby coming.

Curious about Ammie? Find her on instagram as @ammieharris_

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Megan.

Megan is a Mama of one from the UK.

She is a wild hearted creative traveller & crafter of divine arts, and the founder & creatrix of Alta Ritual Apothecary.

She was determined to have a sovereign & sacred birth as nature intended, to honor her rite of passage & welcome her baby earth side.

She decided to opt  out of the system and employing Kemi Joy Johnson as her midwife and birthed her baby her way. 

Megan pushed for 4 hours to birth her baby that wanted to be born with her hands above her face.

Curious about Megan? Find her on instagram as @altaritual

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Makensi

Makensi is a mama of one from Australia.

She is an Energy Healer, working with clients on their emotional, mental and spiritual selves. She creates dream catchers on intuitive guidance, paints and sews. Makensi has a background in nutrition and naturopathy and a keen interest in alternative therapies. 

Makensi is a first time mumma in her 40’s who chose to free birth her bubba at home with her partner and doula.

She had almost all her labour in her sacrum and back, which she moved through throughout the day and melted into during the night and early hours in her birth pool.

After an amazing birth experience she ended up not birthing her placenta for 14 hours which is quite a remarkable long time. 

She shares how her strong affirmations about keeping all her nutrients after birth was the reason for her body holding on to her placenta.

Curious about Makensi? Find her on instagram as @makensi.spirit.healer

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Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jessica

Jessica is a mama of two from Alaska.

She is a home birth midwife and the Director of Development for the Pacific Birth Institute. 

She is on the leading edge of shaping community birth infrastructure nationwide, working at the Pacific Birth Institute to strengthen student midwifery and birth assistant education, and training access that honors culture, students learning in place, and the payment of midwives nationwide for their service as preceptors to the next generation. 

Jessica had two midwife attended births for her children, one in a birth center and one at home, and she will talk for hours about the glory and power of staying home for birth and how it ignites the confidence you need to start your new life as a mother.

And this is exactly what we will be taking about today, as well as going on a few tangents as you do with a fellow birth worker.

Curious about Jessica? Find her on instagram as @pacificbirthinstitute

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