Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jesse.

Jesse is a mama of 3 boys under 3 and she lives outside of Idaho, USA.

She is a stay at home mama and have known she wanted to be a mother ever since she was a little girl.

In today’s episode she shares her journey of wanting a natural pregnancy and birth from the getgo, being an avid listener to this podcast from her first pregnancy, but how she was convinced by medical professionals it couldn’t happen for her.

She went through two births in hospital that left her feeling incapable and sad. The first with an OBGYN and the second with a hospital midwife. She was told she could contract normally and wouldn’t be able to birth without medical assistance.

For her third baby however she went with a private birth center midwife who embraced Jesse and her fears and helped her deal with them head on.

And finally, surrounded by a birth team that believed in her and supported her in the way she needed she had her perfect, magical, blissful birth as she explains it. She even had a partial shoulder dystocia or sticki shoulders that the midwife swiftly resolved.

Jesse feels with each day that passes that she loves her birth more and more and that she feels so happy and healed.

Curious about Jesse? Find her on instagram as @jesslawrence2020

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 Sarah.

Sarah is a super fan of the podcast.

She has been listening since the beginning in 2020 and this is the 3rd time she comes on to share her own natural birth story and it’s an honor to have her back. Her previous episodes are called “A Natural Birth Center Birth” & “Sarah Changed her Midwives and had her Stargazing Baby at 40 weeks” if you’d like to listen to them first.

It’s wonderful to follow Sarah’s birthing journey and the deepening embodiment of sovereignty and self through all.

Here is her 3rd Natural Birth Center Birth!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Swedish Mamas listening to the show. Today is your day here in Sweden and I celebrate and honor you.

I treated my own mother to an infra red sauna session and dinner during the week and I hope that you are being extra loved up and cared for today.

Whether you are a Swedish mama or not, I am gifting all my listeners a mother’s day special 2 for 1 offer on The Natural Birth Course & The Nourishing Postpartum Course. Use the coupon code MOTHERSDAY25 at the checkout for The Bundle to get both courses for the price of just one. And my online community the village is also of course a part of the offer. 

Inside The Bundle, you’ll find everything you need to feel prepared on every level—physiological, emotional, spiritual, and practical.

You’ll learn:

• ​What your body actually needs to birth naturally and undisturbed
• ​How to work with your body, womb and contractions, not against them
• ​What to do when fear or doubt shows up in pregnancy, labor and birth
• ​How to prepare body, mind and soul on all levels
• ​And how to plan for your postpartum so you don’t fall into the common “afterthought” trap. Making sure it is nourishing and healing and the best start for your baby and you.

But knowledge is just one part of it.

That’s where The Village comes in—your sacred online gathering space included in The Bundle.

This is your circle. Your virtual sanctuary. Where you’ll be surrounded by women who get it—mamas preparing just like you, birth workers, and me, holding space for your journey.

In our monthly live Q&A calls, you can bring your fears, your questions, your excitement, your “is this normal?” moments—and be met with honesty, wisdom, and warmth.

Whether you’re navigating medical pressure, choosing where to birth, or just need to be reminded that you can do this—The Village is where you’ll be reminded that you are not alone.

In the village you also get access to monthly classes and circles in embodiment, yoga, art, journaling and other lovely LIVE circles. It’s a wonderful community ready to embrace you.

1 years access!

So if you are pregnant right now, or wanting to become pregnant then this deal is for you.

You can also gift this deal to a partner, friend or sister who’s pregnant. What better mother’s day present is there than support and guidance through the biggest, most life altering event there is?

The 2 for 1 deal ends in a week. So don’t hesitate, get the deal today with the coupon code MOTHERSDAY25 at the checkout for the bundle. The Bundle

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

In this heartfelt and powerful episode of The Natural Birth Podcast, I’m offering you a special gift in honor of Mother’s Day. 💝

I’ve gathered together 35 mamas pearls of wisdom from across the globe—each one a sacred story holder who has walked through the rite of passage of birth and had a natural and positive experience.

These women share their most potent advice from the other side of labor and birth.

Whether you're preparing for your first birth, healing from a past one, or supporting others on the path—this episode is a soulful, story-filled well of birth wisdom you can return to again and again.

So make yourself a cup of tea, find a quiet moment, and soak in the collective knowing of women who’ve had the birth you're looking for.

Happy Mother’s Day, beautiful one. May this episode nourish and inspire you.

🎁 And don’t forget to check out the Mother’s Day 2 for 1 Bundle ! Use the coupon code MOTHERSDAY25 at the checkout.

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stacey.

Stacey is a mama of two from the US.She is a mental health therapist who is certified in peri and postnatal mood disorders.

She is also a trained EMDR therapist and yoga teacher. Stacey discovered this niche in therapy through her own healing journey after her first born was born at 32 weeks and was in the NICU for 30 days.

Today she spends the first part of this episode sharing about her first birth that was supposed to be natural birth on a natural birthing floor in a hospital but ended up being premature and heavily medicalized.

She shares about this birth as it informed how she prepared for her second and the people who joined her.

The second was a home birth with the midwife and doula that she got to know in her postpartum with her first baby.

They helped her with breastfeeding and emotional support and she trusted them deeply and ended up having her longed for natural birth in the comfort of her own home together with them and her partner.

She mentioned wishing that she had had a doula for her first birth that could have informed her more along the way throughout her premature birth journey.

And I couldn’t agree more.

Especially if you are planning a hospital birth, hire a birth worker that is there for you.

And download my free ebook on routine hospital birth procedures via the free resources link in the show notes.

You can also find all the graduated Sacred Birth Workers and current mentorship students on sacred birth international if you want to find a kick ass birth advocate and space holder close to you.Now let’s dive into the episode.

Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Brett

Brett is a mama of 8 spirit babies, 2 daughters and a son.

In this episode she shares about her unique journey of birthing her daughter as a 20 year old only to experience 8 more losses in between her first, second and third baby.

She has the embodied experience of a birth center birth, a home birth after a stitch in her cervix called cerclage and the diagnosis of an “incompetent cervix” (what a bloody idiotic term) and then a free birth with just her partner for her last baby.

It’s a story full of medicine and I’m so happy Brett chose to share it. Not only is she a sacred birth worker graduate of mine but also a dear friend.

And I am so grateful she choose to come and deepen her skills as a doula with me this year and can’t wait for her to birth her new offerings as she steps out of her postpartum with her son and share her gifts with the world.

Curious about Brett?

Find her in instagram as @thevillagewitch_

I also want to take a quick moment to speak to the women listening who feel a stirring in their womb… a calling in their bones… a deep knowing that you're meant to walk the sacred path of birth work, just like Brett and so many women before her.

My Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship begins in just 2 weeks time.

This isn’t just a birth worker training — it’s a remembrance.

It’s for the woman who knows she was born to be a space holder for other women…

Who feels the ache for sisterhood, sacred leadership, and a deeper reclamation of birth as a powerful sacred portal of transformation.

Inside this mentorship, we dive into ancient feminine wisdom, lineage healing, and the art of guiding women through one of the most potent thresholds of their lives — all while being held in a circle of like-minded, heart-led birth workers.

So if you’ve been waiting for a sign, this is it.

The doors are closing soon. If your heart is pounding and your spirit is whispering yes — I invite you to book a clarity call with me today.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You just need to take one sacred step.

And trust that the rest will rise to meet you.

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 Marju. 

Marju is mama of 3 girls from Finland. She is a Sacred Birth Worker who fell fully in love with birth when she was preparing for her own home birth, which was her 3rd birth after 2 hospital births!

In today’s episode she shares her journey of wanting to have natural hospital births, her experience of both before realizing that she could actually just choose to stay at home and birth.

So for her 3rd she decided to go for it. 

She employed a home birth midwife against her husband's wishes and had the birth she always secretly wanted since the first birth.

And this birth ignited a passion that made her create her own 8 week online journey to help women build a deep trust in themselves and their birth so they can have an amazing natural birth of their dreams! 

Curious about Marju?

Find her in instagram as @luotan.synnytykseen

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 Another Surprise Breech Birth, today by a mama and a sacred birth worker graduate of mine Jessica who chose a wild pregnancy with her 4th baby.

Jessica begins her story by sharing about her surprise breech baby at home and how she for the first time had felt a lot of fear before this birth.

Her intuition told her this birth would be different from her 3 previous who had all been “easy” natural births.

She told me at one of our last mentorship sessions that she felt a lot of fear rising and she went and sat with it, listened and gathered all her strength and resilience and it ended up serving her as she and her husband were faced with a bum instead of a head in birth.

If you’re carrying a breech bubba close to your heart then the last two episodes (and all the other breech stories on here) will serve you well in listening to.

Breech truly is a variation of normal and we need to normalize them by sharing these stories!

If you’re planning a natural birth whether you are having a breech or head down bubba then go and check out my The Natural Birth Blog. 

I just shared a blog on how to prepare for a natural birth!

And there’s more to come!

Find it at sacredbirthinternational.com/blog or via the link in the show notes.

And if you’re curious about Jessica. Find her on Instagram as @sacredcircleskeeper 

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 Victoria.

Victoria is a mama of one and a bonus mum of two. She is an Irish immigrant now living in Ohio. 

She is an EMDR therapist and works with clients who have ptsd, depression and anxiety. She has her own practice called Anima Counseling, in Dublin, Ohio. 

Today she shares her surprise breech birth at home with her pastor doula and home birth midwife with a medical student tag along and of course her husband. 

I just can not get enough breech stories on here displaying how normal and ordinary they are.

And of course absolutely magical as all other births are too.

Curious about Victoria? Find her on instagram as @randomhysterics.

Did you know you can join our private Podcast FB Community? And in it this week we share Victorias Breech Birth Video where you get to see all the magic unfold!

Just go to the link in the show notes or visit our facebook page called @sacredbirthinternational to find the community and join for free!

It’s a vibrant and wonderful community consisting of podcast guests and fans where you can interact with each other and connect!

I hope to see you there!

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 Lindsey
Lindsey is a mama of 2 from Denver Colorado.

She grew up dancing, running, practicing yoga and loving the outdoors. She owns a bakery with her husband Matt, dances professionally and is a hardcore extrovert.

Today she shares about her first birth at a 33 yrs old that was set to happen at a birth center. She was eventually transferred to the hospital during labour because the midwife couldn’t get a good read on the baby's heart rate. Lindsey birthed him naturally just 2 hours later.

The birth was ok but not what she had wanted.
In between babies she did an online holistic doula training and became pregnant again when her son turned 2 but miscarried at 13 weeks. She birthed her 13 week old baby naturally and later got pregnant again 2 months later.

During this time she realized that she herself was born unassisted by accident and felt called to try that.
She wasn't originally trying to have a wild pregnancy but recalled not learning much at all at the appointments with her son and since she didn't want any scans this time she just never saw anyone because she felt good her whole pregnancy.

Her daughter came quickly at 38 weeks on a super blue moon. It was INCREDIBLE.

Just Lindsey laboring with her husband who helped her catch her baby.
Curious about Lindsey? Find her on instagram as @lindseydolanjudd

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 Abbie.

Abbie is a mama of two from Australia, and the sister of Freya who shared her three births on the podcast way back in the episode called Remembering Birth.

I loved my interview with Freya and her sister did not disappoint I tell you!

Abbie comes on to share about the perfect natural water birth at home after her first birth left her with unshakable anxiety relating to her local hospital.

It's a redemptive story and an amazing one.
And I’m so excited to bring this story to you all.

Curious about Abbie? Find her on instagram as@yogiabs
There’s only 3 weeks left until the next Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship starts and I’m so excited to begin yet another journey.
Many of the mentees are women just like yourself.

A podcast fan, a natural birthing mama, birth nerd or already a birth worker looking for more knowledge, embodiment, depth and community.
Last week I invited 3 more women to join the mentorship. All of them were podcast fans.

One a home birthing mama of 7, another a mama of 2 and a healer and the third a mama of two who first and foremost is looking to deepen her understanding of the feminine, women, birth and our rites for her two daughters sake.
I love that.
I love that so much.
If you’ve been uhming and arhing about joining. Here is your sign.

This is the year you follow your heart. It’s time.
See you on a clarity call for the mentorship soon!

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