Together with Rachael Rose

In this conversation with Haley, we hear her inspiring story of birthing her third baby (who was 5.4kg!) at home at 44+3. Haley shares her birth story medicine, her mindset, powerful experience and rituals she engaged with for her healing pregnancy, labour and lotus birth. 

You’ll hear us discuss:

• Haley's experience with EMDR for healing birth trauma
• Haley's pre-conception and calling her third baby in
• Haley's reflections and experience from 42 weeks pregnant onwards
• Haley's labour, the support she received and the power she birthed in 
• The imprint of normalising birth and family placenta care

Haley describes the waiting phase of her pregnancy with such incredible insight. 

“Going beyond 44 weeks is place of openness & vulnerability, where each day is sometimes broken up into agonising minutes. A place where doubts & fears need to be separated from reality. An invitation to go within, to sit with discomfort & receive the lessons of trust, surrender & connection. For it was only until I was broken, that I would be called fourth to meet my baby”.

MEET HALEY

Haley is a mother who is open, inquisitive and passionate. She has three beautiful children and each of their births has been a journey of discovery, travelling beyond the realms of what she thought was possible and emerging with a new sense of self. Her births have shaped her, inspired her and taught her to understand the world from a new perspective.

"I'd worked through my fears with a fear releasing ceremony and turned those into affirmations. So when a fear came up, such as the wellbeing of my baby,  I'd invite that fear in and I would really analyse where that fear was coming from."

Connect with Rachael Rose
Instagram: @the_rachael_rose
Website www.rachaelrose.com.au

“With my two children by my side I lifted my baby out of the water…. That moment was so profound that I could feel my daughters birth making an imprint on all of us. It was as if we were all reborn”.

"I feel really complete now after having my third daughter, that phase of pregnancy and birth, it's this flow of water, that cascades down a mountain. Each birth is this waterfall then the cascade of water continues down this mountain. I'm at that point now, where the cascade of flowing water has finished and it's this place of stillness and reflection, it feels like a place I can just return back to in my journey onwards and the lessons, of my pregnancies, my births and my babies, that will just continue to trickle into other aspects of my life"

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Music by Edwina Masson 'The Feminine Spitfire'

In this conversation with Nicole Garratt, Nicole shares with us her personal story of how she  went from being an exhausted shift working mum of 4 with little support to flowing in her first year of private midwifery practice. Nicole shares her story of when she first thought that things could be different to the practical steps she took to start thinking about her business, how she started and how she has been changing things along the way to bringing her to a flow that works for her and her family.

You’ll hear us discuss:

• How Nicole's life looks now vs when she was a hustling hospital worker
• Nicoles love of instagram and how it is helping her to grow her business
• Nicole's shares her toolbox that keeps her life sustainable and nourishing
• The lessons Nicole has learnt in her first year in business as a private midwife
• How Nicole set her business up to be sustainable and nourishing for her and her family.
• What Nicole's favourite thing is about being a private midwife
• Nicoles advice to other women and other mothers who want to leave a job that's maybe no longer in alignment, or one that is just way too much in that patriarchal hustle and grind culture and start a business

MEET NICOLE GARRATT

Nicole is Mama. Midwife. Tea drinker.  Book reader. Having worked in both the public and private hospital environments, Nicole recently made the move into private practice and has consciously built her business in a way that supports her family and herself.  She has swapped shift work and constant hustle and grind, for alignment, flow and joy.  It doesn’t all go smoothly,  but there’s more room for flexibility and peace and it’s blooming wonderful.

"I'd always wanted to be a private midwife. I think that imposter syndrome of, I'm not good enough, I'm not smart enough, I'm not whatever enough to do that got in the way. But it was always there in the back of my mind. So then I'd sometimes hear people doing similar things, even if they were doing it part-time, and I'd think, oh, that'd be so cool."

Connect with Nicole via Instagram @bloomingmidwiferygc

Connect with Rachael Rose

Instagram: @the_rachael_rose

Website www.rachaelrose.com.au

"I would have moments where I was hyperventilating going, oh my God, I cannot keep this all in the air. And it felt really scary to feel like you are on a slippery slope of how the hell am I gonna keep this shit together. Whereas now, I have days where I'm busy and I have days where I didn't fold the washing, but tomorrow's a new day and I've got space in my day to do that."

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Music by Edwina Masson 'The Feminine Spitfire'