Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lauren. Lauren is a mama of 1 originally from England, now living in New Zealand for seven years. She’s a pastry chef and qualified personal trainer, now focusing on raising her baby girl. She’s been vegan for ten years and is trying to live a low tox holistic kinda lifestyle. During her whole pregnancy she felt very skeptical about inviting her midwife to her birth as she was aware how a medical midwife can unfortunately get in the way of a...

Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Amanda. Amanda is a mama of 2 from Texas. She’s a birth photographer, birth assistant, doula and placenta encapsulator and a secretary and social media coordinator for a birth center. She says that she is blessed to mostly work from home and have the ability to homeschool her daughter. In todays episode we get to hear about her two birth stories. The last one I saw powerful photos of on Instagram where Amanda was squatting in such a...

Today on the Natural Birth Podcast we have Carla. Carla is a mama of one from Sydney. She’s a pelvic floor physiotherapist who has worked in some of the largest maternity hospitals in Sydney. Her work has involved supporting women as they recover from third and fourth degree tears, bladder and bowel incontinence, sexual and pelvic pain and prolapse concerns.  Carla is also a yoga and meditation teacher and during her pregnancy she went on a journey to resolve her birth fears,...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sophia. Sophia is a mother of 3 from the UK, living in Corfu Greece. She is a midwife, who is obsessed with bringing pregnancy and birth back into the hands, hearts and wombs of women and families. And she is a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee of mine. Imagine my delight to have her both in my mentorship as well as coming on here to share her amazing natural and empowering birth stories! This episode is so very rich as us two midwives cackle...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natalie. Natalie is a mama of one from the UK, now living in Thailand. She is an artist and a property developer, and a lover of meditation and alternative health and living a unique, authentic life.  Natalie found out she was pregnant whilst on a snowboard season in Japan and was initially absolutely terrified at the thought of birth. She made it her mission to feel confident and calm about her birth by the time her baby arrived. And instead of...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sarah. Sarah is a mama of 2 from Cornwall, UK. She is a holistic nutritionist and passionate about all aspects of health and wellness, the importance of our connection to nature and living as empowered beings for a happy, healthy life. When Sarah first became pregnant she was fearful of birth, but through claiming it and educating herself and doing daily meditation she ended up transforming her fear into feeling calm and eager to...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Maria. Maria is a mama of 3 from Sweden. She has a background in journalism and has written three books about pregnancy, birth and the postpartum as well as working as a doula and a massage therapist. She’s also the co-founder of Braido Organics with Kristina that you heard from just a couple of weeks back. And this year she is also starting her journey to become a midwife. She’s a force to be reckoned with in the birth world here in...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Cory. Cory is a mama of three and soon four from Texas, USA. Her first baby was born in Hawaii where she met her husband. She planned a natural birth that turned into a C/S which she wasn’t happy about and therefore was adamant in having a VBAC for her second. Her second became her redemption birth and she ended up having her baby in the luxury of her own home as she puts it. Her next daughter was also born at home and today Cory has a...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kristina Turner. Kristina is a writer, birth activist, sacred birth keeper and red tent women’s circle facilitator with over 25 years of experience. She wrote the book Natural Birth – A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breastfeeding after giving birth to her three children. The births that we will hear all about in this episode. The spiritually transformative experiences she had during these births made her a passionate...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma back. Emma is a meditation and yoga teacher as well as an author, podcaster, mentor and speaker from Byron Bay Australia and now a mama of two! Emma was on the poddy in May 2022 sharing her first fast empowering home birth in the episode ”Breaking Ancestral Patterns and choosing Home Birth” Now she is back breaking all the assumptions about second births being faster and easier. Because this one was longer and harder but still so...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Denise. Denise is a mama of one from Arizona USA. She is a stay at home mom and an Airbnb host. After watching The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake, her now husband told her, even before they were married or thinking of having babies, that they should home birth. And Denise became fascinated by pregnancy and birth by listening to The Natural Birth Podcast, which led her to make the decision to birth at home with the support of her...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sofia. Sofia is a Swedish mama of 5 who is currently living with her family in France. She is a yoga teacher and homeschooling mama and today she is sharing all of her 5 births and her interesting life journey. She birthed her first baby at home as a 23 year old and then had her second also in Sweden which happened so fast it was an accidental free birth. She then decided with her husband that they wanted to move to France, where they...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Veronica. Veronica is a mama of two from the US. She is a somatic & trauma trained practitioner and educator as well as a doula. Today she brings you the pearls of wisdom from her first home birth hospital transfer and some really amazing takeaways as an embodied woman and birth worker. She then proceeds to share about her redemptive second birth center birth where she experienced labour with no pain during the transition phase, only...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Maria. Maria is a mama of one living in Glasgow, Scotland, originally from Lithuania.  She struggled with PCOS for most of her late teens and twenties, but was only diagnosed later in life. This allowed her to finally try to heal herself, because conventional medicine doesn't provide a way to "heal" PCOS. After a 2 year detour into detoxing and the vegan world, it was the pro-metabolic way of eating and focusing on good quality animal...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Catherine. Catherine is a mama of one from the US. She believes that a HUGE reason she was able to have a completely unmedicated, wonderful hospital birth was because throughout her pregnancy she was empowered by listening to the stories of so many amazing, strong women on the natural birth podcast! So she came on to give back! And what a story she has! She had originally planned a home birth but at 36 weeks had to switch to OB care due...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ryan. She is a mama from Los Angeles, California, the US. Ryan is a mama of one daughter and one son on the way as well as two rescue mutts.   She is also the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Needed, a company championing better nutrition for women, their families and our earth.   She is a lifelong environmentalist and a holistic nutritionist with training in folk herbalism.   In today’s episode we will hear about her home birth with a midwife...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mae Yoshikawa. Mae is a mama of 2 from Japan. She is an author and yoga and meditation teacher as well as a global ambassador for Adidas.   She has been on 42 consecutive covers of the Japanese Yogini magazine and was awarded the Yoga Journal People's Award in 2016.   Her offerings have been featured on many media outlets including Vogue Japan, GQ, and Women's Health.   Today she is here to share about her two natural births in...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sophie. Sophie is a mama of one from the UK, now living in Costa Rica.   In this episode we will hear her story of trusting the maternity care she was given as most first time mamas do and how it only created anxiety and stress, ultimately derailing her home birth to a hospital birth.   This episode will highlight the risks with ultrasounds and inform you to be aware of these as you accept the routine ones as well as the extras. They are not...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Agata. Agata is a mama of 2 from Sweden and one of my dear clients. And today we have a very special story to tell.   Agata is quite the unicorn. She waited calmly for her baby to be ready and for labour to start naturally after her waters broke for over 96 hours. Which in our modern birth climate is unheard of.   With my assistance and guidance and her deep trust in her body, baby and birth she had a magical, empowering, natural hospital...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stella.   Stella is a mama of two from Florida, USA. She works in the health & wellness space and lives a natural, holistic lifestyle.   She went from being terrified of birth, thinking she would never have children because of her fears, to having two beautiful home births in the house built by her and her husband.    Her first birth was long and challenging, but she reached her goal of having an unmedicated home birth.   But she...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Poppy. Poppy a mama of two from New Zealand. She is a singer and musical theatre performer. And in today’s episode she will share the births of her two babies. Her first was a midwife attended home birth and her second, which we will dive deeply into today, was an unassisted free birth in her home together with her sister and partner. And Poppy went on to birth a baby believed not to be able to be birthed by the medical establishment. A...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Olivia. Olivia is a mama of two from the US.  As so many first time mamas, she was over confident about her ability to have a natural birth in a hospital and ended up having the typical American hospital birth flat on her back with an epidural and her legs up in the air being told when to push. She put in a lot of work in preparing for her second birth, still planning on having a natural hospital birth, and ended up having a short but...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Lucy. Lucy is a Mama to my four from Australia.  She is a certified Doula and a former Midwife who just like me handed in her registration as working in the system was so traumatizing to her and she just couldn’t go on any longer.  She also finally came to the sad conclusion that she was never going to be able to serve women and families authentically while she was tied to the institution, so she left.  Although initially she held a lot of...

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Blythe. Blythe is a mama of Irish twins from the US. This means her babies were born within the year of each other.  Her first birth was a standard hospital birth that left her feeling traumatized just like so many women around her.  So after becoming pregnant with her second, she knew things had to be better and began the journey to the healing natural breech home birth that might not have gone as planned, which birth rarely does, but gave her...