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An Awakening Birth Journey with Ali

In this episode of The Natural Birth Podcast Ali shares her journey from wanting a natural birth with her first but ending up, as most mamas do in our modern maternity system, with a medicalized first birth to a fully surrendered third birth at home with a shoulder dystocia handled in the most harmonious and calm way by her home birth midwife.

Ali a mama of 3 from Tennessee USA.

She is a is a world renowned celebrity stylist and TV star personality from BRAVO TV. From dressing the most famous people in Hollywood & public figures around the world, in 2020 Ali started her own personal inner journey, after going from breakdowns to breakthroughs. Ali became a certified Breath Work Facilitator & Coach. She is now a Celebrity Conscious Stylist, Sought After Media Personality, Healer, & known as a Transformation Expert.

Ali drops so many truth bombs and pearls of wisdoms in this episode.

Curious about Ali? Find her on instagram as @alilevinedesign

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6 Steps to a Natural & Empowering Birth with Kemi & Anna

In this episode of The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kemi Joy Johnson on.

Kemi is a Mother and a former registered Midwife turned Birthkeeper & Birth Activist.

She de-registered as a midwife a few years back and is now a Whistle Blower, Truth Speaker & Teacher.

In this episode we have an honest conversation about the reality of our current maternity system and what you need to know and the steps you need to take to optimize your chances of having a Natural and Empowering Birth Experience whether it is in the hospital, birth center or at home!

Get ready for some edgy talk and truth bombs.

To have a Natural & Empowering Birth in our modern world means taking full responsibility and claiming your rite of passage!

You can download the 6 Steps that we talk about in the episode in a handy PDF to refer to as you prepare for your upcoming birth!

Download below
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Breaking Ancestral Patterns and Choosing to Home Birth

In this episode of The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.
Emma is a mama of one from Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia.

She is yoga and meditation teacher, speaker and writer, and she runs an online business with her partner called Flow States Collective.

She offers an online prenatal yoga series called Flow Baby, A 10 day meditation course for mothers to be, as well as courses for new mothers designed to honor the pathway of maiden to mother.

And in todays episode we will hear about her own journey from Maiden to Mother.

She and her partner did a lot of self healing, inner child work and breaking ancestral patterns alongside physical detoxing before conceiving their baby and deciding on having a home birth.

Curious about Emma? Find her on instagram as @emmamaidment_

Listen to The Natural Birth Podcast on
iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-natural-birth-podcast/id1510201555

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An Intentional & Physiological Birth with Kat O'Connor

In this episode of The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kat O’Connor.

Kat is a mama of one from Western Australia. She had yearned to be a mother for years before conceiving her son Rafi.

Because of this yearning she intentionally chose every aspect of the journey into parenthood, starting before her son was even conceived, then into conscious conception, pregnancy, home birth and intentional postpartum.

Before Kat became a mother, she was a relationship coach with her husband Tully running couples retreats & online programs. Now she mothers, writes and works on creative projects.

Kat is a huge advocate for conscious creation and creating opportunities for choice within motherhood.

Curious about Kat? Find her on instagram as @the.kat.river

Listen to The Natural Birth Podcast on
iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-natural-birth-podcast/id1510201555

Spotify
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Conscious Conception and The Home Birth Story of Juliet Allen - Australias Leading Sexologist

Juliet a mama of two living in the Northern Rivers NSW Australia.

She is Australias leading Sexologist and the host of the Authentic Sex podcast and head teacher at Pleasure School.

In this episode we will dive deeply into her conscious conception journey and years of preparation and miscarriages with her partner Nick, as well as her first hospital birth with her daughter and then her more resent beautiful home birth with midwife Libby and her doula.

It’s not random that women have an empowering birth experience and a nourishing postpartum like Juliet did.

It takes planning and prepping body, mind and soul and in this episode Juliet shares it all to my delight!

Curious about Juliet? Find her on instagram as @juliet_allen or at www.juliet-allen.com

Listen to more Empowering Natural Birth Stories on The Natural Birth Podcast!

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Want a Natural Hospital Birth without Medical Interventions? 

Then you need to know this!

Want this information as a PDF?

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This blog post is here to offer guidance and information about the most common labour and birth procedures offered in a hospital labour ward (and some also at birth centers and even by some midwives at home births). It is written for women with a low risk pregnancy that want a Natural Birth.

It differs from country to country and even in different states and individual hospitals and birth centers what procedures and how often during labour and birth they are offered or done to women.

It's important to understand that most procedures in hospital aren't evidence based!

Yes you read that right!

And each procedure however small it seems, has benefits, risks and alternatives that you need to explore before you're in the midst of labour, if you don't want to be swept up in the system that currently leaves 1 in 3 women with birth trauma...

Jane Hardwicke Collings - Birthing in Crisis

In this very special episode of The Natural Birth Podcast, Anna has a conversation with Jane Hardwicke Collings, a former midwife and the founder of the school of shamanic woman craft on How to Birth during a Crisis.

This episode came about the same week that the Ukraine war broke out in Europe and the unprecedented flooding in Annas former home state of NSW Australia.

Jane was also affected by the flooding in NSW, but not as badly as other places like of the Northern Rivers, where reports of women birthing on roof tops due to flooding were reaching Anna.

Both Anna & Jane felt deeply for the community they know and love and wanted to offer their help to them, and to pregnant and birthing women from all over the world faced with war and natural disasters leaving them birthing in crisis.

This episode will go into the full process of labour and birth and how to keep it as safe and physiological as possible in the midst of crisis as well as...

Reclaiming Birth as a Rite of Passage - with Rachel Reed
The Natural Birth Podcast Season 5

Australias national treasure Dr. Rachel Reed, author, midwife, teacher, speaker and researcher guested The Natural Birth Podcast in January of 2021.

She was just finishing up her book Reclaiming Birth as a Rite of Passage and had just started The Midwife's Cauldron Podcast with Katie James.

And I had the pleasure of interviewing her about her births and pick her cleaver brain on all things birth as a rite of passage.

There's lots of pearls of wisdoms and gems in this conversation, and a lot of laughs as well.

Rachel is just so funny.

I loved our conversation and I hope you'll enjoy listening to it as well.

So let me introduce Rachel to you, if you've been living under a rock for the last few years and don't know this brilliant woman.

Rachel is a mum of two and a midwife and doctor of philosophy committed to the promotion of physiological birth and women’s rights.

In our episode we ...

Welcome to is Season 1 of The Natural Birth Podcast!

The Natural Birth Podcast is here to bring Embodied Birth Wisdom from women from all over the world sharing their Natural Birth Stories with the aim to inspire Mamas to believe in Their Amazing Bodies and in the Natural Birth Process.

The podcast host Anna The Spiritual Midwife wants to change the dominant birth narrative that birth is a medical event that women need to be saved from and showcase the many many stories of women, who when allowing and supporting the physiology of birth, have the most profound experiences of their lives and come out on the other side feeling powerful and capable of absolutely anything.

Listen to Natural Hospital Birth Stories, Home Birth Stories and Birth Centre Birth Stories from Sweden, Australia, Canada, UK, Holland and Switzerland in Season 1.

Listen on:
Itunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-natural-birth-podcast/id1510201555

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3o...

Dear Mama!

You are not alone in fearing birth. 

It is natural and normal to fear the unknown!

And birth is unknown, whether you are having your 1st or your 5th. 

So, please let that sink in. It is not about Not having Fear. It's about not letting the fear overpower you and negatively affect you.

Let me help!

I have written this blog post about the 7 top fears in hope that examining them togther will help release some of the power they might hold over you.

Knowledge is power!

Ok, here we go...

1. I'm afraid I won't be able to handle the pain

Most women will experience the birth sensations of their womb contracting and dilating. Everyones perception of pain is different. Some women don't experience the contractions as painful but as pressure/tension and some women do experience the contractions as painful.

The sensations and/or pain of contractions only last around a minute. The pain is purposeful and you can do ANYTHING for a minute. After the contraction all pain goes ...