The Natural Birth Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this Solo Episode Anna is talking about the Witch Wound. What it is and how if affects you as a woman. She talks about how it plays a part in trusting your inner voice and intuition, how it affects your voice and expression in life and birth and how it is connected to the Sisterhood Wound and mistrust in other women. She also connects it to maternity, midwifery and birth. She weaves it all together for you so that you can become aware and make changes if you notice it is negatively affecting your life and have a sovereign and positive birth as well as be a better birth worker if that is your profession.

Please leave a comment or seek her out at @thenaturalbirthpodcast to let her know what you thought about the episode and to continue the conversation!

Here is the episode Midwife to Midwitch - Anna's Story Anna mentions in the episode.

Find Anna’s Website, The Village and 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 Ashley

Ashley is a mama of 2 from Michigan, USA. 

She is a full-time content creator with a recipes website, called Fit Mitten Kitchen, where she develops recipes and works with various brands in the food and wellness space.

Today she shares about her 2 birth stories. We starts briefly talking about her first medicalized experience in the hospital with OBGYN care and the dive on into her second birth with midwife led care in a birth center. 

It was a very quick and amazing birth, and something she didn’t know could happen, after her first 20+ hour labor and birth in the hospital.

Her 2nd birth was about 3 hours in total and she felt so supported by her midwives and her previously skeptical husband became a big fan of the midwifery care they received up to 6 weeks postpartum.

Gotta love good midwifery care ;) and supportive men!

Curious about Ashley? Find her on instagram as @fitmittenkitchen

If you didn’t know already I have 2 really epic free resources that you can access and download at sacredbirthinternational.com.

They are two E - books, one called 6 Steps to Having a Natural & Empowering Birth Experience and one called Routine Hospital Birth Procedures Inform yourself and make an Educated Decision!

This is a comprehensive E-Book with 28 full pages for your information and assistance in creating an informed birth plan. Whether you are having a hospital, birth center or home birth as you never know where your birth journey will take you. Knowledge is power.

Find them all via the link in the show notes or at sacredbirthinternational.com

Find Anna’s Website, The Village and 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 Meehleis.

Lindsey is a fellow spiritual midwife, medicine woman and storyteller who I absolutely adore and I am so excited to have her on the podcast.

It feels like talking to myself.

I am certain you’ll all love the beautiful storytelling and wisdom that pours through Lindsey.

In today’s episode we dive on into Lindsey’s own two birth stories.

Her first induction turned c/s at a very young age and how that catapulted her into becoming a doula and then a midwife.

To her second which was a very conscious conception and home birth totally transforming Lindsey from who she was to who she then became.

It’s an episode that dives into the topics of midwifery and herstory and claiming your sovereignty in birth and life, to talking about the birth portal and how there are four things that need to dilate. The cervix, the vulva, the heart and the mind.

It’s a beautiful chat that I hope you’ll all enjoy.

Curious about Lindsey? Find her on Instagram as @lindseymeehleis

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SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellie

Ellie is a mama of one from Australia, who consciously conceived her baby and knew from the get go that she wanted a natural home birth for her and her baby.

However, Ellie comes from a family where both her mother and her husbands mother had caesarians with all their children, and were convinced that all their babies wouldn’t have survived without them.

There was a lot of reconditioning and reprograming that needed to take place during pregnancy to counter act the fear that their families had over their choice to birth at home.

And when Ellie did have a natural and empowering home birth, not only did that heal her own throat chakra but was deeply healing for her whole family.

Curious about Ellie? Find her on instagram as @elliegutsilverman

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Allison.

Allison is a Canadian mama of three boys, living in Geneva, Switzerland. 

She is a human rights lawyer and even so, she struggled to advocate for herself in the over medicalized maternity system to have the natural births she wanted for her two first births. 

After two unnecessary inductions, that she experienced as somewhat traumatic, she was determined to have an empowering natural birth with her third. 

She went on having a spiritual and conscious conception, the story she tells us in detail in todays episode. As well as an unintentional and unassisted home birth with a whole village supporting her.

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Natasha

Natasha is a mama of two from South Africa, currently living in Australia.

Her first birth was in London 4 years ago. 

She planned to birth at a birth centre but ended up having a water birth in the hospital, as the birth center was full on the night. It was a natural birth but it wasn’t all that Natasha wanted it to be.

So with her second one year ago in Melbourne, Australia, she chose another path. 

She started off going through the hospital system, but didn’t feel supported or trusting of the system so she hired a doula.

She then watched the documentary BirthTime and felt sure she didn’t want to birth at the hospital. 

So she shifted and chose a private midwife at 28 weeks pregnant. 

She ended up giving birth to her baby the night before her due date, in the water, at home with her wonderful birthing team while her first born slept through it all and woke up soon after she birthed the placenta. 

That night was absolute magic and she didn’t want it to end.

Curious about Natasha? Find her on instagram as @_natashafarley

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Anna

Anna is a mama of three and one on the way, from

Colorado, USA.

She’s currently a stay at home mom, homeschooling her oldest. 

She’s a hair stylist and love interior decorating and home renovations. 

But above all she’s passionate about home birth and come from a long line of home birthing and free birthing women.

In today’s episode Anna shares about falling pregnant the first time and choosing to fly home to Wisconsin to birth her baby in the water at her sister’s house. 

It then took 7 years, after struggling with secondary infertility, before she fell pregnant again. She planned to birth at home in Colorado this time. But at 40 weeks it was discovered that this little baby decided to be breech. Which meant she was no longer allowed to have a breech birth at home in Colorado.

So again she hopped on a flight to Wisconsin the next day to have a natural breech birth at home. 

She got invited to stay at an experienced breech birth midwife house and ended up having a wonderful breech birth in water.

When falling pregnant with her third baby she decided to go back to the same midwife who’d helped her birth her breech baby and had another water birth where she got to catch her own son.

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Claire

Claire is a mama of one from Australia.

She’s a sustainability activist and passionate feminist, and the founder of the fashion advocate.

In this episode she shares about falling pregnant at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 and how she knew she wanted a home birth with a known midwife.

Her pregnancy proceeded well, but as she came up to 42 weeks the ultrasound showed low amniotic fluid under the normal range. 

This lead to a few days of anxiety and a change from home birth to a hospital induction. 

But when she came in for her induction it just didn’t sit right with her, so she asked for a second scan. And after having to fight for it, when she finally got it, the scan showed normal range fluids.

She ended up going back home, against medical advice, and starting labour spontaneously the day after and had a quick straight forward home birth with her partner and midwife.

This episode highlights the importance to trust your own inner voice and intuition and to stand up for yourself and what you want.

Curious about Claire? Find her on instagram as @thefashionadvocate

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Holly.

Holly is a mama of 2 from New Zealand. She’s an art teacher who’s currently a stay at home mum for her two boys at 2yrs and 10 weeks old.

In this episode she shares about her well planned first pregnancy and birth, that ended up happening at the beginning of the pandemic and covid lockdowns. 

After planning a home birth she ended up transferring after a very long pushing stage, something that got it’s explanation when she birthed very soon after arriving at the hospital.

Before her second birth she informed herself even further and planned for another home birth. But at the end, her baby boy decided to arrive at 36 weeks, which is considered preterm. 

She did however have a natural birth centre birth with him. 

And today we get to hear all about her experience and decision making during both birthing naturally in covid times and with a preterm baby.

Curious about Holly? Find her on instagram as @hollymichelleevans

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

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

Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here:

www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast