Healing Birth

Dec 08 2024 188 ep. 55 mins 24

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Conscious conversations about birth, rooted in trusting the inherent wisdom of our bodies.

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Born in the Doorway of the Birth Center

Dec 08 2024 37 mins

Patience is a doula and birth keeper, and was quite familiar with birth when it was time to have her first baby. She chose to give birth in a midwife-run birth center, but her labor progressed so fast that they never made it inside, and the baby was born in the doorway! When she became pregnant with her second baby, she wanted a more autonomous experience, and chose to birth at hom

A Traumatic Induction, and a Pain-Free Birth with Hypnobabies

Dec 01 2024 68 mins

Molly planned to give birth to her first baby at a birth center, but when she hit 41 weeks, she was bait and switched into a hospital induction. The Pitocin-induced birth was traumatic and excruciating, and ended with a week long NICU stay for her son. In retrospect, Molly believes the induction, and the trauma to her and her son, was completely unnecessary. It wasn’t until she

Bringing Consciousness to Birth and Life with Lea from @trusting_birth

Nov 24 2024 47 mins

Lea is the content creator behind the popular Instagram account @trusting_birth, and host of the Wise Woman Diaries podcast. In this conversation, we go deep. Lea shares candidly about how a ten-year preconception journey has been the path that led her to soul, and, paradoxically, into true trust in her body. She shares what inspired her to create both Trusting Birth and Wise Woman

Hospital to Home | Two Birth Experiences with the NHS

Nov 17 2024 69 mins

Alice was induced at the end of her first pregnancy, which ended with a forceps delivery and an episiotomy. The trauma and intensity of this experience profoundly affected both Alice and her baby, who was bruised and cut from the forceps. In the aftermath of this birth and postpartum time, Alice’s marriage ended - in part because of how difficult that first year was for them. But

A Third Birth With a Twist

Nov 10 2024 79 mins

During Delainey’s third birth (her second freebirth), her baby experienced a true shoulder dystocia at his emergence - a complication that is almost never heard of in home or free births, and can be one of the few, rare, actual obstetric emergencies. His head was out for eight whole minutes before the rest of his body was born, and Delainey could feel exactly where his shoulder w

Natural Birth is the Hero's Journey

Nov 03 2024 56 mins

Emily, a former nurse of 13 years, shares the sweet story of the homebirth of her first born son. Since entering that rite of passage, her heart and soul mission has become focused on using her cumulative life experiences to walk alongside women and their families as they too cross the threshold. She helps to facilitate the deep inner work needed to prepare mothers for an empowerin

Divinely Aligned | Freebirthing Twins on Halloween

Oct 30 2024 97 mins

The medical system couldn’t offer Tiffany the kind of birth she wanted for her twin boys, so she fired her doctor, and planned to birth them at home. Needless to say, this was a choice that took a great deal of courage, trust, and consciousness. All along the way, Tiffany was shown signs from the universe that she was on the right path, and was in alignment with what was right f

Finding Freebirth

Oct 27 2024 76 mins

Lindsey begins her motherhood journey with the experience of an ectopic pregnancy, which she - amazingly - resolved without taking medication or having surgery. Despite her being told by medical professionals that it would hard for her to conceive again, she did, easily. Her first baby was born in a hospital, and this experience left her knowing that she would never give birth in

A Homebirth in Norway

Oct 20 2024 36 mins

Maiken always knew a hospital birth wasn’t for her. When she welcomed her first child, it was at home, with only her partner and a doula present, embracing the power of her body in an intimate, natural setting. Her journey through pregnancy and birth wasn’t just life-changing—it was deeply healing. The experience reshaped how she saw herself, teaching her profound lessons abo

After the Devastating Loss of Twins, Tia got her Healing Birth

Oct 13 2024 62 mins

Tia’s first two birth experiences were hospital inductions. By the time she was pregnant with her third, she knew she wanted a more empowering and natural experience, so she hired a midwife, and planned a home birth. But around twenty-one weeks into that pregnancy, Tia went into preterm labor. She was rushed to the hospital where she delivered not one, but two babies. Tragically,