Healing Birth

Feb 02 2025 196 ep. 55 mins 25

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

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Pregnant and Didn’t Know it: A Rainbow Gathering Birth

Feb 02 2025 59 mins

India was 21, and dancing without a care in the world at a festival in Nepal when she suddenly felt her water break. That was the moment she realized she was pregnant—and about to have a baby! What followed, in one of the most incredible birth stories I have ever heard, was a four-day labor, supported by her Rainbow Gathering community, in a remote village in Nepal. If you love t

Precipitous and Powerful: Tiffany’s Third Birth

Jan 26 2025 56 mins

Returning guest Tiffany shares her powerful third birth story—a precipitous freebirth. Alone with just her partner, Tiffany navigated this intense and transformative experience following a wild pregnancy. Tiffany’s story also includes one of the coolest placenta births I’ve ever heard! You can hear her first two birth stories, on her first appearance on the podcast, here. If

Giving Birth with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

Jan 19 2025 23 mins

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) is a connective tissue disorder that presents differently in each individual. For Emily, it significantly affected her digestive system. During her first pregnancy, she struggled with severe hyperemesis, unable to keep any food down at all. In this episode, Emily shares one of the most unique and challenging stories of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum

Healing Through Homebirth, and Grieving the Past

Jan 12 2025 63 mins

After two hospital births—one of which was extremely traumatic—Laura decided to homebirth her third baby. During her 20-week anatomy scan, a velamentous cord insertion was discovered. Laura’s main concern with this complication was the risk of intrauterine growth restriction. She chose to closely monitor her baby’s size through ultrasounds, and by 35 weeks, it was clear sh

Fleeing Paris: A Family’s Fight for Birth Autonomy

Jan 05 2025 64 mins

I open season six of the podcast with the jaw-dropping story of a family who fled France after the authorities targeted them for freebirthing their baby. Katie initially planned a homebirth for her first child, but during labor, her midwife transferred her to the hospital, where she was given no option but to have a cesarean section. When Katie became pregnant with her second chil

Trauma Informed Birth: Breaking the Cycle, Building Trust

Dec 22 2024 108 mins

Katie’s journey with birth has been one of both trauma and triumph. It begins with an excruciating, 3-day Pitocin induction, ending in a c-section, which left her devastated and later diagnosed with postpartum PTSD. She endured months of nightmares, flashbacks, and depression. In contrast, Katie later experienced a second trimester loss, and says that her experience in the medica

A Triumphant Homebirth After Cesarean at nearly 43 weeks

Dec 15 2024 30 mins

Julia became pregnant in December of 2019, right before the world shut down. She spent that pregnancy isolated, alone, and made to go to her prenatal appointments without her partner. Beginning at just 36 weeks, she was pressured to have a c-section, because her baby was breech. Deep down, Julia knew her baby was healthy, still growing, and perhaps still had time to turn. But after

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_life_

Nov 24 2024 47 mins

Lea is the content creator behind the popular Instagram account @trusting_life_, 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 Life and Wise Woman