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Birthing Wisdom Galore!

This episode has so many pearls of wisdom it deserved it's on place on my blog.

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Ellen Fisher sharing All of her Home Birth Stories with us in this jam packed video episode!

Ellen is a mama of 5 living on beautiful Hawaii.

She is a home birthing and home schooling mama who loves growing her own food and is a vegan of 16years.

She’s also a podcast host of her own podcast called The Ellen Fisher Podcast which I very much recommend you check out, and she just launched The Empowered Pregnancy & Birth Course sharing her own birth wisdom as well as that of selected experts.

In today’s episode you get to hear about each of her 5 natural and empowering home births.

She dives on into the pearls of wisdom she gained from each and every one of them and the difference between them.

There is so much valuable birthing wisdom in this episode so strap on in as we dive on into her beautiful birth stories.

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What is Sacred Space Holding in Birth and Why is it so important? 

Find out in this Video

The intention with this video interview is to awaken you to the importance of the quality of your presence in the birth space, and how it can positively or negatively impact a woman’s physiological birth process and her birth experience.

Emily, also known as the Birth Advocate, joins me in this conversation. She’s a retired nurse, an initiator of the medical freedom movement in Maine and now a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee (formerly known as The Spiritual Midwife Mentorship Program as mentioned in the video).

She helps me bring you the juice of why sacred space holding is needed in the birth realm, what it looks like and how to cultivate it, and in the end of this episode we also dive a bit deeper into The Mentorship Program for you who might be interested in knowing more.

I hope you will find value in this interview with me.

Interested in The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship Program?

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As we approach Mother's Day, I want to take a moment to celebrate and honor all of the incredible mothers out there.

Whether you are a new mama, a seasoned mama, a step-mama, a fur mama, or simply have a motherly heart and spirit, know that you are deeply valued and appreciated and I'm grateful you're a part of my online community.

The origins of Mother's Day can be traced back to ancient civilizations that honored motherhood and the female aspect of creation.

The ancient Greeks and Romans used to celebrate mothers as life givers and had several days and festivals in honor of the mother of their gods and goddesses.

The early Christians celebrated a similar festival on the fourth Sunday of Lent to honor the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus.

In modern times, Mother's Day has become a global celebration of mothers, with most countries celebrating it during the month of May.

We must never underestimate the value and importance of mothers.

Mothers are the foundation of families...

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!

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https://www.thenaturalbirthcourse.com/6-steps-on-how-to-have-a-natural-...

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
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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
https://open.spotify.com/show/3o9Pj9AmRySwvvh...

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...