The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Hanna.Hanna is a mama of one from the US.She is a therapist, photographer, doula and all around birth and baby nerd who spent her entire 20s preparing to become a mother; while also navigating grief, being a caretaker, and her own mental health/career challenges. Hannah desired a birth beyond it being a medical event, she craved a spiritual celebration to honor the transition from maiden to mother and birthed her first baby safely and swiftly in her home with her childhood sweetheart and birth team. Curious about Hannah? Find her on IG as @hanhazel.therapyWant to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Patricia. Patricia is from the US now living in South Korea and is a former Air Force military, now a veterinarian, birth doula and yoga teacher.Her and her husband are a military family stationed in South Korea due to her husband's job. They moved there when Patricia was 35 weeks pregnant and today we get to hear about her fast unplanned home birth with just her husband and doula present. And her dad somewhere in the mix too, but she'll tell you all about it ;)!Curious about Patricia? Find her on instagram as @birthandbreathe_inkorea Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Jesse.Jesse is a mama of 3 boys under 3 and she lives outside of Idaho, USA.She is a stay at home mama and have known she wanted to be a mother ever since she was a little girl.In today's episode she shares her journey of wanting a natural pregnancy and birth from the getgo, being an avid listener to this podcast from her first pregnancy, but how she was convinced by medical professionals it couldn't happen for her.She went through two births in hospital that left her feeling incapable and sad. The first with an OBGYN and the second with a hospital midwife. She was told she could contract normally and wouldn't be able to birth without medical assistance.For her third baby however she went with a private birth center midwife who embraced Jesse and her fears and helped her deal with them head on.And finally, surrounded by a birth team that believed in her and supported her in the way she needed she had her perfect, magical, blissful birth as she explains it. She even had a partial shoulder dystocia or sticki shoulders that the midwife swiftly resolved.Jesse feels with each day that passes that she loves her birth more and more and that she feels so happy and healed.Curious about Jesse? Find her on instagram as @jesslawrence2020Find Anna's Website, 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 Sarah.Sarah is a super fan of the podcast. She has been listening since the beginning in 2020 and this is the 3rd time she comes on to share her own natural birth story and it's an honor to have her back. Her previous episodes are called “A Natural Birth Center Birth” & “Sarah Changed her Midwives and had her Stargazing Baby at 40 weeks” if you'd like to listen to them first.It's wonderful to follow Sarah's birthing journey and the deepening embodiment of sovereignty and self through all.Here is her 3rd Natural Birth Center Birth!Happy Mother's Day to all the Swedish Mamas listening to the show. Today is your day here in Sweden and I celebrate and honor you.I treated my own mother to an infra red sauna session and dinner during the week and I hope that you are being extra loved up and cared for today.Whether you are a Swedish mama or not, I am gifting all my listeners a mother's day special 2 for 1 offer on The Natural Birth Course & The Nourishing Postpartum Course. Use the coupon code MOTHERSDAY25 at the checkout for The Bundle to get both courses for the price of just one. And my online community the village is also of course a part of the offer. Inside The Bundle, you'll find everything you need to feel prepared on every level—physiological, emotional, spiritual, and practical.You'll learn:​What your body actually needs to birth naturally and undisturbed​How to work with your body, womb and contractions, not against them​What to do when fear or doubt shows up in pregnancy, labor and birth​How to prepare body, mind and soul on all levels​And how to plan for your postpartum so you don't fall into the common “afterthought” trap. Making sure it is nourishing and healing and the best start for your baby and you.But knowledge is just one part of it.That's where The Village comes in—your sacred online gathering space included in The Bundle.This is your circle. Your virtual sanctuary. Where you'll be surrounded by women who get it—mamas preparing just like you, birth workers, and me, holding space for your journey.In our monthly live Q&A calls, you can bring your fears, your questions, your excitement, your “is this normal?” moments—and be met with honesty, wisdom, and warmth.Whether you're navigating medical pressure, choosing where to birth, or just need to be reminded that you can do this—The Village is where you'll be reminded that you are not alone.In the village you also get access to monthly classes and circles in embodiment, yoga, art, journaling and other lovely LIVE circles. It's a wonderful community ready to embrace you.1 years access!So if you are pregnant right now, or wanting to become pregnant then this deal is for you.You can also gift this deal to a partner, friend or sister who's pregnant. What better mother's day present is there than support and guidance through the biggest, most life altering event there is?The 2 for 1 deal ends in a week. So don't hesitate, get the deal today with the coupon code MOTHERSDAY25 at the checkout for the bundle. The BundleFind Anna's Website, 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

In this heartfelt and powerful episode of The Natural Birth Podcast, I'm offering you a special gift in honor of Mother's Day.

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Stacey.Stacey is a mama of two from the US.She is a mental health therapist who is certified in peri and postnatal mood disorders. She is also a trained EMDR therapist and yoga teacher. Stacey discovered this niche in therapy through her own healing journey after her first born was born at 32 weeks and was in the NICU for 30 days.Today she spends the first part of this episode sharing about her first birth that was supposed to be natural birth on a natural birthing floor in a hospital but ended up being premature and heavily medicalized. She shares about this birth as it informed how she prepared for her second and the people who joined her.The second was a home birth with the midwife and doula that she got to know in her postpartum with her first baby.They helped her with breastfeeding and emotional support and she trusted them deeply and ended up having her longed for natural birth in the comfort of her own home together with them and her partner.She mentioned wishing that she had had a doula for her first birth that could have informed her more along the way throughout her premature birth journey.And I couldn't agree more.Especially if you are planning a hospital birth, hire a birth worker that is there for you.And download my free ebook on routine hospital birth procedures via the free resources link in the show notes.You can also find all the graduated Sacred Birth Workers and current mentorship students on sacred birth international if you want to find a kick ass birth advocate and space holder close to you.Now let's dive into the episode.Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcastFollow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have BrettBrett is a mama of 8 spirit babies, 2 daughters and a son.In this episode she shares about her unique journey of birthing her daughter as a 20 year old only to experience 8 more losses in between her first, second and third baby.She has the embodied experience of a birth center birth, a home birth after a stitch in her cervix called cerclage and the diagnosis of an “incompetent cervix” (what a bloody idiotic term) and then a free birth with just her partner for her last baby.It's a story full of medicine and I'm so happy Brett chose to share it. Not only is she a sacred birth worker graduate of mine but also a dear friend.And I am so grateful she choose to come and deepen her skills as a doula with me this year and can't wait for her to birth her new offerings as she steps out of her postpartum with her son and share her gifts with the world.Curious about Brett?Find her in instagram as @thevillagewitch_I also want to take a quick moment to speak to the women listening who feel a stirring in their womb… a calling in their bones… a deep knowing that you're meant to walk the sacred path of birth work, just like Brett and so many women before her.My Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship begins in just 2 weeks time.This isn't just a birth worker training — it's a remembrance.It's for the woman who knows she was born to be a space holder for other women…Who feels the ache for sisterhood, sacred leadership, and a deeper reclamation of birth as a powerful sacred portal of transformation.Inside this mentorship, we dive into ancient feminine wisdom, lineage healing, and the art of guiding women through one of the most potent thresholds of their lives — all while being held in a circle of like-minded, heart-led birth workers.So if you've been waiting for a sign, this is it.The doors are closing soon. If your heart is pounding and your spirit is whispering yes — I invite you to book a clarity call with me today.You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to take one sacred step.And trust that the rest will rise to meet you.Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Marju. Marju is mama of 3 girls from Finland. She is a Sacred Birth Worker who fell fully in love with birth when she was preparing for her own home birth, which was her 3rd birth after 2 hospital births!In today's episode she shares her journey of wanting to have natural hospital births, her experience of both before realizing that she could actually just choose to stay at home and birth.So for her 3rd she decided to go for it. She employed a home birth midwife against her husband's wishes and had the birth she always secretly wanted since the first birth.And this birth ignited a passion that made her create her own 8 week online journey to help women build a deep trust in themselves and their birth so they can have an amazing natural birth of their dreams! Curious about Marju?Find her in instagram as @luotan.synnytykseen Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Another Surprise Breech Birth, today by a mama and a sacred birth worker graduate of mine Jessica who chose a wild pregnancy with her 4th baby.Jessica begins her story by sharing about her surprise breech baby at home and how she for the first time had felt a lot of fear before this birth. Her intuition told her this birth would be different from her 3 previous who had all been “easy” natural births.She told me at one of our last mentorship sessions that she felt a lot of fear rising and she went and sat with it, listened and gathered all her strength and resilience and it ended up serving her as she and her husband were faced with a bum instead of a head in birth.If you're carrying a breech bubba close to your heart then the last two episodes (and all the other breech stories on here) will serve you well in listening to. Breech truly is a variation of normal and we need to normalize them by sharing these stories!If you're planning a natural birth whether you are having a breech or head down bubba then go and check out my The Natural Birth Blog. I just shared a blog on how to prepare for a natural birth! And there's more to come! Find it at sacredbirthinternational.com/blog or via the link in the show notes.And if you're curious about Jessica. Find her on Instagram as @sacredcircleskeeper Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Victoria.Victoria is a mama of one and a bonus mum of two. She is an Irish immigrant now living in Ohio. She is an EMDR therapist and works with clients who have ptsd, depression and anxiety. She has her own practice called Anima Counseling, in Dublin, Ohio. Today she shares her surprise breech birth at home with her pastor doula and home birth midwife with a medical student tag along and of course her husband. I just can not get enough breech stories on here displaying how normal and ordinary they are.And of course absolutely magical as all other births are too.Curious about Victoria? Find her on instagram as @randomhysterics.Did you know you can join our private Podcast FB Community? And in it this week we share Victorias Breech Birth Video where you get to see all the magic unfold!Just go to the link in the show notes or visit our facebook page called @sacredbirthinternational to find the community and join for free!It's a vibrant and wonderful community consisting of podcast guests and fans where you can interact with each other and connect!I hope to see you there!Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 LindseyLindsey is a mama of 2 from Denver Colorado. She grew up dancing, running, practicing yoga and loving the outdoors. She owns a bakery with her husband Matt, dances professionally and is a hardcore extrovert. Today she shares about her first birth at a 33 yrs old that was set to happen at a birth center. She was eventually transferred to the hospital during labour because the midwife couldn't get a good read on the baby's heart rate. Lindsey birthed him naturally just 2 hours later. The birth was ok but not what she had wanted. In between babies she did an online holistic doula training and became pregnant again when her son turned 2 but miscarried at 13 weeks. She birthed her 13 week old baby naturally and later got pregnant again 2 months later. During this time she realized that she herself was born unassisted by accident and felt called to try that. She wasn't originally trying to have a wild pregnancy but recalled not learning much at all at the appointments with her son and since she didn't want any scans this time she just never saw anyone because she felt good her whole pregnancy. Her daughter came quickly at 38 weeks on a super blue moon. It was INCREDIBLE. Just Lindsey laboring with her husband who helped her catch her baby.Curious about Lindsey? Find her on instagram as @lindseydolanjuddWant to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Abbie.Abbie is a mama of two from Australia, and the sister of Freya who shared her three births on the podcast way back in the episode called Remembering Birth.I loved my interview with Freya and her sister did not disappoint I tell you!Abbie comes on to share about the perfect natural water birth at home after her first birth left her with unshakable anxiety relating to her local hospital. It's a redemptive story and an amazing one.And I'm so excited to bring this story to you all.Curious about Abbie? Find her on instagram as@yogiabsThere's only 3 weeks left until the next Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship starts and I'm so excited to begin yet another journey.Many of the mentees are women just like yourself. A podcast fan, a natural birthing mama, birth nerd or already a birth worker looking for more knowledge, embodiment, depth and community.Last week I invited 3 more women to join the mentorship. All of them were podcast fans.One a home birthing mama of 7, another a mama of 2 and a healer and the third a mama of two who first and foremost is looking to deepen her understanding of the feminine, women, birth and our rites for her two daughters sake.I love that.I love that so much.If you've been uhming and arhing about joining. Here is your sign. This is the year you follow your heart. It's time.See you on a clarity call for the mentorship soon!Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Paula.Paula is a mama of two from the Gold Coast, Australia, originally from NZ.  After having two empowering births of her own and discovering the power of the mind and breath connection she started her own business as a Functional Breathwork Coach and Meditation Teacher. She love all things birth since having her own children as well as having supported 3 of her friends during their births, experiencing what an honor it is to be a part of a woman's transition into motherhood. Today she shares about her empowering birth stories with us.Curious about Paula? Find her on instagram as @choose.u.everyday If you also want to experience the beautify and magic of attending births then here is your reminder to apply for The sacred birth worker mentorship starting in a month time.Only couple of weeks left of the early bird and also only a few places left in the cohort.It's already an amazing group of women from all over the world and I cant wait to begin this journey with them and maybe you!Find out more and apply at sacredbirthinternational.comWant to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources shementions in the episode here: https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Emma.Emma is a mama of three from Michigan, USA.She is a doula who used her three births to educate herself and spur a love for feminine energy, birth, and helping other women. From a ‘failed' home birth, to a doula-protected, unmedicated hospital birth, to an unassisted birth with just her and her husband, Emma's greatest teachers in life have been birth and her children.And today she shares about all of her three births.Curious about Emma? Find her on instagram as @fairylightsdoulaWant to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Nina.Nina is a mama of one from Germany. She is a sacred space holder and one of my sacred birth worker mentees.She is all about empowering and inspiring people to trust themselves, their intuition, their voices and their own truth. Her work is to hold space for and support souls in remembering that everything is connected, and to be living, breathing, birthing, and creating life consciously. She feels strongly that her own inner work over the years has immensely prepared her for pregnancy, birth, and being a mother, and now also being a sacred birth worker and space holder for other women and their families going through this rite of passage. Her and her husband became nomads only days before conceiving their baby and only returned to Berlin to birth their son in a birth center. Nina's birth was fast for a first time mama and giving birth was one of the most profound moments in her life. And it's this story we get to hear all about today.Curious about Nina? Find her on instagram as @nina_f_gvIt's just over a month before the next Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship starts.If you've been wanting to turn your passion for birth and women into your career or wanting to deepen your embodiment and space holding skills as many birth workers has done before you then here is your invitation to apply for the next round. Get you application in now to not miss out on this years Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship.There is nothing more magical than seeing new life be birthed into this world as your chosen purpose and path in life.If this is your soul calling then act now and apply!Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship?Find Anna's Website, 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 Anna gathers together with a Doula, a Midwife, a Doctor and a Sacred Birth Worker to talk about How They Knew Birth Work was Their Soul Calling.She asks them questions about how they got into birth work in the first place, if they believe birth work IS a soul calling and what they would say to anyone thinking about becoming a birth worker of any sort (doula, midwife, doctor or sacred birth worker).Listen in if you are considering becoming a birth worker!Enrollment for the next Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship is now fully on it's way and the cohort starting in April is filling!If you are curious about becoming a Sacred Birth Worker then please don't hesitate to reach out to learn more or visit sacredbirthinternational.com/thesacredbirthworkermentorship

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mia  Mia is a mama of one originally from Montreal, Canada, now living in a cozy house by a river in the woods of Norway with her Norwegian husband. Mia is a certified doula, prenatal yoga teacher and Mama Blessing ceremony facilitator who is absolutely passionate about natural birth. Her work extends to facilitating women's circles, retreats, and organizing wellness events and festivals in Norway, Portugal, and beyond. With a strong love for art and holistic psychology, Mia is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Art Therapy and is soon about to begin in the next cohort of The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, deepening even further into the role of sacred space holds for women and birth. Her journey into motherhood was deeply intentional, beginning with a conscious conception in Turkey and followed by a pregnancy where she fully prepared her body, mind, heart, and soul for the birth she envisioned.  Her dream culminated in a fully natural and blissful home water birth at 41 weeks + 1 day, on her husband's birthday, supported by two lovely midwives. For six powerful hours, she surrendered to the primal wisdom of birth, chanting and vocalizing through each wave, performing her own internal checks, and welcoming her baby in the water into a sacred space adorned with affirmations, candles, fairy lights, and an altar honoring her ancestors. While her birth unfolded even more beautifully than she could have imagined, unexpected moments — like her baby's cord breaking before their planned cord-burning ceremony and a brief postpartum fainting spell — became peaceful reminders of birth's inherent unpredictability and its mysterious beauty. Now, as Mia embarks on the Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, she is eager to share her transformative experience and to inspire other women to trust in the powerful wisdom of undisturbed birth. Curious about Mia? Find her on Instagram as @mia.gratefulheart  Please come and join Mia and other podcast guests in The Natural Birth Podcast Community on FB. In here we will share some of Mia's birth photos and you get the chance to hang out with her and other birth nerds and natural mamas. Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/show/3o9Pj9AmRySwvvh9oEM462?si=b22e5ae7be91415f

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sonia. Sonia is a mom to three and currently resides in North Carolina. At just 22 years old, after meeting the love of her life, she became a mother to her two adoptive kids (now teenagers!) After a long journey to conceiving their first baby, Sonia and her husband were overjoyed to welcome their baby into the world and had spent a lot of time figuring out what they wanted that experience to look and feel like. Sonia knew from a very early age that she wanted to have a home birth with a surprise gender. She and her family did everything in their power to make that possible- and it was beautifully successful even after an intense labor and almost a hospital transfer due to meconium when her water broke and her midwives advised to transfer. Her baby was still at a 0 to -1 position as they moved downstairs to wait for the ambulance to arrive. However, as so often when the waters break late in labour she proceeded to push her baby out on a yoga mat on her living room floor in front of her entire family in about 10 minutes! Sonia is passionate about natural birth and encouraging women to know and trust how powerful and perfect their bodies and minds are! She hopes her story helps to normalize the home birth experience and empower women that your first birth is not a trial run. Curious about? Find her on Instagram as @soniahittle If you didn't know already I have 2 really great free resources that you can access and download at sacredbirthinternational.com/free-resources 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! Whether you are having a hospital, birth center or home birth, knowledge is power and you never know where your birth journey will take you. Find them all via the link in the show notes or at sacredbirthinternational.com Please come join our FB Podcast Community! Connect with your fav podcast guest and discuss natural birth! https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenaturalbirthpodcastcommunity Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, 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 Chelsea. And my oh my is this a special and unique story. Chelsea is actually a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee of mine. She started the 2nd cohort last year but got severe hyperemesis with this bub that we are going to hear the birth story off. So she'll be joining the 4th cohort starting in April. She's also been on the poddy before on the episode Chelsea Lee's Irish Twins - A Road Side Birth & a Wild Free Birth if you'd like to listen to that one before this. The unique and special thing about this birth was that Chelsea coached herself through it all alone. It was only her and her toddler and dog present as she went in to about and birthed much faster than she had anticipated. Her partner, mum, mother in law, sister and third child all came ”too late” or maybe just perfect. Chelsea feels like it was the absolute best birth she could have ever had and feels like nothing could ever top this birth. Curious about? Find her on Instagram as @chelsealeebutler Now if you, just like Chelsea have a longing to work with women throughout pregnancy, birth and the postpartum and are looking for a deep, holistic and comprehensive birth worker training that includes self development, spirituality & feminine embodiment practices, a big focus on cultivating you into a sacred space holder for ceremony, the rite of passage of birth, women's circles and holding space in the birth portal. Then here is your invitation to join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship starting in April this year. Together with a vibrant international cohort WE are leading the New Earth Sacred Birth Rebellion with a truly unique approach to birth work merging the modern and the ancient knowledge with feminine wisdom keeping. A birth worker training way beyond a doula training. Really learning all that I know as a former home birth midwife from conception all the way through to sacred birth advocacy. Does this stir your heart? Then The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship could be for you. Head on over to sacredbirthinternational.com to learn more and apply. Please come join our FB Podcast Community! Connect with your fav podcast guest and discuss natural birth! https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenaturalbirthpodcastcommunity Find Anna's Website, 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 our host Anna, a former midwife, share about how to prepare for a home birth. She shares her best tips on how to prepare the birth space, labour stations to set up and use, water birth prep, what you need as well as the best nourishment in labour and birth! For anyone curious about home birth or planning a home birth this episode is gold! Save it and share it with your home birthing mamas and clients! Download her Home Birth Checklist as well as the other resources mentioned in the episode at sacredbirthinternational.com/free-resources Please come join our FB Podcast Community! Connect with your fav podcast guest and discuss natural birth! https://www.facebook.com/groups/thenaturalbirthpodcastcommunity Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, 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 Tayla. This is the second time she visits the podcast and shares about her birth stories. Her previous episode is called Unassisted birth in rural Australia. She is a free birthing mama of two and lives in rural Australia. In today's episode she comes on to share, what she thinks is an unremarkable normal birth. She went into labour at 41 weeks and 7 days. After having lost parts of her mucous plug the week prior it started with period like crams. It wasn't strong so she didn't take much notice of it and went about her day. It continued into and through the night, getting stronger and stronger. By 7:30 she welcomed our surprise baby girl at in the birth pool in the presence of her other daughter and partner as well as trusted friends. Curious about Tayla? Find her on Instagram as @tayla_kayy Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, 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 Nicole.Nicole and I actually had our interview in September and her episode got lost with some others and so here it is, a wee bit delayed but when you wait for something good you never wait to long ;) Isn't that right?Nicole is a mama of one from St. Petersburg Florida, originally from Rhode Island.She is an avid animal and nature lover - passionate about dog training, hiking, watching sunrises and generally spending time outside. Nicole is also a major foodie and lover of coffee shops. She is currently on maternity leave and enjoying every moment of this special time.She went into labor on her estimated due date which only 4-5% of women do, and gave birth at home in her bedroom with two highly trusted midwives, her doula, and her partner.Her partner caught the baby and it was the most beautiful and empowering experience of Nicole's life.She started out with a hospital based care team but switched to home birth with midwives at the start of her 3rd trimester. Sharing again how it is never to late to change your care provider!Her intuition guided her to her midwives and listening to this podcast was so inspiring + helped her grow her confidence in her decision. I hope it is helping you too, and that Nicole's story sparks even more trust in your body and birth!Curious about Nicole? Find her on Instagram as @nmigs3Follow The Natural Birth Podcast on Instagram@thenaturalbirthpodcastWant to join the Business Course for Birth Workers starting on the 31st of March? https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/business-course-for-birth-workersFind Anna's Website, 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 Kahtia Kathia is a mama of two from Los Angeles USA.  And on this day I think of her and the many people and animals affected by the fires raging in this region. I pray for the safety of everyone. And even though it is a tragedy. Every tragedy is an opportunity to come together as a community, as humanity. There is an opportunity for love and humanity to rise stronger than ever wherever suffering and tragedy happens. My contribution today is to hold space for Kathia to share her empowering and positive birth stories with us. For us both to inspire you through story telling. The oldest medicine thought the ages. Let her story be a balm to your heart if you are suffering or feel the suffering of others in our world. Here's the intro to Kathia's stories. Kathia is an aspiring music artist based in the vibrant heart of Los Angeles. With a passion for creating, she aims to inspire a positive shift in the music scene and promote healing through her unique voice frequency and personal journey.  As a devoted mother of two, she draws on her own experiences to connect deeply with others. Having transitioned from a hospital birth to the intimate comfort of her family living room, Kahtia understands the power of trust and intuition, especially during such transformative moments.  Through her music and story, she hopes to empower women worldwide to listen to their inner voices and embrace their intuition, allowing it to guide them through the remarkable journey of motherhood and beyond. Curious about Kathia? Find her on instagram as @itskahtia Follow The Natural Birth Podcast on instagram @thenaturalbirthpodcast Join the Business Course for Birth Workers Now for Special Launch Offer!www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

To all my Doulas & Midwives, all you Birth Workers out there. Here is an episode on How to Create a Successful Birth Business.  I share it through story telling, by sharing my journey from self employed midwife, to creating an online course (The Natural Birth Course) to running a successful online birth business (Sacred Birth International) and how I continue to scale while working less and earning more. By going online I have given myself time and financial freedom. I still attend births and serve women and families IRL in my community but I'm not dependent on IRL birth work financially. It is a choice, and I can choose to work less or more depending on my life circumstances. Creating a Birth Business Online is Burnout Proofing my Birth Business. I can take holidays for weeks or choose not to attend births for a while and my income still comes in. Want to create an online birth business to complement your IRL birth worker business? Join the Business Course for Birth Workers starting on the 31st March! You will learn how to create an online course, low to high ticket offers and how to market and sell in integrity and with heart without overwhelm and stress. Find out more at sacredbirthinternational.com Find out more about the Business Course for Birth Workers, The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Summer. Summer is a mama of one from the US. She's a somatic therapist who always knew she wanted to have a natural birth. Her and her husband went back and forth about whether or not to have a home birth or a hospital birth and in the end Summer followed her body's wisdom who told her she felt the most safe having her first baby in the hospital. She ended up having a really fast first birth which, together with beautiful care providers in the hospital helped her having her natural hospital birth. Listen to her fast natural birth story and all her pearls of wisdom on how to handle the intensity in today's episode. Merry Xmas & Happy New Years my Loves! Hope your xmas was wonderful and how exciting to enter into 2025 next week! I know I am super excited for next year.  Not only have I got the 4th round of the Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship starting in April, where I get to hang out and mentor amazing women from all over the world in becoming sacred space holders for the most amazing rite of passage ever, BIRTH of course! I'm also birthing a new program this year! Starting on March 31st I am launching a Business Course for Birth Workers and I am BEYOND excited about this.  I know way to many birth workers who are struggling to make ends meet, over giving and under charging, having to stay as a midwife in the hospital or at her office job because she can't afford to be fully self employed. Now I've gathered all the information I've learnt form over 10K worth of business courses and the trial and error of being self employed for 13 years. 5 of them as a home birth midwife and then sacred birth worker doing part time and now almost full time online birth work.   I'm sharing it all in my upcoming Business Course of Birth Workers… and it will all be unveiled in the new year! So Stay Tuned all you Birth Workers listening to this poddy. I know you are many. It will all be up on my website asap! But until then, I want to remind you of my Xmas Gift that is 50% discount on my The Nourishing Postpartum Course! The postpartum period is all to often overlooked and almost never planned for by women, even you who are wanting a natural birth. The gravity of the transition and rite of passage from maiden to mother can not be emphasized enough. To go from being a maiden to all of the sudden being responsible for a new life and to initiate breastfeeding and learn how to care for a new born at the same time as transitioning yourself from being pregnant to being in the postpartum, sleep deprived and for many with minimal support can be a really hard transition. It doesn't have to be. I wish more women took the time in pregnancy to learn the basics about baby care, breastfeeding a newborn, healing of her postpartum body  and how to set her postpartum up to be as nourishing and supported as possible. There for, for this Christmas holiday until the 1st of January I'm offering you a 50% discount on my The Nourishing Postpartum Course. Come join hundreds of other women in preparing for a healing, nourishing and loving postpartum period. One that set you up to thrive on all levels. Your own physical, emotional and mental health as well as your baby's start in life. Use the coupon code: GIFT at the checkout to receive the 50% discount.  I pray and hope that women and those who love them start preparing and learning about the importance of the postpartum and a baby's first few weeks earth side. Can't wait to meet you inside my online community and support you in your postpartum days, weeks and maybe even years. Just use the coupon code GIFT in capital letters at the checkout for the 50% discount. Thats it GIFT in capital letters at the checkout at sacredbirthinternational.com Anna's Episodes on Natural Birth Preparation as mentioned: Natural Hospital Birth Preparation with Anna Preparing for a Natural Birth - Anna's Natural Birth Wisdom Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Mary I thought it fitting for the episode over the Christmas period to have Mary share about her home birth. The only thing she shares with the OG Mary, mother of Jesus, was that is was a natural birth. Other than that and her name there will be no more similarities to the OG Mary. The OG Mary is however such a rockstar and shining example of the power and strength of women birthing. Period. The most famous unassisted birth in the world.  Now today's Mary is a mama on one from the UK. She has spent time experiencing eastern cultures before living in the Australian outback for several years. Mary now makes bespoke jewellery, specialising in Australian opal, which she connects with spiritually.  This intention and presence in creating her jewellery flowed into her birth journey as she desired to intuit her way through the magical process rather than bend to the fear-based narratives of western birth practices. This episode is long and Mary has a lot to share. If you're here for the birth story then fast forward 50min into the episode. But if you love a good story and don't mind listening to us rambling about test and ultrasounds and other things offered in pregnancy then you're in for a treat. Curious about Mary? Find her on instagram as @marymcmillanjewellery Don't forget the 50% discount xmas gift from me to you. Give yourself, your family and your baby the gift of a nourishing postpartum. Just use the coupon code GIFT in capital letters at the checkout for the 50% discount. Thats it GIFT in capital letters at the checkout at sacredbirthinternational.com Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Amana Amana is a mama of two living children from the US. Amana offers birth, death and grief support services as well as a podcast called The Heart of the Soul where she interviews amazing people around the world. I had the honor of being one of her guests earlier this year. She has a magical story about how she called in her husband and how they met on the summer solstice. And in this episode she shares her and her husbands conception and birth journey that involved a parents biggest nightmare. Death.  In her beautiful story of carrying and birthing her first baby who wasn't compatible with life, in the safety of her home surrounded by love and peace we get a beautiful insight into the ceremony of the death of a child. It is a heart opening story with so much love infused in it and I do believe these stories are so important to share with the world. Birth is not always Life. And we are so foreign to speaking about death in an honoring and sacred way instead of filled with fear and medicalization. So we spend a big chunk of the first part of this episode covering natural death in the home and the grieving process of a family. If you don't feel like it is time for you to hear this story right now then fast forward about 30 min in and listen to her live birth stories that are equally as beautiful and inspiring win their own way. Curious about Amana Find her on instagram as @amanabelove Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have JoséeJosée is a mama of two from Ottawa, Canada. Her first birth in the hospital unfolded like most hospital births do, when she hit transition she didn't get the emotional and spiritual support she needed but instead was given an epidural.After this birth experience she felt the need to research birth in preparation for her second. She found this podcast and binged it and was inspired to help change the narrative around birth by coming on here herself to share her story from an epidural hospital birth to a calm physiological home birth with her family. In between her two babies she also had an early birth or miscarriage as it's more commonly called. We speak to this as well and the importance of acknowledging the loss of a baby however early. Reclaiming the secret lives of women and shining light on it is to reclaim our power, magic and wholeness.Curious about Josée? Find her on instagram as @josee.juneau Find out more about The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, Anna's Courses & How to Work with Anna, as well as all the Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here:www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcastFollow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast I share my advice on how to prepare for a Natural Hospital Birth. In the previous Solo Episode with me I covered preparation body, mind, soul and body for a natural birth in any birth setting and I really recommend you listen to that one as well if you're planning a hospital birth. In this one I get my Rebel Birth Advocate Hat on and lay down the hard facts about the hospital system and their routine procedures and how to navigate them. Because hospitals are not designed to support natural births. They are great at medicalizing births and surgery. So if you want a natural birth you need to know this stuff! It's ONLY an overview and I only touch on things... because I could spend a whole episode on each and every topic. It's up to you to go deeper and do your research and make informed decisions. DOWNLOAD FREE E-BOOK Want to join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? LEARN MORE & APPLY Find Anna's Website & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONALhttps://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kajal  Kajal is a mamma of one from Colorado, USA.  She is a mystic, intuitive healer and a forever student.  Even before she conceived she knew she wanted to have a home birth and sees birth as a right of passage into motherhood and an initiation into becoming who we truly are.  She saw her pregnancy and birth as an opening to activate her power, surrender to God and be in living embodiment of trust.  Today she shares her home birth story as a first time mama and how feeding her mind with positive natural birth stories helped her in her surrender and trust in herself and the birth process. I love when you listeners come on and share about your natural birth stories after receiving so much from listening to all the mamas who've come on before you. It's such a beautiful community spirit of giving and receiving.  Curious about Kajal? Find her on instagram as @kajalspandey  NOVEMBER SALE Before I let you go I want to remind you about my November Sale. 50% off my The Natural Birth Course - all you need to know to optimize your chances of having a natural and empowering birth experience as well as 1 year membership inside my online village with monthly lives with me as well as movement classes and other circles held by my sacred birth worker mentees. Use the coupon code NOVEMBER for a 50% Discount on The Natural Birth Course: https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/natural-birth-course Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONALwww.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Maryn from Indie Birth. Maryn is a mama of 15 souls and 10 living children from Hawaii USA. She is a radical deregistered midwife, educator and mother. She hosts her own podcast Taking Birth Back, has written a book called Indie Birth and also runs her international association also called Indie Birth. Today she so generously shares all of her birth stories including her losses and early births and I am so impressed of this birthing mama and midwives stories. I know you'll gain so much pearls of birthing wisdoms from Maryn's stories. And I'm not even going to try to summaries them here. Please enjoy this epic birth journey with Maryn.  Curious about Maryn? Find her on instagram as @indiebirth or visit her website indiebirth.org Before I let you go I want to remind you about my November Sale. 50% off my The Natural Birth Course - all you need to know to optimize your chances of having a natural and empowering birth experience as well as 1 year membership inside my online village with monthly lives with me as well as movement classes and other circles held by my sacred birth worker mentees. Use the coupon code NOVEMBER for a 50% Discount on The Natural Birth Course: https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/natural-birth-course Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find Anna's Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONALwww.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Sinead. Sinead is a mama of one from Australia. She is an energy healer and mentor, working with women to feel safe in their feminine and embody more flow in their life.  She holds space for cacao ceremonies and mother blessings in which she infuses her deep ancestral connection to her lineage and encourages women of the importance of connecting to their red thread.  Now a mother of her son Aizen (eye-zen) she hopes to create more spaces for mothers to connect within and slow down.  Sinead had connected with the spirit of her baby 2 years before he came. He guided her on the emotional and mental healing and preparation that she needed to grow him, birth him and now nurture him as his mother.  She got a clear go ahead sign from him when in Bali and conceived that cycle. She went on knowing she wanted a home birth and had a fast birth for a first time mama, a total of 7.5 hours of labour and birth with her waters breaking as the initiator of labour.  First baby, no complications, no tears and pure bliss is what she wrote to me and she loved her birth and the places it guided her to within. It was quicker than she thought it would be and the second midwife didn't make it, but it was lovely with just a close friend, her partner and one midwife. It was the most embodied and empowered she's ever felt in her whole life! Curious about Sinead? Find her on instagram as @sineadrobyntaylor  Before I let you go I want to remind you about my November Sale. 50% off my The Natural Birth Course - all you need to know to optimize your chances of having a natural and empowering birth experience as well as 1 year membership inside my online village with monthly lives with me as well as movement classes and other circles held by my sacred birth worker mentees. Use the coupon code NOVEMBER for a 50% Discount on The Natural Birth Course: https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/natural-birth-course 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 Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Cynthia Cynthia is a mama of two from the US and popular podcast host of the Down to Birth Podcast. She went from being a business executive and finance professor who knew nothing about birth to pregnant after one try, and faced a huge fear of birth. All the women in her surroundings and at her work had C/S while she knew she wanted a natural birth. Her OB was all red-flags which she will tell us all about. She finally fired her, changed her birth plan from hospital to birth centre, and changed her life.  She's here to tell us about her two amazing births. Her first at the birth center and her second at home together with her now podcast cohost midwife Trisha.  Having these amazing births she became a birth nerd and later on an internationally published and renowned birth educator and informed choice advocate.  Curious about Cynthia? Find her on instagram as @cynthiaovergard 50% Discount on The Natural Birth Course with coupon code NOVEMBER https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/natural-birth-course 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 Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Anna shares the richness of her natural birth wisdom with tips and suggestions to prepare body, mind and soul for birth.  Tips she only normally shares with her clients, including natures wisdom like herbs and oils and practices to prepare the womb and vagina for birth. 50% Discount on The Natural Birth Course with coupon code NOVEMBER https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/natural-birth-course ”6 steps to having a natural & empowering birth experience”  This episode is ranked the 3rd most popular episode of the podcast! Top 7 fears about giving birth Blog Post https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/blog/top-7-fears-about-giving-birth Download my 6 Steps to a Natural Empowering Birth https://www.sacredbirthinternational.com/pl/2147627188

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Faith. Faith is a mama of one from California, USA. She is a fellow midwitch who's chosen to work outside of the regulatory system and we found out just before starting the recording that we share a dear sister in common, Midwife Sophia, my Sacred Birth Worker Mentee on Corfu Greece. Faith apprenticed for 9 months with Sophia. You might have heard Sophias episode ”Holistic Midwife Sophia & Her 3 Natural Births” earlier this year on the poddy, and if you haven't I highly recommend you do as she too is such a wealth of natural birth magic and wisdom. At the age of 16, Faith experienced a powerful dream that brought her to sit with women in birth. She started after graduating high school by volunteering as a doula at her local hospital. She also became a hospice nurses assistant and sat with the dying while still attending births whenever she could. This was a time of “living at the threshold of all things” and she came to recognize that death and birth require similar things: respect, deep trust, and total surrender.  In the years following Faith collected many skills, attended several educational trainings and has taken up many different roles such as: midwives assistant, herbalist, massage therapist and bodyworker, priestess, professional seamstress and designer, yurt builder, artist and more.  After 2 early losses, her pregnancy was an ancestrally powerful one and full of preparation for the initiation of birth and motherhood. Her 17 hr labor brought her to kiss the face of the Goddess, as she danced, sang, screamed and roared her daughter, Minerva Moon, through the threshold and into the loving hands of her husband while Faith's mother supported her the whole time.  Faith is so proud to have given birth at home and undisturbed and feels that through birth she has been given the gift not only of her beautiful daughter but the deep knowing that she can do anything. Faith is also opening the School of Sovereign Midwifery beginning with a 3 day midwifery skills workshop in March 2025! Curious about Faith? Find her on instagram as @thepaganmidwitch Send me your requests for Anna Solo Topics to anna@sacredbirthinternational.com or dm me at @thespiritualmidwitch on instagram! Thank you dearest 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 Follow @thenaturalbirthpodcast on insta for more natural and empowering birth stories!

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Adrienne. Adrienne is a mama of one from Melbourne, Australia and today she shares about her unassisted home birth that sounds like such a wonderful experience throughout. She knew as soon as she saw a video of a woman having a home birth via a YouTube vlog 7 years ago that that was the way she wanted to bring her future baby into the world.  A free birth was the initial dream, however her and her husband agreed to a home birth for their first baby after many conversations about what they both felt comfortable with. What was planned as a home birth with 2x private midwives and her husband, actually turned into an unassisted birth after 7.5hrs of beautiful surges according to Adrienne. Within minutes of walking from the birthing pool to the toilet, Adrienne's water broke and her baby was born into Dads arms. Curious about Adrienne? Find her on instagram as @ajrgallop 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 Olivia. Olivia is a mama of 2 from the UK.  She is a Mystical Birth Guide and Teacher, who guides women who have experienced baby loss, into healing and through conception, pregnancy, birth and motherhood.  Olivia conceived her first baby easily and had a wonderful pregnancy.  She planned a ‘home birth', as she desired a natural calm water birth in the comfort of her own home.  She had a beautiful labour at home, but was transferred to the hospital in the later stages of her labour as her NHS midwives thought she was not progressing which resulted in a difficult assisted birth in theatre.  3 years later Olivia and her husband began their conception journey with their second child. This time it was not so easy. They experienced a 18 month conception journey with 2 early losses.  This conception journey took Olivia on a deep spiritual journey where she discovered Spirit Babies and her own mediumship gifts. They then conceived their daughter at the start of 2020, and after a challenging pregnancy through covid, Olivia gave birth at home as she wanted and desired all along.   Olivia's children are her greatest Teachers and Guides. They have taught her so much on her Motherhood journey, initiated her deeply into her truth and her Soul, and continue to be guiding lights for her.  Olivia is passionate about sharing this wisdom with other women, and supporting them in seeing the wisdom and guidance their babies and children, both in Spirit and on Earth, have to offer them.  Curious about Olivia? Find her on instagram as @mystical_birthing Find Anna's Website & 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 is a solo episode with Anna talking about Birth Imprints. What they are and how we, through awareness and knowledge can heal and rewrite our imprint if it doesn't serve us and our babies. It also gives us understanding to why we are the way we are and why our babies and children might behave the way they do. Imprints are created in the womb, during our birth and in the early years of childhood as your nervous system develops. And there is a possibility of rewriting these imprints in the early childhood years if one is aware of them as well as into adulthood through awareness, however we are more malleable in early childhood. Between the ages 0-2 our blue print is created. We are sponges taking in all the information about life. What is it safe to do be or express and what is not, is the world a scary place or not, are we wanted, loved, are our basic needs met and so on and so forth.  From 2-7 this blue print is refined and set. How we are supposed to be to be accepted by the tribe, how we are supposed to handle emotions and how we react in all kinds of situations, circumstances and with people and relationships etc.  Our birth imprints often override our conscious mind and not until we shine a light on it do we realize the impact they have on us and how we live, think, act and make choices in life.   The experience of birth is a crucial part of our lives that we often overlook. Our first moments in the world can have a profound impact on our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. These imprints can influence a range of behaviors and attitudes, from our relationships with others to our ability to cope with stress. Understanding and healing these imprints is important for anyone who wants to live a more conscious and fulfilling life and be the best parent you can be for your children.   Anna will be holding a Birth Imprint Workshop later on this year. If this is of interest please go on the expression of interest list in the show notes and you'll be notified when it is. 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 Kirsty. Kirsty is a first time mama from Scotland. She works as a renewable energy lawyer and is very passionate about the environment and the outdoors and recently moved to her new home in the rural highlands with her husband, where they aim to full fill their life long dream of homesteading and growing as much food as they can on their small plot of land. In this episode she tell us all about her pregnancy and late pregnancy cholestasis diagnosis and how that threatened to derail her plan of having a home birth.  Luckily with the right research and support from a number of amazing women, Kirsty was able to manage her cholestasis diagnosis naturally and holistically which resulted in her having her baby with just her partner in the bathroom with a single candle for light. Her husband caught their baby boy on his way out and she was so happy to have had a completely unmedicated birth at home- Curious about Kirsty? Find her on instagram as @kirsty.may3 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 Saige Saige is a mama of two from Boston, Massachusetts, USA.   She has always been fascinated by birth and women's power in the birthing process.   She had a positive experience birthing her first son naturally in a hospital in just 5.5 hours, but didn't love even the slightest of "interventions" that were imposed in the hospital.   So when she became pregnant with her second son 12 months later, she knew right away that she wanted a home birth.   Saige loved the personalized and loving care that her home birth midwives provided throughout her pregnancy in her home, even when she found out that her baby was breech at 34 weeks.   She went on to have her dream home birth just 90 minutes after her first contraction, surrounded by her loving family and student midwife - her midwife missed the birth by about 10 minutes!   She describes her natural births - especially her home birth - as among the most special treasures of her life. 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 Shannon Shannon is a mama of one from Texas USA. She grew up fearing birth due to a lack of education and fear mongering, however she began pursuing a natural and holistic lifestyle while in university, which led her to become informed about her body's natural cycles, diet and fitness, and ultimately birth and mothering.  Her desire to have a natural birth stems from her belief that God designed the process of birth perfectly, and her curiosity to fully experience this magical process.  During her labour she expected it to be the most painful experience she had ever had, but that was not the case. In fact, she even asked her midwives “are you sure I'm in the pushing stage?!” When she was getting closer to birth. She describes her birth as a beautiful experience. She had her husband supporting her and saying positive affirmations, her midwives encouraging her, and the environment was peaceful like a spa. She now can't wait to have more natural births in the future! Curious about Shannon? Find her on instagram as @shann0n_bee If you didn't know already I have 2 really great 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! Whether you are having a hospital, birth center or home birth, knowledge is power and you never know where your birth journey will take you. Find them all via the link in the show notes or at sacredbirthinternational.com Now let's dive into todays episode!

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 Chelsea Chelsea is a mama of two from the US. She is a holistic arts therapist who sought an authentic natural birth experience IN the hospital. After her first obstetric led birth which ended in medical interventions after 32 hours of labor where Chelsea felt that the hospital had to ‘intervene' in problems that were their own creation, she sought out a private midwife for her second pregnancy and birth. She still wanted to birth in the hospital but with her own midwife that she trusted. The care she received was so much better than what she got with her OB.  Her second birth was fully natural in the hospital with her chosen midwife and partner. She also allowed a midwife in training to do two vaginal exams and attend the her birth.  The comparison of her two hospital births blows her mind! She felt that with her own confidence to advocate for herself, in addition to her partner being a superstar during labor and birth was the best experience of her life. Curious about Chelsea? Find her on instagram as @the.soulworker Did you know you can watch this episode and all of the podcast episodes on my Youtube channel? Every Wednesday the new video version of this podcast is aired on The Spiritual Midwitch YouTube channel. You'll hear me refer to my little puppy walking in and out of the screen. So if you want to see Beanie my dog, head on over on Wednesday and look at the YouTube podcast video! 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 Sandra Paola Sandra Paola is an interdisciplinary dance artist, performance activist, and mama of two from Abya Yala (the territory currently known as Bogotá, Colombia).  Her journey of pregnancy, birth and motherhood has lead her to embrace the powerful nature of the divine feminine, and is committed to supporting other women develop trust in themselves and their bodies through mindful movement practices.  Today she will share her two natural birth stories. And I loved our conversation. I feel like me and Paola could talk for ever. Her story of conception and pregnancy hold so much medicine. And her births as well. Her first was a home birth transfer due to her midwife's fears around low amniotic fluid. And her second was as Sandra Paola wrote me herself ”an empowering water birth at home with the assistance of an amazing birth team that supported her to have a virtually unassisted sovereign birth in the company of her family”.  After the hospital transfer with her first, this second birth is helping her process, heal, and grow beyond her wildest dreams. She is so grateful for her body and the trust she developed in her capacity to birth the way she wanted to. Curious about Sandra Paola? Find her on instagram as @earthdancemama Sandra Paola is now also a part of my online community the Village and I hope in a near future also a sacred birth worker mentee. If you want to hang out with me and her and other podcast guests as well as amazing women from around the world then come on over and join The Village. It's a beautiful sisterhood community of birth nerds, mamas and birth workers sharing about life, spirituality, birth and babies.  There's a monthly subscription option. Try it out. Cancel at any time. No strings attached. So come and join our LIVE community sharing circles and yoga circles, pick my brain, connect with other likeminded women and enjoy the safety and loving support of our sisterhood. 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 Melanie the Midwife from The Great Birth Rebellion. Mel is a mama of two from Australia and a Private Midwife, a Midwifery Mentor, Researcher and a Podcast host. I am a huge fan girl of Mel's and so excited to have her on the podcast. And many of her episodes are a part of the resources for The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship and I highly recommend it to my clients. Today Mel shares about her own natural and empowering births. Both of Mel's babies were born at home and today she is here to tell you all about it. Starting from the conception of her gentle boy and how he decided to come early, and his long preterm birth journey at home. I love how Mel can share how you can have a preterm baby at 36 weeks at home with the right knowledge and dedication. She nursed him at home with the kangaroo care model, which is the superior model for all preterm babies and should be offered in all birth settings. We then dive into the birth of her fiery girl who decided to come a 40 weeks fast and furious just like her. It's incredible how our babies show us who they are through the way they are birthed. Another reason to support their unique journey and not interfere with it. I hope you love this episode as much as I. Curious about Mel? Find her on instagram as @melaniethemidwife Find Anna's Website, about her Mentorship & How to Work with Her, as well as all Links & Resources she mentions in the episode here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Aubrey. Aubrey is a mama of two from New Jersey, USA. She has had two natural births with two completely different experiences. Her first bubba was conceived with the help of IVF and her birth was a hospital transfer from a birth center. It was over 24 hours long, exhausting, and looking back Aubrey could see that she was scared and alone for almost all of it. She had meconium present when the midwife offered to break her water during transition which meant a hospital transfer. She still managed to birth naturally and was so very proud of that and thankful for the angel nurse that stepped in and guided her through the last stages before meeting her daughter. When her baby girl was 8 months old she found out she was pregnant again! Which was a HUGE shock. It took weeks to sink in that it was really happening again. Her and her husband had gone through IVF with their first due to her husband's sperm quality. And since her husband had worked incredibly hard on his fertility with lifestyle changes and it obviously had such a great effect on him that it resulted in their little boy being made.   Aubrey wanted his birth to be different and she is so incredibly thankful to share that it was. She wrote to me that ”Thanks to your podcast. Seriously Anna, it was all thanks to you and everything I learned from the incredible Mamas you have hosted!!” And of course it wasn't all thanks to me. But I just love these messages and it reaffirms the power of storytelling! This time there were absolutely no cervical checks, no breaking waters and no birth centers.   For her baby boy's birth there were independent midwives, plenty of room for fears to heal, incredibly loving prenatal care, connection to her husband, and space for his birth to be sacred and special in her own home. He was born ten minutes before the midwife's arrival and there was no drama to it. It was peaceful and they loved that it was just them. They had all of the support they needed over the phone and they just let birth be birth. Curious about Aubrey? Find her on Instagram as @aubreylofreddo Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find All of Anna's Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Tam. Tam is a psychotherapist of Holistic Therapy where she merges the Clinical with the Spiritual, and take her clients on a journey of deep healing through energy work, and intuitive guidance.  She created EmpowHER Healing from the need to shift psychology into a deeper spiritual realm. Fascinated by the human condition, and the Psyche of the Soul, she possess a strong will to support each female individual on their journey, and meet them wherever they are on their path. In today's episode Tam shares about her home birth almost exactly one year from this recording and how she moved through her fear of a hospital transfer. Something many home birthing mamas can relate to having. I'm sure you'll find much wisdom in this episode if you are planning a home birth. Curious about Tam? Find her on instagram as @empowherhealing Want to work with Anna or join The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship? Find All of Anna's Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Melanie. Melanie is a mama of 3 from Idaho. She is a nurse anesthetist and as such she was working on the front lines through Covid as well as providing anesthesia to laboring women and often seeing the worst of the worst. She was also told as a 20 year old by her OBGYN that her hips were to small and that she'd need a C/S. Total un evidence based, unsolicited advice to a woman not even trying to get pregnant. You'd think all of this would have geared her towards an elective caesarian right? But no! When she did become pregnant she was living in New Mexico where the attitude around home birth in her work place was positive. And she ended up finding a home birth midwife she resonated with and that the hospital even praised. And she then went on having her two first babies at home. Both fast and furious as well as posterior. She then had a gap as she had some pregnancy losses and her family also moved to Idaho. When she finally did become pregnant with her third live baby she had to dig deeper than ever to ‘defend' what she knew was best for her and her baby in the face of a lot of negativity and straight up stupid comments from the medical professionals around her. She ended up having the transformative experience she always dreamed of and which she says was all about faith & absolute surrender. Find All of Anna's Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jan. Jan is a 43 yr old nurse and mama of four beautiful souls. She has dedicated her life to nurturing the health and well-being of others. Alongside taking care of her patients and homeschooling her children, she has embarked on a deeply personal journey of rediscovering the power and magic of holistic health and was given the chance to use that knowledge during her most recent pregnancy and birth. In today's episode we will be diving into medicalized birth in the beginning as Jan had 3 C/S before her home birth. And then about her total change and awakening to holistic health. Her fourth pregnancy, that resulted in a home birth was not expected. And once the news settled in she embarked on a path of exploration and empowerment, choosing not to have a fourth C/S but ultimately experiencing the profound transformation of her first home birth. This pivotal moment ignited a passion within her to share the spiritual dimensions of birthing at home, transcending the boundaries of conventional medicine to embrace the holistic beauty of the birthing process. Curious about Jan? Find her on Instagram as @mindfulrn911 Find All of Anna's Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Alexandra. Alexandra is a mama of one from California. She runs a farm with her partner and has been a performing dance artist for the last 10 years. Alexandra comes from an area where the home birth movement was big back in the 70's and 80's. One of her brother's was home birthed when she was three and a half years old and she was also present for the home birth to hospital transfer of another brother's birth at the age of thirteen. Coming out of this challenging birth a bit traumatized, she internalized fear around birth. However years later, after a miscarriage she found her calling to birth work and took a weekend doula course. This class, with an experienced, wise doula, opened her eyes to the flaws of the medical system and the standard cascade of interventions which completely changed her views on birth. When she became pregnant again she knew she wanted to birth naturally. She wanted to be as prepared as possible for her own initiation and rite of passage into motherhood so she dedicated her free time to reading countless books and listening to birth stories, and she became very informed. Due to there being no home birth midwives in her area currently she chose a birth center 2hrs away. And her birth ended up being a fiery one where she spiraled her baby down in the car on the way to the birth center and almost gave birth to her daughter on the parking lot outside the center. Curious about Alexandra? Find her on Instagram as @alexandrakateri Find All of Anna's Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thenaturalbirthpodcast/message