A Wonderful Home Birth after a Preemie in Hospital
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!
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Home Birthing after Cerclage & “Incompetent Cervix”
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
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Home Birthing in Finland
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
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Unassisted Surprised Breech Birth
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
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Surprise Breech Birth at Home
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
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