The Natural Birth Podcast

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Jolanda
Jolanda is a mama of one beautiful six-month-old daughter from the Netherlands now living in the forest of Sweden.
She is a Holistic Coach, and a Deep Rest Facilitator. 
Her journey through years of illness and trauma guided her back home to her body and taught her how to truly receive the gift of rest. It also led her to Sweden, where she followed her heart to live surrounded by nature and stillness. 
She finds deep meaning in creating nervous-system-friendly spaces for rest and connection, spaces where people can feel truly seen, heard, and held

And today she shares her story of becoming pregnant after years of healing long covid and birthing her baby at home, with my good friend home birth midwife Sigrid. 
And how instead of a head, a bum peaked out as she birthed her baby at home.
And as most babies, hers birthed without an issue. Breech birth is just a variation of normal. 

Curious about Jolanda? Find her on instagram as @rootsinrest

If you’re sitting on a natural and positive birth you’d like to share then pop on over to thenaturalbirthpodcast.com and apply to become a guest.
I’d love to hear your story!
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 Miranda.
Miranda is a mother of 5 and soon to be 6 from the US, now living in Berlin.
She has always believed in the power of pregnancy and birth and thinks the legacy of both is one of the great honors of being a woman.
Miranda first came to natural birth 12 years ago primarily out of curiosity but has evolved into a woman who owns this rite of passage as a lesson for life.
After her 4th baby she started the journey of becoming a midwife at the same university as me on the Gold Coast in Australia. She ended up not finishing as she decided to have her 5th baby and is now working as a doula in Berlin.
Miranda has had 4 natural hospital births, 3 in Australia and one 1 in Israel and her 5th was a free birth with just her husband.
3 of her babies were naturally conceived and 2 were IVF and her 6th baby currently in her womb was a natural conception. And, as Miranda shares in the episode, she believes SIBO - small intestine bacterial overgrowth which is a gut issue, was the cause of her unexplained infertility with her 4th and 5th needing the help of IVF.
I love how Miranda can showcase for the women going through IVF that you don’t have to continue with a highly medicalised pregnancy and birth which is usually the case.
IVF does not in itself make a high risk pregnancy.
Curious about Miranda? Find her on Instagram as @Miritellsall
Curious about what’s happening at the Midwitch Cottage this summer? Visit themidwitchcottage.com

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 Cornelia.
Cornelia is a mother of two from Sweden and a midwife, having attended around 50 home births and nearly 400 hospital births. She’s the daughter of my friend and home birth midwife Kirsten who’s a guest teacher for the Swedish midwifery craft training I am starting this summer here in Sweden and it’s such a pleasure to have her on.

Her mother being the home birth midwife of the village all her life, her connection to birth began early. At just 8 years old, she witnessed her first birth, and since then she has carried a deep knowing that birth is a natural process of life.

For her own births, she chose to have her mother as her midwife. A decision rooted not only in trust of her competence, but in the deep safety of their relationship, something she believes is essential in birth.

Her first birth began under a super full moon, starting with gentle, menstrual-like sensations that quickly intensified through the night. As labor unfolded, she turned inward, listening to her body and even checking her own progress with her fingers inside.
Her second birth also began during the night. This time, the waves were strong from the very beginning, yet still completely manageable. The final moments were deeply intense, requiring full surrender, and soon after, her baby slipped into her own hands.
Both births were fast and her stories of deep trust, instinct, and surrender to the power of birth.

If you’re sitting on a natural and positive birth you’d like to share then pop on over to thenaturalbirthpodcast.com and apply to become a guest.
I’d love to hear your story!

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 Saide.
Saide is a mama of 3, one spirit baby and two living children.

She is a stay at home mama from the US who’s a seeker of God’s light and truth as I focus on becoming my best self through mothering, homemaking, serving, building relationships, and making time for my passions for exercise, nutrition, family history, birth, and learning new skills and languages.

Today she shares about her 3 births. Her first being an early loss, her second a traumatic hospital birth and her third an amazing and empowering home birth 4 months ago.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 Shiva

Shiva is a mom of three and stepmom of one, originally from Turkey and now raising their four boys with her husband in Denver, Colorado.

Half Iranian and half Turkish, she’s a bilingual psychotherapist whose work in health psychology, PTSD, perinatal mental health, and parenting is shaped by cultural diversity and a commitment to health equity across communities.

She is devoted to raising heart-centered boys, the practice of yoga, and exploring women’s liberation and bodily autonomy in West Asia, threads that powerfully shaped her three physiologic births.

This is the second time Shiva guests this podcast and she comes with so much birthing wisdom yet again. Shivas first episode is called Riding the waves and power of birth through mantra and is the 10th most listened to birth story of all time.

I hope you’ll enjoy this one as much as her first.

This was her third natural birth and her second home birth. The time period of the pregnancy had a good bit of stress and hardship and she was concerned that with the stress and her age, she wouldn't be able to have the birth she wished for.

But she decided to trust and nature did what it is good at.
It heard the whispering of what she dared to hope for, and it went so smoothly, exactly as she had hoped: a fast, healthy water birth at home witnessed by two of the older brothers.

Curious about Shiva? Find her on Instagram as @shivajenkins
Curious about what’s happening at the Midwitch Cottage this summer? Visit themidwitchcottage.com

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