Home Birth in South Africa

Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Kayla. Kayla is a mama of one from South Africa.  She is a doula and a Sacred Birth Worker Mentee who is passionate about supporting mothers and families during the precious journey of childbirth.  Today we will hear about her journey of knowing at a very young age she needed to become a mother and how the desire to become a mother and a birth worker was intimately woven together. She did a short doula course at 6 months pregnant and straight after decided it wasn’t enough and applied for The Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship. She ended up birthing the first week of the mentorship, at 37 weeks, as a first time mama. And she had a short first time birth in water, in her home, surrounded by family, a doula and her midwife. Home birth and natural birthing is rare in the world nowadays and even rarer in South Africa so I’m so pleased to have a mentee there and for her to share her story with you. Hopefully inspiring other young African women to trust in birth’s design. She has great visions of starting a podcast for natural birthing in South Africa and I’m sure with her passion she’ll do great things for the natural birthing and home birthing community in her country and beyond. Curious about Kayla? Find her on Instagram as @sacredart_ofbirthing Find All of Anna’s Links & Resources here: SACRED BIRTH INTERNATIONAL