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Birth Warrior Podcast
by Indie Birth Association
The Birth Warrior Podcast is a project of the Indie Birth Association featuring the stories of autonomous birth.
Episodes
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Drumming Her Daughter To the Earth (and In Ecstasy): Ashley’s Freebirth Story of Koa Moon
Ashley is a doula, wife, and mother to three mini goddesses. Her message to women is simple but powerful, she shares: “If every woman could attain the birth knowledge I did in a few years and feel confident in their bodies, everyone would be brought into the world through freebirth.” Ashley is a...
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“You are Powerful, Let Fear Go! And Let Birth Guide You For It Cannot Be Planned”: Tiffany’s Birth Story
Tiffany is an aspiring doula, mother to five children and married to her high school sweetheart of 15 years. Tiffany’s birth unraveled beautifully and showed her, yet again, that women hold so much power within them. She encourages women to let go of fear and listen to their own intuition, and to...
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Balancing Calm, Confidence, Flexibility and Trust in a Risky Situation: Julia’s Pain-Free Birth Amidst Cord Prolapse and De-Stigmatizing Breech
Having a didelphys uterus and a pattern on breech babies, Julia just wanted a straightforward home birth, but this was not in the cards as her 3rd baby presented every complication possible. Ironically, it turned out to be her easiest birth. In Julia’s own words “Humans plan and God laughs. Trust...
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The Language of Womb Intelligence – A Language of Her Own: Heather’s Birth Stories and VBAC as Her Personal Genesis
With her history as a gymnast, dancer/mover, and body worker, Heather assumed she had the tools for trusting/following her body’s lead during birth…that was until she hit deeply embedded triggers from her history of child abuse that illuminated a messy entanglement of wounds and conditioning left...
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Journey To The End Goal: Kara’s Five Birth Stories
Kara is a homeschool teacher, nature lover, amateur baker, bookworm, and mama of five incredible children. She shares that starting a family has shaped her in many ways, and one of the most significant was the discovery that she has a serious passion for birth. Kara’s own birth experiences were...
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“There Is Always More To Learn”: Hailey’s Birth Stories
Hailey Kirksey is a 28 year old Arkansas native, married, and a mother of two young children; holding a Master of Liberal Arts degree in English Literature, she is currently writing a novel while living as a full-time “stay-at-home-mom.” With the hope of inspiring other birthing women, Hailey…
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Opening to Universe, Surrendering To The Divine: Zuri’s Freebirth Story of Elijah Light and The Intersection of Psychedelics and Motherhood
Zuri is a home birthing, homeschooling mama of two, holistic childbirth educator, and ceremonialist. The free-birth story of her second baby, Elijah Light, is one of deep primordial intuition, spirit baby communication, and unwavering trust. Zuri hopes that her story inspires women to radically...
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Sam’s Birth Stories and How Having a Powerful Birth Doesn’t Necessarily Mean No Support
Sam is a prenatal yoga teacher, doula, and mother of two boys, presently residing on the Kentucky River. Sam’s birth taught her that, to truly be free, to know and to trust herself, is to know how to manage her energetic state and create the energy that she wanted within herself and project that...
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“Do I Have To Do It This Way?”: Skye’s Freebirth to River Kawai, Making Yourself Unavailable For Unsolicited Advice While Pregnant, and The Importance of Sister Support During The Maiden To Mother Rite of Passage
Skye is a somewhat transient hippie but mostly just, in her own words, an “ordinary woman,” who hopes her birth story will inspire others to trust their intuition surrounding their births, even (or perhaps, especially) when it may not be what they had originally planned for. She shares the…
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The Answers Are Within Us: Amanda’s Birth Stories and The Confidence That Birth Can Give You In the Face of Life’s Challenges
Amanda Alappat is a homebirth mother of two, a preconception to postpartum coach, birth doula and facilitator of women’s circles, retreats and programs. Though she experienced two very different births, she’s come to learn that how you birth truly does matter and that each experience is an...
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Shedding Untruths and Listening To Spirit: Bridget’s Birth Story and How Anxiety Is The Ultimate Liar
Bridget is a wife, stay at home mother of 2 beautiful girls, and a follower of Christ. Through her pregnancy, labor, and birth, Bridget found healing and strength in ways she didn’t know were possible – overcoming intense anxieties and fears, letting go of control, and trusting that God was with...
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“Wherever You Birth Is Sacred…Birthing Makes It Sacred”: Kesia’s Birth Story
Kesia Nagata is a writer, musician and community organizer living on a homestead in Northern BC, Canada. A relaxed first pregnancy and planned home birth suddenly swerved into surprise hypertension, preeclampsia, induction and hospital delivery. Kesia’s story is about adaptation when things go...
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Doing Whatever It Takes To Make It Happen!: Marlene’s VBAC X 3 Birth Story
Marlene’s message to women is short and sweet, timeless and powerful: A vaginal birth after multiple C-sections is possible, and if you really want this, you will do whatever it takes to make it happen. LINKS & SHOW NOTES Birth Warrior Podcast submissions link 13 Moons: Epic Eduation for the...
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“There is no test…There’s nothing to prove”: Patience’s Birth Story
Patience is a holistic doula and childbirth educator living in Kentucky with her fiancé and their first homebirth baby, who will be two years old in March. The biggest message Patience wishes to share with every woman is to trust your body and baby, and you do not need to birth in a hospital or...
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Surrendering To The Process: Lyndsy’s Birth Stories and Journey With Infertility
Throughout Lyndsy’s pregnancy journey, she struggled and dealt with infertility, as well as a miscarriage with her first child, feeling untethered from her body and soul. After overcoming that dark chapter, Lyndsy realized that pregnancy and birth are an invitation to heal ourselves – body, mind,...
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Brina’s Births: A Reflective Story of Trauma and The Medicine of Self Trust as a Teacher
Brina is a wife, mom to two girls, a bonus mom to 3 boys, a doula, and a future student midwife, who, through her two births, has experienced hospital transfer, a NICU stay, and Postpartum depression, anxiety, and OCD – all of which, she shares about on this episode. Brina’s biggest message to...
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The Fruitful Vine Embodied: Natalia’s Birth Stories, The Partner’s Role in Helping Nurture a Thriving Mother, and How Self Care Starts at Your Plate
Natalia is a Puerto Rican, Jewish mother of 3 little girls and wife to an outspoken truth seeker, who lives in suburban home that she lovingly considers her little farm where she works and homeschools her children. After birthing her second child and tandem nursing, Natalia lost two pregnancies…
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“Live Your Truth, Live Your Belief System”: Hannah’s Birth Stories
Hannah is a wife, mom to two littles and two angel babies, and a country girl at heart. A lover of birth and science, who is particularly fascinated by the topic and study of pregnancy nutrition, Hannah’s goal is to live a life in harmony with her beliefs, to live by faith, and to trust in the...
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Pain Into Pleasure: Elise’s Stories, Big Babies and Honoring the Magic and Mystery of Childbirth
Elise Planty is a mama of three, step mom of two, and a student midwife close to graduating. Through the experience of birthing her “big at birth” babies, Elise learned the profound and invaluable lesson of honoring the magic and mystery of childbirth. LINKS & SHOW NOTES Birth Warrior Podcast...
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“You Can’t Control The Process”: Cathryn’s Birth Stories
Cathryn is a wife, mother, homemaker, and passionate birth enthusiast, whose pregnancies and births have shaped who she is and the goals she is working towards. Cathryn shares that her deepest belief, surrounding pregnancy and birth, is that peaceful birth can truly change the world. LINKS & SHOW...
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“What Do I Want to Do and What Feels Right”: Claire’s Birth Stories, Letting Intuition Guide Your Pregnancy and Birth, and the Complex Condition That is Pre-Eclampsia
Claire is an artist and mother of two daughters, who, during her latest pregnancy, leaned fully into trust her own intuition – amidst developing and being diagnosed with pre-eclampsia at 38 weeks. Knowing very well that she would have been labeled as high risk had she chosen to birth within the...
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“Just Add Salty Water”: Amina’s Birth Stories, How Doing Less Is Sometimes Better and The Intuitive Knowing of When To Seek and Not Seek Help
Amina is an Algerian native, currently living in Egypt with her husband and two daughters, Maryam and Leila. A lover of home births and breastfeeding, Amina volunteers most of her time helping and consulting mothers on breastfeeding via social media. Her message to women is to trust their bodies...
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“Just Another Day… No Big Deal”: Kyleigh’s Story and The Importance of Mental Prep Work to Help Create the Pregnancy and Birth You Desire
Kyleigh’s preparation for birth started long before she became pregnant with her first and only daughter. Through years of rock-bottoms and spiritual awakenings, Kyleigh approached her birth ready to completely surrender to the process, and surrender she did. She had a 9 hour home birth, with…
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Rewriting Her Story As a Sovereign Woman: Natalia’s Powerful Birth During an Earthquake
Natalia discovered her power and sovereignty, as both a woman and a mother, by taking responsibility for her prenatal care and birth. This journey of radical responsibility led her into reclamation of her body, and her womanhood. Presently, Natalia is beginning a new journey of holding space for...
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Brooke’s Birth Stories of Saioa, Lorea Dolores, and Birthing in Alignment of Your Wildest Dreams
Brooke is a mother and wife originally from Idaho, now living in Whanganui, New Zealand with her two daughters and husband. She believes some of the most important work you can do in life is to figure out what exactly you truly, deeply want: what would life – and birth – look like if you dared to...
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Finding Her Center in the Midst of Chaos: Melissa’s Birth Story as a Teacher In Deepening Her Trust In the Universe
Melissa is a mother to four boys – ages 12, 11, 8 and 6 weeks – and an integrative health coach supporting mothers on their own personal journey of motherhood, in Twaine Harte, California. During her most recent birth, Melissa shares that the teaching that came through is the importance of...
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“Midwifery Is In Our Bones”: Emily’s Birth Story
Emily is a reiki teacher, massage therapist and birthkeeper currently pursuing midwifery school outside of the system. Since experiencing the magic of undisturbed birth with her 2nd daughter Ixchel, she wants to share that the keys of reclamation for women can lie in trusting their deepest…
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Getting Her Mama Mojo Back: Caitlin’s VBAC Birth Story
Caitlin is an aspiring doula and mother of 2 wildlings living in the Pacific Northwest. Through her two vastly different birth stories, she learned about the limitations of regulated midwifery, to trust her intuition above all else, and that doctors don’t always know what’s best. Her birth…
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Tales from the Midwife’s Daughter: Linnea’s Sixth Birth and Weaving Older Children Into the Story as Labor Support
Linnea has birthed all six of her children at home – each one being unique, the best days of her life, and her most recent birth being a free birth with just her partner and toddler present. She believes birth is beautifully designed to work, and that a woman just has to trust, surrender, and...
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Unpacking and Remapping: Elena’s Evolution into Living a Joygasmic Life
At 23, Elena had no idea that her decision to say yes to her unplanned pregnancy would lead her on a 10 year journey of claiming the role of “being a mother” AND being okay with it. Her journey included leaving the same abusive relationship 6 times, a lot of tears, rage, suicidal & homicidal...
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“Surrender More”: Carolyn’s Birth Story and Learning Stillness Through Cesarean Recovery
Carolyn is a movement therapist, health and wellness practitioner, and former professional dancer, who’s planned all-natural home birth turned cesarean, has morphed and evolved from being her worst nightmare to becoming one of the best things that has ever happened to her. Carolyn shares that her...
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Nelia’s Birth Stories and Hope For Healing After Trauma
Nelia is mother of two children, whose births couldn’t be any more different. What Nelia says she has learned on this journey is that the only way around trauma is through it, and to be powerful you don’t need to be fearless. LINKS & SHOW NOTES Birth Warrior Podcast submissions link “A Radical...
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Being the Bell: Francesca’s Birth Stories of Loss and Grief as a Heart Opening Experience
Francesca is a spiritual teacher and mama to two angel babies. Through her experience with loss and grief, she has learned how to transmute her darkness into strength and deeply trust her intuition. Francesca believes in the healing power of birth and would choose wild and free birth again and...
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Healing Through Not From Her Birth Journeys: Stacey’s Stories
Stacey Ramsower is an Ayurvedic lifestyle coach, full spectrum doula, and mother pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology. Stacey’s journey in birth began when she decided to meet her birth mother and continues evolving through her pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences. LINKS & SHOW...
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Fearlessly Following No One But Herself: Clare’s Journey Through Birth
From her own words, this week’s guest, Clare, writes: “My four incredible birth experiences have catalyzed and propelled our family into the life we are meant to be living. Through the discernment process of creating my birth experiences, at home and in freedom, we broke through other barriers of...
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“The one you didn’t plan is the one that will teach you the most”: Emily’s Birth Story of Uli Hawthorne
Emily is a homebirth mother of three. She chose to birth her third baby outside of the regulated midwifery model when she realized it wasn’t meeting her needs in a COVID landscape. Her pregnancy, birth, NICU experience, and postpartum were deep lessons in intuition and finding her own way…
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“You’re All You Need”: Trudy’s Intuitive Births
Trudy is the mother of two sons, who were lovingly and intentionally freebirthed in the comfort of her home, with the support of her husband and doula. Currently living in England, where the National Health Service, commonly known as NHS, is the premiere and routine course for prenatal care…
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An Embodiment of Radical Self Trust: Crystal’s Birth Story
Crystal is a first time mom who’s conscious journey through pre conception, conception, pregnancy and birth process mirrored that of her deepest held beliefs about life and the sovereign nature of our being. Through the process of welcoming her son into this life, Crystal gained an even deeper...
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Taking the Step and Lifting the Veil: Heidi’s Transformational Journey Through Birth
Heidi is a homeschool mama to 5 little ones. After the birth of her fifth child, she moved out of the city with her family to raise her babies on a mini farm. Heidi has been on a journey of breaking away from the deceptions surrounding birth and modern medicine to discover the sacredness and…
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Kicking Fear Off Her Throne: Kimberly’s Birth Story
Kimberly is a certified high performance coach, bestselling writer, health junkie, freedom-lover, wife, momma, and unsinkable optimist. After 24 hours of natural labor and childbirth, and dismissing the camera that was intended to document the event, Kim, feeling like Wonder Woman, gained the...
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“Learn to be Patient”: The Birth Stories and Precious Wisdom of Midwife Francoise “Mamacita” Souverville
With 5 children of her own, Francoise ‘ Mamacita’ Souverville, a Certified Childbirth Educator since 1982, began practicing midwifery in 1972, has assisted more than 2000 births in hospital, home, and nature, and created ‘Preparation for Men’ as a means to transform the attitude of birth in the...
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“Birth Transforms Us All”: Megan’s Birth Story
Megan is a mom of 2 from Northern CA who, after experiencing an unexpected hospital induction with her 1st child, decided to take her 2nd pregnancy and birth into her own hands. After countless hours spent in excited preparation, at 41 weeks, she birthed a gorgeous baby girl into her own hands…
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Ecstatic Grief: Birthing Baby Sage Without a Heartbeat
Being initiated into Motherhood with empty arms, Athanasia used her Shamanic Yoga background and Spiritual connection as a Psychic Medium and Energy Healer to dive deep into the healing journey her sweet daughter, Sage, brought into her life. Surrendering, accepting and allowing the sacred...
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Embracing Her Wild Nature: April’s Birth Story
April is a nurse and mother of two girls living in a smallish town on the east coast of Australia. Through her process of self-discovery, trust and reconnection with women and sisterhood, April triumphantly birthed her second daughter in the sanctuary of her home after a cesarean with her first....
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Katrina’s Off-Grid Freebirth and the Need For Fostering Community
Katrina is a Self employed, Hardworking off grid homestead mother of two. Deep in the forest in an earthship she built with her partner, she had an unassisted birth with her second son. On this journey she learned lots about patience, acceptance, and trusting your intuition. JADEN’S NOTE: Toward...
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Going Deeper: Megan’s Second Birth as a Shift Into Feminine Consciousness
Megan is a wife, mother of two, with a third baby on the way, and a current Indie Birth Midwifery School student. During the birth of her second son, Megan learned that letting go of her perceived “ideal” was just the shift she needed in order to connect within and hear the needs of her body and...
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Like a Freight Train – Megan’s Precipitous and Empowering Homebirth
Megan is a wife and mother of two sweet children, living on a little homestead in Montana. Through her most recent pregnancy and birth, she was able to discover a deep trust within herself, her body, and what it was created to do. LINKS & SHOW NOTES Birth Warrior Podcast submissions link Wilson...
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From High Risk to Stepping Into Her Heritage: Jordanna’s Birth Story
Jordanna is a wife to an Aussie and mother to two beautiful children on earth and one in heaven. Entering into her second pregnancy with a high-risk label, Jordanna left the hospital at 30 weeks pregnant, seeking the guidance of wise woman midwives, and under their care, and in her full power,...
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In Her Primal Power – Valerie’s Fourteen Birthing Journeys
Valerie is a first-year alumnus of Indie Birth Midwifery School serving Northern Arizona with Sacred Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum support. A leader in the Sacred Living Movement, she trains people online worldwide in the Art of Sacred Postpartum Healing. Birthing fourteen babies in her primal...
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