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Happy Homebirth
by Katelyn Fusco
The Happy Homebirth podcast is your source for positive natural childbirth stories, and your community of support, education and encouragement in all things homebirth and motherhood. This podcast takes a deep dive into the the authentic stories of mothers who have given birth (usually) at home, as well as the care providers who tend to them. Although typically upbeat and fun, Happy Homebirth is unabashedly unafraid to examine the rawness, the pain and the struggle of some birthing situations. Host Katelyn Fusco is a former student midwife, who joyously shares her experiences and provides a space for her guests to share theirs as well. From pre-conception to pregnancy, to postpartum and beyond, Happy Homebirth is a podcast that focuses on how victorious birthing mothers are from around the globe and encourages you to have a magical birthing experience. To learn more, head over to www.myhappyhomebirth.com
Episodes
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Ep 353: A Cervical Lip, a Cesarean, and the HBAC That Followed
Have you ever lost something so specific that the people around you didn't even know to name it? Marley Collins is a wife to her husband Clayton, mama to Maren and Lenora, and an engineer in Temecula, California who's currently doing part-time consulting and teaching herself to sew. Her family is...
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Ep 352: Fast Homebirths, Twin Sisters, and Biologically Normal Sleep
What happens when the birth story that scares you most is your own sister's? Shey Munoz has given birth to both of her boys at home in South Florida, and both times her baby came faster than anyone planned — under five hours the first time, under two the second. Both times her husband set up the...
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Ep 351: Twin Home Birth After Being Told She Had "No Pain Tolerance"
Has someone who loves you ever told you what your body would and wouldn't be able to handle? And did some part of you file it away as true? Emily Lewenczuk had already done the research — for a client — and found that nobody in St. Louis would take twins at home. A few weeks later she was looking...
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Ep 350: A Homebirth After Hyperemesis Gravidarum
Have you ever come through something so hard that when it was finally over, the smallest ordinary thing felt like a miracle? This week, we're speaking with Chelann Watt. Chelann is wife to her husband Sam– who she met in Glasgow, Scotland and married ten months later, because when you know, you...
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Ep 349: Student Interview episode: Abby Johnson/Carley Overbey
Student Interview episode: Abby Johnson/Carley Overbey "I would have definitely panicked if I hadn't known." Links Replay — Why You've Read Everything and Still Don't Feel Ready: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/next Whole Mother Homebirth: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/wholemotherhomebirth…
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Ep 348: Homebirth After Cesarean Story: From a 29-Week Preemie to a Birth at Home
If your first birth went nothing like you'd planned, does that tell you anything about how your next one will go? Or is it possible that your first story doesn't get to write your second? Julia Moore is a wife to her husband John and a mama of two, living in Northwest Arkansas. She's a birth...
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Ep 347: Birth is magnetic
I want to tell you about two births. Same woman. Same husband. Same house, more or less. And afterward, two completely different marriages. Not because one birth was easy and one was hard. That isn't what made the difference. I've thought about this for years and I want to tell you what I think…
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Ep 346: A Homebirth Story About Learning How to Relax
Have you ever tried to relax on purpose– and realized you had no idea how? That you could feel the tension sitting in your body, but you couldn't figure out which part of you to let go of first? In this episode, we're speaking with Sabrina Brooks. Sabrina is a wife to Sam, a youth pastor, and…
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Ep 345: Preparing the whole woman: mind, body, heart, home, and marriage
Here's something I've watched happen more times than I can count. A woman prepares beautifully for her birth. Really well. And she's still blindsided. This doesn’t happen because she was lazy about it. It happens because she unknowingly prepared one part of herself extremely thoroughly and left…
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Ep 344: Homebirth at 42 Weeks After a GBS Positive Test
Have you ever felt like the Lord told you something about your birth… and then watched every circumstance line up to tell you it wasn't going to happen? Gracie Gould is a wife to Jesse and a mama of four in Greenville, South Carolina, where they work with a local Christian theater and homeschool...
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Ep 343: The Moment in Labor Nobody Warns You About
The moment in labor nobody warns you about The one idea: the moment arrives for almost everyone, and everything depends on whether she was told it was coming. The one action: take the Homebirth Readiness Check. And a free workshop is coming. FREE Peaceful Birth Reset:...
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Ep 342: Six Births, Zero Patterns: Rebecca's Story of Trust Over Formula
Have you ever looked at something in front of you and thought, "there's just no way"– no way that's going to fit, no way that's coming out, no way I can do this… and then watched it happen anyway? In this episode, Rebecca walks us through six births, and not one of them looks the same. A 38-hour...
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Ep 341: Why More Research isn't Making You Feel Ready
Why more research isn't making you feel ready The one idea: you don't have a knowledge gap. You have an integration gap, and you've been treating one as the other. The one action: take the Homebirth Readiness Check. FREE Peaceful Birth Reset: https://www.myhappyhomebirth.com/birthreset Emily's...
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Ep 340: Freebirth Story: What Changed Between Her First Birth and Her Third
What if you could do all of it right– read every book, listen to every episode, interview the midwife, make the plan… and still walk into your birth completely unprepared? Emily Swann is a wife to John, a mama of three, and the woman behind For the Love of Breastfeeding, where she teaches a...
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Ep 339: Cholestasis, Raw Spleen, and a Dream Homebirth: Angelica's Full Journey
Have you ever decided — fully, completely, no-turning-back decided — that you were done doing something a certain way? And then done everything in your power to make the changes necessary? In this episode, Angelica walks us through the full arc — from a surprise first pregnancy that ended in an...
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Ep 338: A Midwife, the Yellow Pages, and Two Babies Born at Home
What if the most powerful birth preparation isn't a course, a class, or a stack of books at all, but a mother who's simply willing to go first, so everyone behind her can follow? Today I'm speaking with Cynthia Cruz, known to some of you online as Mama RAC. Cynthia is a wife to her husband Ron of...
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Ep 337: "I Got Everything I Wanted": Carly's Two Very Different Homebirths
Have you ever worked so hard for something — prepared for it, prayed over it, given it everything you had — only to watch it unfold nothing like you pictured? And then found, on the other side, that it shaped you anyway? Carly Hartwig is a wife and a mama of two little girls up in upstate New…
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Ep 336: You're Going to Meet Your Power: A Pain-Free Homebirth in Sweden
Have you ever sat in that strange, sacred in-between, when labor has whispered its beginning but hasn't fully arrived, and felt something rise up in you that you couldn't quite name? What if that feeling wasn't fear to push away, but power to say yes to? Petronella is a mother, a wife, and a…
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Ep 335: A Homebirth Story of Faith, Fear, and Trusting Harder
What happens when you're preparing for birth while carrying far more than the weight of pregnancy? When your family is spread across the country, your husband's health is in crisis, and every plan you've made seems to unravel? This week, we're speaking with by Tricia Prado, a mother of seven…
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Ep 334: "I Did It Scared": An 11-Pound Unmedicated Home Birth
Have you ever felt called toward something… but been completely terrified to do it? This week, we're joined by Ally Roberson, a wife, mother of two, homesteader, and creator documenting her family's journey toward a more intentional life in rural Georgia. When Ally became pregnant with her second...
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Ep 333: The Midwife Who Told Her She Didn't Need a Midwife
Have you ever been so certain about a decision that, even when everyone around you questioned it, you knew deep down it was the right path for you? My friends, today’s conversation is a fascinating look at conviction, trust, and what it means to take full responsibility for your birth experience....
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Ep 332: 42 Weeks and Learning to Wait
Have you ever looked back on a past birth experience and realized… “Wow, I didn’t actually know how powerful my body was”? This week, we're speaking with Melissa Gurd, wife to her husband Jason and mother of six children living on a family homestead in Florida. Melissa shares the progression of…
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Ep 331: From Cesarean Grief to a Healing Homebirth
What happens when the birth you prayed for…doesn’t happen? And how do you move forward when the thing you prepared for so carefully ends in grief, disappointment, and questions you never expected to ask? This week, we're speaking with Raylee, a homeschool mother of two from Texas who is…
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Ep 330: Why This Labor Nurse Chose Homebirth
What happens when the person working inside the hospital system… still chooses homebirth for herself? And… what does it look like when years of witnessing birth— the beauty of it, the interventions, the emergencies, the physiology— leads someone not further from instinctive birth… but deeper into...
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Ep 329: This Story Does Not Belong to Fear: Lydia's Homebirth Story
Can hope return after something painful changes the way you experience motherhood? This week, we're speaking with Lydia Ashford, a flower farmer, worship leader, wife, and mother of two daughters born at home on the Northern California coast. Lydia and her family live and work together on a…
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Ep 328: One Contraction at a Time: Faith's 47 Hour Homebirth
Have you ever reached the point in labor—or honestly, in life—where you truly didn’t think you could keep going? This week, we're speaking with Faith Robinson, a stay-at-home mom from Kansas City, wife to her husband of three years, and mother to baby Ezekiel. Faith grew up around birth through…
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Ep 327: Rebuilding a Family Legacy Through Birth and Parenthood
What does it look like to re-build a family legacy? And how do birth, motherhood, healing, and even hardship become part of that restoration? Gabrielle Manier is a wife, homeschool mother of four, homemaker, gardener, and passionate homebirth mother living in Michigan with her husband Dustin and...
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Ep 326: Trusting God with Her Baby's Life: Sarah's Micro Preemie Birth
We all know that life is unpredictable in many ways, but when you’re experiencing extreme unpredictability in the midst of your pregnancy, how do you imagine you’d feel? Would ‘peaceful’ be the first word that comes to mind? This week, we’re speaking with Sarah, mother to two babies– Timothy and...
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Ep 325: From Infertility to Birth in her Own Home
Coincidences– How many of them can you experience before you stop thinking they’re coincidences and start realizing that they are a beautiful divine gift? This week, we're speaking with Kaylee, a mother of 3 living in Athens, Georgia. Kaylee and her husband experienced struggles with infertility...
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Ep 324: From Monitoring to Trusting: A Nurse’s Birth Transformation
What happens when you know too much about birth… and you’re experiencing pregnancy and birth for yourself? This week's episode, I’m joined by Emily—a labor and delivery nurse who found herself navigating pregnancy and birth as both a provider and a patient. We talk about how working inside the...
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Ep 323: How One Mother Reclaimed Trust in Birth
What happens when your first experience of birth leaves you shaken… and the providers you’re supposed to trust tell you not to try again? Where do you go from there? Sarah Marie is the owner of Entering Motherhood, a wife and a mom of three who spends her days soaking up life with her little…
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Ep 322: Scars Redeemed--Surrendering Fear and Embracing Trust through a Home Birth
When your body has experienced legitimate physical trauma during two back to back births, what do you do for your next experience? What would it look like to play it safe– would that be a planned cesarean? Or… What if you swing the other way and bring it home? This week we’re speaking to Janie...
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Ep 321: Rethinking Pelvic Floor Health for Pregnancy and Postpartum with Whitney Sippl
What if the discomforts we’ve been told are “just part of pregnancy” are actually signals that something needs support? This week, we're speaking with Whitney Sippl, a pelvic physical therapist who works closely with women in pregnancy, postpartum and beyond. In this episode, Whitney walks us...
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Ep 320: A Mobile Birth: Twins Born Precipitously!
You’ve done it- you’ve decided to give birth at home, and NOTHING is going to stop you, right? This week we’re speaking to Heather Whitehead, a mother to 5 living in East Tennessee. We’ll hear how Heather and her husband settled on homebirth for their most recent pregnancy, and how they navigated...
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Ep 319: What Are You Creating? A Birth and Motherhood Story
Pregnancy is the height of creativity– you are literally creating a brand new human… from scratch? But have you noticed that sometimes the creativity of pregnancy moves into other aspects of your life? This week, we’e speaking with Khylir Patton, a mother of two and a homebirth mom based in Tampa...
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Ep 318: Pregnancy After Loss and Learning to Trust Again
Have you ever found yourself wanting something to happen so desperately, and at the same time realizing you have absolutely no control over its happening? This week, we’re speaking with Erica: a wife, mother of two, one of nine siblings, and a woman who entered marriage already having seen family...
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Ep 317: Choosing the Unmarked Path: Navigating Limited Options in Care
When you want to give birth at home, but the local midwives are overbooked and not taking new clients, what are your options? This week we’re speaking to Regan, a mother to two kiddos in the Manitoba area of Canada who knew that she wanted to give birth at home, but had to think outside the box…
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Ep 316: Holding the Plan Loosely: Pamela’s Birth Story of Trust and Change
How do you feel about the specifics of your upcoming birth? Are you clinging to particular desires and feeling like things MUST happen a certain way for you to feel successful? Or do you feel the peace of flexibility? This week, we're speaking with Pamela, a homeschooling mother of 3 precious...
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Ep 315: From Hyperemesis to Homebirth
Have you ever done everything right…and still watched things unfold in a way you never expected? This week I’m joined by Daryl Hogan — a nurse, nursing professor, wife, and new mama — who navigated a laundry list of unexpected aspects of pregnancy that she certainly wouldn’t have excitedly…
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Ep 314: An 11 Pound Baby and the Importance of Trust
Have you ever wondered how much the environment and the people around you shape the way birth unfolds? Hey there Happy Homebirthers, and welcome to episode 314 of the Happy Homebirth Podcast. I’m your host Katelyn Fusco and today, we’re speaking with Caroline Hendel, a mother from France whose...
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Ep 313: Presence Over Perfection: Madeline Murray on Birth and Growth
Have you ever noticed how each birth teaches us something different—no matter how many times we’ve done this before? Today, I’m welcoming back a dear friend of the show, Madeline Murray—midwife, mother of four, and someone whose story has unfolded alongside this podcast over the years. Madeline…
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Ep 312: Trusting the Process: Kaylee Matthews’ Mountain Homebirth
Which is more important when it comes to birth: preparation or intuition? In this week’s episode, we’re hearing from Kaylee Matthews, a first-time mom from the mountains of Southern California whose story is a reminder that intuition and preparation can coexist beautifully with surrender. Before...
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Ep 311: Midwifery Care Documentary: The Birthing Revolution Project
What if understanding midwifery care didn’t require convincing—but simply seeing? This week on The Happy Homebirth Podcast, I’m joined by Caleb Phipps, filmmaker and father of four, and Midon Wingo, licensed midwife and passionate advocate for family-centered birth care. Together, they’re…
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Ep 310: When Strength Runs Out: Finding Grace in Birth with Jamie Krstev
Do you have any highly specific desires in regards to your upcoming birth? Maybe that it will be at a certain time of day, or that you’ll labor for a specific amount of time…? What happens when those desires are unfulfilled and you’re given a very different experience instead? This week we’re...
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Ep 309: Peace in the Presence: Paige Schwickerath’s Faith-Filled Home Birth
What does it look like to walk through birth with deep peace — even when things don’t go exactly as planned? This week we’re speaking to Paige Schwickerath, a young mom from central Iowa whose life has been beautifully transformed through marriage, motherhood, and her first home birth. Paige and...
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Ep 308: First time Peaceful Homebirth as a First Time Foster Mom with Alexis Meisenholder
Change can be tough. How do we integrate the arrival of our new baby? Moreover, how do we integrate the arrival of our new baby mere weeks after the arrival of our foster child and a move into a new home? This week, we're speaking to Alexis. A foster-turning adoptive mother to a 7-year-old...
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Ep 307: Surprise Pregnancy Brings Healing to Old Traumas with Amanda Lopez
When you found out you were pregnant, what emotions ran through your brain? Excitement? Thrill? Joy? Or did you experience fear, shame, or a resurgence of old traumas? This week, we're speaking to Amanda Lopez. A mama to 3 children, two of whom were born to her while Amanda was still a teenager....
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Ep 306: From Addiction and Homelessness to Hope and Homebirth with Gabrielle Manier
What was life like for you before you became pregnant? Were you pretty much the same person then as you are now, or have you changed drastically? Today we'll be speaking with Gabrielle, and precious mother who has truly been pulled from death to life. From addiction to heavy narcotics and...
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Ep 305: A Primal First Time Homebirth With Sara Middleton
First births: You don't know what's going on with your body, they're long, and mothers enter them feeling uncertain and needing reassurance.... right? This week we're speaking to Sara, who lives in Travelers Rest, South Carolina with her husband Rob, their first child and son, Charlie, and their...
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Ep 304: Cross-Country Homebirth
When you’re unable to have a homebirth in your area, what happens? Are you totally out of luck…. Or are there other ways to get creative? This week we’re speaking with my friend Shanies Pearcey- a stay at home mother to 8 children at the time of this recording, but she’s since had a few more…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Happy Homebirth podcast is your source for positive natural childbirth stories, and your community of support, education and encouragement in all things homebirth and motherhood. This podcast takes a deep dive into the the authentic stories of mothers who have given birth (usually) at home, as well as the care providers who tend to them. Although typically upbeat and fun, Happy Homebirth is unabashedly unafraid to examine the rawness, the pain and the struggle of some birthing situations. Host Katelyn Fusco is a former student midwife, who joyously shares her experiences and provides a space for her guests to share theirs as well. From pre-conception to pregnancy, to postpartum and beyond, Happy Homebirth is a podcast that focuses on how victorious birthing mothers are from around the globe and encourages you to have a magical birthing experience. To learn more, head over to www.myhappyhomebirth.com
HOSTED BY
Katelyn Fusco
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