Remembering Birth
Women are waking up and remembering birth. Each week Freya Light chats to inspiring guests in Australia who will share their positive birth stories and wisdom with us. Listen to real women share their experiences having hospital births, homebirths, freebirths, water births and vbacs. We will also hear from doulas, midwives and birth keepers. Whether you’re a new mother, pregnant or trying to conceive, or preparing after birth trauma this podcast will help to inspire you to remember how powerful your body is, to trust in physiological birth and to feel confident to have your own natural and empowering pregnancy and delivery.
Episodes
18 episodes
Anna: The Spiritual Midwife
In this weeks episode we speak to Anna the spiritual midwife. She is the host of the Natural birth podcast and shares her wisdom with women through one on one sessions, online birth and postpartum courses and free online women circles. In this ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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43:49
Special Freedom Meditation with Lauren
This week we have something a little bit different and very special. Lauren from @holistichearts_ recently created a "freedom" meditation for a women's circle we held and it was so beautiful I asked her to share it with us. W...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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13:32
Kath Baquie: Fitnest Mama (pelvic floor health)
In this weeks episode we speak to Kath from Fitnest Mama. She’s a mum of 3 young girls, a physiotherapist for women in Melbourne and she has an online community which helps pregnant women and mothers with exercises and support to help them get ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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38:16
Julie: Hypnobirth_tribe
In this weeks episode we speak to Julie, from hypnobirth tribe about “hypnobirthing”. Julie left the corporate world after having a transformative birth with her first son. She had taken the hypnobirthing course whilst pregnant and felt compell...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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46:32
Sarah Jury: Breathe
In this episode Sarah shares how important using our breathe is while pregnant to calm the body, mind and soul and to connect with our baby. Sher shares her journey to discovering yoga and breathwork and her empowering hospital birth.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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33:25
Wild Womb Witch: Early Birth
In the first episode of season 2 we speak to Wild, from The wild womb witch, about "early birth" a beautiful term she uses to describe miscarriage in a way that honors the mother and baby through the journey of losing a baby while pregnant.&nbs...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:57
Season 1 final episode
This is a little bonus episode to finish season 1. I'm going to take a short break before coming back with a second season in a months time. In this episode I share the biggest lesson I learnt through hearing all our amazing guests share their ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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10:44
Claire's homebirth of her dreams
In this weeks episode Claire remembers her two daughters births. Her first labour was progressing well until she got to hospital when everything slowed down and even though she had a natural birth and the doctors and midwives thought it was a v...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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44:30
Jamie's Freebirth after 2 Ceasareans
In this episode Jamie remembers her 2 traumatic hospital births that led to ceasareans. She felt robbed of the births she dreamt of and those special little moments like hearing her babies cry for the first time, having skin to skin and changin...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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50:56
Alma's Māori Family Freebirth
In this episode Alma remembers her big family freebirth. Birth was always a natural and normal thing in Alma's family and she learnt a lot from her sisters. She made a new friend who introduced her to "freebirth" and doing some of her own resea...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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50:54
Temeaka's Painless Freebirth after VBAC
In this episode Temeaka remembers her three very different births. In her first birth she did no preparation and went in "trusting" the hospital and midwives would take care of her. She was induced at 40 + 2 and her birth ended in an "eme...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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46:25
Flick's hospital hypnobirth
In this episode Flick remembers her beautiful, empowering, hypnobirth with her first child at hospital. She loved her birth and prepared with her husband by attending hypnobirthing classes. She shares about her journey with Poly cycstic ovarian...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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45:56
Lee's journey to becoming a mother in a same-sex relationship
In this episode Lee shares her very different journey to becoming a birth mother in a same sex relationship. Her first birth baby was conceived miraculously after insemination. She had a natural birth in a hospital which wasn't ideal and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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50:33
Dee's tiny miracle premature birth and full term "nine pounder"
Dee Remembers her two very different birth stories in this weeks emotional episode. Her first son was born in Tasmania while her husband and her were on their babymoon. Dee was only 25 weeks pregnant and absolutely terrified. She managed to nat...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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41:19
Leonie's teenage birth trauma followed by an ecstatic 2nd birth
In this episode young and wise mum, Leonie remembers her 1st birth as a teenager who had no support from her family or midwife and felt trauma after the natural birth of her son. She wasn't sure she would have any more children after that exper...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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44:13
Lauren's Two Rainbow Babies After Loss
Lauren experienced two natural hospital births and shares about the loss of two babies on her way to becoming a mother of two beautiful healthy babies. Connect with Lauren on instagram:@holistichearts_--------------...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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37:31
Introduction to the show and me, Freya Light
In this special introduction episode I will share why I'm starting this podcast, what you can expect each week and a little bit about who I am and what I do.At the end I will also share my three births, that I absolutely loved!
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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25:20
