Back to Basics Podcast
Join me as we explore all things birth, pregnancy and parenting from a holistic perspective. We chat with parents and women who are taking ownership of themselves and their families and going back within to do the work and nurture their intuition.
Back to Basics Podcast
Latest Episodes
Reclaiming The Female Experience Through Womb Ecology with Kai Njeri
On today's episode we have Kai Njeri. A birth worker and womb ecologist based in Tanzania, she shares how her journey to healing an autoimmune condition led her into birth and the work she does with wombs of the world in training doulas and com...
Barry's Homebirth Story: A Look Inside The Role of Dads In Birth:
This week we get to hear what it takes to be a good birth partner from Barry. Last week Nicole shared their birth from her perspective, now we have her husband Barry sharing what the journey was like for him. He shares h...
Nicole's Heartwarming Homebirth: A First Time Mum Who Dared to Trust Her Intuition
Nicole has been passionate about women's health so when she got pregnant, she just knew that she was going to be an intentional mother. This looked like being intentional about her nutrition in pregnancy because preeclampsia runs in...
Allowing Birth To Transform You: Hiwote's Journey from A Traumatic Birth to Two Restorative Births
Today we have yet another beautiful set of birth stories!In this episode, we sit down with Hiwote whose journey through birth has been anything but straightforward. As an African woman in the American medical system, she had to learn wha...
Muthoni's Birth Stories: Navigating Hyperemisis Gravidarium, Postpartum Anxiety and two positive births
Our first episode for 2026 is a powerful one with Muthoni. She always knew she wanted to be a mum and while excited to be pregnant with her first child, the pregnancy came with hyperemesis gravidarum. In spite of this Noni never gave up on her ...