A Mother is Born
A Mother Is Born is a podcast to support women and their partners through trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum—guided by values, intuition, and intention. Through real conversations about preconception planning, navigating maternity care, and the identity shift into motherhood, you'll find grounded support, practical education, and empowering guidance for every step of the journey.
Podcasting since 2025 • 4 episodes
A Mother is Born
Latest Episodes
Do I need a Doula?
What does a doula do—and do you really need one? In this episode of A Mother Is Born, birth mentor and labor doula Kayla Mackenzie explains the real role of a doula in pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Learn how doulas provi...
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Episode 4
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How to Rebuild Self-Trust in a System That Undermines It — with Veda Weinert
Why do so many women struggle to trust their bodies, their instincts, and their decisions—especially in birth and motherhood?In this episode, I sit down with my friend and fellow doula, Veda Weinert, cofounder of Women to Wome...
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OCD in Pregnancy and Postpartum
In this episode of A Mother Is Born, I sit down with Grace, a therapist who specializes in OCD and trauma, to talk about how OCD can show up during pregnancy and postpartum—and why so many parents don’t realize they’re experienci...
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Form over Function: How the oversexualization of women's bodies affects preconception through postpartum.
Why are breasts celebrated in beer ads but hidden when feeding a child? Why do we expect postpartum bodies to “bounce back” like birth never happened? Why do most of us have false ideas about how female sexual anatomy actually works?In t...
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