I Can't Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues

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First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don't

Taking Back Birth

Are You a Birth Witch?

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Watch and/or listen to this birth story podcast and video by a woman who had her 6th baby at home against all odds! It was a pleasure walking with this smart woman and her family as they navigated their choices and what was best for them, their baby and this birth. Stories like these remind […]

A High-Risk Pregnancy and Birth Story (Video)

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[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Guest Post Author: Kristen Nero; Kristen can be reached at afroveganmama@gmail.com “I didn’t know I was allowed to say no.” “I didn’t know of any other options at the time.” “Nobody told me about the risks.” The […]

Guest Post: The Infantilization of Women During Pregnancy and Birth

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After 9 months of holding a free prenatal clinic here locally, the same questions and topics keep coming up, so I thought I’d share some of that with my podcast listeners. I’m hoping it maybe helps you start a prenatal clinic in your area, or maybe you are a mama who also would love the […]

Prenatal Clinic Part I: Do you need a first prenatal visit?

Pregnancy

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The podcast this week is all about baby movement in the womb. This podcast is all about movement; when do babies start to move? When do we actually feel it, on average? What other factors influence how much baby movement we feel and what is “normal”? I share some helpful information as well as my […]

Feeling Your Baby Move

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I created this short meditation for one of my Indie Birth Midwifery School classes after the students had been studying for many weeks about complications in pregnancy. I wanted to finish the course by reminding them, myself and anyone else that our brains can learn many things, but we must always bring our hearts back […]

A Meditation For Midwives For Calming Fear

Taking Back Birth

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In this podcast, I share about my experience in this pregnancy so far. I realize that no matter how many babies I have had, each requires me to “be” in the pregnancy state in a different way. This baby has had very specific messages for me, if only I would listen! Tune in to hear […]

Listening To My Spirit Baby

Taking Back Birth

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In this video, I had the honor of chatting with a family I supported almost a year ago in their first home birth. Joe and Julie are truly some of my favorite people, and you will hear (and see!) why. They are the picture of powerful; they created an ordinary (in the best sense of […]

Julie and Joe’s First Homebirth

Birth Stories

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On this podcast, I had the honor of chatting with a family I supported almost a year ago in their first home birth. Joe and Julie are truly some of my favorite people, and you will hear (and see!) why. They are the picture of powerful; they created an ordinary (in the best sense of […]

Julie and Joe’s First Homebirth

Taking Back Birth

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In this episode, I talk about taking the first few months of pregnancy “out of the box” it’s been placed in and truly appreciating it for the magical time that it is. Download this Podcast Transcript

The First Few Moons of Pregnancy

Pregnancy

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