Episodios

  • Join your host Sophia as she interviews Adelaide Meadow, birth and body worker. They discussed topics, including biomechanics, biodynamics, soft tissue and bony alignment, anatomy, physiology, pelvic health, prolapse, unlicensed midwives, spinning babies, posterior babies, breech, movement for pregnancy, heartburn, prodromal, labor, cardinal movements,post-dates, vaginal exams, asynclitic, and tongue tie.

    Adelaide is a female physiology academic, movement teacher, bodyworker, and home birth attendant. She has been studying birth and female biomechanics for over ten years. She approaches women’s health, birth, movement, and women's culture from a physiological perspective, and believes in the genius of the body and the brilliance of women. Her professional contributions are at the intersection of birth, movement, and biomechanics, and how physiological birth requires physiological womanhood. She is a sought-after teacher, leader, and speaker on women's health and women's culture.

    Recommendations by Adelaide:
    •The Breech Release: https://thebreechrelease.com/about-us/
    •Born Through Movement: https://adelaidemeadow.mykajabi.com/born-through-movement

    Connect with Adelaide:
    •IG: @adelaidemeadow_
    •WEBSITE: adelaidemeadow.com

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/111--Adelaide-Meadow-Another-Bozo-on-the-Bus-e2l37qb

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  • Join your host Sophia as she interviews Nelly on her two births and the diagnosis of Spinal Muscular Atrophy for both of her children. They discuss topics including home birth, hospital birth, posterior presentation, cesarean, VBAC, kidney infection, Newborn Screening, geriatric pregnancy (advanced maternal age), and tandem breastfeeding.

    Nelly is a 2 under 2 mom living off-grid with her husband and a slightly chaotic amount of animals  in Cazadero CA. Learning to work in harmony with and navigate the medical system through two wildly different births and the diagnosis and treatment of both her children who have Spinal Muscular Atrophy- a rare degenerative genetic disease that affects about 1 in 10,000 births. She is passionate about spreading awareness of the disease, treatment, and talking about the importance of newborn screening. 

    Recommendations by Nelly:
    •Business of Being Born documentary

    Connect with Nelly:
    •IG: @hughescandoit

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/110--Nellys-Birth-Stories---Double-Diagnosis-of-Spinal-Muscular-Atrophy-e2l36e2

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  • Join your host Sophia as she interviews Jen Santos for her third time on the podcast! This time she shares about her three home birth experiences. They discuss topics including ultrasounds, breech, unknown due date, back labor, torticollis, ECV, postpartum anxiety, PTSD, geriatric pregnancy, and precipitous birth.

    Dr. Jen Santos, DC, CACCP, is a second generation chiropractor. She received her first adjustment at 45 minutes old by her dad. Dr. Jen graduated from Life Chiropractic College West in 2013, with honors (Cum Laude) and received the prestigious “Clinical Excellence Award.” She is a full time chiropractor and owner of Acorn Chiropractic Club with 3 locations. Additionally, she is an adjunct professor at Life Chiropractic College West where she teaches obstetrics, gynecology, pediatric and prenatal adjusting, and pediatric pathology. Dr. Jen also periodically teaches pediatric and perinatal chiropractic seminars to students and chiropractors in her offices. And also teaches for the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association.

    Contact:
    Email: DrJen@AcornChiropracticClub
    FB Jen Santos
    IG @JenSantosDC

    Dr. Jen Santos Ultrasounds Dopplers EFM Concerns: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/85--Dr--Jen-Santos---Ultrasounds--Dopplers--EFM-Concerns-e20btg7

    Jen Santos - Tongue and Lip Ties:
    https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/62-Jen-Santos---Tongue-and-Lip-Ties-e1ne243

    Jen Santos - Chiropractic and Dynamic Body Balancing: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/Chiropractic-and-Dynamic-Body-Balancing-with-Jen-Santos---S1E28-e19fk2u

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/109--Jen-Santos---Breech-Home-Birth--OP-Home-Birth--Precipitous-Home-Birth-e2khrr1

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - Carrie Caillouette, IBCLC - #108

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Carrie on all things breastmilk. They discuss insurance coverage, mental prep, prenatal prep, pacifiers, favorite nursing tools, colostrum harvesting, tongue tie, inverted nipples, chiropractic care, and cranial sacral support.

    Carrie is an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) living in West County Sonoma! After the birth of her second baby she felt called to transition her career to helping other parents meet their infant feeding goals. She believes that education and small tweaks are usually all it takes to have a long and successful breastfeeding journey. She offers home visits or virtual ones to help parents develop a plan to meet their goals and feed their little one. In most cases folks are covered at 100% by insurance for lactation care by her. She is especially proud of her volunteer work with a local non-profit called Better Beginnings.

    Recommendations by Carrie:
    •Sebastopol Postpartum Support Group at the Public Library each Tuesday morning 11a-12p.
    •First Droplets: https://firstdroplets.com

    Connect with Carrie:
    •IG: @golden_State_Lactation
    •Website: https://www.goldenstatelactation.com/

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/108--Carrie-Caillouette--IBCLC-e2jb8qo

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - Kristine Laurie - #107

    Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kristine Laurie once again. First interview linked below. They discuss Doctors without Boarders, preterm birth in the USA, steriods, antibiotics, jaundice, kangaroo care, IVF, IUI, infection, UTI, PROM, cord prolapse, triplets and twins, fetal demise, BPP, and placenta previa.

    Kristine has been practicing for 33 years as a CPM and LM and has worked internationally for over 20 years. She currently works with MSF (Doctors Without Borders) providing humanitarian aid in developing countries. She specializes in high risk obstetrics in low resource settings. When Kristine is home, she teaches virtual AP midwifery classes through Midwifery Wisdom Collective and she also facilitates master classes with Breech Without Borders. She provides expert witness testimony in court cases involving breech birth.
    Kristine has attended over 5,000 births, the majority out of hospital and has attended 516 breeches, 387 sets of twins and 7 sets of triplets to date. She is a staunch advocate for autonomy in women's health and for physiologic birth.

    Connect with Kristine:
    •IG: @globalmidwife64
    •Website: https:/midwifewithoutboundaries.wordpress.com/

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/107--Kristine-Laurie---Preterm-Birth-and-Babies-e2him99

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - Caley’s Birth Story - #106

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Caley on her last birth story. Caley shared her first two births in link below. They discuss free-birth verse home-birth, relationship turmoil with her husband, traveling during pregnancy, wild pregnancy, hypnobirthing, nutritional depletion, placenta previa, pregnancy bleeding, fear of hemorrhage, velamentous cords, and bed sharing.

    Caley is a UX designer and musician living in the Sierra foothills on a little piece of mountain paradise with her Australian husband and their two young toddler boys and now daughter. She is extremely passionate about empowering women in the birth process, and teaching women how to play music!

    Caley recommends:
    •Stardust period + pregnancy tracker: https://stardust.app

    Connect with Caley:
    •IG: @ckevlin

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/106--Caleys-Birth-Story-e2hujkk

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  • SABIA WADE - LUXURY EXPERT - #105

    Please join your host Lea as she interviews Sabia Wade. They discuss voluteering in prison, health disparities, equality, helping pregnant people of color, doula training and business, and preventing burnout.

    Sabia Wade (she/they) is a Black, Queer, CEO, Investor, Author, Educator, Full Spectrum Doula, and expander of Black Luxury. Her novel, Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free, is now out and available for purchase! She’s dedicated to building bridges for a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable world through reproductive justice, distribution of financial wealth to BIPOC communities, and investing in emergent and innovative businesses.

    Sabia recommends:
    •Birth doula training: https://www.badoulatrainings.org/
    •For the Village: https://forthevillage.org/

    Connect with Sabia:
    •IG: @sabiawade

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/105--Sabia-Wade---Luxury-Expert-e2h8qb3

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - KIM’S BIRTH STORIES - INSTANT BABY, JUST ADD WATER - #104

    Please join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kim on her three home water birth stories. They discuss conception journey's, medical providers who choose home birth, postpartum baby blues, covid, en veil verse en caul births, post term, hemorrhoids.

    Kim was born and raised in Napa, CA, and still lives there today with her husband Aaron, her two sons Noah (5) and Teo (2), and their most recent addition to the family, daughter Isla (3 months). Kim became a bit of a “birth junkie” about a year before her first pregnancy and gained most of her knowledge about birth from listening to birth story podcasts. This shaped her ideas for what she wanted her births to look like, and she went on to have home births with all three kids. Kim is a high school World Languages teacher in the Napa Valley and enjoys spending time with friends, taking weekend adventures with her family and of course, listening to birth stories!

    Kim recommends:
    •Why Not Home: https://www.whynothome.com/
    •Business of Being Born: https://www.thebusinessof.life/the-business-of-being-born

    Connect with Kim:
    •IG: @kbh_hurtado

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/104--Kims-Birth-Stories---Instant-Baby--Just-Add-Water-e2gaibh

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - KELSEY’S BIRTH STORY - PLACENTAL ABRUPTION - RETURN TO TRUSTING - #103

    Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kelsey on her birth story. They discuss topics such as obstetric violence, fetal heart arrhythmia, post term pregnancy, placental abruption, and cesarean.

    Kelsey is an herbalist living and working on a farm in Petaluma. Her and her husband, Roberto welcomed their baby boy, Julio, in November 2023. They are finding their groove as a family of 4 (including their sweet and sassy shiba inu, The Maki Dog!) and they love going for walks around the farm and watching the Warriors together. Kelseys favorite hobby is aerial silks- she can’t wait to get back into it once Julio is old enough!

    Kelsey recommends:
    •Free Birth Society: @freebirthsociety
    •Birthing Instincts: @birthinginstincts
    •Hard truths about placental abruption episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birthing-instincts/id1552816683?i=1000642767921

    Connect with Kelsey:
    •IG: @kesocandisco

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/103--Kelseys-Birth-Story---Placental-Abruption---Return-to-Trusting-e2fmsq4

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  • Join your hosts Sophia and Carissa (our newest student midwife) as they interview Rhona Berens, a perinatal relationship coach and co-author of the book "Fight Right for Your Baby: The How to Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection". They discuss babies and relationships, conflict styles and impact, useful tools, and red flags for birth workers to look out for to refer out.

    Rhona Berens, PhD, PCC is a seasoned Relationship Coach who helps new and expecting parents capably navigate the momentous shifts that occur with a baby’s arrival. For more than a dozen years, Rhona has assisted perinatal professionals in their efforts to better support their clients; she has delivered in-service talks, conference keynotes (e.g., CAPPA), webinars (e.g., InJoy), and in-person workshops in the US and Canada. In her new coauthored book—Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-To Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection—Rhona offers birth professionals and their clients a research-based, easy-to-use resource with more than 40 “bite-size” tools for quick intervention in negative conflict, effective repair, and reconnection. Fight Right for Your Baby helps parents move from common yet potentially destructive ways of disagreeing to Fighting Right, an approach to conflict that supports children’s developmental health, and parents’ individual and relationship satisfaction.

    Rhona’s recommends:
    •And Baby Makes Three: https://www.gottman.com/product/and-baby-makes-three/

    Connect with Rhona:
    •IG: @fightrightbooks
    •Website: http://www.rhonaberens.com/
    •Book: http://www.fightrightbooks.com/

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/102--Rhona-Berens---Perinatal-Relationship-Coach-e2egad6

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - KAYLA’S BIRTH STORY - SURPRISE BREECH & TRANSPORT #101

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Kayla on her surprise breech birth and 3rd stage transfer. They discuss topics including chiropractic care, acupuncture, ultrasound, hypnotherapy, back labor, transport, breech, blood transfusions.

    Kayla is a first-time mom who lives in Santa Rosa with her 5-month-old son Declan, 6-year-old stepdaughter Fable, and husband Joel. She is a work from home mom and has her own business as a Real Estate Transaction Coordinator. When she's not busy changing diapers, Kayla enjoys going on "hot mom walks" around Spring Lake, trips to the beach with her family, and trying new restaurants. You can follow Kayla's #MomLife on Instagram and TikTok and reach out to her if you would like to join the weekly hot mom walks.

    Kayla recommends:
    •Episode on ultrasounds: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/85--Dr--Jen-Santos---Ultrasounds--Dopplers--EFM-Concerns-e20btg7
    •Placenta Encapsulation - https://www.familyfocus-doulacare.com
    •Acorn Chiropractic Club - https://acornchiropractic.com/
    •Mighty Mama Movement Online Course - https://go.mightymamamovement.com/
    •Birth Playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXebxttQCq0zA?si=20f07204af1c4795

    Connect with Kayla:
    •IG: @KaylaShock
    •TikTok: @CrazyKayla

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/101--Kaylas-Birth-Story---Surprise-Breech-and-Transport-e2e6544

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - GINA MUNDY - CHILDBIRTH ATTORNEY #100

    Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Gina Mundy, childbirth attorney. They discuss Gina's new book "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" which supports families to educate themselves to create a safer environment for their births. They discuss medical advisors verse decision makers, lessons learned from her cases, how certain factors can improve outcomes like doulas and chiropractors. How certain factors like induction and busy hospital units can lead to poor outcomes. They also discuss how important it is to go into your birth educated and to be selective of your care providers.

    Gina Mundy is an attorney specializing in childbirth cases. For over 20 years, her focus has been investigating and analyzing mistakes that arise during labor and delivery. She has spent countless hours meticulously scrutinizing childbirth cases, conducting interviews with delivery teams, and thoroughly
    examining medical records to gain an in-depth understanding of every decision made during labor and delivery. Throughout her career Gina has traveled nationwide, engaging with
    healthcare professionals such as doctors, nurses, and midwives to explore all aspects of labor and delivery. These interactions have provided her with invaluable insights,
    enabling her to appreciate the diverse perspectives prevalent in different regions of the country.

    In June 2023, Gina's book "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" was published. The book helps parents to avoid the mistakes during childbirth and have a healthy baby. Instead of getting involved after a mistake was made, Gina is getting involved before childbirth to help prevent the mistakes.

    Gina recommends:
    •A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth: Expecting the Best: Using the Power of Knowledge to Help You Deliver a Healthy Baby: A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth: Expecting the Best: Using the Power of Knowledge to Help You Deliver a Healthy Baby

    Connect with Gina:
    •Website: www.ginamundy.com
    •IG: @ginamundy

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/Gina-Mundy---Childbirth-Attorney-e2d4f9f

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - DR. REBECCA COHEN - “NATURAL BIRTH DOCTOR” #99

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Dr. Rebecca Cohen on her journey towards out of hospital birth support. They discuss her 9 children, herbal products, Mayan Abdominal therapy, what she brings to births, painful periods/sex/menopause/prolapse, postdates, breech, twins, shared decision making, and tearing.

    Rebecca Lasky Cohen, MD is a holistic women’s healthcare physician specializing in pelvic wellbeing throughout all stages of women’s lives. She has spent the last 30 years dedicated to working with women and has had extensive training in midwifery, family medicine, obstetrics, energetic and physical modalities and traditional healing practices from throughout the world. She is mother to nine children and is devoted to orienting women to their own inner-knowing as they thrive in sovereignty, fully realizing their vibrant health and creative potential. Her practice, Full Circle Holistic, seeks to guide women to reclaim their womb wisdom and honor the sacredness of their bodies.

    Rebecca recommends:
    •Radical Birthkeeper School: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper
    •Whapio: http://www.mhvdoula.info/holistic-doula-program-2/
    •Wild feminine book

    Connect with Rebecca:
    •Website: https://www.fullcirclelouisville.com/
    •IG: @fullcircleholistic

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB:

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - REBEKAH WHEELER - TRAUMA HEALING #98

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Rebekah Wheeler, CNM working in the hospital based setting. They discuss the difference in care between hospital and home birth, how hospitals can be slow to change outdated policies, evidence based verse experience based informed consent, perinatal mental health, sanctuary trauma, uterine massage, birth control, and transport from home to hospital.

    Rebekah Wheeler is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, an educator, and an expert in birth trauma prevention and treatment. She has worked as a birth professional for almost 20 years, during which she has learned a lot about what helps support people to feel pride and a sense of accomplishment after giving birth, no matter how labor goes. She became a Perinatal Mental Health and Birth Trauma expert after seeing how little support there is out there to help people heal from difficult birth experiences. She offers birth trauma healing sessions virtually to clients anywhere, and in-person in the Bay area.

    Connect with Rebekah:
    •Website: http://birth-trauma-healing.com/

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/Bekah-Wheeler---Trauma-Healing-e2c6kjo

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - KELLI MOORE - NAVIGATING THE MEDICAL SYSTEM - #97

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Kelli Moore, CEO and Co-Founder of Soulfire Productions, Host of the top-rated podcast: The Naked Mama, and Co-Host of the beloved relationships podcast, OK, Babe. They discuss topics that include IVF, prodromal labor, back labor, Leep procedures and cervical scarring, hemorrhage, cranial sacral, tongue-tie, retained placenta, postpartum mood disorders, sleep regression, and navigating fear, intuition, and the medical system.

    Kelli has been the good girl, the people pleaser, and she's followed all the rules. She worked for years in a male-dominated sports television industry, only to deal with 15 years of chronic illness and finally reach her breaking point. Today, she pours her heart and soul into helping women set themselves free from expectations and the stories that hold them hostage in their own lives. She asks us all to seek deeper within and become the version of ourselves we've kept buried for so long. If you are ready to be challenged, think outside the box, and finally see yourself clearly, Kelli is here for a radically honest conversation to support you and your audience. 

    Kelli’s Recommendations:
    •Birthing Instincts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birthing-instincts/id1552816683

    Connect with Kelli:
    IG: @kellitmoore
    •Website: https://kellimoore.co
    •Soulfire Productions: https://soulfireproductionsco.com
    •The Naked Mama Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-naked-mama/id1410824985
    •OK, Babe Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ok-babe/id1497534094

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/97--Kelli-Moore---Navigating-the-Medical-System-e2avb4f

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - EMMA’S BIRTH STORY - PART 2 - #96

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Emma on her second pregnancy and birth experience. They discuss suprise pregnancies, home birth after traumatic hospital birth, birth trauma debrief, wild pregnancy and declining all pregnancy testing, EMDR and hypnotherapy, Celiacs disease, her decision to request no vitals for her or baby in labor, cord burning, tongue and lip ties.

    Emma is an artist, textile designer and a mom in the East Bay area. Her family includes her husband Matt, three year old Fiona, new baby Stella and a very patient Shepard mix named Dash.

    •Emma's 1st Birth Story:
    https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/90--Emmas-Birth-Stories---Part-1---We-Have-A-Problem-e25uga0

    Emma's Recommendations:
    •Free Birth Society: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcast
    •Healing Birth Podcast: https://www.healingbirth.net/podcast
    •Silver nipple cups: https://silveretteusa.com/

    Connect with Emma:
    IG: @emma_shutko and @emmashutkodesign

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/96--Emmas-Birth-Story---Part-2---Intuition-e2a2uj2

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - STESHA’S BIRTH STORY - NORMALIZING HOME BIRTH - #95

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Stesha about her home birth journey. They discuss twins, Covid, prenatal testing decisions, chiropractic care, and what to do if the fetal ejection reflex doesn't kick in.

    Stesha is a first time mom who lives in Sebastopol with her husband, 13 month old son, and the best cat ever. She is a registered nurse of almost ten years, and chose a home birth after witnessing her sisters do so. She has a passion for wellness and nutrition and wants every first time mom to feel empowered to have the birth they truly deserve. 

    Stesha’s recommendations:
    •Lily Nicoles book Real Food for Pregnancy: https://realfoodforpregnancy.com/book/
    •Sneak Peek: https://sneakpeektest.com/?msclkid=a63e7ebc20421415089e1bb7bfed8553
    •Acorn Chiropractic Club: https://acornchiropractic.com/
    •Ina May's Guide to Childbirth book

    Connect with Stesha:
    IG: @steshabostock
    Email: [email protected]

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/95--Steshas-Birth-Story---Normalizing-Home-Birth-e29j2gb

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - ALISHA MEYER - BIRTH CULTIVATED - #94

    Join your host Sophia as she interviews Alisha Meyer at Birth Cultivated. They discuss Alisha's unassisted pregnancy and birth, her student midwifery journey, her decision to not get her Midwifery license, PMA's, postpartum planning, and advise for partners.

    Alisha was trained primarily hands-on through apprenticeship, then formal schooling, and now serves families through a private home birth ministry as a Traditional Birth Attendant. Her services were “up-leveled” after the unassisted pregnancy and birth of her daughter last year! Some of her passions are cultivating health through nutrition and bringing healing and renewal to postpartum.

    Alisha’s recommendations:
    •Indie Birth Midwifery School: https://indiebirthmidwiferyschool.org
    •The First Forty Days book

    Connect with Alisha:
    IG: @birthcultivated
    Website: http://Birthcultivated.com

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB:

    @sophiabirth @bayareahomebirth @familyfocusdoulacare @love.inlabor @bornwildmidwifery

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  • PODCAST EPISODE - ASHLEY’S BIRTH STORIES - QUICK BIRTHS - #93

    Join your host Sophia as her and Ashley discuss her two fast births. They discuss GBS, tandem nursing, prodromal labor, anemia, and food sensitivities.

    Ashley had her second baby at home and now wants every mama to have a home birth. Ashley feels her birth was so empowering, natural, serene, magical....like a dream. She wishes this experience for every mama and without anyone else’s intervention. Just you in your power. 

    Ashley's recommendations:
    Ina May's Guide to Childbirth book
    Birth without Fear book
    Lily Nicols Real Food for Pregnancy book
    Aspirin for food sensitivities: https://healthnatura.com/aspirin-powder-usp-60g/ and https://www.instagram.com/p/CaQOgLnP49q/?img_index=1

    Connect with Ashley:
    IG: @Coachashleys

    Listen here:
    IG: linktree in bio
    FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/93--Ashleys-Birth-Stories---Quick-Births-e283vlk

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  • Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kit with Katara about yoni steaming. They discuss what steaming is, when to steam and when not to steam, the history around the world of steaming, fibroids, BV, sexual violence, miscarriage, fertility, and more.