Unschooled Homebirth

Journey to Birth podcast coaching sessions are special episodes where you get to sit in with me and one of my Natural Birth Compass Program students while I help coach them in their pregnancy to prepare for their upcoming birth. These episodes give you the opportunity for an intimate and up close look at the experience of preparing for childbirth using a very unique method that we call the Natural Birth Compass Program.
This is the fourth episode of Sarah's birth prep coaching series, and time is flying by! In today's episode, Sarah and I will explore her experiences with pain throughout her life to help her prepare techniques for her upcoming birth. Then we will explore the expectations she is setting for everyone on her birth team and her birth partner so she has the support she needs in labor. We will deep dive into some remaining questions she will bring up with her birth team at her next visit, which opens up our conversation about routine care, the differences between routine and mandatory procedures in your birth environment, your right of refusal in labor, we look at the range of concerns for cervical exams in labor because I find so many women don’t realize the layers of invasiveness of a cervical exam beyond the physical impact of the intervention itself. Finally, we talk about a physiologic vs managed third stage, which is all about birthing your placenta, we talk about options for using your placenta and what you need to know if you want to use it, and we talk a bit about common newborn procedures, like eye ointment and vitamin k.
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Further info & opportunities:

• Learn how to awaken the magic of homebirth with Circle Magic for Homebirth: A Mini-Birth Preparation Course Beyond the Ordinary.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Online Childbirth Preparation Program to prepare for your birth by clicking here.
• See our unique birth plan course Beyond the Birth Plan for Homebirth to write a birth plan that goes beyond ordinary templated plans that don't work for homebirth!

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

• What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
• The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
• The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

• Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Welcome to a birth story episode on the Unschooled Homebirth podcast. It's been awhile since we've had a birth story, but one of my students, Sarah, who is also a birth wisdom keeper herself, was so gracious to share her birth story with us and I was thrilled to bring this story on the podcast because Sarah had such a simple and straightforward birth.
We don't hear a lot of simple birth stories out there today, so often there's big decisions and critical moments, and drama in birth, even in homebirth stories, so much so that women who have simple, peaceful births don't feel sharing their story has a purpose or, worse, they feel guilty about their simple, uncomplicated birth. Like some of the other birth keepers I know who want to change this narrative, I want to promote all birth stories, whether they had unexpected situations or just unfolded simply and quietly like Sarah's.
It was truly an honor serving Sarah and her growing family during this pregnancy and birth, I am in awe of all the work she and her husband did for this birth, the trust they put into themselves and their baby and the Natural Birth Compass program to help them blossom into intuitively guided parents, and I hope you learn as much from her story as I did. Please enjoy Sarah's homebirth story!
You can find Sarah on IG @telesis.sisterhood
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Further info & opportunities:

• Learn how to awaken the magic of homebirth with Circle Magic for Homebirth: A Mini-Birth Preparation Course Beyond the Ordinary.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Online Childbirth Preparation Program to prepare for your birth by clicking here.
• See our unique birth plan course Beyond the Birth Plan for Homebirth to write a birth plan that goes beyond ordinary templated plans that don't work for homebirth!

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

• What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
• The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
• The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

• Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Welcome to the journey to birth podcast. I have an incredible episode for you today, with my dear friend and birth professional, Becky Purpur. Becky has been surrounded by natural, normal, undisturbed birth for 30 years growing up with a mom who was a homebirth midwife. Today Becky is still very active in the realms of birth as a birth photographer, a doula, and a very wise holsitic birth constultant.

I brought Becky on today to share a really interesting perspective she shared with me about how placentas tell the stories of the pattern of labor and when I first heard her talk about this, it was one of those moments when you realize you've been thinking about it all wrong, at least that's what occurred to me. So in this episode, Becky and I have a conversation about what this means that placentas tell us the story, how the uterus and the baby are communicating between this wise organ through the thread of the umbilical cord, and how this really is one complete system that is wise and intelligent, and how knowing this means we really have a responsibility to change our approach to being at a birth, how we have to carefully consider that anything we do or bring into a birth can change the outcome of that experience and even the outcome of the birth itself. And this is true whether we are invited in as a doula, as a photographer, even as a midwife.

And if you're listening as someone who is preparing to give birth, this is a very relevant conversation to be holding with your caregivers should you have them in attendance. And if you open this discussion and they're still unclear, you are welcome and invited to send them here to the podcast to listen to this information and then together have a discussion about the physiology, about the innate wisdom of your uterus, your baby's placenta, and your baby themselves. And discuss how to facilitate this kind of environment for your birth.
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Further info & opportunities:

• Learn how to awaken the magic of homebirth with Circle Magic for Homebirth: A Mini-Birth Preparation Course Beyond the Ordinary.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Online Childbirth Preparation Program to prepare for your birth by clicking here.
• See our unique birth plan course Beyond the Birth Plan for Homebirth to write a birth plan that goes beyond ordinary templated plans that don't work for homebirth!

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

• What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
• The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
• The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

• Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

Happy Mother's Day! This was a wonderful conversation with Bailey Gaddis about Moms!
When I realized mother's day was coming up really fast, I could think of no one more suited to a special mother's day episode than Bailey Gaddis. I asked Bailey to join me today to wish you a wonderful mother's day, whether you have already given birth, you are on the journey of growing a baby, or even you are just beginning the journey of conceiving a new life, we are all mothers in our own way, and even though this episode is special for mothers day and mother's day only comes once a year, we need to celebrate the gifts and challenges of motherhood every single day.
On this episode, Bailey and I will discuss different perspectives of motherhood, the transition into parenthood and her forthcoming book, Asking For A Pregnant Friend, which is a look inside the real questions and stories of real mothers.
You can find Bailey and her book, Feng Shui Mommy on her website: BaileyGaddis.com, information about her courses at YourSereneLife.com, and her YouTube channel where you can find clips of her new book and lots of other resources.
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Further info & opportunities:

• Learn how to awaken the magic of homebirth with Circle Magic for Homebirth: A Mini-Birth Preparation Course Beyond the Ordinary.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Online Childbirth Preparation Program to prepare for your birth by clicking here.
• See our unique birth plan course Beyond the Birth Plan for Homebirth to write a birth plan that goes beyond ordinary templated plans that don't work for homebirth!

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

• What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
• The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
• The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

• Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here

With so many birth programs built on a base of hypnosis, how do you pick the right one for you? Learn about an option that can customized to your individual needs taught by a registered hypnotherapist and childbirth educator Nancy Allin in Bellevue, Washington.

After completing her training as a certified instructor for a well-known birth hypnosis program, she felt the structure and methods of the program wasn’t useful for all of her clients, so she used her training as a hypnotherapist to create a program that she uses one-on-one with her clients to ensure they learn techniques that will support their needs in birth.

She works with a wide variety of clients, including first time parents, parents who are recovering from a traumatic birth experience or other history of trauma, and those who are looking for an approach that uses hypnosis techniques that allow them to experience

You can find Nancy at hypnosisforbirth.com where you can find her schedule of free introductory sessions or schedule a virtual session if you are outside of the Puget Sound region.

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Further info & opportunities:

• Learn how to awaken the magic of homebirth with Circle Magic for Homebirth: A Mini-Birth Preparation Course Beyond the Ordinary.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Online Childbirth Preparation Program to prepare for your birth by clicking here.
• See our unique birth plan course Beyond the Birth Plan for Homebirth to write a birth plan that goes beyond ordinary templated plans that don't work for homebirth!

Watch now at NaturalBirthCompass.com/FreeClass
After watching this 15 minute video, you will know:

• What physiologic birth really is and why stages of labor, lists of hormones, and cervical dilation rates are not enough
• The most common points in labor where tissue damage occurs and how to prevent the causes of tears or episiotomies
• The difference between being 10 cm and being ready to push

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Further info & opportunities:

• Open your breath, connect to your pelvic floor, and prepare to relax with the Stillpoint Prenatal Breathwork Worshop Recording for free at NaturalBirthCompass.com/BreatheFree.
• Learn about The Natural Birth Compass Prenatal Wellness Program Here