Healing Birth
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago -A birth story podcast for women who question the status quo.
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I Knew There Was a Better Way | Part Two of Danielle’s Story
May 30, 2023 21:55 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBAfter two hospital births, Danielle decided she wanted her third to be born at home. However, she happened to live in one of the five (now four) states which do not allow licensed midwives to attend VBAC births at home. Listen to find out how she navigated this, and if she got her home birth! Danielle is also a fellow podcaster. You can find her show @birthjourneyspodcast Do you have a story you’d like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact pag...
I Knew There Was a Better Way | Part One of Danielle’s Story
May 23, 2023 21:45 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBAfter the unplanned, but not traumatic, cesarean birth of her first child, Danielle felt a sense of grief she didn’t understand. Despite having a successful VBAC in the hospital subsequently, that same feeling of grief and failure found her in her postpartum time. She eventually experienced post-partum depression severe enough to need medication. Something inside her knew there was a better way. This is part one of Danielle’s story. Be sure to tune in next week for part two! Danielle...
It Was Just Another Day, But I Gave Birth | Part Two of Rebecca’s Birth Stories
May 16, 2023 21:36 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBAfter a traumatic, unnecessary cesarean in an Australian hospital, Rebecca knew that she’d get pregnant again, and would not enter the medical system. She had a completely wild, peaceful pregnancy, and free birth with just her family present. (Be sure to check out our instagram page this week @healingbirth to see photos of this birth, and the “potato embryo”!) Do you have a story you’d like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.hea...
In the Belly of the Beast | Part One of Rebecca’s Birth Stories
May 08, 2023 22:21 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MBRebecca’s first experience with birth was a miscarriage, which, in her words, left her with the beautiful message that “we are mother nature.” When she conceived again, she was hit with the firewalk of hyperemesis, an initiation all of its own. She gave birth to that baby in an Australian hospital with midwives. Her story, sadly, is a perfect example of the ways that defensively practiced medicine, intervening in the natural process that is birth, is leaving so many of us with unnecessary ...
Finding Homebirth | Leah’s Journey Through Birth Trauma, and Loss, to Birth Bliss
May 03, 2023 01:29 - 46 minutes - 63.5 MBLeah shares her four birth stories with us. Her journey includes suffering a serious birth injury, a devastating second trimester loss, a hospital birth after that loss, and finally, a blissful home birth. Of that homebirth Leah says, “I trusted my gut, my lived experiences, and the team that I had. I instantly felt this release of all of the trauma I had experienced. It was exactly the experience I needed.” Photo Credit: Courtnee Pirozzini, @courtneepphotos Do you have a story you’d l...
A Journey to Full Autonomy | Audrey’s Wild and Powerful Births
April 24, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour - 100 MBAudrey shares her three birth stories, all quite different, and all of which reflect her powerful nature. You can connect with Audrey on instagram @ajoyfulbirth and at www.ajoyfulbirth.org Do you have a story you’d like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth.net. PLANNING FOR YOUR VBAC EVENT! On Sunday, April 30th, 2023 @5PM EST Join Healing Birth and Dr. Sarah (@birthuprising) for a women-centered approach to plannin...
Chaya’s Simple Freebirth
April 18, 2023 02:31 - 46 minutes - 63.2 MBDuring her first pregnancy, Chaya was dropped from her midwife’s care for the sin of going past 40 weeks. She gave birth to that baby in the hospital, an experience that left her feeling a lot of anger. When she quickly conceived again, a series of life circumstances (and some slight denial), led her to have a wild pregnancy, and to freebirth her baby. Do you have a story you’d like to share on the podcast? I would love to hear from you! Email me via the contact page at www.healingbirth....
How Birth Trauma Can Affect our Children, and How We Can Support Them to Heal
April 10, 2023 22:30 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBOnly in recent years has there finally been a recognition that birth trauma, affecting about one in three women in most Western countries (I would argue that number is much higher), has profoundly deleterious effects on a mother’s mental health. But to my knowledge, there is no formal study or discussion about how traumatic births can affect our babies, who experience the birth right along with us. My guest Amber shares the dots she connected between the traumatic birth of her second daugh...
The Spiritual Battleground for Birth (Rebroadcast)
April 05, 2023 04:38 - 1 hour - 108 MBEvery now and then a story takes a twist I am not expecting during the interview - and it always makes for an even better story than the one I thought I would hear! This episode is a perfect example of that. Rebecca shares two birth stories with us. First, a traumatic, unnecessarian (major kudos to whoever coined that term), and a redemptive, led by faith freebirth. It is the extraordinary experiences around that second birth that gets us into talking about spiritual warfare, the spirit ...
Seeking Justice After Obstetric Violence (Rebroadcast)
March 29, 2023 06:02 - 1 hour - 86.5 MBNelia was assaulted during her first birth experience at her local hospital. Stories like hers are tough to hear, but unfortunately, common. What is uncommon is that she understood immediately what happened to her was wrong, and sought legal counsel to get justice and to heal. The second time she gave birth, she took back her power in a massive way. We mention @birthmonopoly as a great resource for anyone who has experienced obstetric violence. You can find the map of obstetric vio...
Leaning into Exactly the Right Support | Part Two of Carla’s Story
March 22, 2023 22:29 - 40 minutes - 55 MBCarla’s planned home birth with her first baby ended in a hospital transfer. Two years later, she conceived again. Armed now with more knowledge about the birth, she hoped and planned for a physiologic birth, without interventions, at home. This is part two of her birth stories. You can find Carla on instagram @carla.sage.birthwork Her website is www.traditionalhealingbirthwork.com Use the link below to purchase amazing CBD products from Puffs for the Public. They are offering 25% ...
Magic, Meaning, and Medicine in a Homebirth Transfer | Part one of Carla’s Story
March 15, 2023 01:27 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBCarla’s mother passed away on her first baby's due date. A week later, still grieving, she went into labor. She had planned for and desired a home birth, but was transferred to the hospital. This is not, however, the traumatic story it could have been. While there it was evident that her mother’s spirit was present, protecting Carla and her baby. And this birth experience, in the miraculous way that birth can, allowed for deep healing of her matrilineal line. This is a truly magical s...
Connecting with Our Babies in Spirit
March 08, 2023 00:42 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBLynsi Eastburn is the world’s established expert in the field of hypnosis to promote fertility. She began professionally using hypnosis to facilitate pregnancy before anyone else had actively considered or pursued its benefits. Blending the scientific with the spiritual, she is also gifted with the intuitive capacity to sense spirit babies around their mothers. In this fascinating conversation, we talk about: How spirit babies come through to her Do we all have spirit babies around us...
From Pain to Purpose | Sharna’s Mission to Heal the Trauma of Pregnancy Loss
March 02, 2023 00:42 - 1 hour - 85 MBAfter the devastating loss of her first pregnancy, Sharna became acutely aware of the lack of professional support for, and understanding of, the uniquely painful experience of pregnancy loss. Sharna is now a pregnancy loss life coach supporting women through miscarriage or pregnancy loss. She has also founded The Institute of Healing through Pregnancy loss, out of the need for there to be other perinatal and coaching professionals who know how to truly support women going through pregnanc...
Unraveling Birth Trauma and Transforming Lives
February 22, 2023 17:03 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThe power, mystery, love and rawness surrounding pregnancy and birth have intrigued Carla since childhood. In 1998 she became New Zealand’s youngest graduate from the Direct Entry Midwifery program, and began work as a midwife. Her experience as a midwife was eye-opening, to say the least. She became aware that the power and mystery of birth had, for many it seemed, been flipped on its head, with medical minds, hands and machines seeking to control, categorize and sanitize the innately un...
From Empowered to PowerFULL | Sarah’s Journey to Homebirth her (nearly) 12LB Baby After Two Cesareans (Part 2)
February 14, 2023 22:06 - 1 hour - 98 MBSarah’s journey includes multiple losses, two cesareans, two VBACs, and births both in and out of the hospital. Her story encompasses so much richness, that I had to break it up into two parts. In this part two, you’ll hear about her third birth, a traumatic cesarean, and her fourth birth experience, a total reclamation of her power. Be sure to check our instagram page this week to see photos of this amazing birth and her perfectly huge baby! We are @healingbirth. There are also a few re...
From Empowered to PowerFULL | Sarah’s Journey to Homebirth her (nearly) 12LB Baby After Two Cesareans (Part 1)
February 07, 2023 22:51 - 41 minutes - 56.9 MBSarah’s birth journey includes multiple losses, two cesareans, two VBACs, and births both in and out of the hospital. Her story encompasses so much, that I had to break it up into two parts. In this part one, you’ll hear about her first birth, which ended in a cesarean after the classic cascade of interventions in the hospital. Despite that experience, she still felt that people who gave birth at home were crazy, and planned to VBAC her second baby at a different hospital (spoiler alert:...
A Birth Center + NICU Experience
February 01, 2023 20:58 - 38 minutes - 52.9 MBCorinne shares the story of giving birth in a birth center during the height of Covid. After the birth, her baby was transferred to the NICU where she spent her first few days, seemingly unnecessarily. Thank you for supporting brands that help support the show! Treat yourself with Puffs for the Public. They make high quality, CBD & CBG products that I absolutely love. As a listener of this show, you get 10% off at check out with code “healingbirth” (one word). Here’s a link to Soothe...
Nelson and Alison are Empowering Others to Have the Birth of Their Dreams
January 26, 2023 01:28 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBNelson and Alison were so inspired by the home birth of their first baby, that it lit a fire in them to share what they learned through this experience with others. They believe that conception, pregnancy, birth, motherhood and fatherhood are all sacred experiences and should be honored as such. Five minutes into speaking with them, I fell in love with their passion, their light, and infectious energy. It was also a real treat to get to hear, for the first time on this show, a male partne...
Retrieving Your Soul | A Journey Through, and out of, Postpartum Depression
January 19, 2023 01:38 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBAfter a birth experience that left her feeling trapped and traumatized, Sian developed severe postpartum anxiety and depression. Realizing she needed help, she turned to the National Health Service (UK) for mental health support, but the therapy she was received was nearly useless to her (and, delivered over the phone no less). Sian found her way out of the dark place from spiritual, rather than cognitive, solutions, and the joy she now feels from her new son. We also talk about the impo...
The Same Scar That I Have
January 10, 2023 22:24 - 1 hour - 133 MBAfter a long labor, and, feeling like she needed some relief, Emily transferred from her midwife-attended home birth to the hospital. The classic cascade of interventions ensued, beginning with an epidural, ending in a cesarean. At several points during her labor experience there, surrounded by total strangers and overwhelmed by the sensations in her body, the staff failed to support her in the ways that she needed. Emily connects the experience of being sexually violated at an early age...
Christina’s Redemptive Homebirth + Giving Birth in Germany
January 05, 2023 23:03 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBWelcome to SEASON FOUR! Christina is a coach, doula, and childbirth educator, who helps new parents with the transition when a new child is born. Like so many of us who get into birth work, her passion for it comes from her own experiences giving birth, which she shares with us today. After two births in German hospitals, the second of which left her traumatized, she knew she wanted to birth her third baby at home. That birth was the powerful, healing experience that she knew she needed....
From my Heart to Yours
December 22, 2022 03:31 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBAn end of year message from my heart to yours. Thank you so much for listening! I love you! Send me a note at www.healingbirth.net We're on Instagram @healingbirth Diana
Saphron Just Stayed Home and Had Her Baby
December 13, 2022 23:13 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBUnhappy with her previous experience birthing within the medical system, Saphron decided to simply stay home and free birth her second baby. Leading up to the birth, she had constant, vivid dreams with visual representations of transformation. Reflecting back on the two birth experiences, she’s says that physiological birth is what helps us cross the transformational threshold, ushering us into our full power as a mother. Having experienced both ways of birthing myself - I fully agree. ...
An Unplanned Cesarean at 35 Weeks and Its Aftermath
December 07, 2022 22:47 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBJackie shares the story of having her first baby via unplanned cesarean at 35 weeks. After the NICU stay, and very tough first year, she found healing in getting answers from a spiritual perspective to the “what, why and how” of that birth experience. When she was ready, she and her daughter had a rebirthing ceremony that also helped to heal the trauma of the birth. Be sure to check out our instagram page @healingbirth for a bunch of photos that accompany this episode! Jackie is a list...
Healing Our Relationship to Sex After a Traumatic Birth | A Raw Conversation
November 29, 2022 04:46 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBHow do you ravish a mother? In this vulnerable conversation, Lisa and I share our experiences coming back to our sex lives after a traumatic birth. I strongly suspect that feeling shut down sexually after giving birth, especially a traumatic one, is something that is way more common than is openly discussed. The reasons can be myriad. Our relationship to our bodies change, our very identity changes, some of us have complicated physical healing to do, and many of us have experienced me...
Anahel’s Wild and Free 50-Minute (!) Birth
November 24, 2022 17:10 - 1 hour - 93.9 MBTwo births in the Finnish medical system left Anahel angry and knowing, in her words, “something is not right here.” She planned to have her third baby at home. That whirlwind birth experience completely healed the pain of the past two. Anahel is a listener who reached out to me to share her beautiful story. If you have a story you’d like to share too, reach out! Send me a note at the contact page at www.healingbirth.net If you love the show, support us on patreon! www.patreon.com/heal...
The Whistleblower Midwife
November 17, 2022 03:35 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBAfter years of working in hospitals as a midwife, being a part of the broken maternity system that causes 1 in 3 women to experience birth trauma, Anna chose to step out on her own, become a whistleblower and actively work to speak the truth about the power of natural physiological birth. She exposes the over medicalized maternity system for the harm it is causing women, babies, families and the world at large. Follow Anna @the_spiritual_midwife Anna has some amazing offerings including ...
An Empowering Birth at 34 Weeks
November 10, 2022 21:52 - 1 hour - 122 MBJulia was planning for a peaceful home birth with her third baby, but plans changed when her labor began at 34 weeks gestation. Even though she gave birth in an environment she didn’t want, she did an amazing job advocating for herself and her baby during his subsequent NICU stay, and medical complications. She truly believes that the circumstances around his birth were exactly as they should be. I am always amazed at the miracles that happen when we honor our maternal intuition, and lis...
Finding Peace In a Hurricane
November 03, 2022 21:38 - 1 hour - 119 MBJuanita’s story begins with the heart wrenching experience of becoming pregnant at 14 after a sexual assault, and giving that baby up for adoption. Later in life, the birth of her second child was a re-traumatizing experience for her, as it commonly can be for survivors. The third time, Juanita used mindfulness tools, meditation, a trauma-informed team to support her, and super strong boundaries to have exactly the birth she desired, even in the midst of a time of national chaos. She s...
Your Body Isn’t Broken | Mandy’s Healing Homebirth After Cesareans
October 25, 2022 21:40 - 1 hour - 108 MBMandy was induced for all of her births, until her fourth. She was told by medical professionals that her body just “didn’t go into labor on it’s own” and she “needed a little help.” The resulting distrust in her body was something she carried within her until, after having had enough with the conveyer-belt style standard maternity care, she sought out a midwife who would support her to birth at home. And after three previous births, all induced and two of them, cesareans, she birthed th...
These Are My Power Stories | Leah’s Freebirths
October 18, 2022 21:07 - 1 hour - 101 MBLeah’s first daughter was born still, but this isn’t the story of trauma you might be expecting. Supported at home with just her husband and best friend, she says that the somatic experience of that birth was so intact, that it left her feeling the fullness of her power, full of oxytocin, even ecstatic. Leah quickly conceived again after her loss, and under rainbow filled skies on the island of Kauai, freebirthed her second daughter. This one feels really special for me to share because ...
Giving Birth Again After the Unthinkable - An Unanesthetized Cesarean
October 11, 2022 03:55 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBLast season, (episode linked below) Natalie shared the truly jaw-dropping story of giving birth via cesarean with completely failed anesthesia - she had full sensation of the procedure. We talked about what it looks like to heal from an experience like that, and the total lack of accountability from anyone at the hospital where this birth occurred. This year, Natalie reached out to me to let me know she’d had another baby, and I’m happy to say, this time it was different. You can hear...
This Baby Healed Me
October 05, 2022 01:27 - 1 hour - 119 MBThe best definition I know of trauma goes something like this: Anything that was too much, too soon, and too fast for us to process and integrate. It causes elements of the past to get stuck in the biology of our bodies and our subconscious experience. This story is a perfect example of how that can show up in birth. You can follow Katie @clairehaven_farm and @littleonedoula Please consider supporting the show! www.patreon.com/healingbirth Visit our website! www.healingbirth.net
REBROADCAST: What Do I have to Do, Deliver This Baby Myself?!
September 26, 2022 21:50 - 1 hour - 110 MBDr. Sarah is a chiropractic physician, birth educator, and mother of three. She became entrenched in the birth world after a traumatic, unnecessary cesarean led her to have a subsequent, healing freebirth. In this episode, she shares the stories of both of those births. Sarah is an advocate for bodily autonomy and human rights in childbirth, and believes that you deserve to be in charge and have a birth that transforms you. You will hear us talk quite a lot about that! Follow Sarah @birt...
The Magic of Story Medicine | A Conversation Between Amana and Diana, Part Two
September 21, 2022 01:26 - 1 hour - 100 MBAmana is a mother, birth keeper, death keeper, and host of the show The Heart of the Soul. Recently she invited me onto her podcast as a guest, and the conversation we had was so epic we decided to release it to both of our audiences! In this part two, Amana shares the stories of her journey with birth and loss, including that of her daughter Hartly, who passed shortly after her birth at home. From working as a hospice nurse, to the ways death has touched her as a mother, I have rarely m...
The Magic of Story Medicine | A Conversation Between Amana and Diana, Part One
September 12, 2022 22:20 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBAmana is a mother, birthkeeper, deathkeeper, and host of the show The Heart of the Soul. Recently she invited me onto her podcast as a guest, and the conversation we had was so epic we decided to release it to both of our audiences! In this part one, Amana interviews me. I share both of my son’s (very different) birth stories, and if you are a new listener and not familiar with my story, I think you will understand why I am so passionate about birth and birth trauma. Next week, in part ...
The Gift of Surrender
September 06, 2022 21:21 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBJessica’s first baby was born in a hospital in Australia. Although she had the natural birth that she desired, some interventions happened that, in retrospect, she realized were not necessary. Her second baby was born in Bali, at home, attended by Balinese midwives who barely made the birth. That birth helped her to realize she never needed to outsource her power to give birth. She had everything she needed within herself all along. Jessica is the founder of Mothers of All, a wife and a ...
IVF, Multiple Losses, and a Rainbow
August 30, 2022 22:37 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBBella shares the birth story of her first baby, after multiple pregnancy losses and multiple rounds of IVF. She speaks candidly about the experience of infertility, loss, and how best to support others going through it. She serves as the assistant director of Empty Cradle, a loss support group local to the southern California area. They offer in person and virtual support, and hold several events annually honoring the lives of babies who have passed. You can connect with her, and Empty Cra...
Channeling The Cosmos | Nicole’s Three Birth Stories
August 24, 2022 22:33 - 1 hour - 105 MBNicole shares her three, epically different, each beautiful in their own way, birth stories. They include a cesarean, a powerful hospital transfer VBAC, and a free birth. The daughter of a midwife herself, Nicole grew up attending home births, tagging along with her mother. She is now a traditional birth witness, postpartum keeper, and embodied motherhood guide. She is offering a coupon code for listeners of this podcast for her postpartum course, NOURISHED! You can purchase it through...
I Wanted a Redo So Badly
August 16, 2022 01:03 - 1 hour - 130 MBLaura’s first baby, born in 2020, came with the most severe birth complication I have personally ever heard of. While she was postpartum, trying to heal, and figuring out how to be a mom, she was left almost completely alone due to fears from the community of spreading covid. This left her in a postpartum depression so dark, she attempted to take her own life. After recovering emotionally and physically, she had a second child under much better circumstances. To say the pregnancy was rou...
Giving Birth During Covid (Part 3) | Sian’s Story
August 09, 2022 01:42 - 1 hour - 102 MBSian was 12 weeks pregnant when the United Kingdom announced a national lockdown, and she shares what it was like navigating her pregnancy, the birth, and the NHS during this strange time. Her second baby was born just two months ago at the time of this recording, and overall her two birth stories are not at all what I was expecting to hear (which is always my favorite kinds of stories to share!). Sian is now training to be doula, and you can find her on instagram @diaryofmrsk and at @sa...
Giving Birth During Covid (Part Two) | Ali’s Story
August 02, 2022 21:51 - 1 hour - 96.7 MBAli shares her experience giving birth at home with a midwife, and navigating a hospital transfer during covid, for post-partum blood loss. While the transfer was a scary thing to happen to Ali, her partner was the most traumatized by the experience, which was exacerbated by pandemic protocols that kept him separate from her for a time. Her story also includes hands down the most unique pregnancy symptom I have ever heard - comment on our social medias if you have ever heard of it too! ...
Giving Birth During Covid (Part One) | Sondra’s Story
July 28, 2022 00:34 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBSondra, a former healthcare worker herself, shares her experience of navigating the healthcare system, and giving birth, during the covid pandemic. Her story is such a beautiful example of what is possible when we are spiritually prepared for birth. Even when the outcome is not what we desire (or perhaps, even what we fear the most), we can emerge from our birth experience empowered and avoid trauma. Sondra now works as a doula, and you can follow her on IG @maternalintuition, and find h...
The Spiritual Battleground for Birth
July 20, 2022 00:24 - 1 hour - 108 MBEvery now and then a story takes a twist I am not expecting during the interview - and it always makes for an even better story than the one I thought I would hear! This episode is a perfect example of that. Rebecca shares two birth stories with us. First, a traumatic, unnecessarian (major kudos to whoever coined that term), and a redemptive, led by faith freebirth. It is the extraordinary experiences around that second birth that gets us into talking about spiritual warfare, the spirit ...
There’s No Such Thing as a “Natural” Induction | Lauren’s Story
July 11, 2022 23:29 - 1 hour - 120 MBLauren was pressured into a “natural” induction by her midwives as she approached 40 weeks pregnant. After multiple rounds of herbal cocktails and finally, the dreaded castor oil, her body was forced into the labor process. She believes that the labor was so intense, painful, and her baby mal-positioned because her body and baby weren’t actually ready to begin. And, after a very long time laboring at home, she transferred to the hospital, which had been her biggest fear. While postpartum...
We Need a New Postpartum Paradigm
July 05, 2022 22:42 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBIrina had just moved to the United States from another country when she found out she was pregnant. Without knowing much about our maternal healthcare system, she gave birth in the local hospital, and the care she received was unimpressive to say the least (among the crazier parts of this story was a nurse telling her, mid-labor, that giving birth on her hands and knees would “kill her baby”). When it came time for her second birth, she decided she didn’t need the healthcare system at all....
Giving Birth With High Blood Pressure | In the System, and Out.
June 29, 2022 17:40 - 1 hour - 102 MBAfter an unplanned pregnancy very newly into her marriage, Melissa planned a home birth, but was transferred out of midwifery care due to a pre-eclampisa diagnosis. She was given no other option than an induction in the hospital. Overall, she was grateful to have not ended up with a cesarean, but there was so much that happened during that birth that was violating and unnecessary. After her baby was born, she started listening to birth story podcasts and realized that birth didn’t have to ...
I Genuinely Thought I Was Going to Die
June 21, 2022 23:32 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBAt just 21 years old, Trae’s experience giving birth to her first baby was a truly life threatening one. Although she is still processing the events of that day, Trae is very passionate about advocating for other mothers who experience traumatic births. She shares the whole story with us today, including ways she has found healing in the aftermath. Please note that this episode contains a description of a traumatic birth, and take care of yourself accordingly. You can follow Trae on i...
A Cesarean in Bali, A Freebirth in California
June 16, 2022 01:19 - 1 hour - 95.3 MBAfter a failed induction, a very long bout of prodromal labor, and getting ultimately kicked out of her birthing center, Ita’s first baby was born surgically, under general anesthesia, in Bali. After this birth experience, Ita had a hard time bonding with her daughter, and they struggled with their breastfeeding relationship. After that first tough year, and a move to the US, Ita became pregnant with her second baby. And as the pregnancy progressed, Ita felt increasingly called to freebirt...