Rockstar Birth Radio

RBR 25 – April Brooks – My 6-Week Labour

The Unexpected Birth Journeys series of Rockstar Birth Radio is about births that did not go exactly as expected. However, more importantly it is of mothers who have moved through their experience with grace and wisdom and an empowering message to share with you. 
 
April Brooks was in labour for 6 weeks – yes you heard me right – when her birth journey began at just 28 weeks gestation. In this episode, April discusses life living in hospital on bedrest for nearly two months, and also shares her son’s birth story who was born at 33 weeks and is now a thriving toddler. You can follow more of April’s journey at aprilbrooksblog.com or @mrs.aprilbrooks on Instagram.
You can also read April’s birth story on the Rockstar Birth Blog.
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RBR 24 – Emily Glover – A Twist In My Birth Tale

The Unexpected Birth Journeys series of Rockstar Birth Radio is about births that did not go exactly as expected. However, more importantly it is of mothers who have moved through their experience with grace and wisdom and an empowering message to share with you. 
Emily Glover experienced a near-ideal labour before experiencing a severe tear. If you are pregnant then now may or may not be the right time for you to hear Emily’s birth story, but if you are a birth worker then i implore you to listen in as Emily shares her personal learnings into the importance of validating birth fears, using appropriate language with birthing women, and how best to support women who have suffered birth trauma. 
Birth and motherhood has highlighted to Emily how much our mind affects our physical experience and how underrated being informed, empowered, and supported along this journey is for our mental and physical health. 
 
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RBR 23 – Amy Taylor-Kabbaz – Empowered Breech Birth

The Unexpected Birth Journeys series of Rockstar Birth Radio is about births that did not go exactly as expected. However, more importantly it is of mothers who have moved through their experience with grace and wisdom and an empowering message to share with you. 
Amy Taylor-Kabbaz has had 3 very different birth experiences which she will share with us today including an empowered breech birth. Amy is a writer, broadcaster, mama of 3, and the gentle guiding force behind Happy Mama, a website dedicated to inspiring all of us on this journey through motherhood, by encouraging us to stay true to ourselves. You can find more of Amy’s Happy Mama goodness on her website, happymama.com.au, her Facebook page, and in her book Happy Mama: the guide to finding yourself again. 
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RBR 22 – Khrystina Pryani Richardson – The homebirth of Somi

Khrystina Pryani is a musician and songwriter born and raised in NYC and the mother of 3 home born children. In 2007 Khrystina started her own label, Free Soul Music and has independently released singles and an LP entitled ‘Decade’ which are available on iTunes.
We connected when Khrystina was pregnant with her third babe and she shared this message with me:
“I am pregnant with my third and as of today, I am 42 weeks and 1 day. I have been searching for positive and empowering experiences of other mamas. Thank you for your magazines and posts, I have been hanging onto every word, they have been feeding and comforting me through this process.”
So naturally, we were gonna be best friends, right? Khrystina went onto birth her babe at 42 weeks and 6 days and she will be sharing this birth, and her previous experiences with us today.
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RBR 21 – Alison Howley – From The Womb to The World

Alison Howley is the Rockstar Mama heart behind From the Womb to the World blog – a movement dedicated to reminding women of their power and strength,  and of the joy and beauty of birth. Along with her husband, Alison has created Surrounded By Nature, a meditative birthing album of soothing sounds of nature and relaxation music for pregnant mamas to play whilst bringing their babies down. Surrounded by Nature is available to purchase as an instant digital download, CD or DVD at www.wombtotheworldmusic.com, and can also be streamed from iTunes and Spotify. I invited Alison on to Rockstar Birth Radio to share how her birth experiences – the first a disempowered hospital experience, the second an empowered planned homebirth – have seen her become a passionate advocate for undisturbed birth.”
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RBR 20 – Tiff DeLancy – Namaste Homebirth

Tiffany DeLancy, also known as Namaste Tiff, is a birth doula, yogi mama, essential oil lover, and mother of 2 home born daughters. I connected with Tiffany after seeing her publicly shared homebirth video of her youngest daughter Violet Lu – one of the most powerful and family-based birth videos – complete with her eldest daughter Nora Jane in attendance as her doula. Regardless of whether you are planning a homebirth, I encourage you to watch this joyful video – I have included a link to the video in the show notes. Get on it, mama. 
 
Violet Lu’s homebirth
 
You can connect with Tiff on instagram at @namastetiff @namastetiffessentials @saturnssister and the @ocdoulacollective.
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RBR 19 – Cecile Colares – Labour of Love

Cecile Colares loves everything to do with wellbeing and raising our vibration to live emotionally balanced lives in joy.
She started to practice yoga in 2006, and is now an experienced yoga teacher specialising in Pre-natal & Post-natal yoga and during her classes, Cecile likes to create a safe space for pregnant women to feel and connect with their babies. A place where she supports them and guides them through asanas, mudras, and meditation to connect with their inner trust and strength creating new neuropathways to benefit them to birth their baby with confidence, trust, calm, and love.
After giving birth to her son, Cecile felt a strong inner calling for supporting women during pregnancy, labour, birth and the transition to motherhood. She reveres birth and see it as a great Rite of Passage and is just about to complete her Doula training. She is also working closely with Maha Al Musa to create The Mother’s Centre, supporting families from conception to parenthood and beyond. 
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RBR 18 – Anne Margolis – Home Sweet Homebirth

Anne Margolis is a practicing Midwife in New York who started her career as a labour and delivery nurse. When her first 2 babes were born in hospital, under the threat of caesarean, Anne got a real understanding of how labouring mamas receive maternity care and was inspired to become a licenced midwife.  She went on to birth her next 2 children at home, and is now a dedicated holistic homebirth midwife operating in New York and New Jersey, with extensive qualifications and experience.
 
Anne is also an aspiring yogi and prenatal and postpartum yoga teacher, a doula, and a childbirth educator, and you are going to love her straight-down-the-line approach to birth.
You can find more of Anne’s goodness (including the odd yoga headstand!) at her online home homesweethombirth.com and you can become part of her online community at homesweethomebirth on both Facebook and Instagram, where she provides services to women across the globe; for empowered, healthy, joyful living in childbearing & beyond.
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RBR 17 – Shalome Stone – Born At Home

Is homebirth just for Hippies? If you’ve ever wondered whats involved in a homebirth, then listen in as experienced homebirth mama Shalome Stone talks you through the finer points of birthing at home. And it’s not all incense burning and chanting at the moon 🙂
Learn about how birthing at home with an experienced midwifery team can be an incredibly powerful and sacred option for many women. Maybe even you.  
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RBR 16 – Melissa Spilsted – Hypnobirthing for Caesarean Birth

Melissa Spilsted is a Clinical Hypnotherapist (CHt), Childbirth Educator (BEd, HPCE) and world leader in hypnobirthing education. She is recognised as a pioneer in ‘The Positive Caesarean Birth’, having written the world’s first program in 2011. As the founder and director of the Hypnobirthing AustraliaTM and HypnobubsTMprograms, she is kept busy teaching parents and practitioners worldwide.
Melissa is married to Stephen and they have three beautiful boys (aged 6, 8 & 10), who were all birthed using gentle hypnosis techniques. You can find further information on The Positive Caesarean Course at the Hypnobirthing Australia and Hypnobubs websites. Individual albums are also sold through iTunes.
Melissa shared her insights on achieving a Positive Caesarean Birth in the Positive Caesarean Birth issue of the Rockstar Birth Magazine: rockstarbirthmagazine.com/shop/positive-caesarean-birth
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RBR 15 – Kylie Szabo – Maternal-Assisted Caesarean Birth

Kylie Szabo is the Rockstar Mama of 3 babes. After her first 2 babes were born via unscheduled caesarean birth she knew she wanted a different experience for her third child. Whilst extensively exploring her VBAC options, Kylie also deep-dived into the world of natural and maternal-assisted caesareans, ultimately birthing her daughter via the very first maternal-assisted caesarean birth at her local hospital. You will love Kylie’s rockstar support team and incredible determination.
If you would like to read Kylie’s birth journey in full, pick up a copy of Issue #1 – the Believe In You issue – of the Rockstar Birth Magazine and immerse yourself in her  amazing photographs: rockstarbirthmagazine.com/shop/issue-one-believe-in-yourself
And to get inspired and informed about what is involved in the natural or maternal-assisted caesarean birth, grab a copy of the Positive Caesarean Birth issue of the Rockstar Birth Magazine: rockstarbirthmagazine.com/shop/positive-caesarean-birth
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RBR 14 – Carlee Wilson – Positive Perspective on Caesarean

As a mama who was studying natural medicine and wanted a drug free natural birth, a caesarean birth was not part of Carlee Wilson’s birth plan. But as her birth journey evolved, Carlee and her husband worked their way through their options and were able to feel positive and supported as their beautiful boy was born. And it was this outlook that absolutely shone through in her birth story.
You can read all about Carlee’s birth experience and her decision to choose a positive perspective on her journey in the Positive Caesarean Birth issue of the Rockstar Birth Magazine: rockstarbirthmagazine.com/shop/positive-caesarean-birth
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