Welcome to this podcast: My Positive Birth. A little corner of the internet where I will be collecting positive stories from women birthing their babies across the UK.
Series 1 currently live! New episodes released on Tuesdays.
Stories are a really powerful way of learning and growing. We know that from childhood. But I don’t know if you’ve noticed… all too often during pregnancy people want to tell us horror stories about their birth. And this reflects our current cultural expectation: that ALL birth is risky, dangerous, and something women and babies need to be saved from.
Together we can challenge the narrative, and positive birth stories are a way of doing this. This podcast is a space to come together and hand down the wisdom from one mother to another of how it is possible to have a positive birth and the difference that can make.
The title of the podcast is very specifically MY positive birth. Because the key to it all is the family at the centre. What a positive birth meant for me in my circumstances, will almost definitely be different to what it means for you. But research, and common sense!, tells us that whatever your actual birth – be it hospital birth, home birth, free birth, induction, abdominal birth, water birth… that having choices, being respected and listened to, feeling safe and having confidence in yourself lie at the very heart of a positive birth.
So come and surround yourself with positive birth stories, told in women’s own words, and I hope you’ll find a village here to calm you but also to inspire you and give you confidence in birth. All women and babies deserve a positive birth experience.
Welcome to this podcast: My Positive Birth. A little corner of the internet where I will be collecting positive stories from women birthing their babies across the UK.
Series 1 currently live! New episodes released on Tuesdays.
Stories are a really powerful way of learning and growing. We know that from childhood. But I don’t know if you’ve noticed… all too often during pregnancy people want to tell us horror stories about their birth. And this reflects our current cultural expectation: that ALL birth is risky, dangerous, and something women and babies need to be saved from.
Together we can challenge the narrative, and positive birth stories are a way of doing this. This podcast is a space to come together and hand down the wisdom from one mother to another of how it is possible to have a positive birth and the difference that can make.
The title of the podcast is very specifically MY positive birth. Because the key to it all is the family at the centre. What a positive birth meant for me in my circumstances, will almost definitely be different to what it means for you. But research, and common sense!, tells us that whatever your actual birth – be it hospital birth, home birth, free birth, induction, abdominal birth, water birth… that having choices, being respected and listened to, feeling safe and having confidence in yourself lie at the very heart of a positive birth.
So come and surround yourself with positive birth stories, told in women’s own words, and I hope you’ll find a village here to calm you but also to inspire you and give you confidence in birth. All women and babies deserve a positive birth experience.
This week I speak to Abla, and even though we recorded this episode a little while ago, I can remember the tangible joy over the airwaves as she described the birth of her second baby and how much pride she took from birthing him in her own power and in her own way.
You will hear that it was following her first experience that Abla realised she would need more education and support to have a more positive experience for her next birth. And she certainly achieved that!
Abla puts it best: “The success for me is not that I gave birth naturally… it is that I gave birth on my own terms and in my own choices” BOOM!
I hope you enjoy listening to Abla as much as me! Abla now works as a postpartum doula herself so go and look her up at https://www.instagram.com/theshemsdoula/
If you would like to get in contact about something shared on this episode, or to share YOUR positive birth story, I'd love to hear from you. You can find me at:
lisaharrisdoula@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/lisaharrisdoula/
https://www.facebook.com/lisaharrisdoula