This podcast has been created to provide a platform for sharing rural Australian women’s birth stories. Rural women can be isolated from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birthing and postpartum care models available to women living in urban environments and city centres. I want to record and share stories from the many rural women who have birthed, to allow them to voice their experience and learn from them. I want rural women who are pregnant, planning to get pregnant or entering their postpartum period to feel supported and know that, although care may be via distance, there are options.
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This podcast has been created to provide a platform for sharing rural Australian women’s birth stories. Rural women can be isolated from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birthing and postpartum care models available to women living in urban environments and city centres. I want to record and share stories from the many rural women who have birthed, to allow them to voice their experience and learn from them. I want rural women who are pregnant, planning to get pregnant or entering their postpartum period to feel supported and know that, although care may be via distance, there are options.
Episode 15 with Bec Fagan from Lismore. Midwife and birth support practitioner, Calmbirth educator and qualified acuneedlist. Supporting rural women and couples through 'Empowering Birth Journeys'.
The Rural Births Podcast
49 minutes 57 seconds
5 years ago
Episode 15 with Bec Fagan from Lismore. Midwife and birth support practitioner, Calmbirth educator and qualified acuneedlist. Supporting rural women and couples through 'Empowering Birth Journeys'.
Bec Fagan is a mother, registered midwife and birth support practitioner, Calmbirth educator and qualified acuneedlist (acupuncture by a midwife) from Lismore in NSW. She and her family moved to the Northern Rivers region of NSW for a tree change, seeking a different rhythm of life. Prior to moving rurally, Bec had worked in a tertiary hospital and had supported numerous women through prenatal care and labour. Now Bec works with women both privately and in a hospital setting. She is with women through the many stages of motherhood; preconception, pregnancy, birth preparation into postpartum, the fourth trimester and beyond. Her Lismore based business ‘Empowering Birth Journeys’ is a pre and post birth wellness centre that offers additional care. Working privately, independent of the hospital system, allows Bec to move at a different pace and broaden the scope of her birth support offerings/relationships through her personalised continuity of care model. In her work she is with women. She meets their needs, circumstances and experiences, and works with them to make them (and their partners) feel seen and heard.
Bec’s description of birth doesn’t sound like the ‘rural birth’ many of us have come to accept/expect. She highlights that although rural care models can be framed by limitation that it doesn’t close the door to possibility. She instead shines light on the possibilities and dismantles the limitations.
In this interview Bec lists the multitude of birthing, prenatal and postpartum care options available in Lismore. She explains how her business helps rural women make conscious choices through education and support. She shares, regardless of whether she is working with women/couples through birth preparation or birth debrief, that the discussions/strategies she works through are ultimately enabling individuals. She reminds us that ‘anything is possible’, and everyone can have a positive birth experience, when we take the time to look inside ourselves and adopt wellness strategies, like calmbirth (because it is a strategy for all births, reducing fear and anxiety on any birth path).
https://www.empoweringbirthjourneys.com.au/
Instagram: empowering_birth_journeys
The Rural Births Podcast
This podcast has been created to provide a platform for sharing rural Australian women’s birth stories. Rural women can be isolated from pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birthing and postpartum care models available to women living in urban environments and city centres. I want to record and share stories from the many rural women who have birthed, to allow them to voice their experience and learn from them. I want rural women who are pregnant, planning to get pregnant or entering their postpartum period to feel supported and know that, although care may be via distance, there are options.
