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 19 with Asha Kidd from Braidwood. Arriving at a 'full' hospital. searching for other care providers and finding that rural women have options. Posterior baby/labour.
The Rural Births Podcast
1 hour 16 minutes 22 seconds
5 years ago
Episode 19 with Asha Kidd from Braidwood. Arriving at a 'full' hospital. searching for other care providers and finding that rural women have options. Posterior baby/labour.
Asha is a mum of 4 from Braidwood, NSW. Having grown up in Braidwood Asha had strong community connections and so in her first pregnancy when it came time to chose her care she followed the local birthing pattern through Queanbeyan hospital. Asha shares that, at the time, she didn’t know there were other options.
Asha went into labour on a ‘busy’ day and so upon their arrival they were informed that the hospital was ‘full’. When Asha was told she would need to turn around, and drive another hour to Goulburn, she felt let down. Luckily someone noticed that she was “too far along” and so instead they accommodated her. However, being on the cusp of transfer to another facility did not make Asha feel the support she’d needed. So for her next births she looked elsewhere.
At Moruya, Asha was made to feel like her care providers trusted her body and her instincts. She was even encouraged to leave hospital site, after check in, to walk by the water to allow herself space, to get out in the fresh air and inspire further contractions. Her needs were a priority and they worked with her.
Asha’s journey to birth was different each time. She’s relocated (to be closer to Moruya hospital), driven down the Clyde mountain in labour and for her most recent birth she laboured through ambulance transfer. She describes how her most recent birth was a posterior delivery. She shares that this was the most challenging experience of her life.
Asha is an artist and photographer and mother. Her life is surrounded by the joys, imaginings, energies and rhythms of her children. Together we spoke in her backyard, enjoying the sunshine, sounds of spring and playful antics of our two toddlers (who join in our chats). Before falling pregnant, I vividly remember seeing Asha around the community and I remember wondering how she so beautifully balanced her own endeavours with mum life. It’s a pleasure to have now had the opportunity to listen to Asha share her birth stories. Her motherhood, partnership and children are the threads that she is weaving into her most beautiful and fulfilling life, of love and loving, each day as a family.
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.
