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.
In this episode, Cindy Fenn shares her unintentional undisturbed homebirth. Cindy has a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education, and is in what she feels is her most important teaching role, bringing up her two little boys with her partner, in Melbourne. Her business Big Hearted Birth teaches women and their birth partners Hypnobirthing Australia Childbirth Education courses in Melbourne, Australia. In these courses she teaches couples knowledge about the childbirth process, as well as tools for labour such as, breathing, massage, visualisation, relaxation, affirmation and self- hypnosis.
She believes that birth that is woman-centred, drawing on instinctual physiology and where a woman feels the experience was a positive one, possibly even a “life highlight” gives them a platform to move more confidently forward in the kaleidoscope of life experience, after birth.
Cindy is passionate about voice in birth, and nurturing positive self-identity, social competence, wellbeing and a love of learning of children in the very early years of childhood.
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 Burke was seeking a low-intervention natural birth with her first child until she unexpectedly experienced a seizure during labour before ultimately birthing her daughter via caesarean birth. If you are pregnant then now may or may not be the right time for you to hear Amy’s birth story, however rest assured that she shares it with an incredible sense of gratitude and love.
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.
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.
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.