Episode 69 is shared by Brooke, a first time mum who chose to freebirth her first baby, Mana-kai.

Brooke talks us through her pregnancy, her reflections on mothering and grieving her maiden self and then her very cosy birth of Mana-kai, labouring without electricity due to power outages for much of her labour.

She also shares her post partum journey, chatting about breastfeeding and the challenges of her prolapse.

Resources:

• How to Belly Map
  • Video of Belly Mapping
• I couldn't find specific resources exploring maidenhood to motherhood but this concept is explored in these resources
  • Childbirth as a Rite of Passage
  • 10 Moons
• Baby CPR
• I haven't listened but this is an ep from B from Core Floor Restore chatting about prolapse
  • https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/03-b-core-floor-restore-its-not-normal-to-pee-poo-yourself/id1625607785?i=1000564849488

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Episode 68 is shared by Genna who lives on Wurunderji land. After Genna’s IVF journey, she chose to have a homebirth with her first baby, Freddie through the publicly funded homebirth program. She also shares how invaluable midwifery care was during her pregnancy, labour, birth and post partum experience, especially in the context of her significant prior mental health struggles including at the time undiagnosed ASD, and her ADHD, PTSD, anxiety, and then also having previously had a psychotic episode.

We also chat about how she factored in her mental health vulnerabilities into her journey and also the benefits of homebirth for those who are neurodivergent.

Resources:

• Birth With Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth (Book)
• Embracing the intensity workshop
• The Birth Space: A Doula's Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond
• Galinjera Maternity Program
• Possum Skin Cloak

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This is the first episode of Homebirth Around The World. A series where I chat with homebirth midwives and they share how homebirth works in their area. From cost, culture, insurance, becoming a homebirth midwife and working as one, this series aims to try and dy-mystify homebirth and raise awareness for homebirth.

In this episode, I chat with Lucy from @lucybuddingwood who shares her journey to becoming an indepedent private midwife in England and how homebirth works generally in England. We chat a lot about insurance and the challenges in the system - quite different to home we in Australia may perceive it!

Below are some resources worth checking out!

Homebirth, NHS midwifery, regulation and unions.

NHS Homebirth: Where to give birth NHS Guide, Birthrights Guide to Choice in place of birth, Homebirth UK (old site, gives some historical background to that 1990s/2000s surge in homebirth popularity

What is an Independent Midwife? NCT Guide

Zest Midwives: Membership for Independent Midwives to access intrapartum insurance.
RCM: Midwives' Union
NMC: UK Nursing and Midwifery Regulator
NMC guide to indemnity insurance

Albany Midwifery Practice: Overview via AIMS
Closure: How the flagship Albany Midwifery Practice, at the heart of its South London community, was demonised and dismantled Paperback – 11 May 2023

ARM: Association of Radical Midwives
Midwifery Matters (quarterly member's magazine of the Association of Radical Midwives, this is the magazine I Edit.)

ARM Archive on Homebirth (ARM member's archived discussion thread on homebirth, again this was probably mostly from 2000s/2010s.

#saynotobullyinginmidwifery Report, via ARM. This is a book by ARM members on bullying in midwifery and gives a really good insight into NHS midwives' experience within the UK. It isn't specifically about homebirth, but it goes really deep into the culture!!

Lucy's website www.lucybuddingwood.com

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