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What if birth is a rite of passage, not a procedure? Angie sits down with Swedish mentor and former midwife Anna Lundqvist to explore how intuition, preparation, and grounded advocacy can transform pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Anna traces her path from Australia’s home birth culture in Byron Bay—where physiological birth and birth centers were the norm—to the painful decision to leave hospital practice after witnessing obstetric violence. When her Australian credential wasn’t recognized back home in Sweden, she stepped fully into education and mentorship, founding Sacred Birth International to support families and train a new kind of birth worker.

We dive into practical ways parents can build inner authority: understanding physiology, clarifying values, practicing consent and refusal, and learning to filter outside advice through personal intuition. Anna explains why “you birth the way you live,” showing how daily habits of presence, breath, and boundaries translate directly into the labor room. For professionals, she outlines the Sacred Birth Worker Mentorship, a comprehensive program that blends deep inner work with clinical awareness—covering variations of normal, trauma-aware care, hospital navigation, and advocacy that is calm, clear, and effective.

Along the way, we talk about the power of community debriefs to prevent burnout, the role of sacred space in any setting, and the quiet beauty of a home birth where attendants step back and a family leads. Whether you’re preparing to give birth or to support it, you’ll leave with language, tools, and confidence to protect physiological birth, honor consent, and keep the mother at the center.

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Host: Angie Rosier
Music: Michael Hicks
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Voiceover: Ryan Parker

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The calendar looks like dropped spaghetti, but every twist tells a story. We walk you through two real weeks of on-call life as a doula and lactation consultant—spontaneous labors that stall and surge, VBAC momentum at 3 a.m., and the quiet, steady work of helping a four-day-old learn to feed. It’s part logistics, part heart, and fully devoted to helping families feel informed, supported, and seen.

We start with a long Monday labor that resets midstream, the kind of day where patience matters more than numbers on a cervix check. From there, text threads turn into a nighttime return and a calm delivery. The next sunrise brings home visits: a determined parent with a fussy latch, prenatal sessions shuffled when membranes start leaking, and a VBAC that takes off after an epidural with only low-dose Pitocin. You’ll hear a candid look at a breech external cephalic version—three careful attempts, no turn, and a doctor who keeps options open. Between hospital corridors and car rides, we dive into real feeding fixes: structured schedules for sleepy newborns, weight checks that guide adjustments, storage plans for oversupply, and practical techniques that protect nipples and confidence.

The pace ramps at the hospital, where a dozen bedside consults and dozens of follow-up calls compress common early hurdles into clear steps: skin-to-skin, responsive feeding, asymmetrical latch, and data you can trust from diapers to grams. Then a curveball: a first-time parent who’s suddenly eight and a half centimeters after a day of apple picking, a long overnight, and a cesarean chosen with care when instruments won’t help. Through it all, life keeps moving—kids’ concerts, workshops, and a 50th anniversary that somehow stays untouched by the pager. The through line is simple: show up, listen well, adapt, and celebrate every small win that moves a family forward.

If you value honest birth stories, evidence-based breastfeeding support, and the human side of hospital care, you’ll feel at home here. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s expecting, and leave a review with the moment that stayed with you most—we read every word and it helps others find the show.

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Host: Angie Rosier
Music: Michael Hicks
Photographer: Toni Walker
Episode Artwork: Nick Greenwood
Producer: Gillian Rosier Frampton
Voiceover: Ryan Parker

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A hundred episodes felt like the right moment to gather around the kitchen table and pull back the curtain on what it’s like to grow up with a doula mom. Angie sits down with her four daughters for an honest, funny, and moving conversation about family culture, witnessing a home water birth, and how open dialogue turned birth from something to fear into something to understand. If you’ve ever wondered how advocacy actually plays out in labor, or what kids absorb when birth is normalized at home, this one hits close.

We talk about the on‑call lifestyle and the teamwork it demanded—older siblings stepping up, dad filling the gaps, and a community ready to drive, cook, and cheer. The daughters describe how using clear language for bodies and birth gave them confidence to support friends, ask better questions, and process hard birth stories with empathy. They share vivid details from their brother’s birth, from quiet living room light to the rush of first moments, plus the often overlooked truth that immediate postpartum procedures can feel tougher than the last contractions.

The conversation also looks forward: unmedicated birth goals, skin‑to‑skin, breastfeeding, and the crucial role of well‑prepared partners who can advocate when words are hard to find. We tackle social media myths, dwindling birth rates, and the narrative that motherhood is only sacrifice. Instead, we offer a grounded perspective: informed choice, compassionate support, and flexible plans can transform experiences in hospitals, birth centers, or at home. Along the way, there’s humor—uterus mugs and an unforgettable frozen placenta—because normalization thrives on warmth as much as facts.

If you care about birth, postpartum support, or simply want to hear how family culture shapes health literacy, press play. Then share this episode with someone who needs a reframed, hopeful take on labor. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what’s one belief about birth you’d like to rethink?

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Show Credits

Host: Angie Rosier
Music: Michael Hicks
Photographer: Toni Walker
Episode Artwork: Nick Greenwood
Producer: Gillian Rosier Frampton
Voiceover: Ryan Parker