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The Positive Births NZ podcast

Be inspired by positive birth stories from parents across NZ who"ve used hypnobirthing to help them have a relaxed, calm, confident and empowered birth regardless of the circumstances they navigated. A range of stories exploring what helped birthing parents, what they achieved and what they would do differently if they could do it all again. To buy the book or check out our classes see www.positivebirths.co.nz

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00:58:43

Cara's miracle conception and birth journeys

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/12/05

An episode about more than just birth - Cara shares with us her massive fertility journey in order to conceive her two miracle baby boys. Cara was told she would have a 1% chance of conceiving naturally with her own eggs and only a 10% chance of conceiving with reproductive technology and at one stage she was told there was about a 1 in a million chance of her being pregnant. Those are slim numbers.... She shares with us the work she did, how she focussed on mindset, stress management, settling her

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01:07:05

Hannah's epic birthcentre birth to Mateo and fast...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/11/27

"If you had asked me prior to being pregnant did I have any fears, I probably would've said childbirth" is what Hannah says early on in our chat. Fast forward to meeting her first baby Mateo, she says her first thoughts were "I can totally do this again, it was such a beautiful experience, it was doable, manageable". After witnessing an amazing video of a friend's birth she learned about hypnobirthing, so early on in her pregnancy Hannah signed up for the course. She believes it gave her the

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00:57:04

Eugenie's positive birth with pre-eclampsia,...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/11/20

Despite all that occurred in her birth journey that could have been perceived as traumatic, Eugenie reached out to me to ask to share her birth story while it was still fresh in her mind, because she says: "it was a positive birth and if I had to do it all again I would". We chat when baby Miles is just a week old, and you can find out just WHY she feels it was a positive birth. She shares her journey of high blood pressure which resulted in on and off diagnosis of pre eclampsia, her choice to be

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00:59:18

Katerina's orgasmic home birth

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/11/14

It's not every day that you hear a mother describing her birth as "soooo good" and parts of it feeling orgasmic, but this is what Katerina feels she experienced during her birth. Katerina came to pregnancy having already been surrounded by positive stories and positive experiences of birth. She had also spent plenty of time learning to tune into her body, energy and her intuition. She shares with us some previous experiences she'd had in life which gives us an insight into the transformation she had

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00:37:08

Hayley's hospital and breech homebirth stories

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/11/07

Hayley shares her two boys' births and her breech baby experiences. First baby Toby was breech in pregnancy but managed to turn near the end of pregnancy and his birth was fairly straight forward. In her second pregnancy (during of 2021 ) things were different for her and she mentions how the pandemic created anxiety. Her mantra became “if it’s not something I can control, don’t worry about it”. Hayley plans for a homebirth, and labour started while out at a picnic with toddler Toby climbing trees

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01:02:42

Ziska's birth centre arrival of Auri - a life...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/10/31

As long as she can remember Ziska was really scared of birth. She talks about her visceral reactions whenever anyone would mention anything birth related. She had never previously associated birth with being a positive and powerful experience. So it’s so wonderful to know that now, (we speak to her when baby Auri is just 18 days old), she describes her birth as healing, affirming and a life changing experience. She says birth is now something she realises she CAN do because it was something that she

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01:04:43

Cindy's peaceful birthcare birth and fast hospital birth

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/10/23

Cindy was in Iraq when pregnant and felt she needed to birth in NZ so she could be in a hospital and have an epidural. We chat about her ideas of birth, how she had never heard a positive birth story, and how her mindset completely changed after arriving in NZ and stumbling upon hypnobirthing. After starting the course, she committed herself 100% to practising her relaxation techniques. She developed an unshakeable belief in herself in being able to birth naturally and calmly. The result was a very

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00:59:38

Kate's two polar opposite journeys

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/10/16

Kate's first birth involved a very long 5 day labour, where she admits she felt she wasn't ready to birth baby Oli and the circumstances that could have caused her to hold off with allowing the birth to progress. I'm also grateful that she is open to sharing about her significant post natal depression that occurred after - that it pushed her over the limit and what helped her. Her second pregnancy was a very different pregnancy experience, with a different mindset and renewed enthusiasm to have the

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00:34:45

Holly's birth to George at Birthcare - the privilege...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/10/10

Holly says she was terrified of birth before becoming pregnant, but with education and learning about how it could be, she planned for a straightforward birth and that is literally what she got. We talk to her only 8 days after George was born and she says it was a privilege to have been able to experience and feel the sensations of what her body could do. This is a pretty straightforward birth story, Holly goes into labour just before her due date, the only hiccup in their journey being that they

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00:41:50

Dione's two homebirths

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/10/02

Midwife Dione was super excited for her births and both of her labours were similar. In both situations her membranes released as her first sign of labour and then there was a bit of stop start stop start before things really got going. Dione tells us about how she chose the ‘dream team’ midwives to support her, she and husband Nick had total faith in them and how easy it was for her to switch off her analytical midwife mind and just be a birthing mum, tune into her body, get into the zone and to

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01:01:24

Alana's 3 births - (birthcentre and home) - the calm...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/09/25

In this episode Alana literally entertains us with the powerful stories of her 3 babies. There are tears, loads of laughs, goosebumps, some F bombs and.........lots of drama. Despite the drama around Alana she was able to stay in the zone, stay calm and use her hypnobirthing stuff to enjoy birth, be in the moment and do her thing. First baby Duncan came early so that Alana went into labour at work, and he came early to meet Alana's grandma who passed away shortly afterwards. In labour Alana spent

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00:04:35

**Little Snippet** Kate's experience of the Breech...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/09/19

This is a little 4 minute "little snippet" of a chat taken from a longer conversation that I wanted to share separately. Kate chats about her experience of listening to my hypnosis track to help encourage a Breech baby to turn. At the time she is 37 weeks pregnant and her baby has been sitting breech for a long time. She's not keen to use any other techniques to help him move, she wants to give him every opportunity to move on his own. So she listens to the track, falls asleep and then 30 minutes

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01:28:12

Ash's home, water, lotus births to Roman and Aysha

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/09/18

An incredible episode packed full of inspiration and information. Ash was very well prepared, researched and educated in her first pregnancy and describes herself as “headstrong and untouchable”. She knew what she wanted and she was pretty direct in telling her midwife exactly how it was going to be. And from listening to her story it sounds like it paid off! Ash shares with us her textbook home, water, hypno lotus birth of Roman – and how she just completely let go and breathed him into the world

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01:13:35

Julia's unplanned homebirth to Remy in their 'cave'...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/09/11

“We love our birth story” says Julia as she describes her feelings about her first birth to Remy. This is one of those special stories, a birth that was planned to be somewhere else, but ended up progressing so quickly that it became an unplanned homebirth, with a midwife they had never met before. But this midwife brought with her the perfect energy that fitted perfectly with Julia and Ryan and Julia shares how she was like an angel and so encouraging with empowering words of affirmation that was

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00:43:07

Jemma's two Birthcare births

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/09/05

Jemma shares the similarities and differences between her two girls, Harriet and Adeline's births. Both started with her sitting bolt upright in bed and both involved arriving at Birthcare almost fully dilated. However Harriet's birth involved a bit of help to get her out, where Jemma shares that she was able to keep calm during a potentially scary part of her birth, and that she was able to trust that all was going to be ok. At her second birth, the midwife took one look at her and said we're going

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00:34:23

Kali's two hospital births

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/08/29

Kali talks us through the two births of her boys. She was excited in her first pregnancy about becoming a mum and the course enabled her to establish boundaries around hearing other peoples stories as well as being valuable for her husband to understand how to support her. She mentions how the affirmations worked well, plus she feels the perineal massage she used at the end of her pregnancies helped her to have both babies without any tearing. In her first labour with Hudson her membranes released,

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01:04:53

Tash's two home waterbirths

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/08/21

So many titbits of information and learning to gain from this episode with Tash especially when it comes to moving through emotions. Her first baby Nahlia arrived after a long early stage of labour where she felt called to being in nature and at the beach, and she shares how family support was so helpful to her. In her second pregnancy as part of planning for another home birth Tash tells us how she prepped 3 year old Nahlia for her baby brothers arrival. In case of Nahlia being there for the birth,

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01:03:05

Amanda's beach labour and hospital birth to Clarke

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/08/14

Amanda and Joe's first baby was due around Christmas and you'll hear Amanda explain how that timing had an impact on her finding a midwife initially and also how it impacted on baby getting some help with a tongue tie. However, it turned out that it was a great time to have a baby especially when it was a beautiful sunny day in labour and Amanda spent quite a bit of time swimming in the waves while experiencing her surges on Boxing Day. It was also beneficial due to less traffic on the roads when

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00:48:57

Anna's 3 births feeling proud, in awe and an amazing...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/08/08

Anna describes the feelings of meeting her babies as 'proud, in awe and an amazing sense of love' in all three birth experiences. Her first birth to Sol occurred when he was pre term as hermembranes released at 33 weeks and it was a highly monitored birth which could have almost been a C-Section, but wasn't. Second baby Rosie also came early, due to, once again membranes releasing early and this time Anna chose to be induced when baby was exactly 37 weeks. You'll hear Anna tell us about her powerful

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01:00:36

Tash and Kyle's intentional preparation and fast...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2022/07/31

So many nuggets of gold, insights, and wisdom from first time parents Tash and Kyle about their intentional creation of their birth experience which makes this episode such an incredibly valuable one to listen to. Tash and Kyle came to this stage of their life with the principles and practises of the law of attraction, frequency and energy well embedded. Kyle works with energy clearing and balancing modalities. Put simply; he finds and releases trapped emotions and we hear how his work was of

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