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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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02:17:24

#137. Mia's homebirth to Oscar

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/07/27

"You just feel like you've discovered this amazing secretabout physiological birth and having an amazing birth experience, you just wanna scream it from the rooftops” Mia would love to tell everyone to have a homebirth to feel as amazing as she did in having a redemptive birth for hersecond baby Oscar. It has had a profound impact on her.In this episode we cover the first birth of James whichincluded a stretch and sweep – membranes releasing with meconium and constant monitoring. Mia was

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00:52:07

#136. Anna's VBAC to Leo

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/07/12

“It was the most exciting feeling, so powerful. I washonestly just feeling so privileged that my body could, could experience it. I had like awesome music playing and just that pushing phase was just fun.”Anna shares with us her first birth, a c-section to Kaiden andhow she experienced postpartum pre-eclampsia, with spiking blood pressure and scary panic attacks. This impacted greatly on her early days as a mum and naturallywas a concern when she became pregnant again.Working through the fears and

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00:51:42

#135. Elizabeth's c-section to Sedona

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/07/09

" I'm so proud of what I did. It was amazing. I did everything in the world that I could."Having previously shared her first birth to Arcadia on this podcast Elizabeth was set on preparing for a VBAC for her second baby's arrival.In this episode we cover the brutal obstetrician's manner about a VBAC, then Elizabeth's change to another care provider - who turned about to be an absolute godsend.She shares her experience of the breech position of baby, the ECV (manual turning of baby to a vertex/head

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01:13:46

#134. Rosa's c-section to Florence

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/06/25

Midwife Rosa knew 1000% she wanted a homebirth and there seemed to be no reason why she wouldn't be able to have one.She trusted in her body and physiological birth. She didn't pack a hospital bag, but when her membranes released and 48 hours later there wasn't enough progress...her birth plans needed to change.Rosa shares with us her journey into the hospital setting, getting out of her 'midwife brain', negotiating with the obstetricians, the intervention she chose and her

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01:18:05

#133. Tessa's home, freebirth to Augie

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/06/15

During the start of her first pregnancy Tessa learnteverything she could about the truth of physiological birth which resulted in it becoming very obvious that home was the best place for her to birth her baby.As the right midwife didn’t appear for Tessa, she proceeded through her pregnancy tuning into her body, trusting her body, using her intuition and her ability to “just know”. Tessa shares how she worked on re-programming hersubconscious to believe birth was safe and how she moved through her

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01:07:51

#132. Erin's hospital waterbirth to Wyatt

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/06/01

Erin bravely opened up about her initial fear of pregnancy and childbirth. Early on, she believed that a C-section under general anesthesia would be the safest and most manageable option for her. However, everything began to shift after she hired a supportive doula and found her midwife. Through their guidance, she discovered the power and beauty of natural, physiological birth—and realized that was the path she truly wanted.As she immersed herself in birth podcasts and practiced hypnobirthing

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01:16:01

#131. Emma's hospital waterbirth to Myles

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/05/26

First time parents looking for a really great birth story –here’s one for you from Emma.Knowing that she needed to be in the right mindset and liked to feel in control it was natural for Emma to seek out hypnobirthing. She shares with us the specific tools and techniques she practised in her pregnancy and successfully used in her birth and postpartum.Other topics you’ll hear about in this chat include: pelvicgirdle pain, her midwife’s support, birth environment, the wonders of oxytocin and a

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00:58:25

#130. Sam's 4 daughters' births

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/05/14

Sam shares the stories of her 4 daughters’ births – with a focus on Riley’s birth where she found that some hypnobirthing tools and techniques made a huge difference.As busy mum to Olive, Augie, Darcy and now Riley, Sam is also a business owner and prioritised her fitness and strength to help her through life, pregnancy and birth.You’ll hear about her range of experiences of birth - with Olive in England, the stretch and sweep followed by a kidney infection. The sudden return to NZ in 2020 pregnant

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01:10:01

#129. PJ's fast VBAC to Frankie

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/05/06

"I look back on that day and I cannot help but smile. I'm like, I did it. She just slipped on out.”PJ's body and baby knew exactly what to do when it came to time for Frankie to be born. It was a very fast labour and birth - 2 hours from the first physical signs, to holding Frankie in her arms. While it might have been rather quick PJ says " all of the chaos that was going on at the end just completely faded away. And the oxytocin ride was just insane." In this episode we cover PJ’s first birth

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01:16:57

#128. Rose's two homebirths to Oscar and Oliver (and...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/04/28

Rose shares her two experiences of homebirth to sons Oscar and Oliver. Plus there’s so much more – topics covered in our chat today include (and are not limited to) :Missed miscarriage and long time to move through this; conception journey before Oliver’s arrival; gender disappointment; music in labour; Mum being the midwife; husband Andre blowing up the birth pool by his breath alone!; My random experiences 30 years ago in Romania (yeah, off topic but arrived into the convo); Dad's role as

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01:17:22

#127. Georgia's homebirth to Mackenzie

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/03/31

Here we have a perfect story of a normal, natural straightforward, physiological home birth to a first baby. Georgia shares with us her journey of a smooth conception, pregnancy and the idea that she would like a ‘trial of homebirth’ – a term used by her Mum, a former homebirth midwife.Homebirth runs in the family, but there was no pressure that this is what Georgia would have to do – as she explains what a ‘trial of homebirth’ actually is – stay at home and see how things go. If you need to

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01:21:28

#126. Pip's home waterbirth to Wilbur

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2025/03/17

A brilliant episode for parents looking for hope and inspiration for a 2nd birth experience. Pip shares with us an excellent example of the differences between an induction plus subsequent intervention versus an informed, educated physiological homebirth.We chat about her first birth to Arthur in order to understand the context of how she enters into her pregnancy with Wilbur. I mention how Pip displayed classic signs of trauma, although the word ‘trauma’ wasn’t how she thought about her experience

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01:21:33

#125. Sophie's 3 positive births (hospital & home)

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/03/04

3 wonderful positive birth stories, 1 at hospital and 2 at home. Sophie had planned to have her first baby at home, but this wasn’t to be as her membranes started to release at only 36 weeks, so she found herself in hospital for an undetermined length of time to wait for labour to start. As Sophie comments, while it wasn’t her preferred location it certainly “wasn’t the worst place to be” and she surprises the midwives with her ability to cope with the syntocinin without anything other than her

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01:28:21

#124. Shinaed's C-Section to Mackenzie

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/02/09

There are numerous topics covered in this episode as Shinaed navigated a range of challenges through her pregnancy and birth.These include: chemical pregnancy, Hyperemesis, chronic Braxton hicks from 25 weeks until end of pregnancy, concern of pre-term labour, multiple changes of midwives, changing birth location due to midwife unavailability, pethadine, epidural, c-section.Despite all of this Shinaed is here to share her positive birth story because she feels GOOD about her birth, the way she was

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01:25:31

#123. Kristin's 3 births: C-Section, VBAC and homebirth

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/02/08

Childbirth educator, VBAC and homebirth advocate & doula Kristin is a mum to 3 girls - all with different birth stories.In this episode Kristin shares with how she found herself as a first time mum, in labour, being told she was going for a c section. This experience significantly impacted not only her birth, but her journey as a mother to Bella. It wasn’t until after she birthed her 2nd daughter, Quinn 6 years later that she realised she had experienced birth trauma with Bella.You’ll hear about

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01:19:10

#122. Rosie's induction and C-Section to Rayla at 43...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2025/01/18

Excited and free of fear, Rosie waited for her baby to arrive, and waited and waited.... At some stage around 42 weeks she had to make the decision that if this baby did not come on her own terms she would have to undergo an induction. Which is what happened at 43 weeks (or 44 weeks depending on what scan they wanted to go by). Following a day of induction with misoprostal, Rosie shares with us how labour started, how she coped and what happened as she finally had to let go of her idea of how she

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01:32:27

#121. Eliza's birthcentre waterbirth (with GD) to...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2024/12/30

What happens when you get a Gestational Diabetes (GD) diagnosis in pregnancy? How do you say no to an induction?Navigating a “failed” glucose tolerance test, Eliza was labelled with GD – which meant a lot of extra monitoring, testing, scans, and being constantly threatened with induction. Eliza shares her journey through all of this - how she was told her baby might die if she wasn’t induced at 39 weeks, even though her baby was tracking “perfectly average” and how her mama’s instinct knew that

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01:34:58

#120. Eleni's 4 positive births (1 at home, 3...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2024/12/22

Eleni speaks about her journey of her 4 positive births (one in hospital and 3 at home) including a discussion around anxiety and depression she experienced around the time of her 3rd baby Felix. We chat about her healing through extreme anxiety, what helped her - with a short mention of looking into gut health and mineral deficiencies – which are very important factors! Eleni shares how she felt about the hypnotherapy we did for some fear / anxiety release around pregnancy & birth, how this

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00:37:26

#119. Emma's hospital VBAC to Daisy

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2024/12/09

Another positive VBAC story with Emma sharing her experience of her relatively positive C Section 3 years ago to Harley followed by her very positive VBAC to baby Daisy just a couple of months ago.Emma explains what she did to prepare, which for her was largely around releasing fear of the transfer to hospital and arriving into hospital feeling supported. We did some work together in her pregnancy to make sure her mind was in the right space for dealing with this stage of the game…and it worked! We

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01:57:23

#118. Kiki's HBACx2 (homebirth after 2 c-sections) to...

The Positive Births NZ podcast ·

2024/11/12

In her midwife’s words “that was a textbook f***ing birth”. This is a powerful story from a courgeous, fearless Kiki who was exceptionally determined to have her HBACx2 (home birth after 2 c sections) and she did!To put her story into perspective we hear about her first traumatic birth, a crash c section in an Australian hospital (skip this part if you don’t feel up to hearing anything traumatic), her following elective c-section and then why it felt so important to claim her power to achieve a

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