Carla's Healing Journey & Path to Becoming a Traditional Birth Keeper

Today’s guest, Carla, is an Australian traditional birth keeper and healer. She shares with us the deeply moving story of birthing her first baby just days after the passing of her own mother. This planned home birth ended in hospital transfer and provided the lessons for Carla to have a redemptive home birth with her second child. She now works with others supporting them on their own journey traversing the motherhood initiation.

Carla describes herself beautifully on her website bio which reads:

Birthing my two children has changed me, and I have grown to deeply revere this phase in a woman’s life. My experience of birth is that it is a life-changing event, ecstatic, sacred and challenging, a liminal space between worlds. It also has the potential to be a healing experience. To discover a strength and power you’ve never known. To expand into a deeper sense of self and connection. To love deeply. Yet without appropriate support, the golden wisdom available in this transition is often lost. 

Included in this episode:

• Epidural use
• Early pregnancy loss
• Mother Blessing
• Sibling witnessing birth
• Big bleed after home birth

You can check out Carla's work on her website: https://www.traditionalhealingbirthwork.com/

And follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carla.sage.birthwork/

And if you're interested in exploring my (the other Carla's) free Understanding Birth Trauma Basics course, head here: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/understanding-birth-trauma-basics-course

Or my Healing Birth Practitioner Training Programme, click here: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/hb-practitioner-training

You can also follow my work on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/