Not All Home Births Are Created Equal - Elsie's Story

Elsie is the host of the Birthing at Home podcast, a mission that was inspired after the empowering home birth of her second baby. Both of Elsie’s children were born at home, but not all home births are created equal, and in this podcast episode she shares with us the various ways she was negatively impacted during her first birth, comparing them to the ways she stood in her power in her second. We also discuss medicalised midwifery training, as Elsie was once a student midwife herself, and how restrictions of their licence limit the ability of midwives to honour physiological birth and a mothers’ right to choose her birth path.

Also discussed in this episode:

• Shoulder dystocia
• Manoeuvres by the midwife to get the baby ‘unstuck’ after the birth of the head
• Hypnobirthing
• Impacts of Covid
• Pressures when ‘overdue’
• Managed third stage (without consent)
• Unnecessary early cord clamping
• Low lying placenta (20 week scan)
• Pre-labour rupture of membranes

Follow Elsie and her work on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/birthingathome_apodcast/

Find her podcast via her LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/birthingathome_apodcast 

And find out more about me (Carla) and my work on my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/ or website: https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/