The Positive Births NZ podcast

Emily shares some powerful messages and her learnings from her second pregnancy and birth following a difficult first birth to Alfie. In this chat today we discuss:
-First pregnancy planned home birth but transferred tohospital after long labour
-Limited midwife choice due to rural location
-Experienced interventions she didn’t want
-Reflection on birth trauma and emotional impact
-Use of Havening therapy to process and release trauma andanger
-Second pregnancy Initially considered a freebirth, but chosea supportive midwife
-Very clear boundaries: minimal interaction, no vaginalexams, undisturbed space
-Letting go of over-preparation and focusing on innerconnection
-Importance of intuition in both birth and motherhood
-Choice of midwife impacting on experiences
If you would like to focus on connecting within and incorporate breathwork, mindfulness and relaxation tools for your pregnancy, birth and postpartum head to www.positivebirths.co.nz to find a range of online and live course options. Helen also provides support for birth healing as a certified hypnotherapist and Healing Birth practitioner. Contact Helen at [email protected]

Enjoy a process of softening your mind and body in your pregnancy so that relaxation feels more natural and accessible for you to use anytime, anywhere including your birth.
This track is just the starting process of a set of tools, techniques and mindset skills you can learn in the Positive Births hypnobirthing course.
If you'd like to find out more about a range of in person and online courses head to www.positivebirths.co.nz
Have questions or need personal support? - email [email protected]

Zoe compares her two births to Jackson and Kalia sharing her learnings along the way.
In this chat we discuss:
Ignorance is bliss vs being informed and knowledge is power
Declining the gestation diabetes glucose challenge test
Using hypnobirthing tools in labour and postpartum
Breastfeeding challenges and tongue tie
Placenta encapsulation
Homebirth with support of Doula
Home waterbirth experience

If you too would like to use hypnobirthing tools for your labour, birth and postpartum head to www.positivebirths.co.nz.
You'll find a range of online and live courses plus one on one support from Helen.

Despite all of the challenges in her pregnancy and birth,Laura looks back and feels positive about her experience.
As she says "for so many they would call the birth I had traumatic or scary. For me, it was everything but that. It was beautiful because my mindset was different.”
In this episode we cover:
Laura’s birth 9 yrs ago to Oliver, who was breech so she hada planned c-section
-Indecision around type of birth during pregnancy
-Traditional Maori healing
-Time distortion in labour
-Baby Selby discovered to be breech during labour
-Ambulance transfer, placenta abruption
-Feeling safe in an emergency c-section
-Bicornate uterus, inter uterine growth restriction
-Dealing with a small baby in SCBU
If you would like to learn mindset, breathwork and relaxation tools to use in any type of birth, check out the range of options of live or recorded courses at www.positivebirths.co.nz
Know that the tools and techniques are useful for your postpartum and parenting journey too.

A positive induction story after Holly intentionally did thework to make sure she was calm as opposed to being anxious or worried in her pregnancy.
In this episode we chat about:
Holly’s mum doing Hypnobirthing in 1989
Holly and Aarons hypnobirthing preparation
How Holly didn’t want induction or c section
Induction at 42 weeks with Misoprostal
Quick birth with no interventions or pain releif
Baby born en caul
Surgery for retained placenta
 
If you too would like to feel calm, confident and preparedfor your birth head to www.positivebirths.co.nz
There are a range of live and recorded courses for you tochoose from to get the tools and techniques on board to use in pregnancy, birth and life beyond.