#199 | The Art of Spiritual Midwifery with Anna

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Anna is a Swedish-practicing midwife who was professionally trained in Australia. Anna discusses her view of birth as a rite of passage and a transformational experience, and she laments the current state of the maternity system, which often leads to birth trauma for women. She talks about the desire to control every aspect of pregnancy and birth, and the importance of relinquishing to the unknown and trusting in the intelligence and expertise of the mother and baby. Anna also shares her thou...

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0:00.0	What I've come to understand, what witnessing so many hundreds of birth, as I am sure you
0:08.5	have as well, is that when you can hold a space for physiological birth, very rarely do you need
0:17.8	any medical skills? Right now, what I just feel so very passionate about is to actually mentor and educate
0:27.7	women to walk into the system and safeguard this very broken system as we create the new.
0:36.6	I feel like that is what I've come to after these years of what
0:40.6	needs to be the middle ground because we cannot change the system. We need to build a new one.
0:47.3	It needs to happen not connected to that system. And in the meantime, we need to protect women.
0:52.9	And we need spaceholders that can hold and protect
0:57.1	the space, the physiological, spiritual right of passage that is birth.
1:04.3	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing of Connecticut, Childbirth Advocate, and Postpartum
1:09.6	Support Specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certifiedbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.
1:16.8	And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
1:19.5	And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
1:28.2	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:40.2	Hi, my name is Anna, also known as the spiritual midwife, and I am passionate about helping women have the most empowering and physiological birth that they can have.
1:54.1	So I'm very passionate about helping women optimize that in a system that constantly causes the opposite to happen to women,
2:04.4	right? So we have a, our maternity system right now has a rate of producing women who have
2:11.3	birth trauma. One and three women have birth trauma in our current maternity system. And I'm
2:15.5	very upset with that and passionate about changing that
2:19.7	and the birth narrative that we have in our current society. So can you tell us a little bit about
2:25.1	your background as midwife, where you were trained, where you're currently practicing, where you've
2:32.7	practiced? So I am an Australian midwife.
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