What's up, Batty Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into

the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

What I focus on in the preparation phase, which is kind of the preparing for birth.

You don't write a birth plan of this is how I want my birth to go because this is nature.

You know, nature includes pathology, complications.

You know, that's why I don't like the term natural birth, because cancer is natural, a virus is natural. So I prefer the term physiological birth, because that is a

birth that is a healthy birth with a good outcome, without intervention. That's kind of a physiological

birth versus a natural birth. Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's episode, we have Rachel Reed,

a midwife and author of Why Induction Matters and reclaiming childbirth as a rite of passage,

as well as the host of the midwife's cauldron. And today we are going to be talking about childbirth

and reclaiming your birthing story in whatever way that means to you. Rachel, thank you for joining

us all the way from Australia. Yes, thank you. It's morning here. I know, and it's 5 p.m. here.

We're wrapping up our day and you're starting yours. So why don't

you tell me a little bit more about yourself and what a midwife is? I'm a midwife, which means I'm a

registered midwife in Australia. I actually became a midwife in the UK. So I did a Bachelor of Midwifery, honours.

I wasn't a nurse because that's not how it works there.

And I don't think I'd be a midwife if I had to be a nurse first, to be honest.

And then I came over to Australia.

So I practiced midwifery in a range of settings in the NHS, in the community, and big hospital, came over to Australia,

worked in small private hospital, then a big hospital again, and then went out into private

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