Mae's (Almost!) Pain-Free Home Birth

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, Mae Yoshikawa joined me all the way from Japan to share her 2 epidural-free birth stories.

Her first was born in a birth center in South Japan, and was rather traumatic. Mae dealt with a long, intense labor with a significant amount of pain throughout. Eight years later, she used the wisdom that she's learned from years of intense practice as a yoga and meditation teacher and applied it to her birth. She was able to have an all natural and almost pain free water birth at her home with her husband and midwife by her side.

Mae’s story is a powerful reminder of the impact that your mindset can have on your birth experience. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did recording it!

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About Mae Yoshikawa

Mae is an author, yoga & meditation practitioner, teacher, and mother. In 2006, she became the first Japanese woman to be authorized by the founding school of Ashtanga Yoga in India. Since then, Mae has been a trailblazing force in the wellness field throughout the Asia-Pacific region as Japanese Yogini magazine featured her on 42 consecutive covers.

As the face of Adidas yoga, Mae was awarded the “Yoga People’s Award” in 2016 for her remarkable social impact in the wellness field. Her upcoming book, Kizuki: Life’s Tidal Waves + Epiphanies = Love Beyond Time and Death is a heart-wrenching and heart-arousing memoir that chronicles her experience of finding herself again through grief after the sudden loss of her husband in 2018.

Learn more about Mae and her upcoming book Kizuki at her Flagship Website or on Instagram.

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0:00.0	I took my midwife's advice and it was so painful but I kept a towel between my teeth because I was kind of howling through this pain.
0:10.0	But also there was these hormones just flowing through my body, so when the waves of
0:17.6	contractions would come, I would howl through them in pain and then I would drift off
0:22.3	in this blissful sleep.
0:24.0	You're listening to the mommy labor Nurse Podcast where you'll gain the tools,
0:34.4	knowledge, and confidence you need to erase the unknowns, feel in control, and have an even better birth and no matter how you deliver.
0:43.2	My name is Liesel Teen, mom of two,
0:45.8	practicing labor and delivery nurse, and your host.
0:49.2	From over eight years and counting of working at the bedside I know that knowledge is the key to an even
0:55.9	better birth so tune in each week to learn about all things pregnancy birth and
1:01.3	postpartum from me a labor until and delivery nurse that's seen it all.
1:05.8	And now let's get into this week's episode.
1:10.8	I have a birth story for you guys this week and this lovely lady is coming at you
1:16.9	guys all the way from Japan. Yeah, do we have any mommy learners listeners
1:20.7	listeners in Japan? I bet I do. I better bet I do. I bet I have a few. So
1:24.8	shout out to you if you're listening to this right now from Japan.
1:28.9	May Yoshikawa has joined me this week to share her birth stories, both of which were unmedicated, but they were drastically different.
1:40.0	Her firstborn was in a birthing center in southern Japan, and then eight years later, she studied her butt off, and she used all of the wisdom that she's learned from years of intense practice as a yoga and meditation teacher, which she then applied to her birth.
1:57.2	And get this, she was able to have an all natural and almost all pain-free birth in the bathtub at home in Tokyo.
2:04.9	I'm not going to spoil too much of it
2:06.6	because May is just a fabulous storyteller
2:10.3	and you guys are just gonna love her. I mean she's such a wise lady so without
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