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#12 | Beautiful One Midwifery Answers: What Makes Homebirth Safe?
In this episode…
Karen meets with licensed midwives Kelly and Tiffany of Beautiful One Midwifery to discuss all things homebirth and what midwifery care should truly look like.Â
As holistic health advocates and fierce...
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#11 | SURPRISE…2 Babies! Elizabeth’s Peaceful Breech Twin Home Birth
In this episode…
Hospital pediatric RN turned full-time homeschooling SAHM, Elizabeth Parsons, shares with Karen how she ended up giving birth to twins (both breech!) at home after having had 3 previous unmedicated...
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#10 | Treasure Hunting, FER, Home Birth, & Lightbulb Moments with Nicole Neesby
In this episode…
 Holistic-minded, homesteading mama, Nicole Neesby, dares to normalize home birth with Karen as she shares about each of her beautifully unique birth experiences. Despite the trauma she went through...
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#9 | The Medical Model vs. The Midwifery Model: Expert Interview with Dr. Stuart Fischbein
In this episode…
Karen sits down with renowned Home Birth Obstetrician, Dr. Stuart Fischbein, to discuss the serious flaws in the medical model of care today. With over 40 years of professional experience, mainly...
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#8 | Embracing the Transformation of Birth with The Millionaire Mother, Cait Scudder
In this episode…
Boss Mama, Business Coach, and Founder of The Millionaire Mother, Cait Scudder, joins Karen to share her healing, redemptive birth story of her second child. Processing the trauma of her first birth...
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#7 | Sacred Boundaries: Ali’s Healing Journey to Home Birth
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Mama, Breathwork Facilitator, and Spiritual Coach, Alison Levine, joins Karen to share how radically different each of her 3 birth experiences were. Her journey from traumatic c-section in the...
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#6 | Consider That It’s POSSIBLE… with Leslie Burris
In this episode…
Christian Homemaker, Mama of 7, and Cognitive Behavioral Coach, Leslie Burris shares how the Pain Free Birth E-Course transformed her last 2 birth experiences from “beautiful, yet terrible” to being...
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#5 | Blind Trust: Challenging Today’s Birth Culture with Birthkeeper Kemi Johnson
In this episode…
Birthkeeper and former Independent Midwife in the UK, Kemi Johnson, joins Karen to shed light on current midwifery care, hospital, labor, and birth stats and practices in the US vs. UK. Some of the...
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#4 | A Holistic Approach to Preparing for Pregnancy with The PCOS Doc, Dr. Natalie Underberg
In this episode…
Functional Medicine Practitioner and creator of Pregnancy Prep Academy, Dr. Natalie Underberg (a.k.a. The PCOS Doc on Instagram) joins Karen to discuss how to prepare for pregnancy on a holistic level...
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#3 | Praying for the Impossible: Alla’s Fast Twin Home Birth
In this episode...
A mother shares her miraculous twin home birth story - giving birth precipitously to healthy babies at 38 weeks pregnant in her bathtub and overcoming fear so she could have a supernatural birth...
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#2 | My Birth Story: How I Discovered Pain Free Birth
In this episode...
Karen shares her revelatory first birth story, where she learned to embrace the intensity of contractions, relax into them, and experience her labor as pain-free after getting a word from God to...
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#1 | Reclaiming Your Power In Birth
In the debut episode of the Pain Free Birth Podcast, host and certified doula, Karen Welton, shares her passion for understanding the spiritual dimensions of childbirth. She recounts her own unmedicated birth story...
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