In this episode we hear Kam sharing the births of her girls, Nora & Zoe in Prague, Czech Republic. Kam planned for a home birth with both of her pregnancies and experienced really smooth and active pregnancies leading up to the delivery. Kam shares her journey towards finding the right model of care for her and how she went about choosing a midwife and making a birth plan. With Nora she ended up transferring to Podoli, and with Zoe she transferred to Rakovník and both girls were born in hospotal after a long labour at home. We talk about the importance of being able to make informed choice ..read more

In this episode we hear Lucie share her second birth, with her son Harry in the UK (Head back to Episode 8 to hear her first birth story with Freya if you haven’t already). Lucie is Czech and her partner is from the UK and she is now based back in Prague where she teaches Hypnobirthing. This pregnancy was a surprise and Lucie shares with us how it was really hard to wrap her head around having another baby while her first daughter was still quite small. Freya and Harry are 2 years apart, almost to the day. She suffered with all-day-morning-sickness for the first 4.5 months of the pregnancy and ..read more

In this episode I speak to Vinuta (you can listen to her birth stories on Episode 18). Vinuta works within the mindfulness realm and is running the Prague Womens Circle alongside her wellness and aromatheraphy business Aroma Laska. We set out to discuss the wide topic of Postpartum Care and talk about our own experiences and what it looked like trying to meet our own needs next to caring for a newborn. We speak generally about it all and the goal with producing this episode is to follow up by diving deeper into specific topics within the Postpartum realm. If you have a topic that you would lik ..read more

This episode is part 2 of Carly’s birth stories and this week we hear about her second birth with Rosie. Check back with episode 46 for the first part if you haven’t heard it yet. For this birth, Carly decided to go down a completely different path when it came to preparing for birth. She changed OB, hired a doula, took hypnobirthing and spinning babies classes. She got gestational diabetes in this pregnancy too but with a little one at home it was harder to manage this time around and she had to really focus on breathing and her stress-levels to make it work with. In the end she managed to ha ..read more

In this episode, we hear Carly share the birth of her first baby, Santiago in Prague, Czech Republic. Carly is American and her partner is Czech. and they were planning for a birth at a Prague hospital. Carly had a good and calm pregnancy with the exception of finding out that she had gestational diabetes quite late in the second trimester. She was able to manage it herself without medication for this pregnancy and talks us through how it was to manage it day to day. She shares how she was in the mindset of ‘Women are meant to give birth’ and decided to go with the flow when it came to plannin ..read more

In this episode I share my own second birth with Avi. I was fully set on having a homebirth this second time around too and was very intimidated when I found out the rules around working with a midwife here in the Czech Republic. Mind you, this was in 2019, and many things might have changed since then (I hope!) but my journey was pulling me between the fear of having to go through with a system where I didn’t feel supported at all and the hope of having everything play out as I wanted with a supported homebirth. I found a couple of fantastic midwives who supported me, Trygve & Avi through ..read more

In this episode we hear Amelia share the birth of her daughter Valentina, in Catalunya, Spain in 2020. Amelia is an entrepreneur, yoga teacher and found herself pregnant in early 2020, right before the pandemic started. She shares her journey of single parenting and single pregnancy with the support of her mother. She also shares how the lockdowns became an actual blessing that allowed her to slow down and focus on the pregnancy fully. Amelia’s water’s broke in the morning, early in week 39 and Valentina was born in the afternoon in the hospital that Amelia had chosen, supported by her mother ..read more

In this episode Tatum shares the birth of her two sons, JP & Liam Lionheart in California. Tatum is a medical doctor in residency and she takes us through what it was like being pregnant and navigating the system while going through med-school at the same time. With her first birth she had an induction that caused lots of extra intervention further into labour. She had an epidural in the end and she describes this labour as being rough, but the moment of birth itself being calm. In 2021, after having symptoms of brainfog, anxiety and migraines she spent some time cleaning up her diet and l ..read more

In this episode we hear Gitanjali sharing the birth of her daughter Lilyana in Berlin, Germany during the pandemic. Gitanjali is Indian and her partner is German and she talks us through their conception journey and what it was like to go through pregnancy in Berlin. Gitanjali shares how important it is to be able to say that we sometimes don’t really like being pregnant, or how we actually don’t hear about the big changes and shifts that can actually happen in the body as we are growing another human within it. Gitanjali shares how she experienced forgetfulness, breathlessness, heartburn and ..read more

In this episode we hear Bruna share the birth of her little boy Noah. Bruna is Brazilian/Italian, her partner is German and while they are currently living in Germany, her birth story took place in Prague, Czech Republic. Bruna shares with us how her journey to her pregnancy with Noah first took her though a miscarriage and how that affected the start of Noahs. We talk about looking for Pre-Natal care that we feel comfortable with and Bruna chose to go with Canadian Medical and giving birth in Podoli Maternity Hospital in Prague which she was happy with in the end. Towards the end of the pregn ..read more