My Positive Birth
By Lisa Harris
Welcome to this podcast: My Positive Birth. A little corner of the internet where I will be collecting positive stories from women birthing their babies across the UK.
Series 1 currently live! New episodes released on Tuesdays.
Stories are a really powerful way of learning and growing. We know that from childhood. But I don’t know if you’ve noticed… all too often during pregnancy people want to tell us horror stories about their birth. And this reflects our current cultural expectation: that ALL birth is risky, dangerous, and something women and babies need to be saved from.
Together we can challenge the narrative, and positive birth stories are a way of doing this. This podcast is a space to come together and hand down the wisdom from one mother to another of how it is possible to have a positive birth and the difference that can make.
The title of the podcast is very specifically MY positive birth. Because the key to it all is the family at the centre. What a positive birth meant for me in my circumstances, will almost definitely be different to what it means for you. But research, and common sense!, tells us that whatever your actual birth – be it hospital birth, home birth, free birth, induction, abdominal birth, water birth… that having choices, being respected and listened to, feeling safe and having confidence in yourself lie at the very heart of a positive birth.
So come and surround yourself with positive birth stories, told in women’s own words, and I hope you’ll find a village here to calm you but also to inspire you and give you confidence in birth. All women and babies deserve a positive birth experience.
Latest episode
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Rebecca's story - The Lactation Doula
Hello and welcome back after a much longer break than I was anticipating. For various reasons I needed to take the podcasts offline for a short period of time and it turns out it's much harder to get them back online than anticipated… -
Megan's story
This week season's finale is a very special and super useful episode as I speak to the inspirational Megan Rossiter from Birth-ed. Megan is one of the people I wish was active on insta when I was pregnant with my son in 20… -
Rebecca's story
This week I am speaking to Rebecca about the birth of her daughter Sunny, and wow, it is just such a sunny episode -
Nilsha's story
In this week's episode Nilsha tells the story of both her births... and boy is it a tale of two labours!! I loved both her stories, and Nilsha had a positive experience with both babies, but they couldn't really have been … -
Abla's story
This week I speak to Abla, and even though we recorded this episode a little while ago, I can remember the tangible joy over the airwaves as she described the birth of her second baby and how much pride she took from birthing him in her own … -
Lucy's story
Welcome to episode 6 of the My Positive Birth podcast! This is a very special episode for me because I am speaking to Lucy Hill... earlier this year I started looking for birth story podcasts to listen and learn from mysel… -
Ella's story
Episode 5 of the podcast is now LIVE! Click on the link in my bio to listen, or search for "My Positive Birth" on any of your favourite podcast distributors. This week I am joined by wonderful Ella, who talks us through th… -
Georgina's story
In this week's episode Georgina tells the story of both her births, with a focus on her first baby who was born at home. Georgina takes us through the steps her and her husband took to prepare for the birth, and then her journey through labo… -
Aileen's story
Aileen is such a fantastic guest, as she describes her journey from tokophobia (a fear of childbirth), to getting pregnant and birthing her own two children, and then going on to work with families offering bespoke childbirth preparation, bi… -
Tamsyn's story
Here is the lovely Tamsyn's story about the arrival of her second baby. She graciously shares with us details of her pregnancy this time around, which was very different to her first. She experienced bleeding and was diagnosed with gestation…