EP22 Maha | 5 years TTC, Home Birth Aged 46, Natural Term Breastfeeding, Separation From Mother, Childbirth Educator

The Real Birth Podcast

This week I interview Maha Al Musa, a childbirth educator, mother and birth activist living in Australia. Maha is the founder of EMBODYBIRTH and has been sharing her wisdom surrounding the physiology of birth for almost three decades.

Maha shares her three birth stories - including a home birth with midwives at the age of 46. We also talk about cultivating autonomy in birth, and discuss natural term breastfeeding. Maha gained a fair bit of publicity when she allowed her daughter to breastfeed as long as she wanted, taking cues from her child rather than society's rules!

We also delve into Maha's own childhood experiences, which is an incredible tale. At just 6 months of age, Maha was kidnapped by her father and separated from her birth mother, taken overseas and raised in Australia. We speak about her connection to the maternal lineage and how finding her mother helped heal parts of her which helped her to go on and have her own family.

This episode feels different to my others, and really very special. I hope you enjoy hearing Maha speak so passionately about pregnancy and birth! You can find her at https://mahaalmusa.com/ where she teaches her EMBODYBIRTH programme, and also certifies others to teach her work, too.

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This season I'm thrilled to be working with my first ever sponsor: Bridge House Pilates.

Bridge House Pilates was founded by Meaghan, a Texan-born pregnancy, postnatal and low back pain specialist Pilates teacher now living in Somerset. Meaghan is a fan of the show and reached out to see whether my listeners might be interested in a special discount for her brand new postnatal Pilates course.

As well as sponsoring the show, Meaghan has created an exclusive discount for my listeners and I'm really thrilled to be able to offer you guys 20% off the Bridge House Pilates postnatal pilates online course.

Here's a bit more about the course:

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