First Poddy off the rank for 2021, and it was worth the wait! Recorded last year during the height of (OVID, I interviewed Abby Wake from The Awake Movement and Rhythm n Motion about her shift from hospital to homebirth, in Gympie Australia. 

After discovering the restrictions that would be imposed on her as a birthing woman, and the increase of medicalisation in her maternal care, birthing in a hospital was no longer an option for Abby.

Abby shares with us how she had to walk through her fears when looking for other options, how she navigated this change and found her power in the face of resistance to her decision.

Abby opens up about her first birth in the US, the way trauma can disassociate us from our bodies, the media blowup around her surprise pregnancy discovery at 8 months, the abuse she endured as a woman of colour in the birthing system, and how a history of sexual assault played an important role in curating a safe and healing space for birth this time around.

Spoiler Alert: her story has a beautiful ending!

Abby Wake @theawakemovement_

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