A Midwitch Home Birth with Faith
Today on The Natural Birth Podcast we have Faith.
Faith is a mama of one from California, USA.
She is a fellow midwitch who’s chosen to work outside of the regulatory system and we found out just before starting the recording that we share a dear sister in common, Midwife Sophia, my Sacred Birth Worker Mentee on Corfu Greece.
Faith apprenticed for 9 months with Sophia.
You might have heard Sophias episode ”Holistic Midwife Sophia & Her 3 Natural Births” earlier this year on the poddy, and if you haven’t I highly recommend you do as she too is such a wealth of natural birth magic and wisdom.
At the age of 16, Faith experienced a powerful dream that brought her to sit with women in birth. She started after graduating high school by volunteering as a doula at her local hospital.
She also became a hospice nurses assistant and sat with the dying while still attending births whenever she could. This was a time of “living at the threshold of all things” and she came to recognize that death and birth require similar things: respect, deep trust, and total surrender.
In the years following Faith collected many skills, attended several educational trainings and has taken up many different roles such as: midwives assistant, herbalist, massage therapist and bodyworker, priestess, professional seamstress and designer, yurt builder, artist and more.
After 2 early losses, her pregnancy was an ancestrally powerful one and full of preparation for the initiation of birth and motherhood.
Her 17 hr labor brought her to kiss the face of the Goddess, as she danced, sang, screamed and roared her daughter, Minerva Moon, through the threshold and into the loving hands of her husband while Faith’s mother supported her the whole time.
Faith is so proud to have given birth at home and undisturbed and feels that through birth she has been given the gift not only of her beautiful daughter but the deep knowing that she can do anything.
Faith is also opening the School of Sovereign Midwifery beginning with a 3 day midwifery skills workshop in March 2025!
Curious about Faith? Find her on instagram as @thepaganmidwitch
Send me your requests for Anna Solo Topics to anna@sacredbirthinternational.com or dm me at @thespiritualmidwitch on instagram!
Thank you dearest
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www.sacredbirthinternational.com/links-podcast
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