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Hosted by Ashley Winning · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 179 episodes
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✨ Unfiltered, unapologetic, and deeply inspiring VBAC homebirth stories.If you're a mama seeking VBAC homebirth inspiration, you’re in the right place! Hosted by Ashley Winning, a Homebirth Educator, Doula, and HBA2C mama, this podcast shares raw, real birth stories from women who reclaimed their power and birthed on their terms.Listen for powerful stories, expert insights, and encouragement to help you trust your body, navigate challenges, and births on your terms, your way.🎧 Subscribe now⚠️ Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and does not replace medical advice.
Ashley Winning hosts VBAC Homebirth Stories Podcast, a kids show with 179 episodes published.
In this episode, I reflect on one of the greatest privileges of hosting this podcast—listening to hundreds of women share their birth stories. Over the years I've heard stories of VBACs, HBACs, homebirths, hospital birth
In this episode, I sit down with Mel to hear her incredible journey from a 23-week premature birth and classical caesarean to achieving a vaginal birth after two caesareans (VBA2C). After experiencing a classical caesare
Barbara shares her powerful journey from a breech caesarean to a surprise breech homebirth. In this episode, we explore breech birth, advocacy, informed choice and trusting yourself when birth takes unexpected turns. Aft
In this deeply personal episode, I share my recent experience with pregnancy loss after a chemical miscarriage. After nine months of trying to conceive and two chemical pregnancies, I open up about the grief, the intuiti
In this episode, I dive into a question so many women carry when planning a VBAC: what if my VBAC fails? We unpack the fear behind “VBAC failure” and gently reframe what that really means. I share my own experiences, the
In these two part episodes, I sit down with Margarite, a mum of five living in rural Queensland, who shares the first part of her powerful birth journey. Her story includes multiple miscarriages, a caesarean, a VBAC, and
In these two part episodes, I sit down with Margarite, a mum of five living in rural Queensland, who shares the first part of her powerful birth journey. Her story includes multiple miscarriages, a caesarean, a VBAC, and
In this episode, I sit down with Kelsey, a Canadian mum of three now living in Newcastle, NSW, who walks us through her deeply contrasting birth experiences — from a marathon first labour, to a premature birth affected b
In this episode, I share a short, practical guide to finding a midwife in Australia to support your HBAC or VBAC homebirth. Starting the search can feel overwhelming, but there are trusted pathways and communities to hel
In this episode, I sit down with Tiffanie, a mother of two from Mt Isa, who shares her raw and powerful birth stories—two very different journeys that shaped her into the woman and mother she is today. Tiffanie’s first p
In this episode, I share the remarkable birth journey of Kelsey, a mother of three from Wisconsin, USA, who moved from fear and medical trauma to deep empowerment with a healing home birth after two caesareans (HBA2C). B
In this solo episode, I’m diving into a topic that rarely gets the airtime it deserves—long labours. As a doula and homebirth mentor, I’ve witnessed first-hand how a mismatch between expectation and reality can quickly s
In this episode I give you a step-by-step run through of what you need to think about, where to get a birth pool and how to make it run as smoothly as possible. First Things First: Choose the Right Pool Not all birth poo
In this episode, you get just me, Ashley in a solo episode which was a bit fun as I haven’t done a solo episode all year! We celebrate 5 years of The VBAC Homebirth Stories Podcast, some of my favourite episodes (and yes
In this thought-provoking episode, I sit down with the remarkable Dr K, a high-risk obstetrician and online doula who is walking the delicate line between the medical system and autonomous birth. With rare insight and fi
In this powerful episode, we sit down with a midwife-turned-mama who planned two homebirths and ended up birthing in hospital under very different circumstanceswith her first baby. This raw and revealing story offers ins
In this week's episode, I sit down with the lovely Ana, a mother of two boys living in Portugal, as she shares her inspiring journey from a medicalised breech birth to a midwife-supported VBAC at home. Ana’s first birth
This week on the podcast, I sit down with Lizzy, a mama of three and a graduate of my Homebirth Mentoring Program, who shares the deeply personal and powerful story of her second VBAC—a surprise pregnancy that became a p
This week I’m joined by Claire Holloway, homebirth mother, yoga educator, and fierce advocate for reclaiming autonomy in pregnancy, birth and matrescence. Claire shares her own HBAC story and how her experience with both
You’ve just birthed a whole human—so why are we so quick to rush mothers out the door, slap on a nappy, and tell them to “get on with it”? In today’s honest, soul-stirring chat, I’m joined by TEDx speaker and postpartum
Claire Holloway
yoga educator, homebirth mother, advocate · The Centre of Bright Beginnings
1 appearance on this show
Aly McClain
host of the Peaceful Homebirth Podcast
1 appearance on this show
Billie Harrigan
birth worker, educator, advocate for women’s autonomy in childbirth · Birth Trauma Ontario
1 appearance on this show
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