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Podcast: Positive Birth Australia
Episode: S2 EP32 - Teisha And Marcus - Two hospital births + Birthing on country
Description: Today’s show is an extra special episode because for the first time on PBA we’ll be hearing from the partners perspective as well. Teisha, a proud Wiradjuri-Yuin woman whose songlines sing from the mountains to the ocean, and Markus, a proud Maori man from Aotearoa, New Zealand, take us on the journey to birth their son on aboriginal land, under a gum and she-oak tree.
Although having two drug-free hospital births with her first children, Teisha felt excluded and suppressed by the maternity system. When her and Markus consciously conceived their son, they went on a mind, body and...