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NEW BOOK - OUT NOW 📕 World's 1st scientifically verified Birth Education 🌍 Online In Person ⬇️ pain ⬆️ agency 💪 A beautiful birth, whatever unfolds ❤️

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So much of birth prep is separated: a class for the body, a program for the mind, someone online for the evidence, someone else for the spiritual side. And somehow you’re supposed to stitch it all together while very pregnant and very tired.

That’s what I loved about this month’s podcast conversation with Nadine Richardson of @shebirths , and about her new book, Sh Births: Your Practical Guide to a Beautiful Birth. Her book, philosphy and education doesn’t make you pick a side. Science and intuition, practical tools and spirit, the birth of the baby and the making of a mother, all in one place.

Nadine has been supporting families for more than twenty years. She built her program from what she saw at births long before the research caught up to it.

In this month’s episode we talk about her story, why she gives every tool away, why partners need the whole toolkit, matrescence, and why her number one piece of advice for pregnant women is simply to slow down.

Come read/listen if this one has you curious. And stay tuned for some exciting news about the book later this week....because we’re giving more away besides the excellent information in this podcast.

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We are so thrilled with our 2027 keynote speaker line-up ✨

We are so honoured to welcome three extraordinary women to Becoming: Bringing Change Into Focus.

Janinne Gliddon

A proud Badimia, Yamatji/Ballardong, Nyoongar senior woman and Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University’s School of Indigenous Knowledges. A Churchill Fellow, Janinne has led the development of an Aboriginal doula and birth navigator education program honouring Aboriginal women’s cultural knowledges and practices.

Nadine Richardson @nadine_shebirths @shebirths

Founder of She Births®, a childbirth education program evaluated through a randomised controlled trial and published in the British Medical Journal. With over 20 years as a doula, educator, yoga teacher and author, Nadine’s work centres on restoring the sacredness of birth.

Liz Newnham @eliznewnham

Associate Professor of Midwifery at Flinders University and Fellow of the Australian College of Midwives. Across a 25-year career, Liz is internationally recognised for her work on humanising birth and advancing social justice in maternity care.
Evidence, culture and justice, all held with deep reverence for birth.

We can’t wait to gather with you. Not only are the keynotes incredible but as are the entire presenter and facilitator line-up. Don’t miss out. It’s going to be special.

2027 Doula Conference
Becoming: Bringing Change Into Focus
9-11 April 2027
Balam Balam Place, Brunswick @balambalamplace

Head to the website to register.

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#DoulaConference2027 #DoulaConferenceAustralia #Becoming2027 #BringingChangeIntoFocus #DoulaConference KeynoteSpeakers Doula DoulaLife BirthWorker BirthWork Midwife Midwifery MelbourneDoula MelbourneEvents Brunswick SheBirths AboriginalDoulas FirstNationsBirthing BirthingOnCountry HumanisingBirth SocialJusticeInMaternityCare BirthEducation

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We are delighted to announce Nadine Richardson @nadine_shebirths @shebirths as a keynote speaker at the 2027 Doula Conference, Becoming: Bringing Change Into Focus.

Nadine became a doula because she wanted to understand birth more deeply. More than 20 years later, that curiosity has grown into a body of work spanning birth education, doula care, yoga, podcasting, speaking and writing.

She is the founder of She Births®, a childbirth education program that has been scientifically evaluated through a randomised controlled trial, with results published in the British Medical Journal in 2016.

Nadine’s first book, She Births: Your Practical Guide to a Beautiful Birth, is now available across Australia, Europe and the United States.

Based between Sydney and the Northern Rivers, her work centres on restoring the sacredness of birth and supporting families to create a beautiful birth experience, whatever unfolds.

She is also currently working on two creative projects designed to take these conversations further into the mainstream, with a focus on shifting cultural attitudes and changing the way birth is represented in media.

Nadine brings a beautiful combination of evidence, creativity, experience and deep reverence for birth, and we are so looking forward to having her join us.

2027 Doula Conference
Becoming: Bringing Change Into Focus
9-11 April 2027
Balam Balam Place, Brunswick @balambalamplace

PRESALE tickets are still available. Head to the website to register.

Read about the speakers here: https://www.doulaconference.com.au/speakers

More speaker announcements to come this week 😍

#DoulaConference2027 #DoulaConferenceAustralia #Becoming2027 #BringingChangeIntoFocus #DoulaConference Doula DoulaLife DoulaSupport BirthWorker BirthWorkers BirthWork Midwife Midwifery MelbourneDoula MelbourneEvents Brunswick

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Hey Sydney, let's talk about the little things that carried us through the big things. ✨

This October's show theme is Choosing Hope: Stories of what got us through. Six women from six generations share the unexpected, often hilarious and sometimes tender moments that carried them through hard times. They aren't stories with perfect endings. They're real stories of resilience, humour, and the kind of hope that turns up when you least expect it.

💫 Our Storyteller Line-up:

Team 20s: Eva Cochrane is a film and media business student with a passion for advocacy, storytelling and social change, and a background in not-for-profit social media.

Team 30s: Eva Marinas is a psychologist, author and comedian who turns life's disasters into entertaining stories. She wrote To All the Demons I've Loved Before and believes heartbreak builds character, and sometimes excellent comedy.

Team 40s: Gia Frino is a neurodivergent creative in factual TV and a law student. She is establishing Fiercer, a non-profit that guides family violence survivors through the justice system.

Team 50s: Nadine Richardson founded the world's first scientifically verified birth education program and wrote She Births. She is now writing a play and developing a TV series to break taboos and share women's voices.

Team 60s: Dr Mary Jo McVeigh OAM is the founder and CEO of Cara Consultancy, a proud Belfast Irish social worker and activist, and the 2022 Australian Social Worker of the Year

Team 70s+: Julie Bates AO is a sex worker rights defender, Principal of Urban Realists, and inaugural co-manager of the Australian Prostitutes Collective. Today she speaks and lobbies for decriminalisation.

📍 The Beresford, Surry Hills
🗓 Wednesday 28 October 2026
⏰ Doors 6:30pm | Show 7:00–9:00pm
🎟 Tickets: link in bio

#generationwomenaustralia #genwomenaus #generationwomenaustralia #generationwomensydney #generationwomensyd #gwsydney

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🌿 NEW BOOK SELECTION 🌿

A beautiful new collection of books on women’s wisdom, birth, motherhood & the feminine journey has arrived at Happy Herbs Ocean Shores. 🤎

Books to inspire, educate, reconnect and honour the ancient knowledge carried through generations of women.

✨ Birth stories
✨ Women’s wisdom
✨ Motherhood & matrescence
✨ Sacred birth & the feminine
✨ Natural approaches to pregnancy & birth

Come in and explore our new selection. 🌙📚

Available now at Happy Herbs Ocean Shores 🌿

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So exciting that @nadine_shebirths has published this epic book for @shebirths - if you can do her course in person, amazing! But if you can’t… now you can read everything you’ll ever need to know for an empowered birth!!
And… Watch till the end …🤫

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The statistic is profound.

30% of women describe their birth as traumatic. And 70% of that is preventable. Not because birth is simple or predictable — but because so much of what creates trauma is fear, lack of preparation, and not being guided back to the intelligence of your own body before you ever get into that room.

@nadine_shebirths has spent over twenty years working to change that & measuring the results. The randomised controlled trial on her She Births program reduced C-section rates by 50%, epidural usage by 65%, and baby resuscitation by 53%. Not through intervention — through education and trust.

This is the conversation every woman deserves to have before she gives birth. And honestly, at any stage of life — because this episode covers the full arc from birth to perimenopause and everything the female body knows how to do when we stop working against it.

Full episode on Unbound now. Comment BIRTH and I’ll send you the link.

#vedicmeditation #unbound #consciousbirth #womenswisdom #podcastclip

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This week, watching women say yes to the Founding Cohort, I keep coming back to the same feeling — this program was never really mine alone.

Embodied4™ Prenatal was built from every woman who helped me come home to my own body, through two pregnancies, two births, and everything that came after.

Nadine Richardson — her She Births course and her prenatal yoga classes gave me permission to simply be. To move with intention instead of pushing through. To actually connect with my changing body and the baby growing inside it. She helped me trust my body and the process in a way I didn't know was possible until I felt it myself.

Vanessa Mitchell, my prenatal yoga teacher at Body Mind Life Bondi — for building a room where pregnant women didn't just come and go, we actually connected with each other. That feeling of not being alone in it has stayed with me ever since, and it's exactly what I wanted every woman in Embodied4™ to feel too.

Jennifer Fontain at Doula School International — for opening my eyes to the bias we all carry, even with the best intentions. She taught me to strive for non-judgment, and to truly listen — not to what I expected to hear, but to what was actually happening for the woman in front of me, in her own perception of her experience. That is what real compassion and care looks like, and it's the thread running through every single session I hold.

Chris and Theresa at Bhav Yoga Studio, Cronulla — for guiding me back to my true self. Their classes gave me the space to reconnect with my own inner wisdom, and find the strength to keep following what actually felt right for me. It's no accident that Embodied4™ now lives in that same room at Bhav — it's where I found my way back to myself, and I wanted every woman in this program to have the chance to do the same.

Every one of you shaped this, more than you probably know.

If you're one of the women who's already joined the Founding Cohort — welcome. And if you're still deciding, the door's still open. Link in bio.

#Embodied4
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#SutherlandShireMums #PrenatalPilatesCronulla #WomensHealthPilates

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Before I became pregnant with Finn, I was living in Bondi, surrounded by friends who were becoming mums before me.

I remember watching them head off to their She Births® weekends and thinking, When will it be my turn to experience the magic of Nadine Richardson and She Births?

Then my turn came. 🤍

We did the course, loved it, and went on to have such an empowered birth with Finn.

When Finn was one, I began working with Nadine and She Births, and had the privilege of spending three years alongside her.

She Births didn’t just prepare us for birth. It gave us the tools and mindset to parent in the way we wanted to — connected, conscious and child-led.

Then we moved to Spain and became pregnant with Vega. We did the online course, and Vega went on to be born at home, an unassisted home birth, with our midwives arriving just after she came out.

I’m so grateful also for the She Births Soul Mama circles. Those circles gave me friendships that have lasted across continents. Having women around you during those first years of motherhood was everything.

I will forever be in awe of Nadine’s devotion to making birth beautiful and empowering women and couples to trust themselves.

This book is now here with me in Santander, Cantabria. If you’d like to borrow it, it would be my pleasure to lend it to you.

Because I like Nadine truly believe the world is a better place with beautiful, empowered births. 🤍

#SheBirths #NadineRichardson #SoulMama #EmpoweredBirth #cantabria

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Many mothers talk about “baby brain” as though something has gone wrong.⁠
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But Nadine Richardson explains that your brain is not failing. It is beginning to prioritise your baby.⁠
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During pregnancy and postpartum, the brain shifts towards connection, instinct and intuition, helping you notice your baby’s cues and respond to what they need.⁠
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Even touching your belly or tuning into your baby’s movements is part of that early relationship.⁠
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It is not just baby brain.⁠
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It is your brain changing for motherhood.⁠
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Full episode via the link in bio: Matrescence: The Motherhood Brain Upgrade.

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You were never meant to do postpartum alone.⁠
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Nadine Richardson reminds us that parenting was designed to happen in a village.⁠
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Support helps us feel steadier.⁠
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It helps us build confidence.⁠
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It helps us become ourselves again, while becoming someone new.⁠
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So give yourself some slack.⁠
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You are going through massive change.⁠
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Full episode via the link in bio: Matrescence: The Motherhood Brain Upgrade.

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Your body remembers your baby.⁠
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Nadine Richardson explains the science of maternal-foetal microchimerism, where a baby’s cells can remain in the mother’s body for decades after pregnancy.⁠
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In her bones.⁠
In her organs.⁠
In her body.⁠
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It’s one of the reasons motherhood can feel so deeply physical, intuitive and impossible to explain.⁠
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Full episode via the link in bio: Matrescence: The Motherhood Brain Upgrade.

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