Have you ever wondered what birthing at home is actually like?
Maybe you’ve heard stories, or perhaps you’re just starting to feel like the standard hospital path doesn't quite fit your vision for your birth.
The Podcast "Are You Homebirth Curious?" is a space for those questions. It’s a podcast designed to take the mystery out of birth at home, giving you the clear information you need to make the choice that feels right for you.
What We Explore
We look at birth from every angle - not just the clinical, but the emotional and environmental too:
The Physical: How your body is designed for birth.
The Environment: Creating a "birth bubble" that feels safe.
The Mindset: Moving past the common fears and myths.
The Intuition: Learning to trust your own gut feelings.
The Experience: Honouring birth as a major life milestone.
This project is built on a foundation of Reciprocity. I am committed to centring and professionally honouring the voices of First Nations sisters and artists. By paying professional fees to the Aboriginal storytellers on this show, I seek to ground into respect for the lands we birth and parent on.
Season 1 of “Are You Homebirth Curious?”
Podcast Trailer
Have you ever felt an inkling that birth could be something more than a managed clinical event?
If you’ve found yourself looking for a path that feels more aligned with your own body and your own rhythm, you’re in the right place. You’re simply Homebirth Curious.
This is a first glimpse into a project dedicated to shifting the narrative around birth: moving away from the idea of home as a place of risk and back to the understanding of what coming home really feels like. It’s about the relief of familiar floorboards, the comfort of your own space, and the safety that allows you to settle into your own internal knowing.
Episode 1:
Land and Lineage: Reclaiming Homebirth and Ancestral Wisdom
What does it mean to birth from a place of deep connection to land, lineage, and inner safety?
In this powerful premiere episode, Claire yarns with Wiradjuri family counsellor and mother of twelve, Alison Burrell. From navigating teenage pregnancy to standing fiercely against a colonial medical mindset, Alison shares how our bodies are hardwired for autonomy. Together, they explore how birth imprints ripple into parenting, the vital necessity of Birthing on Country, and how to dismantle institutional birth fear.
This podcast has been kindly sponsored by Jen Nicholson - home visiting Senior Pelvic Health Physiotherapist and Director of Whole Human Therapy.
Access the podcast transcript here.
Episode 2:
Whole Human Pregnancy: Navigating a Plus-Size Birth
Pelvic health physiotherapist Jen Nicholson joins Claire to tackle the realities of navigating a plus-size pregnancy. During their conversation, Jen confronts the pervasive weight stigma and rigid BMI risk-profiling within the modern maternity system that often restricts choices for women in larger bodies. She maps out exactly how to protect your birth autonomy against defensive medical protocols, using targeted pelvic biomechanics and nervous system regulation to achieve a safe, undisturbed physiological homebirth.
Through her own lived experience, Jen provides practical tools to optimise birth physiology, understand space-making in the pelvis, and establish an unshakeable perimeter of safety regardless of your body shape or size.
Access the podcast transcript here.
Episode 3:
Navigating Homebirth Transfers: How Midwives and Paramedics are Collaborating with Melissa Gardiner
Senior paramedic and registered midwife Melissa Gardiner joins Claire to directly confront the number one contingency consideration: the homebirth transfer. Mel shares the operational reality of emergency birth logistics and introduces STORC - Western Australia’s groundbreaking 24-hour telephone service linking on-road St John WA paramedics with expert midwives in real time.
The conversation strips away the panic and stigma surrounding hospital transfers, mapping out exactly how cross-disciplinary clinical collaboration can help protect the boundaries of physiological birth when a homebirth plan requires a change in direction.
Access the podcast transcript here.
Episode 4:
Postpartum is Forever: Reviving Traditional Birth Practices and Maternal Autonomy with Hadhee Jah
To be released 12th August 2026!
Birth invites a return to instinct and lineage, yet standard maternity systems routinely disconnect us from our inherited wisdom. Birthkeeper Hadhee Jah explores how this happened almost overnight in her home country and how Maldivian perinatal traditions are at risk of being lost forever. But hope is at hand with Hadhee’s growing movement: Mothers of the Maldives.
From honouring the natural, biological rhythms of labour to creating a protective 40-day postpartum sanctuary, Hadhee illuminates the power of cellular memory, traditional healing practices, and the vital importance of postpartum rest, warmth, and nourishment. If you are seeking to ground your birth preparation in cultural reverence, somatic safety, and innate intuition, this episode is a deeply moving invitation home.
Access the podcast transcript here.
Episode 5:
Bridging the Distance: Rural Homebirth and Trauma-Informed Care with Holly Jones
To be released 26th August 2026!
Living outside a major city shouldn't mean sacrificing your birth choices. Holly Jones (The Family Room, Rural Roots Midwifery) is one of an increasingly rare few dedicated endorsed midwives who ensure that continuity of care can be accessed beyond metropolitan borders. Holly reveals the creative logistics of supporting homebirths, some over 600km away: from collaborative shared-care arrangements to antenatal checks in parks and the back of cars.
Beyond geographic isolation, Holly shares how recovering from a severe spinal injury transformed her practice into a trauma-informed sanctuary. Claire and Holly discuss how navigating rural constraints and isolation helps mothers learn more about their own priorities and boundaries as they step into matrescence. If you're exploring birth options in a regional or remote area, this episode is essential listening.
Access the podcast transcript here after launch.