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#86 | From Fear to Power: How Trusting Her Body Changed Everything in Birth with Polina Westcott
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- Pain Free Birth
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- Jan 27, 2026
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Summary
What happens when a woman stops outsourcing her intuition and starts trusting her body? In this episode, Karen sits down with Polina Westcott, creator of Sensible Mama, to share two transformative home birth stories that radically changed the way Polina views birth, fear, pain, and personal authority. Polina opens up about her first pregnancy, where everything seemed medically “normal” until routine testing suddenly turned her pregnancy into a problem to be managed. When questioning protocols...