{"podcast":{"title":"Australian Birth Stories","slug":"australian-birth-stories-401092","podcast_index_feed_id":401092,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/68ba6fc2f8dc6bde38345645","website_url":"https://australianbirthstories.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/68ba6fc2f8dc6bde38345645/show-cover.jpg","author":"Sophie Walker","episode_count":616,"summary":"A Podcast of Mothers' stories of childbirth. Weekly interviews with mothers giving their first hand accounts of child birth in Australia. Designed to help educate and inform first time pregnant women, parents wanting to have better subsequent births and birth enthusiasts who love to hear and tell birth stories. An entertaining and heartfelt resource for pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T12:20:23.779683+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092"},"episode":{"title":"606 | Lauren, Six children, doula, identical twins, water birth, precipitous labour","slug":"606-lauren-six-children-doula-identical-twins-water-birth-precipitous-labour","published_at":"2026-04-27T03:33:25+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092/606-lauren-six-children-doula-identical-twins-water-birth-precipitous-labour","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092","url":"https://shows.acast.com/australian-birth-stories/episodes/606-lauren-six-children-doula-identical-twins-water-birth-pr","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68ba6fc2f8dc6bde38345645/e/69eed90566c3374f7ea2aa1f/media.mp3","summary":"In this remarkable episode, Lauren takes us through her extraordinary journey of birthing six children whilst building her career as a doula. From her first precipitous labour that saw her go from 3cm to fully dilated in 45 minutes, to her recent identical twin water birth, Lauren's story is one of trust, preparation, and the profound power of physiological birth. As a doula who has supported over 150 births, including nine vaginal twin births, Lauren brings both professional insight and deeply personal experience to this conversation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"In this remarkable episode, Lauren takes us through her extraordinary journey of birthing six children whilst building her career as a doula. From her fir…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4930,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/australian-birth-stories-401092/episodes/606-lauren-six-children-doula-identical-twins-water-birth-precipitous-labour/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092/606-lauren-six-children-doula-identical-twins-water-birth-precipitous-labour.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}