{"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":618,"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":"2026-07-06T12:19:56.902770+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092"},"episode":{"title":"617 | Hannah Home Water Birth with a 5.2kg Baby, Physiological Birth with Private Midwifery Care","slug":"617-hannah-home-water-birth-with-a-5-2kg-baby-physiological-birth-with-private-midwifery-care","published_at":"2026-06-22T23:32:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092/617-hannah-home-water-birth-with-a-5-2kg-baby-physiological-birth-with-private-midwifery-care","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/australian-birth-stories-401092","url":"https://shows.acast.com/australian-birth-stories/episodes/hannah-home-water-birth-with-a-52kg-baby-physiological-birth","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68ba6fc2f8dc6bde38345645/e/6a39c5fb00998a7fc86dcd81/media.mp3","summary":"Hannah first shared her birth story in a previous episode (episode 402) a home water birth with her 5.1kg son Archie. Now, four years later, she returns to share the story of her second home water birth with baby August, born at 41+2 weeks and weighing 5.2kg. This episode is rich with clinical insight, raw honesty and the kind of grounded wisdom that only comes from someone who has walked both sides of the birth room. Hannah talks candidly about gestational diabetes, pelvic girdle pain, the mental load of a prolonged latent phase, stretch and sweeps, using a breast pump to encourage labour, and a postpartum haemorrhage that was managed beautifully at home. If you are pregnant, a doula or a midwife, this episode will leave you feeling informed, empowered and deeply reassured. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Hannah first shared her birth story in a previous episode (episode 402) a home water birth with her 5.1kg son Archie. Now, four years later, she returns t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3789,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/australian-birth-stories-401092/episodes/617-hannah-home-water-birth-with-a-5-2kg-baby-physiological-birth-with-private-midwifery-care/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-401092/617-hannah-home-water-birth-with-a-5-2kg-baby-physiological-birth-with-private-midwifery-care.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}