{"podcast":{"title":"Pain Free Birth","slug":"pain-free-birth-6691170","podcast_index_feed_id":6691170,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2507812.rss","website_url":"https://painfreebirth.com/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/h0kkamwct3gjfcy8vhsyy8exgodd?.jpg","author":"Karen Welton","episode_count":108,"summary":"In the Pain Free Birth Podcast, your host, Karen Welton, invites you to discover the truth about how God brilliantly designed the female body for birth. Karen is a certified doula, childbirth educator, and coach who teaches women all around the world how to give birth without pain and fear through her online courses and content.In this show, we geek out about the hormonal physiology of birth, supernatural childbirth, bliss and ecstasy in labor, pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood, and everything in between! Karen interviews women around the world who share their *jaw-dropping* stories of birth at home, in the hospital, and even in the car! She interviews midwives, doctors, and experts in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum to share their unique perspectives. We’ve been taught to view birth as scary and traumatic or an “emergency waiting to happen.” In this show, you will discover a whole new perspective of what’s possible in birth.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T18:17:41.050828+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170"},"episode":{"title":"#86 | From Fear to Power: How Trusting Her Body Changed Everything in Birth with Polina Westcott","slug":"86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott","published_at":"2026-01-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170/86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18563231-86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18563231-86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott.mp3","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...","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3922,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pain-free-birth-6691170/episodes/86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170/86-from-fear-to-power-how-trusting-her-body-changed-everything-in-birth-with-polina-westcott.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}