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Fear Free Childbirth Podcast with Alexia Leachman

The Fear Free Childbirth podcast is for parents-to-be who want a positive and fear-free birth experience. Many pregnant women credit the podcast with helping them have a positive birth.

The show is a mix of real life positive birth stories, birthing experts sharing their wisdom and Alexia sharing how to get into a positive birthing mindset, including techniques for releasing fears.

Alexia is a therapeutic coach who works with pregnant women and is the author of the book Fearless Birthing. You can get access to lots of free pregnancy and birth preparation downloads at www.fearfreechildbirth.com

May 26, 2016

I’ve already talked about pain during birth in another podcast - how a fear creates pain during childbirth - so today I want to take a slightly different angle because pain is quite a biggie when it comes to birth. So I’d like to zoom in on the idea of pain and its close relative a fear of pain.

A fear of pain in...


May 19, 2016

This week I'm delighted to share another positive birth story. This week Lucy HG is going to be sharing with us her primal birth story. Primal birth story? Well yes! It's primal because Lucy went all primal in the final phase of labour!

Lucy's Primal Birth Story

Lucy has been a long time listener of the podcast and...


May 12, 2016

Today I want to talk about tokophobia for a few reasons…

  1. It’s the name given to a fear of pregnancy and childbirth… so pretty relevant for my podcast!
  2. People don’t even know it’s THING.. so I’m here to say it IS a Thing and it’s a pretty BIG thing.
  3. I want to share more information about it so that if...


May 5, 2016

I'm not one for regrets, but if there's one regret I have about my last pregnancy and birth it's that I didn't mark the moment or honour it with a ritual of some sort. During my first pregnancy I had a baby-shower, but since then my thoughts and ideas around pregnancy and birth have changed. As a first time mum I was...