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Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaMuslimah VBAC - Fatima’s VBAC StoryFatima shares her positive VBAC experience with us. Alhamdulillaah. Tune in to hear how Fatima navigated her way round achieving her much wanted VBAC. 2023-02-2636 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaFitness & Wellness as a Muslimah - with Habibah from FitstersWith special guest speaker Habibah to touch and share the importance of fitness and wellness during pregnancy and beyond.*actual recording date: 13.12.22Habibah has trained women, muslimahs in fitness and eating habits for over 10yrs.Expanding in pre & postpartum & NLP she guides sisters in how to create strong wellness habits in those areas with a strong connection to our deen, that is manageable for a BUSY muslimah and mum like herself.Follow Habibah on Instagram: https://instagram.com/fitsters._?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=2023-01-2055 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaNatural Twin Birth at 40+2 - Umm AbdillahA long awaited upload for this podcast with a very special guest speaker. (Actual recording date 31.10.22)It gets busy when you’re deeply and actively involved in the Muslim Birthworld and it’s stories like these that make it all that bit more worthwhile.Umm Abdillah brings us her triumphant birth story of her twin girls whom she birthed naturally, intervention free, at 40 weeks + 2 days!Pretty much unheard of these days to reach beyond 35 weeks for a spontaneous birth with twins, let alone ‘full term’! And even rarer to hear of women birthing twins va...2022-12-061h 24
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaLili’s Homebirth StoryTune into this amazing podcast in which we are fortunate to have Lili share with us her beautiful and moving birth stories. You may follow Lili on Instagram: @coffee.and.noorhttps://instagram.com/coffee.and.noor?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=2022-11-1256 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaHonoured Womb - an interview with Womb Steaming Therapist, Chantal BlakeChantal Blake is a Womb Wellness Educator and Womb Steaming Therapist. She helps women break cycles of painful periods and hormonal chaos, prepare for healthy conception, recover after birth, and raise daughters who love their periods through the tools of body literacy, cycle syncing, and traditional self-care. Chantal is also a wife and mother of three and has lived around the world for more than a decade. You can follow her work online on Instagram and Facebook at @honouredwomb.Follow Honoured Womb for upcoming events and information.Disclaimer: Womb...2022-10-2052 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaChoice & Responsibility with Inherent BirthA true taste of what Muslim Birth Activism sounds like in mid summer. ☀️Recorded on 21st June 2022, Doula Alqabalia and Inherent Birth united and dived deep into the realms of choice and responsibility in pregnancy and birth.Enjoy!Follow Inherent Birth on Instagram:https://instagram.com/inherentbirth?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Website:https://www.inherentbirth.com/2022-08-1251 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula Alqabalia‘Magic in the ordinary’ - a doula’s taleSamantha Gadsden talks us through her spiritual thoughts and practices as ‘the only witch in the village’.Podcast date: 19th May 2022Samantha is a birth activist and runs the Homebirth and Freebirth & Emergency Childbirth Facebook groups, supporting women and birthworkers alike.She also has plenty of offerings available from her website and by way of her bespoke services and is available on Instagram too.2022-07-0836 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaA devoted doula share: an interview with Stefanie AntunesStefanie has been a Lamaze® Educator and doula since 2002. After the birth of her second son, Stefanie saw just how valuable it is to be prepared for birth and to have good support around you.Stefanie is a visionary in the childbirth field. She leads the Discover Birth organization providing a variety of services to expectant parents and training for those wishing to pursue work in the childbirth field. Stefanie is a board member with the Association of Ontario Doulas, former Public Relations Director and Treasurer for DONA International, and sits on many local boards and coalitions t...2022-05-2834 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaPart 2: A sister’s story to BirthworkFollowing through from our previous podcast where Samantha shared her revert story with us, we now hear about sister Samantha’s journey to birthwork.Samantha's work is centered around guiding women to birth in their power through surrender to the Divine - and bringing birth back into the home into the rightful hands of trusted wise women.She provides birth education, an emphasis on informed consent, through a lens of Islamic values and beliefs.Instagram: @traditionalbirthguidehttps://instagram.com/traditionalbirthguide?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=2022-05-1638 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaPart 1: A Sister’s Revert Story from Across the PondTune into part 1; a sister’s revert story from across the pond in New York, as Samantha shares her journey to Islam.“Samantha's work is centered around guiding women to birth in their power through surrender to the Divine - and bringing birth back into the home into the rightful hands of trusted wise women.She provides birth education, an emphasis on informed consent, through a lens of Islamic values and beliefs.”Instagram: @traditionalbirthguidehttps://instagram.com/traditionalbirthguide?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=2022-05-1332 min
The Birth ActivistsS3 E4: Doula AlqabaliaIn this episode we chat to Amy (AKA Doula Alqabalia) about her work as a muslim doula:
"Amy has been doula-ing for a few years; supporting women during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.
On the back of the pandemic, following the birth of her third baby, she decided to train officially as a doula and enrolled on the ‘Side By Side’ course with Leila Baker.
Since then, she has been actively involved with all things birth and birthwork and even has her own Podcast channel; ‘Muslim Birthworld’ in which she explores Islamic perspecti...2022-05-061h 05
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaA walk through motherhood with ChanIn continuity with a previous ‘Maternal Mental Health’ podcast (reviewing my Clubhouse session with guest speaker Chan) and in light of this week being ‘Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week’, I interview the lovely Chantice (Chan).Chan joins us to explore and discuss maternal mental health self-healing and care tips and more…..To find out more about Chan’s offerings have a look into her details:www.zenwithchan.com Instagram:- @zenwithchan @zenthroughmotherhood On all platforms as zenwithchan Also the video that Chan mentioned that she cre...2022-05-0245 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaThe Doula World - being seen & heard!A unique interview with a special guest; Samantha Gadsden. If you are a birthworker and you have yet to come into reach, earshot or sight of Sam, then one might wonder how on Earth not!? Sam is a birth activist, doula, mentor and so much more, based in South Wales and the South West. She runs a fast-growing support network online via her Facebook groups; Homebirth, Freebirth and the Village, through which she tirelessly and lovingly supports people. The homebirth group alone now has over 10.2K followers! ...2022-04-0800 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaThe Doula World - being seen & heard!A unique interview with a special guest; Samantha Gadsden. If you are a birthworker and you have yet to come into reach, earshot or sight of Sam, then one might wonder how on Earth not!? Sam is a birth activist, doula, mentor and so much more, based in South Wales and the South West. She runs a fast-growing support network online via her Facebook groups; Homebirth, Freebirth and the Village, through which she tirelessly and lovingly supports people. The homebirth group alone now has over 10.2K followers! ...2022-04-0838 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaMaternal Mental Health - where are we at?This episode reviews last weeks clubhouse session in which the topic was ‘Maternal Mental Health’ with a guest speaker, Chan.Tune in to hear the review and make sure to follow Chan on Instagram @zenwithchan | @zenthroughmotherhoodWhy not join the clubhouse group?https://www.clubhouse.com/join/diversity-doulas/drJsmyRn?utmmedium=chinvite&utm_campaign=IqHuC8IDllcXwLXyhorAeA-110134Website:https://doulaalqabalia.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/doula.alqabalia/2022-03-3006 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaWoman Empowered - Our Safe SpacesIn this episode I review the clubhouse Diversity Doulas group from 17th March 2022 in which we discussed our safe spaces and how we can both create and support others in making them.Why not join the clubhouse group?https://www.clubhouse.com/join/diversity-doulas/drJsmyRn?utm_medium=ch_invite&utm_campaign=IqHuC8IDllcXwLXyhorAeA-110134website:https://doulaalqabalia.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/doula.alqabalia/2022-03-1808 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaMuslim Lifestyle - where do we fit?This episode reflects on the experience I had when reading a Children’s book, “The Proudest Blue”, to my children.It focuses on how we educate and make our children (and primarily our daughters) both aware of and prepared for the challenges and discrimination they face at school; which is their first independent social experience after the home and family accompaniment.❓How can we best prepare our youth? And ourselves?!❓How do we fit into a society that is inherently and institutionally racist and discriminatory in so many ways?For m...2022-03-1112 min
Muslim Birthwork with Doula AlqabaliaMuslim Identity - what you don’t see!As the Muslim population grows both nationally and globally, Muslim identity comes increasingly into the limelight.❓How do we identify ourselves as Muslims?❓How are we identified by society at large, as Muslims?❓How, as Muslim veiled women, can we be “seen” and “heard”, without actually being seen!Join me, Amy Doula Alqabalia, as I briefly explore this topic.For more discussion around the issues that Muslims face feel free to join my Diversity Doulas Clubhouse group which is held every Thursday at 1-2pm GMT:2022-03-0408 min