Imagine finding your life changing for the better through each of your pregnancy and births.
We are joined with Gwenn and she talks about her first birth experience. From the moment finding out she was pregnant things become difficult, headaches began and Gwenn talks about trying to seek help about her weight gain and why she was feeling so poorly. During the pregnancy Gwenn was studying medical science and she got placement in Kenya where she had an ‘eye opening’ experience, she saw how connected to earth, the use plant medicines were creating such ease for the local community there. Coming home she become seeking further into her own health journey and how this may shape her birth experience. Gwenn wanted a natural birth and wrote a birth plan. Her birth she described as difficult, with a barrage of interventions and not being in tune with the processes. The labour lasted 42 hours. After receiving an epidural Gwenn was able to sleep, yet during this time she was giving Syntocinon and her daughter (who was posterior) flipped around very quickly, her heart rate dropped and she was born very fast and distressed. Gwenn found this experince, exhausting, scary and describes feeling powerless and worthless. After this birth Gwenn experienced post partum depression and breastfeeding issues.
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After this experience, Gwenn, was still in medical school, she began to question more and more into her own health and what this all means. Gwenn asked herself why are we not using nutrition to better our outcomes in brith and pregnancy? Right after she weaned her first daughter, she become pregnant with her next baby and during this time Gwenn become connected with a home birth community and the people around her were progressive in thought and lifestyle. Wanting to have this experience she found an experienced midwife who taught Gwenn about posture, positioning and exercises that can help with helping better the positioning of her baby, exactly what Gwenn was seeking in her first pregnancy. Gwenn talks more about her journey into nutrition. After her husbands cycling accident, she began to read about raw food diets and nutrition within that, she describes her past triggers as using food as a comfort measure and the cravings for ‘junk food’ she made a sudden change to raw food, yet found it created a havoc with her digestion and needed to find a better way of making the adjustment into healthy ‘clean’ living. The more she read and the more she understood the science behind this Gwenn was eating more plant based foods and the headaches and morning sickness almost disappeared. Things were looking better!
The labour process for her second birth was vastly different, Gwenn was doing many different exercises and she talks about how a few days before labour she was doing a certain movement and felt her baby move, from then on all the back sensations she was having went away. She had a gradual increase of contractions and the midwife was called. Gwenn was in labour for about 4 hours before immersing her self into the water this took so much of the intensity and pressure away. Her body was allowed to open up and she found her self ‘floating’ in between contractions. Not long after baby come with a few little pushes. She describes the feeling of euphoria, and when he was born she felt the complete rush of love and empowerment.
Third time around with her next son, Gwenn never thought it could be better than the last, she felt great and was riding her bike right up into the end of the pregnancy. She found her self more hydrated by eating more fruit and vegetables loaded with water, juices and smoothies. Her birth was again at home and he come earlier than her due time. This labour was only 3 hours and Gwenn describes this as a almost painless experience. She puts it down to her gut being healed and balanced by her nutritional lifestyle and diet.
This podcast is great for anyone looking to see how changing slowly and gently your diet and lifestyle aournd food and emotions can greatly have an impact on your pregnancy and birth experience. Gwenn, it seems from this episode, has cleaned up her emoctional self and her physical body. You can see in the progression of these birth stories that being aware and conciouss in our physical and emotional self can really be a game changer. Gwenn further talks in this episode about how she now helps others with food addiction and digestive issues.
From Gwenn –
“Be present, calm and still to find peace in your mind for birth.“
“The very first thing my 2 year old daughter said was ‘oh baby, hes so tough!’ “
“Im thankful that the universe continues to send me the truth”.
“sitting in meditation allows us to grow and free the soul from all the nonsense”
“Be true to who you are, being true to your own desires is what is fueling the expansion of the universie. “
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My name is Gwennevere Kintyhtt [kin-tee] (…3 silent letters, it’s Cherokee) , just call me Gwenn
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created to serve others
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a wife of a visionary husband
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mother of Riley (5), Ezra (3), and Vincent (1)
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dance teacher (ballet, lyrical, modern, and hip-hop)
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physiologist (the way in which living organisms function)
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wellness coach (leading you to reach your full potential)
All of my life I’ve had a passion to enable others so that they could reach their full potential and live extraordinary lives. As a child, I wanted to be a doctor so that I could lead people to extraordinary health. When studying biology (and pre-med) at the University of Washington I learned that I wouldn’t be able to reach this goal as a doctor. While in Kenya on a global health project, I discovered that the Americans need much more help with health than the rural African tribes who knew about all the native medicinal herbs and ate very healthy (although they had no roads, running water, electricity, or access to a doctor).
During my senior year at UW, I became a mother. Suddenly I was completely responsible for another life. Everything she needed had to come from me (or my husband). I was terrified but motivated to protect her and help her to live an epic life!
I decided it wasn’t fair for her to suffer through the pains and ailments that I had. She was so innocent and perfect. What gave me the right to punish her with my lifestyle choices? Was I truly living up to my desire to reach my full potential? I became determined to uncover the truth about health and take steps to make positive changes.
When I began to study nutrition, everywhere I turned, I found conflicting views, opinions, and even scientific evidence about what to eat. For a long time, the more I learned the more confused I was. I didn’t understand why so many scientific advancements were not making us healthier but sicker. Even with my advanced education in physiology of human body, it took years of studying to sift through all of the conflicting health advice.
The good news is that I discovered that the answer to healthy eating is simple! Eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables and I mean loads of them (especially leafy greens).
Its the same thing that other primates eat but…it turns out that this is easier said than done.
With the help of my husband, my quest to help others achieve epic health, we began delivering organic produce by bicycle around our small town in Oregon. People thought we were crazy to ride our bikes all over the valley to pickup organic produce and deliver it around a town with lots of hills everywhere. They were right, it was madness but we were driven by our desire to help our community.
It took me two years to give it up but it was easier once I realized that we were not making much of an impact working this way. So I started to experiment with making raw kale chips that kids would love. The result was sensational and everyone that tried our superfood snacks had raving reviews. We developed a few flavors and began distributing to grocery stores. We even launched the RawHarvest snack subscription box home delivered all over the country but this still wasn’t enough.
Driven by the desire to improve the health of the kids (and parents) of a sick nation, we decided to end our business producing raw snacks for grocery stores and subscription boxes and teach instead.
My focus is on those with the most power in a child’s life, Moms. I am dedicated to empowering moms, dads, and future mothers with the truth about nutrition and practical ways to make positive changes. My first project is my book Raw Snacks To Go which includes all my company recipes for our best-selling grab and go snacks + my story.
My business is now focuses on you (instead of a product) and I am on a mission to:
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enable you to reach your full potential and live an extraordinary life
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Empower moms (and young women) to change the world from the inside out (literally)
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Produce clarity in the confusing and conflicting world of health advice
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Turn the food system into something we actually want by exposing the truth and offering practicle ways to get corporations to make positive changes (hint: the answer is not government policy or non-profit efforts, it’s moms and dads…you and me…and our food choices)
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