Seeing Birth Clearly: Birth Photography & Fighting for Women's Choices with Eva Rose

In this beautiful and powerful episode, host Augustine sits down with Eva Rose — Norwegian birth photographer, doula, advocate, documentarian, and creator of Birth Mood — for a conversation that spans birth rooms, operating theatres, Ethiopian hospitals, and the fragile future of midwifery-led care across the globe.

Eva has been attending births for nearly 30 years, building one of the most extraordinary visual archives of physiological birth in the world — and along the way becoming an unstoppable voice for women's birth rights and informed consent.

In this episode we cover:

• How witnessing her baby sister's home birth at age seven — and growing up in a family of photographers — set Eva on her path
• How a midwife told Eva "you are a doula" — and what happened next
• The closure of ABC, Norway's most beloved midwifery-led unit, and how Norway went from 70 such units to just four
• Why Norwegian hospitals profit from over-medicalizing birth even within a free public healthcare system
• The fetal scalp electrode post that went viral globally — and why Norwegian midwives were furious
• How Eva's role as a doula shifted from loving birth companion to consent advocate
• The mother-assisted cesarean in the Netherlands — and Eva's mission to bring it to Norway
• Birth culture across countries — the stark difference between consent practices in Norway, the UK, and Switzerland
• Birth Around the World — selling everything to document birth globally before COVID shut it down
• Fundal pressure in Ethiopia and Eva's campaign to make it illegal worldwide
• Burnout, her lowest two years, and what slowing down has taught her
• Birth Mood — the visual birth preparation course now used by birthing women, midwives, and doctors worldwide

Resources & Links:

📸 Follow Eva: @evarosebirth on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook
🏡 Join our community: skool.com/midwiferywisdom
🌿 Midwifery Wisdom Collective: midwiferywisdomcollective.com