What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
309 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsCreating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests.
Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves many women feeling like they are broken or failing when their actual experience doesn’t match their expectation.
I tripped over every step of this process: getting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth on my way to having two kids.
This podcast showcases the really, really of people’s experiences:
* what they didn’t expect when they were expecting
* what they wish they’d known.
You’ll hear shareable insights gleaned from time in the IVF gauntlet, ways to manage the flattening nausea and fatigue of pregnancy, 40 hour labors and much more including expert medical insights to remake our expectations, making them more real, more human and more useful.
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Hypnobirthing through my race to the hospital: Monique's story
April 01, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBAmerican culture has a lot of ideas about pregnancy and motherhood baked into it. And even if you don't subscribe to most of the common tenants, pregnancy and birth can still offer unexpected twists and turns. Today's guest got pregnant relatively easily and for the better part of nine months had a smooth experience. She meticulously researched every aspect of birth, pulling the traditions that spoke to her from all over the world and setting out to have a very specific type of home birth. S...
What Happens when Hypnobirthing eases the road from homebirth to hospital? Monique's Birth story
April 01, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBAmerican culture has a lot of ideas about pregnancy and motherhood baked into it. And even if you don't subscribe to most of the common tenants, pregnancy and birth can still offer unexpected twists and turns. Today's guest got pregnant relatively easily and for the better part of nine months had a smooth experience. She meticulously researched every aspect of birth, pulling the traditions that spoke to her from all over the world and setting out to have a very specific type of home birth. S...
The Birth of a Rebel: Monique's story
April 01, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBAmerican culture has a lot of ideas about pregnancy and motherhood baked into it. And even if you don't subscribe to most of the common tenants, pregnancy and birth and still offer unexpected twists and turns, today's guest was gently into pregnancy. She got pregnant relatively easily and for the better part of nine months had a smooth experience. She meticulously researched every aspect of birth, pulling the traditions that spoke to her from all over the world and setting out to have a very...
What do you do with *extra* Frozen Embryos after IVF? Nicole's Birth story + Reproductive Endocrinology Insights
March 22, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBIf, in your attempts to start a family, you run into trouble getting pregnant you quickly learn about a thousand elements involved in the process of getting pregnant: hCG and estrogen and the uterine lining and if you are making use of IVF technology to get pregnant, a whole other set of elements enter the equation: the quality of eggs and sperm and if you are lucky embryos, and then, again, if you are lucky, the quality of the embryo after a few days of cell division, the blastocyst…and the...
A Dilemma of What to do with Frozen Embryos: Nicole's story
March 22, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 39.9 MBIf, in your attempts to start a family, you run into trouble getting pregnant you quickly learn about a thousand elements involved in the process of getting pregnant: hCG and estrogen and the uterine lining and if you are making use of IVF technology to get pregnant, a whole other set of elements enter the equation: the quality of eggs and sperm and if you are lucky embryos, and then, again, if you are lucky, the quality of the embryo after a few days of cell division, the blastocyst…and the...
A Prayer Answered: Rachel's Story
March 12, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBPregnancy, both physically and emotionally, is a personally transformative event no matter what else is going on in the pregnant person’s life. The context in which you are experiencing this pregnancy, be it calm or dramatic, can add to the challenge. Today’s guest experienced flux in both her extended family, her immediate family, and the medical community she was a part of. While she successfully had six children, five of the births involved emergencies, and her third pregnancy, the focus...
What happens when you have to navigate a tricky pregnancy? Rachel's Birth Story
March 12, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBPregnancy, both physically and emotionally, is a personally transformative event no matter what else is going on in the pregnant person’s life. The context in which you are experiencing this pregnancy, be it calm or dramatic, can add to the challenge. Today’s guest experienced flux in both her extended family, her immediate family, and the medical community she was a part of. While she successfully had six children, five of the births involved emergencies, and her third pregnancy, the focus...
Endometriosis didn't stop Pregnancy : Julia's Story
March 03, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBPregnancy involves massive changes and for some of us, one of the first hurdles is overcoming issues that have developed in our bodies that make getting pregnant and being pregnant difficult. On the road to becoming pregnant, today's guest learned that she had endometriosis, an issue that she'd painfully lived with for years without a diagnosis, and which required surgery before a pregnancy could develop...and after the first child, the number of physical obstacles seemed to grow more numer...
What happens when you Find Endometriosis on the Way to Pregnancy? Julia's Birth Story + DR insights
March 03, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBPregnancy involves massive changes and for some of us, one of the first hurdles is overcoming issues that have developed in our bodies that make getting pregnant and being pregnant difficult. On the road to becoming pregnant, today's guest learned that she had endometriosis, an issue that she'd painfully lived with for years without a diagnosis, and which required surgery before a pregnancy could develop...and after the first child, the number of physical obstacles seemed to grow more numer...
Babies that started with a Dream: Julia's Story
March 03, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBPregnancy involves massive changes and for some of us, one of the first hurdles is overcoming issues that have developed in our bodies that make getting pregnant and being pregnant difficult. On the road to becoming pregnant, today's guest learned that she had endometriosis, an issue that she'd painfully lived with for years without a diagnosis, and which required surgery before a pregnancy could develop...and after the first child, the number of physical obstacles seemed to grow more numer...
What Happens when you Focus on the 4th Trimester instead of the Birth Plan? Sunni's Pregnancy Story
February 22, 2022 22:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBMany people enter the long road to parenthood stuffed with different stories about what the process will be like: how long it will take to get pregnant, what growing another human inside your body will feel like, how the birth will unfold. And these stories come from everywhere: your childhood, family experiences, books, and media...today's guest originally thought she wouldn't have children, which may have shaped what stories she took in and which she avoided...and then she had a change of ...
Ditch the Birth Plan, Plan for the Fourth Trimester: Sunni's Story
February 22, 2022 22:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBMany people enter the long road to parenthood stuffed with different stories about what the process will be like: how long it will take to get pregnant, what growing another human inside your body will feel like, how the birth will unfold. And these stories come from everywhere: your childhood, family experiences, books, and media...today's guest originally thought she wouldn't have children, which may have shaped what stories she took in and which she avoided...and then she had a change of ...
What Happens when You & Your Partner are Unstable? Starr's Birth Story
February 13, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBPregnancy can invite a million different kinds of challenges. For some women, it's a physical trial. There are real limits on what our bodies can do. It certainly was for me for some all the massive changes that happen internally and externally can cause distress. And for some women, like today's guest, part of the challenge is how pregnancy can affect relationships. She had lots of challenges with the baby's father at the time, which forced her to navigate the very real question of whether ...
A Birth that leads to a Rebirth: Starr's story
February 13, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBPregnancy can invite a million different kinds of challenges. For some women, it's a physical trial. There are real limits on what our bodies can do. It certainly was for me for some all the massive changes that happen internally and externally can cause distress. And for some women, like today's guest, part of the challenge is how pregnancy can affect relationships. She had lots of challenges with the baby's father at the time, which forced her to navigate the very real question of whether ...
Anything but Restful, A Bedrest story: Aileen
February 04, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIf there’s one thing I can relate to directly, it’s the story of a high risk pregnancy. But the pregnancy that my guest encountered was something I have no first hand knowledge of: she ran into an issue that threatened a premature birth, which caused her doctor to prescribe bedrest–for five months, 150 days for anyone who is counting–of being horizontal, she was more or less plucked out of normal circulation and forced into bed. We talk about what that dramatic transition was like and how s...
What Happens when you are put on Bedrest?: Aileen's Pregnancy Story + OBGYN insights
February 04, 2022 08:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIf there’s one thing I can relate to directly, it’s the story of a high risk pregnancy. But the pregnancy that my guest encountered was something I have no first hand knowledge of: she ran into an issue that threatened a premature birth, which caused her doctor to prescribe bedrest–for five months, 150 days for anyone who is counting–of being horizontal, she was more or less plucked out of normal circulation and forced into bed. We talk about what that dramatic transition was like and h...
A Pandemic Pregnancy with Surprises, Large and Small: Kaila's story
January 26, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBToday's guest stepped into pregnancy relatively easily, and while she had some pretty common early challenges--extreme fatigue, congestion, and sensitivity to smell (her husband called her a blood hound--which feels like high praise in the right context... ). The challenges really picked up at the birth, which was visited by a hemorrhage after a vaginal delivery and a bad reaction to morphine. And by the way, all of this went down during Covid before vaccines. After taking some time to se...
REBROADCAST: Good Things Come in Threes
January 17, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MB#003- Today’s guest approached pregnancy, and the motherhood that would follow, like a competition--one that she could excel at and ultimately win. And her first pregnancy, while not seamless, was relatively straight forward, giving credence to her early ideas about the process. But these beliefs lost steam when she had trouble getting pregnant the second time, and were fully deflated when ten weeks after a positive pregnancy test, a scan revealed that she was carrying triplets. A pregnancy...
REBROADCAST: An Ectopic Pregnancy that Jumped the Shark
January 08, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn this episode we feature the story of a young woman who pursued pregnancy in a country different from her own, where language barriers and a different approach to care contributed to what became her life threatening condition. Originally told that she was not pregnant, she learns, many weeks later she has an ectopic pregnancy–but not your garden variety ectopic pregnancy. Thanks to her organized effort and perseverance, she saved her own life. In a second pregnancy, she goes on to deliver...
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Dr. Crevecoeur's Birth Story + OBGYN insights
December 29, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBHere we are at the end of 2021 and you may be feeling nostalgic for easier times, pre pandemic life…we visit these times in today’s story. my guest gave birth for the first time more than two decades ago and had a wide breadth of experiences in pregnancy and delivery in the course of her four pregnancies. She has hyper emesis for all of the pregnancies and learns to manage it despite her busy OB practice. A whole host of surprises visit her in the five years of pregnancy, including what I’ll...
Pressure Makes Diamonds: Dr. Crevecoeur's story
December 29, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBHere we are at the end of 2021 and you may be feeling nostalgic for easier times, pre pandemic life…we visit these times in today’s story. my guest gave birth for the first time more than two decades ago and had a wide breadth of experiences in pregnancy and delivery in the course of her four pregnancies. She has hyper emesis for all of the pregnancies and learns to manage it despite her busy OB practice. A whole host of surprises visit her in the five years of pregnancy, including what I’ll...
A Birth that requires Stamina: Kristen
December 14, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBEvery person has their superpower. Yours could be patience or wit or strength. I am guessing that among the things that today’s guest could list as her super power, toughness and or stamina are probably near the top of the list. She contends with a fair amount of uncertainty about elemental issues, like the timing of both pregnancies, and then manages a stack of challenges beginning with birthing a baby who is not situated in the birth canal in a friendly way, tending to said baby, who is ge...
A Birth that requires Stamina: Kristen's Birth Story
December 14, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBEvery person has their superpower. Yours could be patience or wit or strength. I am guessing that among the things that today’s guest could list as her super power, toughness and or stamina are probably near the top of the list. She contends with a fair amount of uncertainty about elemental issues, like the timing of both pregnancies, and then manages a stack of challenges beginning with birthing a baby who is not situated in the birth canal in a friendly way, tending to said baby, who is ge...
Many Challenges Can Visit a Pregnancy and Birth (Including Covid): Erin's Story
December 06, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBHaving spoken with a lot of women about their experiences with reproduction, many of them report having one or possibly two issues that visit their pregnancy or birth that alert them to the fact that they have very little control over the momentous task of creating another person in the confines of their body. Today’s guest was visited by many, many issues, including miscarriage, hyperemesis, gestational diabetes and the coup de gras, issues with breastfeeding, all of which happened (drumrol...
Many Challenges Can Visit a Pregnancy and Birth (Including Covid): Erin's Birth Story + Midwife Insights
December 06, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBHaving spoken with a lot of women about their experiences with reproduction, many of them report having one or possibly two issues that visit their pregnancy or birth that alert them to the fact that they have very little control over the momentous task of creating another person in the confines of their body. Today’s guest was visited by many, many issues, including miscarriage, hyperemesis, gestational diabetes and the coup de gras, issues with breastfeeding, all of which happened (drumrol...
A Look at Pregnancy & Birth from a bygone era: Lily's Pregnancy Story
November 26, 2021 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBSince it's Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to make this episode about family. And in that spirit, I interviewed my mother about her experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. My mother, who is in her late 70s, had four kids starting in 1966, and ending in 1978. You’ll hear her reference my two older brothers: Josh who is the first born, and Teddy who is the second. I was the third in line, and there is an 8 year gap between me and my sister Samara. It's surprising to hear about how much she c...
A Look at Pregnancy & Birth from a bygone era: Lily's Story
November 26, 2021 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBSince it's Thanksgiving weekend, I decided to make this episode about family. And in that spirit, I interviewed my mother about her experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. My mother, who is in her late 70s, had four kids starting in 1966, and ending in 1978. You’ll hear her reference my two older brothers: Josh who is the first born, and Teddy who is the second. I was the third in line, and there is an 8 year gap between me and my sister Samara. It's surprising to hear about how much she c...
Stroke in Pregnancy, A post partum Tale: Lauren's story
November 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBLots of different inputs go into the project of starting a family; for many of us this includes a host of doctors: fertility doctors and OBs and anesthesiologists...and for today’s guest that list is even longer, extended to include pain doctors and ER doctors and neurologists because she had a stroke after her delivery. Some of the doctors who participated in her project did so because the symptoms she suffered after the delivery were attributed to a spinal headache instead of a stroke. He...
Stroke in Pregnancy, A post partum Tale: Lauren's Birth story + Associate Professor of Neurology insights
November 16, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBLots of different inputs go into the project of starting a family; for many of us this includes a host of doctors: fertility doctors and OBs and anesthesiologists...and for today’s guest that list is even longer, extended to include pain doctors and ER doctors and neurologists because she had a stroke after her delivery. Some of the doctors who participated in her project did so because the symptoms she suffered after the delivery were attributed to a spinal headache instead of a stroke. He...
Vagonominal: A Vaginal Delivery and a Cesarean Visit the Same Birth: Kristy's Birth Story + Midwife Insights
November 07, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.2 MBToday I'm lucky to be talking to a midwife about her experience with her own twin pregnancy. The process of getting pregnant and giving birth did not look at all as she had planned, despite the fact that she had a lot of real information on which to base her prediction. Although she didn’t have the specific birth she originally envisioned, she successfully carried twins to term, and gained personal experience with more styles of delivery in one pregnancy than most mothers of twins--she deliv...
Vagonominal: A Vaginal Delivery and a Cesarean Visit the Same Birth: Kristy
November 07, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBToday I'm lucky to be talking to a midwife about her experience with her own twin pregnancy. The process of getting pregnant and giving birth did not look at all as she had planned, despite the fact that she had a lot of real information on which to base her prediction. Although she didn’t have the specific birth she originally envisioned, she successfully carried twins to term, and gained personal experience with more styles of delivery in one pregnancy than most mothers of twins--she deliv...
Letting Go of the Birth Plan and Other Expectations: Katie's Story
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBWe all come to pregnancy and birth with ideas about what these transformative events will be like. Some ideas come from our own family experience and some from broader cultural influences. But discussions around the more challenging details of these experiences rarely get articulated, leaving a space for our own imagination to conjure pretty much whatever it wants. And this expectation will be matched to the actual experience in real time, coloring how we step into parenthood. Like most of ...
What Happens when you Let Go of the Birth Plan (& Other Expectations)? Katie's Birth Story
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBWe all come to pregnancy and birth with ideas about what these transformative events will be like. Some ideas come from our own family experience and some from broader cultural influences. But discussions around the more challenging details of these experiences rarely get articulated, leaving a space for our own imagination to conjure pretty much whatever it wants. And this expectation will be matched to the actual experience in real time, coloring how we step into parenthood. Like most of ...
Learn to Love the Birth you Had: Katie
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBWe all come to pregnancy and birth with ideas about what these transformative events will be like. Some ideas come from our own family experience and some from broader cultural influences. But discussions around the more challenging details of these experiences rarely get articulated, leaving a space for our own imagination to conjure pretty much whatever it wants. And this expectation will be matched to the actual experience in real time, coloring how we step into parenthood. Like most of ...
Overcoming surprise bleeding in miscarriage and time in the NICU : Melissa's story
October 20, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBToday’s guest walked into pregnancy with reservations. She’d done a fair amount of research, as is her way, and understood that pregnancy, birth and postpartum were potentially a more difficult undertaking than movie depictions suggested. Despite her avid preparation, she was, like most of us, taken by surprise. She had to manage a hemorrhage during a miscarriage, and a birth experience that both tested her physical limits and her emotional resources, as her newborn required some experimen...
What happens when miscarriage involves lots of bleeding? Melissa's Birth story + OBGYN insights
October 20, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBToday’s guest walked into pregnancy with reservations. She’d done a fair amount of research, as is her way, and understood that pregnancy, birth and postpartum were potentially a more difficult undertaking than movie depictions suggested. Despite her avid preparation, she was, like most of us, taken by surprise. She had to manage a hemorrhage during a miscarriage, and a birth experience that both tested her physical limits and her emotional resources, as her newborn required some experimen...
The Hard Limits of Control Over your Own Body: Melissa's story
October 20, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBToday’s guest walked into pregnancy with reservations. She’d done a fair amount of research, as is her way, and understood that pregnancy, birth and postpartum were potentially a more difficult undertaking than movie depictions suggested. Despite her avid preparation, she was, like most of us, taken by surprise. She had to manage a hemorrhage during a miscarriage, and a birth experience that both tested her physical limits and her emotional resources, as her newborn required some experimen...
When the Fourth Trimester is a Bear: Laura's story
October 11, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBToday’s guest had to reexamine her expectations at various points in the process of growing her family. She enjoyed a relatively straightforward pregnancy, but had real fears of what the birth would be like. Importantly, both births were totally successful, but they didn’t necessarily progress the way she imagined they would. The real challenge for her came after the birth: in the fourth trimester. The monumental change of going from being a part of a couple, just two adults, to caring for...
What happens when Postpartum Anxiety visits your pregnancy? Laura's Birth story
October 11, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBToday’s guest had to reexamine her expectations at various points in the process of growing her family. She enjoyed a relatively straightforward pregnancy, but had real fears of what the birth would be like. Importantly, both births were totally successful, but they didn’t necessarily progress the way she imagined they would. The real challenge for her came after the birth: in the fourth trimester. The monumental change of going from being a part of a couple, just two adults, to caring for...
When the Fourth Trimester is a Bear because of Postpartum Anxiety: Laura's story
October 11, 2021 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBToday’s guest had to reexamine her expectations at various points in the process of growing her family. She enjoyed a relatively straightforward pregnancy, but had real fears of what the birth would be like. Importantly, both births were totally successful, but they didn’t necessarily progress the way she imagined they would. The real challenge for her came after the birth: in the fourth trimester. The monumental change of going from being a part of a couple, just two adults, to caring for...
Episode 31: The Learning Curve of Pregnancy & Birth: Ashley
October 02, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBToday’s guest used to be a bodybuilder and is now a trainer and the owner of a fitness center and the mother of two kids. I think she’d describe herself as a woman who likes a challenge, and that’s probably a good way to step into the role of becoming someone’s mother.. Different circumstances required her to overcome challenges presented at each step of this process--she originally had trouble getting pregnant, she had a traumatic experience with miscarriage which ramped up her anxiety duri...
The Learning Curve of Pregnancy & Birth: Ashley
October 02, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBToday’s guest used to be a bodybuilder and is now a trainer and the owner of a fitness center and the mother of two kids. I think she’d describe herself as a woman who likes a challenge, and that’s probably a good way to step into the role of becoming someone’s mother.. Different circumstances required her to overcome challenges presented at each step of this process--she originally had trouble getting pregnant, she had a traumatic experience with miscarriage which ramped up her anxiety duri...
What happens when Infertility & PPD are part of your Pregnancy Journey? Ashley's Birth story + Therapist insights
October 02, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBToday’s guest used to be a bodybuilder and is now a trainer and the owner of a fitness center and the mother of two kids. I think she’d describe herself as a woman who likes a challenge, and that’s probably a good way to step into the role of becoming someone’s mother. Different circumstances required her to overcome challenges presented at each step of this process--she originally had trouble getting pregnant, she had a traumatic experience with miscarriage which ramped up her anxiety durin...
Infertility, Miscarriage and postpartum depression on the way to 3 kids: Ashley's story
October 02, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBToday’s guest used to be a bodybuilder and is now a trainer and the owner of a fitness center and the mother of two kids. I think she’d describe herself as a woman who likes a challenge, and that’s probably a good way to step into the role of becoming someone’s mother. Different circumstances required her to overcome challenges presented at each step of this process--she originally had trouble getting pregnant, she had a traumatic experience with miscarriage which ramped up her anxiety durin...
What happens when a Midwife gives birth & becomes a surrogate? Anne's Birth Story + Midwife Insights
September 23, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBGetting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth can be challenging in a myriad of different ways. But for some people, this massive transformation is….fairly straightforward. I totally enjoy talking to people who had a relatively smooth experience because it proves that the ideas many of us come to pregnancy with are not mythic, they do in fact live in the world ...And sometimes these lucky souls who tread the untroubled path are intent on sharing their superpower through surrogacy. Today’...
This Midwife's Tale, A Story of Birth & Surrogacy: Anne
September 23, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBGetting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth can be challenging in a myriad of different ways. But for some people, this massive transformation is….fairly straightforward. I totally enjoy talking to people who had a relatively smooth experience because it proves that the ideas many of us come to pregnancy with are not mythic, they do in fact live in the world ...And sometimes these lucky souls who tread the untroubled path are intent on sharing their superpower through surrogacy. Today’...
What Happens when an OB hands off your birth to a Midwife? Janis's Birth Story + Midwife Insights
September 14, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBEveryone faces some kind of challenge in the process of becoming a parent. Today's guest took an unanticipated tour of possible approaches to labor and delivery. Once contractions were confirmed she arrived at the hospital to find her midwife busy with another birthing mother. So in the first half of her birth she was attended to by an OB, and the second half was overseen by a midwife, with very different approaches to labor. And because she was a single parent, she braved postpartum without...
A Labor & Delivery in Two Acts: the Experience of an OB and a Midwife in one Birth: Janis
September 14, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBEveryone faces some kind of challenge in the process of becoming a parent. Today's guest took an unanticipated tour of possible approaches to labor and delivery. Once contractions were confirmed she arrived at the hospital to find her midwife busy with another birthing mother. So in the first half of her birth she was attended to by an OB, and the second half was overseen by a midwife, with very different approaches to labor. And because she was a single parent, she braved postpartum without...
Outrunning Ectopic Pregnancies is No Small Feat: Kristi's story
September 04, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBBoth of my pregnancies taught me that just because some process is going on in the confines of your body, location does not imply control. This is also true for my guest today. To some degree, I think that if her timeline didn’t unfold in the very specific way it did, she would not have ended up where she did--the mother of two healthy girls. On the way to this outcome, she experiences both the best and the worst pregnancy “luck”. Overall this story is one of good luck, because she is ali...
What Happens when you have an Ectopic...Twice? Kristi's Pregnancy story + OBGYN insights
September 04, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBBoth of my pregnancies taught me that just because some process is going on in the confines of your body, location does not imply control. This is also true for my guest today. To some degree, I think that if her timeline didn’t unfold in the very specific way it did, she would not have ended up where she did--the mother of two healthy girls. On the way to this outcome, she experiences both the best and the worst pregnancy “luck”. Overall this story is one of good luck, because she is ali...