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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Episodes
Dreams Do Come True X2: Danielle
January 20, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBTeenage girls are repeatedly told that pregnancy could fall on them at any moment. Caution is the watchword. But often when those young women grow up, pregnancy is nowhere to be found. That was the experience of today’s guest. When she and her partner set out to start a family, month after month, the pregnancy tests were negative. After some fertility testing the doctors believed that they had nailed down the issue, and almost as soon as it was discovered, my guest got pregnant, and her son ...
What happens when your pregnancy is an abdominal ectopic? Charlie's Pregnancy Story + OBGYN insights
January 01, 2021 02:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MB#004- In 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 ...
Welcome to War Stories from the Womb
December 30, 2020 20:00 - 7 minutes - 5.48 MB-#001 This is an introduction to War Stories from the Womb, the why and what of the podcast. For more information, see: https://warstoriesfromthewomb.com/ This is a weekly show that highlights real pregnancy, birth & postpartum stories.
3 Unexpected C sections, 1 experience of Postpartum Depression and a Better Birth Project: Emily's Story
December 30, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB#002- Many women approach pregnancy, and especially the birth of their children, as a sacred moment, as something they’ve long contemplated before it arrives. And with these thoughts come expectations. Such was the case for my guest today. For all three of her children’s births, she’d imagined a natural birth, with both the pain and the sense of triumph that experience involves. But circumstance got in the way, once, twice, all three times. Despite the challenges she faced, including perip...
What happens when you experience Unexpected C sections & Postpartum Depression? Emily's Birth Story + Therapist Insights
December 30, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB#002- Many women approach pregnancy, and especially the birth of their children, as a sacred moment, as something they’ve long contemplated before it arrives. And with these thoughts come expectations. Such was the case for my guest today. For all three of her children’s births, she’d imagined a natural birth, with both the pain and the sense of triumph that experience involves. But circumstance got in the way, once, twice, all three times. Despite the challenges she faced, including perip...
You are the Cavalry
December 30, 2020 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB#002- Many women approach pregnancy, and especially the birth of their children, as a sacred moment, as something they’ve long contemplated before it arrives. And with these thoughts come expectations. Such was the case for my guest today. For all three of her children’s births, she’d imagined a natural birth, with both the pain and the sense of triumph that experience involves. But circumstance got in the way, once, twice, all three times. Despite the challenges she faced, including perip...
Good Things Come in Threes
December 29, 2020 23:00 - 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...
An Ectopic Pregnancy That Jumped the Shark
October 13, 2020 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB002. In 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 d...
An Ectopic Pregnancy That Jumped the Shark
October 13, 2020 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB002. In 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 d...