Latest Birth stories Podcast Episodes
What Does the Midwife Say about VBAC risk Calculators? Vitamin K Shots for your Newborn?
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 26, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this mini episode, I talk to a fantastic midwife, who gives us a care providers perspective on some common things that happen in births in medical settings. Today we talk about : * the tools doctors and midwives use to predict how a birth will turn out * the medical care provided to the b...
What Happens when With Each Birth, you get closer to your Ideal? Tanya's Birth Story + Midwife insights, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 23, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode, I finish my conversation with Tanya, and we hear about what she learned from the last three births she shares about: *managing a shoulder dystocia *her husband's response to the birth trauma he witnessed *Her red tent experience--laboring surrounded by a team of women *o...
What Does the Midwife Say about These Common Experiences in a Hospital Birth?
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 19, 2023 14:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this mini episode: I talk to a fantastic midwife, Ann Richards, who gives us a care providers perspective on some common things that happen in births in medical settings. Today we talk about 1. why doctors break your water in the course of a birth 2. why IVs are often inserted as soon a...
What you learn from your first TWO (of 5) Births: Tanya's Birth Story & Midwife Insights, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 16, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn this episode we hear from a woman who had five births, each one different in important ways from the one that preceded it. She shares insights about what she would've done differently in those early births: * how she would handle the induction *her experience with pitocin *what elements o...
What we learn when Neuroscientists study the Mother Brain: Chelsea's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 09, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsHere, in EPISODE 100 of the podcast, it seems fitting that CHELSEA CONABOY shares so many insights about how parenting changes parent's brains. *She talks about how Maternal Instinct is a story, not based on science * She describes research on these brain changes and what they might mean for ...
What you "know" about Motherhood is probably wrong: Chelsea's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - June 02, 2023 07:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis is episode 99 of the podcast, and next week is the 100th episode. it seems a totally fitting tribute, for a podcast dedicated to changing the conversation about this transformation, to have a guest whose profound book is all about debunking our most socially potent beliefs about what define...
Could a Baby Shower Revolution Change Postpartum as we Know it: Kaitlin's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 26, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode I finish my conversation with Kaitlin McGreyes, the CEO of BeHerVilliage. She shares her challenges in postpartum, which dramatically changed the course of her life--she left teaching to become a doula, and the combination of a birth that jumped the tracks, as they often do, a...
What Happens when you Initiate a Baby Shower Revolution, Changing Postpartum? Kaitlin's Birth Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 26, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode I finish my conversation with Kaitlin McGreyes, the CEO of BeHerVilliage. She shares her challenges in postpartum, which dramatically changed the course of her life--she left teaching to become a doula, and the combination of a birth that jumped the tracks, as they often do, a...
What Happens when your Postpartum Inspires you to Change Postpartum for the Rest of us? Kaitlin's Birth Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 19, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe--ALL of US (in the US)--are doing Postpartum wrong. Once we experience it with our first born, we learn this, and all make plans to do something different the second time, if there is a second time. Today's guest wants to change Postpartum for all of us. In today's episode, my guest shares t...
Her Birth & Postpartum inspired her to find a better way to Postpartum: Kaitlin's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 19, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWe--ALL of US (in the US)--are doing Postpartum wrong. Once we experience it with our first born, we learn this, and all make plans to do something different the second time, if there is a second time. Today's guest wants to change Postpartum for all of us. In today's episode, my guest shares t...
Bonus Episode: Managing the Hard Feelings of Motherhood, cont.
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 15, 2023 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsFor the last two weeks we talked about shifting identities in motherhood that can bring up conflicting feelings. It's important to acknowledge how universal an experience this is. The next question is: what do we DO with all of these feelings? What follows is a few more insights from the fa...
What you might Learn Making the Adjustment to Motherhood: Anne's Birth Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 12, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou love your kids, and it might be the case that you also, LOVED your life before kids. The sometimes conflicting emotions that women encounter as they find a new identity in motherhood and figure out how to integrate it with aspects of their life before kids is today's topic. In today's episo...
Adjusting to Motherhood: Anne's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 12, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsYou love your kids, and it might be the case that you also, LOVED your life before kids. The sometimes conflicting emotions that women encounter as they find a new identity in motherhood and figure out how to integrate it with aspects of their life before kids is today's topic. In today's episo...
Identity Shift in Motherhood: Anne's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 05, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen your interests are shifted to the back seat to make room for the baby's, you WILL have feelings about it, but most of us never talk about it because it doesn't fit our idea of motherhood. Today we discuss some of these challenges, and ways of making sense of them. I talk to a writer who ...
What Happens when Motherhood inspires an Identity Shift? Anne's Birth Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - May 05, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen your interests are shifted to the back seat to make room for the baby's, you WILL have feelings about it, but most of us never talk about it because it doesn't fit our idea of motherhood. Today we discuss some of these challenges, and ways of making sense of them. I talk to a writer who ...
Life Lessons Learned in Pregnancy & Birth: Molly's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 28, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConceiving, being pregnant, giving birth and then learning to be someone's parent by immediately being responsible for the survival of a new being are all challenging experiences that contain within them, an endless set of possibilities to grow. Today I finish my conversation with Molly. In thi...
What nearly a decade of TTC can Teach you about Pregnancy & Birth: Molly's Pregnancy story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 28, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConceiving, being pregnant, giving birth and then learning to be someone's parent by immediately being responsible for the survival of a new being are all challenging experiences that contain within them, an endless set of possibilities to grow. Today I finish my conversation with Molly. In thi...
What nearly a decade of TTC taught her about Pregnancy & Birth: Molly's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 28, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsConceiving, being pregnant, giving birth and then learning to be someone's parent by immediately being responsible for the survival of a new being are all challenging experiences that contain within them, an endless set of possibilities to grow. Today I finish my conversation with Molly. In thi...
What Happened when She advocated her way out of infertility? Molly's Pregnancy Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 21, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen she was 18, a doctor told her that getting pregnant would be challenging, without offering any suggestions about how to improve her odds. She worked for ten years to prove this doctor wrong--and when she was on the brink of giving up, it happened--she got pregnant. In today's episode my g...
A Path Out of Infertility: Molly's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 21, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen she was 18, a doctor told her that getting pregnant would be challenging, without offering any suggestions about how to improve her odds. She worked for ten years to prove this doctor wrong--and when she was on the brink of giving up, it happened--she got pregnant. In today's episode my g...
Is it PCOS? Is it Endometriosis? Advocating to find a way out of infertility: Molly's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 21, 2023 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsWhen she was 18, a doctor told her that getting pregnant would be challenging, without offering any suggestions about how to improve her odds. She worked for ten years to prove this doctor wrong--and when she was on the brink of giving up, it happened--she got pregnant. In today's episode my g...
What Happens when you Postpartum in a pandemic? Julia's Birth story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 14, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsScientists often study extreme cases to learn about the mechanics of a phenomenon. Many women found themselves running this kind of experiment in their own homes. How would the postpartum period--a time marked by isolation--feel when the whole world was isolating? In today's episode, author of ...
When Postpartum happens in a pandemic: Julia's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 14, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsScientists often study extreme cases to learn about the mechanics of a phenomenon. Many women found themselves running this kind of experiment in their own homes. How would the postpartum period--a time marked by isolation--feel when the whole world was isolating? In today's episode, author of ...
A Postpartum that inspired a Novel: Julia's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 07, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings"Need is an albatross. To be needed is to wear the weight of stones across your chest . To be wanted. That is different. To be wanted by a child is the cleanest of desires. To still be wanted once the child is fed and rested; once the diapers are fresh and the snot has been siphoned from the nos...
What Happens when Your Postpartum Inspires a Novel? Julia's Birth story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - April 07, 2023 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings"Need is an albatross. To be needed is to wear the weight of stones across your chest . To be wanted. That is different. To be wanted by a child is the cleanest of desires. To still be wanted once the child is fed and rested; once the diapers are fresh and the snot has been siphoned from the nos...
From Motherhood Myths to Parenting like a Yogi: Anja's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - March 31, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode Anja and I talk about one of the biggest, most oppressive misconceptions about motherhood and what you can do to free yourself from it. We also discuss: * how not being in control can actually be a good thing; * how being present makes you better able to respond to needs, i...
What Happens when you Trade Motherhood Myths for Yogi thinking? Anja's Birth story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - March 31, 2023 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode Anja and I talk about one of the biggest, most oppressive misconceptions about motherhood and what you can do to free yourself from it. We also discuss: * how not being in control can actually be a good thing; * how being present makes you better able to respond to needs, i...
What can an Unexpected C-Section Teach You about Life? Anja's Birth Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - March 24, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode you will hear, useful advice about what you can do if the birth you planned is not the birth you experience, a very persuasive case for why trusting your intuition is so important and insights on how much control you have in this transformation from person to parent. Naus...
What her Unexpected C-Section Taught her about Life: Anja's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - March 24, 2023 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode you will hear, useful advice about what you can do if the birth you planned is not the birth you experience, a very persuasive case for why trusting your intuition is so important and insights on how much control you have in this transformation from person to parent. Naus...
What Could Happen when you Develop skills of Self Advocacy? Megan's Birth story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - March 17, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsEntering the Postpartum period is like being pushed from a cliff...it's a shocking change of circumstance, and its hard to be ready for it that first time--but with more accurate expectations?? In today's episode, you'll hear the second half of my conversation with Megan. She shares: how she ...
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