Latest Birth stories Podcast Episodes
REBROADCAST: Natural Birth Prevails when IVF Fails, but leads to Embryo Donation: Danielle's Pregnancy Story + Expert Insights from an Audiologist
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 30, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTeenage 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...
REBROADCAST: Natural Birth Prevails when IVF Fails, but leads to Embryo Donation: Danielle's story
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 30, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTeenage 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...
REBROADCAST: Dreams Do Come True X2: Danielle
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 30, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsTeenage 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...
What Happens when you are Ambivalent about Stepping into Pregnancy? Courtney's Birth Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 23, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode we hear the second half of my conversation with Courtney Maum. She shares the motivation for her second pregnancy and the challenging end of that pregnancy. We'll pick up where we left off last week: with wise words from the French gynecologist that Courtney saw for the very f...
Ambivalence about Stepping into Pregnancy: Courtney's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 23, 2022 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode we hear the second half of my conversation with Courtney Maum. She shares the motivation for her second pregnancy and the challenging end of that pregnancy. We'll pick up where we left off last week: with wise words from the French gynecologist that Courtney saw for the very f...
What Happens when you are Surprised by a Lovely Pregnancy? Courtney's Birth Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 16, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest shares her experience of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, none of which conformed to her expectation. She walked into pregnancy ambivalently....and to her surprise loved many of the aspects of the experience that people often find difficult; because of a lifelong struggle with inso...
Ambivalence About Stepping into Pregnancy: Courtney's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 16, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest shares her experience of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, none of which conformed to her expectation. She walked into pregnancy ambivalently....and to her surprise loved many of the aspects of the experience that people often find difficult; because of a lifelong struggle with inso...
Reluctantly walking into a Lovely Pregnancy, a Birth that she Savored and a Satisfying Postpartum : Courtney's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 16, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest shares her experience of pregnancy, birth and motherhood, none of which conformed to her expectation. She walked into pregnancy ambivalently....and to her surprise loved many of the aspects of the experience that people often find difficult; because of a lifelong struggle with inso...
A Late Visit from a Preeclampsia Diagnosis: Joy's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 09, 2022 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we hear the second half of my conversation with Joy about how her experience with preeclampsia played out and her efforts to understand what happened to her, why her hospital care was so chaotic, and how she and her husband returned to a more stable place. I also include more from my conve...
What Happens when Preeclampsia includes a NICU stay? Joy's Birth story + physician insights, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 09, 2022 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we hear the second half of my conversation with Joy about how her experience with preeclampsia played out and her efforts to understand what happened to her, why her hospital care was so chaotic, and how she and her husband returned to a more stable place. I also include more from my conve...
A Chaotic Hospital Stay that Contributes to a late Preeclampsia Diagnosis: Joy's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 09, 2022 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we hear the second half of my conversation with Joy about how her experience with preeclampsia played out and her efforts to understand what happened to her, why her hospital care was so chaotic, and how she and her husband returned to a more stable place. I also include more from my conve...
A Chaotic Hospital Stay that Contributes to a late Preeclampsia Diagnosis: Joy's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 02, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy carefully. She is a health journalist who had researched and reported on pregnancy issues and this work influenced her ideas about the kind of birth she wanted to have. Things began swimmingly, and it wasn't until the third trimester when the first signs of wh...
What Happens When a Chaotic Hospital Birth turns into Preeclampsia? Joy's Birth story + physician insights, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 02, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy carefully. She is a health journalist who had researched and reported on pregnancy issues and this work influenced her ideas about the kind of birth she wanted to have. Things began swimmingly, and it wasn't until the third trimester when the first signs of wh...
A Late Visit from a Preeclampsia Diagnosis: Joy's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 02, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy carefully. She is a health journalist who had researched and reported on pregnancy issues and this work influenced her ideas about the kind of birth she wanted to have. Things began swimmingly, and it wasn't until the third trimester when the first signs of wh...
A Hospital birth, and a Newborn in the NICU: Joy's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - December 02, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy carefully. She is a health journalist who had researched and reported on pregnancy issues and this work influenced her ideas about the kind of birth she wanted to have. Things began swimmingly, and it wasn't until the third trimester when the first signs of wh...
A Birth Visited by Too Many Medical Interventions: Nicole's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 25, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we hear the rest of my conversation with Nicole. At the end of last week she'd described her first birth, which ended in a C section and left Nicole feeling that the birth had been exacted without her full participation, and she was vowing to have a different experience in future birth...
What Happens when the Second Birth Involves Less Medical Intervention? Nicole's Birth Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 25, 2022 20:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis week we hear the rest of my conversation with Nicole. At the end of last week she'd described her first birth, which ended in a C section and left Nicole feeling that the birth had been exacted without her full participation, and she was vowing to have a different experience in future birth...
A Birth Visited by Too Many Medical Interventions: Nicole's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 18, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy with an expectation that the process would be as smooth for her as it had been for her mother, as it was for the farm animals she'd been surrounded by for her whole life, as it was from 50,000 feet: civilization depends on this process and women's bodies were ...
What Happens When the Birth involves much more Medical Intervention than you Expected? Nicole's Birth Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 18, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest walked into pregnancy with an expectation that the process would be as smooth for her as it had been for her mother, as it was for the farm animals she'd been surrounded by for her whole life, as it was from 50,000 feet: civilization depends on this process and women's bodies were ...
Becoming a Mother Without my Mother: Melissa's story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 11, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we pick up the second half of Melissa's story. At the end of last week's episode Melissa was on bedrest, she has to leave her job and be home with a four year old and a husband who worked full time, in a town in which she didn't have a strong support network because she'd moved there relat...
What Happens when you become a Mother Without your Mother? Melissa's Birth story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 11, 2022 15:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we pick up the second half of Melissa's story. At the end of last week's episode Melissa was on bedrest, she has to leave her job and be home with a four year old and a husband who worked full time, in a town in which she didn't have a strong support network because she'd moved there relat...
Becoming a Mother Without my Mother: Melissa's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 04, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest is a clinical psychologist, whose mother passed away a few years before she had any direct experience of pregnancy. She encounters recurrent miscarriage, three in the first trimester, and then a pregnancy that progresses past the first trimester, only to be threatened with prematur...
What Happens when you Confront Challenges in Pregnancy without your Mother? Melissa's Birth story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - November 04, 2022 07:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest is a clinical psychologist, whose mother passed away a few years before she had any direct experience of pregnancy. She encounters recurrent miscarriage, three in the first trimester, and then a pregnancy that progresses past the first trimester, only to be threatened with prematur...
What Happens when you Lose your Identity in Motherhood? Marnie's Birth story
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest had a number of challenges with the physical aspects of pregnancy--she and her partner had trouble getting pregnant initially, and her third child was born in June of 2020, very much in the heart of covid, which invited it's own challenges; but what really surprised her was the los...
Loss of Identity after Becoming a Mother: Marnie's story
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest had a number of challenges with the physical aspects of pregnancy--she and her partner had trouble getting pregnant initially, and her third child was born in June of 2020, very much in the heart of covid, which invited it's own challenges; but what really surprised her was the los...
Losing your Identity in Motherhood: Marnie's story
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 28, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday's guest had a number of challenges with the physical aspects of pregnancy--she and her partner had trouble getting pregnant initially, and her third child was born in June of 2020, very much in the heart of covid, which invited it's own challenges; but what really surprised her was the los...
What Can Happen to your view of Pregnancy after Recurrent Miscarriage? Eileen's Birth Story + Fertility Specialist Insights, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 21, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we hear the second half of Eileen's story about her experience with pregnancy. Last week we heard about some of the challenges associated with her miscarriages. But when we left Eileen, she was about to deliver her first baby, having christened the hospital elevator when her water broke on...
One Woman's Experience with Recurrent Miscarriage: Eileen's Story, Part II
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 21, 2022 07:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsToday we hear the second half of Eileen's story about her experience with pregnancy. Last week we heard about some of the challenges associated with her miscarriages. But when we left Eileen, she was about to deliver her first baby, having christened the hospital elevator when her water broke on...
One Woman's Experience with Recurrent Miscarriage: Eileen's story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 14, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode, my guests challenge is with miscarriage. She has two miscarriages both at the end of the first trimester, and then uses IVF (despite the fact that getting pregnant isn't the issue)...and get's pregnant, and has a miscarriage....eventually she becomes the mother of two girls,...
What Happens When You Experience Recurrent Miscarriage? Eileen's Birth story + Reproductive Endocrinology Insights , Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 14, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsIn today's episode, my guests challenge is with miscarriage. She has two miscarriages both at the end of the first trimester, and then uses IVF (despite the fact that getting pregnant isn't the issue)...and get's pregnant, and has a miscarriage....eventually she becomes the mother of two girls,...
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