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What Happens when You have to Manage a Preterm Birth? Kristine's Birth story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 07, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear the second half of my conversation with Kristine. Last week we heard about her first pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth. She just started talking about her second pregnancy, which was looking and feeling too much like the first one for her comfort. And she's gone into the hospita...

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Managing the Complexity of Preterm Birth: Kristine's story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 07, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear the second half of my conversation with Justine. Last week we heard about her first pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth. She just started talking about her second pregnancy, which was looking and feeling too much like the first one for her comfort. And she's gone into the hospital...

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The Power of Gut Instinct: Kristine's story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - October 07, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear the second half of my conversation with Justine. Last week we heard about her first pregnancy that ended in a stillbirth. She just started talking about her second pregnancy, which was looking and feeling too much like the first one for her comfort. And she's gone into the hospital...

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Managing the Complexity of Preterm Birth....Twice: Kristine's story, Part I

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 30, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Being able to create a new life inside your body is both an awesome feat and one fraught with the real possibility of death. Once you really hone in on the millions of things that have to go right in the just right way to make a baby, it's a wonder anyone is born ever. Today's guest spends time ...

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The Power of Gut Instinct: Kristine's story, Part I

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 30, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Being able to create a new life inside your body is both an awesome feat and one fraught with the real possibility of death. Once you really hone in on the millions of things that have to go right in the just right way to make a baby, it's a wonder anyone is born ever. Today's guest spends time ...

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What Happens When you rely on Gut Instinct in a Pregnancy ? Kristine's Birth story, Part I

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 30, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Being able to create a new life inside your body is both an awesome feat and one fraught with the real possibility of death. Once you really hone in on the millions of things that have to go right in the just right way to make a baby, it's a wonder anyone is born ever. Today's guest spends time ...

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Not Your Mother's Birth Experience: Corinne's story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 23, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Few of us enter pregnancy and delivery with a crystal clear picture of what the experience will be like the first time.  In some ways, this makes sense, given that everyone's experience will be unique in certain ways, depending on their health, their age, their partner, their history...but the d...

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What Happens when Your Mother's Birth Story Gets in the Way? Corinne's Birth story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 23, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Few of us enter pregnancy and delivery with a crystal clear picture of what the experience will be like the first time.  In some ways, this makes sense, given that everyone's experience will be unique in certain ways, depending on their health, their age, their partner, their history...but the d...

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To Magazine, or Not to Magazine: Corinne's birth story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 23, 2022 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Few of us enter pregnancy and delivery with a crystal clear picture of what the experience will be like the first time.  In some ways, this makes sense, given that everyone's experience will be unique in certain ways, depending on their health, their age, their partner, their history...but the d...

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Giving Birth to Motherhood: Amie and Katie

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 16, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear from two women, one’s an author and generally in the book world and the other is an author, grief counsel and  therapist. Individually, these women encountered challenges with their own pregnancies. They’ve come together to write a book that helps women to process the events of the...

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What Happens when you Give Birth to Motherhood? Amie and Katie's birth stories & book story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 16, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear from two women, one’s an author and generally in the book world and the other is an author, grief counsel and  therapist. Individually, these women encountered challenges with their own pregnancies. They’ve come together to write a book that helps women to process the events of the...

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Suddenly, Blindness--a Run in with Preeclampsia: Diana's story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 09, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear part two of my conversation with Diana about her experiences with pregnancy and delivery. Last week, our conversation ended with Diana 41 weeks pregnant, partially dilated, stomping around in the hall of the hospital trying to get her baby to move into a better position for birth. ...

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What Happens when Preeclampsia includes Blindness? Diana's Birth story + Neuro opthalmology Insights, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 09, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today we hear part two of my conversation with Diana about her experiences with pregnancy and delivery. Last week, our conversation ended with Diana 41 weeks pregnant, partially dilated, stomping around in the hall of the hospital trying to get her baby to move into a better position for birth. ...

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Suddenly, Blindness--a Run in with Preeclampsia: Diana's story, Part I

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 03, 2022 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's guest grew up with a mother who is something of an earth goddess, meaning that she was involved in a movement toward empowered birthing long before it's a main cultural current. So the seeds of an idea of what a birth should look like were planted early in my guests life. In the course o...

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What Happens when Preeclampsia Includes Blindness? Diana's Birth story, Part I

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - September 03, 2022 21:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's guest grew up with a mother who is something of an earth goddess, meaning that she was involved in a movement toward empowered birthing long before it's a main cultural current. So the seeds of an idea of what a birth should look like were planted early in my guests life. In the course o...

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Episode 61: Managing Abortion and Post Partum Depression as a Psychiatric Nurse: Nina's Story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
 Today’s show shares the conclusion of Nina's experience as a pregnant 40 year old, trained in psychiatric nursing. She experiences many challenges, some unexpected, and other's that are less surprising. She talks about navigating an unwanted C section and peripartum and postpartum depression.  

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What Happens when you Manage an Unwanted C section? Nina's Birth Story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
 Today’s show shares the conclusion of Nina's experience as a pregnant 40 year old, trained in psychiatric nursing. She experiences many challenges, some unexpected, and other's that are less surprising. She talks about navigating an unwanted C section and peripartum and postpartum depression.  ...

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Managing Abortion and Post Partum Depression as a Psychiatric Nurse: Nina's Story, Part II

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 26, 2022 07:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
 Today’s show shares the conclusion of Nina's experience as a pregnant 40 year old, trained in psychiatric nursing. She experiences many challenges, some unexpected, and other's that are less surprising. She talks about navigating an unwanted C section and peripartum and postpartum depression.  

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Episode 60: Managing Abortion and Post Partum Depression as a Psychiatric Nurse: Nina's Story, Part 1

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 19, 2022 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today’s show features a guest that can give us some perspective on the current climate around two important topics: abortion and postpartum depression. She’s a psychiatric nurse practitioner, who experienced an abortion in the 1970s and peripartum and postpartum depression in the 1990s. She’s wr...

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What Happens when you have to manage Abortion and Postpartum Depression as a Psychiatric Nurse? Nina's Birth Story, Part 1

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 19, 2022 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today’s show features a guest that can give us some perspective on the current climate around two important topics: abortion and postpartum depression. She’s a psychiatric nurse practitioner, who experienced an abortion in the 1970s and peripartum and postpartum depression in the 1990s. She’s wr...

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Managing Abortion and Postpartum Depression as a Psychiatric Nurse: Nina's Story, Part 1

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 19, 2022 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today’s show features a guest that can give us some perspective on the current climate around two important topics: abortion and postpartum depression. She’s a psychiatric nurse practitioner, who experienced an abortion in the 1970s and peripartum and postpartum depression in the 1990s. She’s wr...

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Experiencing a Late Term Abortion: Kate's Story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features the story of an extremely challenging pregnancy that ended in a late term abortion, which was difficult for many reasons, and made more so by the politics and legal apparatus around abortion. My guest was well into a pregnancy that felt off to her in ways she could descr...

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Managing the Procedure, Pain and Loss of a Late Term Abortion: Kate's Story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features the story of an extremely challenging pregnancy that ended in a late term abortion, which was difficult for many reasons, and made more so by the politics and legal apparatus around abortion. My guest was well into a pregnancy that felt off to her in ways she could descr...

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What Happens when You have to manage the Pain and Loss of a Late Term Abortion? Kate's Pregnancy Story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - August 10, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features the story of an extremely challenging pregnancy that ended in a late term abortion, which was difficult for many reasons, and made more so by the politics and legal apparatus around abortion. My guest was well into a pregnancy that felt off to her in ways she could descr...

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Episode 58: The Power of Hormones: Hyperemesis and PPD visit a pregnancy: Laura's story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 31, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's guest had a pregnancy marked by extremely easy things and significantly hard things. Getting pregnant was consistent with the kind of fertility you see in a romantic comedy instantaneous, but the first trimester morning sickness was more like a sci fi thriller, totally extreme and requir...

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The Power of Hormones: Hyperemesis and postpartum depression visit a pregnancy: Laura's story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 31, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's guest had a pregnancy marked by extremely easy things and significantly hard things. Getting pregnant was consistent with the kind of fertility you see in a romantic comedy instantaneous, but the first trimester morning sickness was more like a sci fi thriller, totally extreme and requir...

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What Happens when Hyperemesis and postpartum depression visit a pregnancy? Laura's Birth story + Psychiatry Insights

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 31, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's guest had a pregnancy marked by extremely easy things and significantly hard things. Getting pregnant was consistent with the kind of fertility you see in a romantic comedy instantaneous, but the first trimester morning sickness was more like a sci fi thriller, totally extreme and requir...

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An Unintended Pregnancy that led to a Home for Unwed Mother's: Cathryn's Story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features a moving story from a woman who recalls her first pregnancy in the late 1960s. The pregnancy was unintended. She was 18. Her parents, her social setting, and the cultural expectations of the time suggested that she had two options: either to marry her then boyfriend and ...

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Secret No more, the first baby: Cathryn's Story

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features a moving story from a woman who recalls her first pregnancy in the late 1960s. The pregnancy was unintended. She was 18. Her parents, her social setting, and the cultural expectations of the time suggested that she had two options: either to marry her then boyfriend and ...

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What Happened when an Unintended Pregnancy led to a Home for Unwed Mother's? Cathryn's Birth Story + Adoption Expert Insights

What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights - July 21, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Today's episode features a moving story from a woman who recalls her first pregnancy in the late 1960s. The pregnancy was unintended. She was 18. Her parents, her social setting, and the cultural expectations of the time suggested that she had two options: either to marry her then boyfriend and ...

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