All Birthful Episodes

Pregnant people get bombarded with all sorts of advice: a lot of it unsolicited, outdated, or just plain wrong. In Birthful, working doula and former journalist Adriana Lozada talks pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with top experts and new parents.

Every episode distills the overload of pregnancy information down to the most relevant and useful stuff.

Exploring Your Options of Where to Give Birth

Exploring Your Options of Where to Give Birth

Adriana Lozada goes through the pros and cons of three places where you can give birth: a hospital, a birth center, and at home, and what you should consider when making an informed decision. Powered by RedCircle Listen directly through our website...

What You Need to Know About Birth Models (Birth What?)

What You Need to Know About Birth Models (Birth What?)

Medical anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd talks with Adriana about the technocratic, humanistic and holistic birth models. She explains why we’ve gotten so obsessed with machines and numbers, why we need more midwives, how some OBs are making positive change by...

What Cultural Ideals Will Shape Your Birth Experience?

What Cultural Ideals Will Shape Your Birth Experience?

Author and childbirth educator Britta Bushnell describes eight deeply-entrenched cultural ideals that can unconsciously— and even negatively— impact the course of your labor and how you parent. She and Adriana share how to reframe these beliefs to uplift realistic...

[Birth Stories] Prodromal… and Fantastic?!

[Birth Stories] Prodromal… and Fantastic?!

Criselda shares with Adriana the details of her three-day-long birth, which she describes as amazing and transformative. It also truly illustrates how birth is not linear, as it can easily go from prodromal to precipitous! Find out what helped her get through the...

[Birth Story] Birth: Not as Bad as Hiking the Machu Picchu Trail

[Birth Story] Birth: Not as Bad as Hiking the Machu Picchu Trail

Shelley Wylie shares with Adriana how marvelous it can be to see your partner really have your back and tell the nurse to wait until your contraction is over, how birth is not as horrendous as the Machu Picchu trail, and how you can absolutely have a lovely birth,...

[Birth Stories] A Glorious Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

[Birth Stories] A Glorious Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

Kally McConnell shares her glorious VBAC story, along with all the things she did differently from her first birth, how it all started with a literal bang when her bag of waters broke, and how there was no time for the tub. She also shares with Adriana the insights...

[Birth Stories] Giving Birth to Twins as a Disabled Person

[Birth Stories] Giving Birth to Twins as a Disabled Person

Dani Izzie, a disability advocate who is quadriplegic, tells Adriana how her years of navigating the medical system, connecting with a community that understands her, building a supportive team, and her deep understanding of her body helped her through the birth of...

How to Set Up Your Childcare Options to Include Community Care

How to Set Up Your Childcare Options to Include Community Care

Great childcare— so, a solution that you can afford, has availability, works with your schedule, and can provide loving and safe care for your child— can be hard to find! Most often than not, you will have to concede some trade-offs. Leslie Borrell explains the...

Milk Your Lactation Benefits!

Milk Your Lactation Benefits!

Some people say that nursing your baby is "free"—  and while there certainly are unique cost savings associated with feeding human milk, there can be expenses associated with it, too. How can you maximize your lactation-related benefits? And what does the law have to...

Working with HR to Maximize Your Employee Benefits for Postpartum

Working with HR to Maximize Your Employee Benefits for Postpartum

Understanding your parental leave benefits— with all its overwhelming fine print— can be a daunting task! To make the process easier, human resource professional extraordinaire Katy Dahl shares with Adriana how to approach the process so that you can not only maximize...

What You Need To Plan Your Parental Leave

What You Need To Plan Your Parental Leave

Perinatal health consultant Arianna Taboada goes through the ins and outs of paid and unpaid parental leave in the United States. She shares with Adriana Lozada how to be realistic about your options for the best possible return to work for you and your family, while...

How Your Baby Helps During the Birthing Process

How Your Baby Helps During the Birthing Process

Babies use a set of coordinated movements and specific reflexes that allow them to participate in the birthing process. Adriana Lozada explains how this fascinating process works, and how it helps get them earthside. Powered by RedCircle Listen...

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