Helping Your Mammalian Body (and Baby!) Have an Easier and More Connected Birth

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Choices, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

During labor, you want contractions that are longer, stronger, and closer together. But why? Dr. Sarah Buckley and Adriana take a deep dive into the amazing and fascinating hormonal dance that happens during the birthing process, and how interventions such as...

[Birth Story] How Her Goals of “No Epidural and No Whining” Helped Her Befriend the Labor Pain

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast

Celeste and Claudiu Bancos share their perspectives of their son’s birth (who chimes in too!), often surprising each other with moments the other didn’t remember or knew about. Ultimately, Celeste achieved her birth goals of not whining and avoiding getting an...

The Purpose of Childbirth Pain

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Plan, Comfort measures, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Rhea Dempsey is one of the foremost thinkers on the topic of working with pain in childbirth. She shares with Adriana the physiological purpose of pain during labor, why it gets such a bad rap, and suggests the pain relief paradigm is a medical construct that...

[Birth Stories] Birth Is As Mental and Emotional As It Is Physical

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast

Megan Othling explains how birth can happen as much in your head as in your body and how facing the unexpected feelings she was having during the birth of her third child was just what was needed for them to be born. She shares with Adriana the profound growth and...

Getting Comfortable With the Intimate Nature of Birth

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Pregnancy is a great time to realize what the heck motivates your choices as you venture into the great transformation of birth and becoming a parent. Nekole Malia Shapiro shares with Adriana how using the embodied approach of connecting with yourself and your body...

[Birth Story] So Was It a Waterbirth?

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Hailey McHone’s first birth was what her OB called “a textbook hospital delivery,” which came with an epidural-Pitocin combo, and, frankly, little consent. She talks with Adriana about getting more intentional with her wishes and choices for her second...