Birth Choices, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Birth hormones are in charge of making your labor flow, establishing breastfeeding and helping you bond with your baby. Supporting your hormones can lead to a healthier and smoother birth. How can you encourage them? What should you avoid? Sarah Buckley has answers....
Breastfeeding, golden hour, Podcast, TBPodcast
Planning to breastfeed your newborn? In this episode, I talk with none other than Dr. Jack Newman on what to expect, what to avoid, and when to ask for help, in order to get breastfeeding off to a good start. To listen here, click the play button on the player...
Birth Plan, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast, VBAC
The thought of vaginal tearing can make any woman cringe. And let’s not even think about episiotomies. Are there ways to avoid tearing? What’s the evidence behind perineal massage? Will being told how to push make things worse? Rachel Reed tells us more about...
Birth Choices, Birth Plan, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Waiting a few minutes to clamp a newborn’s umbilical cord can have significant health benefits, and yet the debate of early vs. delayed cord clamping rages on. What’s the big deal? Dr. Mark Sloan explains and shares what the evidence says. Listen directly...
golden hour, Podcast, Postpartum, TBPodcast
Birth does its own thing, and often it’s harder than expected, even for women whose experience matched their birth plan. Is there a way to prevent emotional birth trauma? How about heal birth trauma? Pam England from Birthing From Within tells us more. To...
Birth Choices, Birth Plan, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, newborn, Podcast, TBPodcast
In this episode of the Birthful Podcast, we are going to be talking about birth, but from the baby’s perspective. Have you ever wondered what a baby goes through when being born? It turns out that there’s a specific sequence of events that occurs as newborns...