[Birth Story] How Harnessing Her Birth Hormones Allowed Her to Forgo an Induction

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Fertility, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

When Danellia Arechiga became a gestational surrogate, she felt strongly about having an unmedicated birth at a birth center. Even as her labor plan derailed into an induction, she pushed for few interventions and worked with her physiology, ultimately experiencing...

[Birth Stories] Why a Birth Team Was Key in Overcoming Her Fears

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

Kristina Colangelo visualized a flowing birth, but the reality caught her by surprise. Fortunately, her dad, mom, doula, and midwife supported her through a long labor due to a posterior baby, prolonged hyperemesis gravidarum, and the fear of tearing. She tells...

Essentials of Partner Labor Support during a Pandemic, with Adriana Lozada

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Childbirth Education, Labor & Birth, Parenting, Podcast, TBPodcast

In today’s episode, Adriana Lozada focuses on the essentials of partner labor support during this time of the pandemic. Many hospitals are limiting birth support to one healthy person, so we wanted to do a special episode on how to prepare for providing labor support...

Informed Consent in Childbirth

Activism, Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Interventions, Podcast, TBPodcast

During pregnancy and birth, it has somehow become OK for others to tell those giving birth, what they can and cannot do with their bodies, even when being subjected to unsafe care and in violation of their human and legal rights. So what can you do about it? Cristen...

Working with Childbirth Pain

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Childbirth Education, Comfort measures, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

What are the four components of pain? Does pain equate suffering? If the signal doesn’t make it to the brain, is it pain? And how can you (and your partner, if you have one!) change that signal before it arrives? Pain specialist Julie Bonapace has answers. Check it...

A Dad’s Perspective (Part 2)

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Comfort measures, Partner's Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast

Today we continue to talk with new dad, Jeremy Buczek about his experience of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. In Part 1 last week, we left off just as things were moving into active labor. Today, we continue from there through the birth, and into postpartum,...