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Getting Comfortable With the Intimate Nature of Birth

Getting Comfortable With the Intimate Nature of Birth

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...
Eight Questions to Ask Your Care Provider (Especially in Your Second Trimester!)

Eight Questions to Ask Your Care Provider (Especially in Your Second Trimester!)

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Interventions, Podcast, Pregnancy, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada shares eight great questions for sussing out your provider’s protocols and practices as your pregnancy advances, in order to help you figure out how much shared decision-making and agency you will truly have in your birth experience. Powered by...
If Pregnancy Becomes Medically Complicated: Working With a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician

If Pregnancy Becomes Medically Complicated: Working With a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician

Birth Plan, Interventions, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Chances are your pregnancy and birth will flow, and you’ll never need to see any of the care providers that deal with more complicated situations. But what if you do? Dr. Loralei Thornburg helps demystify what it can be like working with a Maternal-Fetal Medicine...
What You Need to Know About Obstetricians (OBs)

What You Need to Know About Obstetricians (OBs)

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, C-sections, Doulas, homebirth, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast, Uncategorized, VBAC

Obstetricians are the go-to care providers when giving birth in the U.S., but not all OBs are created equal. How do your obstetrician’s background and training impact the care you get, and is that aligned with the care you deserve? Dr. Stuart Fischbein shares...
[Best of Birthful] Why Pushing Too Early Might Affect the Baby and You

[Best of Birthful] Why Pushing Too Early Might Affect the Baby and You

Activism, Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Welcome to the Best of Birthful. Creator and host Adriana Lozada curated and edited each selection in this playlist of the show’s most popular episodes. It’s a tailored introduction to the expansive catalog she amassed over the first five years of...
How to Time Your Pain Relief Options

How to Time Your Pain Relief Options

Birth Plan, Comfort measures, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana goes through six different medical options for relieving pain during labor, focusing on the best time to use each one to help you plan your pain management strategy. How did you manage the sensations of labor? Tell us about your experience on Instagram...
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    • Getting Comfortable With the Intimate Nature of Birth
    • Hailey McHone, a pregnant white woman with brown hair, is wearing a turquoise bikini top and is smiling while she labors in a birthing tub
      [Birth Story] So Was It a Waterbirth?
    • Transformation Through the Holistic Stages of Birth (Part Two)
    • Transformation Through the Holistic Stages of Birth (Part One)
    • Adriana Aleman Crane, a brown skinned woman with dark hair, is smiling while reclined in a hospital bed with a sheet draped over her body and her newborn baby on her chest, who is wearing a cap on their head
      [Birth Stories] How She Got Through a Week of Prodromal Labor by Embracing It

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