[Birth Stories] Celebrating Our 10 Years With Adriana’s Birth Story!

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Parenting, Podcast, TBPodcast

What better way to celebrate this incredible 10-year milestone than by having Adriana share her own birth story? But there’s a twist… actually more than one! First, it’s Adriana’s daughter, Persephone (Seph), doing the interviewing. They’ll be sharing the evolving...

How Will You Show Up At Your Birth?

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

Here’s the thing about preparing for birth: you can read all the books, take all the classes, listen to all the podcasts, set up a dream birth team, but no amount of preparation will get the birthing done for you. Shalome Stone tells Adriana why pregnancy is the ideal...

How Your Birth Plan Impacts Your Birth Experience

Birth Plan, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy

Certified Nurse-Midwife Dr. Stephanie Mitchell shares with Adriana a few tools from her step-by-step guide to building a birth plan, and discusses why getting your plan together – and onboarding everyone on your birth team – can help ensure you are respected and heard...

[Birth Stories] 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...

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...

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...