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[Best of Birthful] How a Baby’s Position Impacts Labor, with Gail Tully

[Best of Birthful] How a Baby’s Position Impacts Labor, with Gail Tully

Best of Birthful, Birth Plan, Doulas, 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...
Eight Questions to Ask Your Care Provider

Eight Questions to Ask Your Care Provider

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

Adriana Lozada shares what you should know about your provider’s protocols and practices, in order to help you figure out how much shared decision-making and agency you will have in your birth experience. What was the most illuminating question you asked your care...
Informed Consent in Childbirth

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...
The Problem with Due Dates, with Gail Hart

The Problem with Due Dates, with Gail Hart

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

If you’re pregnant, you may be sick of the question “When are you due?,” especially since the methods for calculating that date aren’t based on any current evidence. Only about 5% of babies are born on their due date, so why do we obsess? Gail Hart and her dogs tell...
Rethinking the Pushing Stage

Rethinking the Pushing Stage

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

It’s extremely common for pushing stages to be managed, with laboring people reclining on their backs and being told to grab behind their knees and pull them open towards their ears, while tucking their chins, and holding their breath for a count of 10. Is this really...
All about Inductions, with Dr. Gene Declercq

All about Inductions, with Dr. Gene Declercq

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

In this episode of the Birthful podcast, I talk with Professor Gene Declercq about the complex realm of inductions. Are there good and not so good reasons for inductions? What are the risks? Do inductions lead to other interventions? Let’s see what the numbers say....
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