How to Organize Truly Helpful Postpartum Support From Your Friends and Family

Interventions, Podcast, Postpartum, TBPodcast

Michelle Peterson shares with Adriana a fantastic framework for setting up your postpartum village of support that spreads the responsibility over many people (seven to be exact) so that you are well-resourced beyond the first few weeks of postpartum. She explains how...

[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...

Helping Your Mammalian Body (and Baby!) Have an Easier and More Connected Birth

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Choices, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

During labor, you want contractions that are longer, stronger, and closer together. But why? Dr. Sarah Buckley and Adriana take a deep dive into the amazing and fascinating hormonal dance that happens during the birthing process, and how interventions such as...

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...

Transformation Through the Holistic Stages of Birth (Part Two)

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, skin-to-skin, TBPodcast

We try to make birth practical by measuring, overseeing, and monitoring it… when really, it’s an experience that flows seamlessly from one stage to another, taking the birthing person deep into their physiology and intuitive altered states. Whapio Diane Bartlett...

Transformation Through the Holistic Stages of Birth (Part One)

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Choices, Doulas, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

We try to make birth practical by measuring, overseeing, and monitoring it… when really, it’s an experience that flows seamlessly from one stage to another, taking the birthing person deep into their physiology and intuitive altered states. Whapio Diane Bartlett...