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...
Birth Choices, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
How should you touch a laboring person during contractions? How should you touch them in between contractions? Should you use both hands? Should you lean in? How fast should you go? Why is touch helpful at all? Yiska Obadia has answers. Check it out! To listen...
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...
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...
Birth Choices, Childbirth Education, Podcast, TBPodcast
You’d think choosing a childbirth education class would be straight forward, but as with most birth-related things, the options are nearly endless. Should you take the hospital class or an independent one? Lamaze, Bradley, Birthing from Within, Hypnobabies, or...
Birth Choices, golden hour, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Birth hormones are in charge of making your labor flow, establishing breastfeeding and helping you bond with your baby. Supporting your hormones can lead to a healthier and smoother birth. How can you encourage them? What should you avoid? Sarah Buckley has answers....
