[Birth Stories] How This Fitness Coach Trained to Use Hypnosis During Childbirth

Birth Stories, hypnosis, Labor & Birth, Podcast

Taylor Walker Sinning breaks down exactly how she trained herself for months to use hypnosis to relieve her pain during labor. And makes clear to Adriana Lozada just why it became her most powerful tool during childbirth. Listen through to the end of the episode for...

Pleasure-Filled Homebirth During COVID, with Maya Ehnat

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

The Birthful Podcast: Episode #270 [Birth Stories] Maya’s second homebirth was in strong contrast with her first. Instead of almost three days, labor flowed so fast that her midwife nearly missed it. During her first, the pushing stage was also quite difficult, and so...

Dream Hospital Birth During COVID, with Jenny Murphy

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

The Birthful Podcast: Episode #269 [Birth Stories] Jenny spent much of her pregnancy learning about every worst-case birth scenario, not knowing all the new possible things to worry about that a pandemic would provide. Then life surprised her even more by giving her...

Preeclampsia during COVID, with Melonie Fitch

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Preeclampsia during COVID, with Melonie Fitch For her third birth, Melonie Fitch was planning a birth center birth, but when the quarantine began, she and her husband decided to have a home birth instead. All that changed when at 39 weeks and five days, her blood...

Last Minute Switch to a Home Birth, with Kara Fransted

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Kara Fransted and her husband had never considered having a home birth, but as the pandemic hit and there was a real possibility of her husband having to miss the birth of their third child, they looked into it. Never mind that she was already 38 weeks pregnant. Check...

VBAC during the Pandemic, with Mandy Morine

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

After having a cesarean birth for a failed induction, Mandy Morine was determined to have a VBAC. She did all the things to prepare and set up an extensive team to support her. Then COVID hit, and Mandy found herself having to adjust to virtual doula support, a closed...