[Birth Stories] Giving Birth to Twins as a Disabled Person

Activism, Birth Stories, C-sections, Labor & Birth, Parenting, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

Dani Izzie, a disability advocate who is quadriplegic, tells Adriana how her years of navigating the medical system, connecting with a community that understands her, building a supportive team, and her deep understanding of her body helped her through the birth of...

[Birth Story] How She Was Surprised by Both Birth and Postpartum, but in Opposite Ways!

Birth Stories, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast

Ivy Tumlinson shares with Adriana the overwhelming challenges of her postpartum experience after being overjoyed by her fast and furious unmedicated hospital birth. She explains the lactation issues that lead her to exclusively pump and the difficulties in healing her...

[Birth Stories] How She Confidently and Calmly Gave Birth in a Moving Car

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Laura Loos has had two non-medicated vaginal births, with her second one happening so super fast, that it involved birthing while in a moving car! She shares with Adriana how connecting with her inner voice and trusting the abundant preparation she had done during...

[Birth Stories] How She Reframed Birth Toward Pleasure and Let Her Power Flow

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Maya Ehnat was brought up to be comfortable with birth, and so from the get-go, her language and approach weren’t fear-based. Beyond that, much of the preparation she did during pregnancy was guided by a desire to minimize trauma and bring heaps of pleasure and joy...

[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...

[Birth Story] How Her Goals of “No Epidural and No Whining” Helped Her Befriend the Labor Pain

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast

Celeste and Claudiu Bancos share their perspectives of their son’s birth (who chimes in too!), often surprising each other with moments the other didn’t remember or knew about. Ultimately, Celeste achieved her birth goals of not whining and avoiding getting an...