![[Birth Stories] Unlocking Her Dream Birth by Valuing Her Intuition (And Switching Care Providers!)](https://birthful.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/image0-e1668569789816-946x675.jpeg)
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
Margot Strauhull brought her self-described “rule-following” attitude to her first hospital induction with an OB and had what she considered was a fine birth… until she was overcome by sadness in postpartum. This started her on a journey of peeling back the layers, to...
![[Birth Stories] How Nutrition Was Key for Her “Mission: Make a Small Baby”](https://birthful.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Jessica-Bower-laboring-484x675.jpg)
Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
After birthing quite a large baby and experiencing shoulder dystocia, Jessica Bower went on a quest to figure out why she had grown a baby that size. She shares with Adriana how gaining control of her sugar levels really helped with her “Mission: Make a Small Baby”...
Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
If you had or have a baby who is suspected to be big, your provider may have talked about the risk of the shoulders getting stuck, and maybe suggested an earlier induction or even a cesarean. But how often do the shoulders get stuck? What are the risks? Does it happen...
Birth Stories, Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast
What can you do after a truly exhausting birth leaves you in a daze, you’ve got intersecting breastfeeding issues and postpartum anxiety, you feel you are bonding more with your breast pump than your baby, have to return to work, and you don’t know how to ask for...
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....
