Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Toni DeAztlan Smith went into her first birth without doing much research and naively trusting the system. After an eye-opening traumatic experience that took over 6 years to process, Toni was finally ready to take birth into her own hands and proactively turn it from...
Activism, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Despite increasingly high health care spending, the U.S. has one of the worst rates of deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the developed world. The damage goes beyond statistical data points, with rates of birth trauma also rising. And if you are a person of...
golden hour, Podcast, Postpartum, TBPodcast
Birth does its own thing, and often it’s harder than expected, even for women whose experience matched their birth plan. Is there a way to prevent emotional birth trauma? How about heal birth trauma? Pam England from Birthing From Within tells us more. To...
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
We’re jump starting our Birthful Stories by talking with Melissa Divaris Thompson about her two very different Cesarean birth experiences. Melissa describes her first experience as traumatic. By contrast, she felt really empowered during her second birth. So what...
Activism, Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Today we are taking on the most common myths and concerns around birth traumas, and exploring ways to avoid them. The statistics for those who consider their birth to have been traumatic can range between 25 and whopping 49%. So, what can you do to improve the chances...
