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[Birth Stories] 5-Day Induction Makes for a Very Confusing and Grueling Birth

[Birth Stories] 5-Day Induction Makes for a Very Confusing and Grueling Birth

Birth Choices, Birth Stories, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

Myra Flynn set out to have as few interventions as possible during the birth of her daughter. She tells Adriana Lozada what it was like to stand up for herself— and adapt to the circumstances— during her five days in labor. What things have you had to do (with care...
All About Inductions

All About Inductions

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....
An Empowered Cesarean after a Traumatic One, with Melissa Divaris Thompson

An Empowered Cesarean after a Traumatic One, with Melissa Divaris Thompson

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...
    • Adriana Lozada, a Latina with curly gray hair, is wearing a blue-green top and long necklace, looking fierce in a pose with her hands on her hips
      9 Most Badass Birth Moments (From Adriana’s Doula Career)
    • Michelle Rose, with her dark hair under a scrub cap, reclines in a hospital bed with her twin babies, wearing caps and swaddle blankets, on her chest
      [Birth Stories] Triumphant Vaginal Birth Of Twins Despite Preeclampsia And Triggering Interventions
    • Sivan Dirks, a white-presenting woman with dark hair, presses her cheek against her newborn baby's. who is wearing a cap and swaddle, following her cesarean birth
      [Birth Stories] Four Days After Her Water Broke and Still No Labor – Now What?!
    • Adriana, a Latina with tan skin and short curly dark hair, holds infant Seph in her arms against the backdrop of Caracas, Venezuela
      [Birth Stories] Celebrating Our 10 Years With Adriana’s Birth Story!
    • Ujarak Appadoo, a brown-skinned Indigenous woman with long dark hair, carries her baby on her back
      [Birth Stories] Weaving Together Four Unmedicated Births To Reveal Her Authentic Self

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