Birth Choices, C-sections, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast
OB/GYN Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins breaks down the leading causes of what’s usually called a cascade of labor interventions—like an induction leading to a cesarean. She and Adriana Lozada offer insight into the risks and benefits of interventions, and help inform your...
Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Laura Kline-Taylor spent most of her first pregnancy preparing for motherhood while healing from infidelity, and then had three days to get ready for an unexpected breech cesarean. Second time around, both she and her husband were in a much better place to come...
Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Mariah Robinson has had four very different birth stories, that include a traumatic vaginal birth with an epidural, two inductions with one ending in a Cesarean, and an unplanned home birth with fetal ejection reflex, than involved her tablecloth. For this last one,...
Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast
Amber Thornton worked hard for a healthy pregnancy and unmedicated vaginal birth, but she didn’t expect her water to released before 39 weeks. Despite an early hospital admission, labor progressed right along, until it didn’t. Check it out. Listen directly through our...
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...