Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
Today’s birth story, is with Nichole Joy, whose experiences have taken her from a Cesarean birth, to a VBAC, to an unexpected and unassisted homebirth. She has gone from being afraid of giving birth and letting others guide her decision making, to trusting the process...
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
Hayley Gallagher Katz had set out to have a non-medicated waterbirth with a midwife and doula. So what happens after a month of prodromal labor, 40 hours of induction, the worst headache of her life, and lots of oozing meconium? Check it out. To listen here,...
C-sections, Interventions, Podcast, Pregnancy, TBPodcast
Today we are taking a close look at the ARRIVE trial abstract, research that suggests elective inductions at 39 weeks could reduce the Cesarean rate. What does this mean for pregnant people and maternity care? Does mother nature really have it all wrong? Is there a...
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
We continue still with our “Birth Stories” for the summer series! It’s a jam-packed episode today with five, very different birth stories! From traumatic, to physiological, to emergency Cesarean with placental abruption, to VBAC, to homebirth, and a bit of Lyme...
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
What do you do when you send your husband out to car-nap your older daughter as you finish getting ready to go to the hospital, and labor goes from 0 to 60, while you’re still at home? Do you panic? Do you call 911? Do you call your doula? Do you breathe and center...