[Birth Stories] Why a Birth Team Was Key in Overcoming Her Fears

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

Kristina Colangelo visualized a flowing birth, but the reality caught her by surprise. Fortunately, her dad, mom, doula, and midwife supported her through a long labor due to a posterior baby, prolonged hyperemesis gravidarum, and the fear of tearing. She tells...

[Birth Stories] Why This Surrogate Lobbied for an Unmedicated Birth

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Fertility, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, Stories

When she became a gestational surrogate, Danellia Arechiga felt strongly about having an unmedicated birth at a birth center. Even as her labor plan derailed into an induction, she pushed for few interventions. She tells Adriana Lozada why doing so was important for...

Nine Things to NOT Worry About During Birth

Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada dispels nine common worries of expectant parents, and explains why you can just let them go. Do you have any worries about pregnancy, labor and birth? Tell us on Instagram @birthfulpodcast! Listen directly through our website player, or however you...

[Birth Stories] Different Births, Different Wishes, with Krissy Whitehead

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

For her first birth, Krissy Whitehead didn’t have much of a plan, other than getting an epidural. That birth was a lovely experience, so what made her alter her birth wishes with each consecutive birth, and choose a home waterbirth for her fourth one? Go listen....

Scheduled Induction Without an Epidural, with Molly Chesterson

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Both of Molly Chesterson’s labors have started with inductions but under different circumstances. After having an epidural for her first birth, Molly was hoping for an epidural free experience the second time around. It was an intense close call at the end, when she...