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Birth Choices, Birth Stories, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Stories
Despite the many course-corrections during the birth of her third child, Amy Silva did not lose sight of her right to choose during each step of her birthing process. She tells Adriana how her decision to refuse a pointless COVID swab during labor changed protocol in...
Hospital, Labor & Birth, Podcast, short episode
Adriana Lozada explains the process of triage, which happens before you’re admitted to the hospital to give birth. She covers it all, from the steps to confirm you’re in labor, to potential inconveniences and discomfort, to concrete ways to advocate for yourself and...
![[Birth Stories] How He Prepared to Give Birth](https://birthful.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_5794-1080x675.jpg)
Activism, Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast
In honor of the upcoming Transgender Awareness Week (from 11/13 – 11/19) this week’s episode is a wonderful birth story with Trystan Reese. Trystan Reese assembled a birth team that included his partner, dad, mother-in-law, and the head nurse at the...
Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast
Jenny spent much of her pregnancy learning about every worst-case birth scenario, not knowing all the new possible things to worry about that a pandemic would provide. Then life surprised her even more by giving her the dream birth experience she didn’t think...
Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast
April Teel has had two unmedicated vaginal births, one at a freestanding birth center in southern California and the other at a hospital in North Dakota. Independently of birth setting, the biggest difference in these experiences came down to the pushing stage, with...
