[Birth Stories] Creating A Beautiful Birth Experience Despite Five Days Of Interventions

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

Can a chaotic labor with a myriad of interventions for preeclampsia and several failed epidurals be a positive experience? Olivia Styons shares with Adriana the hard pivots she and her team had to make and how crucial it was for her to speak up for her needs – from...

Birth Principles: Enhance Your Birth Plan!

Birth Choices, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Today we’re going beyond the birth plan to talk about birth principles! Although a well-crafted birth plan can be a powerful tool, more often than not they’re formulaic, and outcome-focused nature can give a false illusion of control, and even elicit eye rolls...

[Birth Stories] How Harnessing Her Birth Hormones Allowed Her To Forgo An Induction

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

When Danellia Arechiga became a gestational surrogate, she 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 and worked with her physiology, ultimately experiencing...

[Birth Stories] How She Navigated a Long Birth While Waiting for Her Support Team to Arrive

Birth Stories, Movement and Body Wellness in Pregnancy Series, Podcast, TBPodcast

For weeks, Julia Cooper had been nervous that her baby would arrive while her husband and mom were away, and sure enough contractions started merely hours after she dropped her husband off at the airport. What follows is a testament to how hard it can be to shut off...

Eight Questions To Ask Your Care Provider (Especially In Your Second Trimester!)

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Interventions, Podcast, Pregnancy, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada shares eight great questions for sussing out your provider’s protocols and practices as your pregnancy advances, in order to help you figure out how much shared decision-making and agency you will truly have in your birth experience. Powered by...