[Birth Stories] How This Doula Exercised Informed Consent Throughout a Long Birth

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...

How to Have a Great Hospital Birth

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Doulas, Hospital, Labor & Birth, Podcast, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada goes through best practices to ensure you have a positive birth experience at a hospital. And why it’s important to be prepared. What steps have you taken to prepare for your hospital birth? Tell us how you made the experience your own on Instagram...

[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...

How to Avoid a “Cascade of Interventions”

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...

Eight Questions to Ask Your Care Provider

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Interventions, Podcast, Pregnancy, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada shares what you should know about your provider’s protocols and practices, in order to help you figure out how much shared decision-making and agency you will have in your birth experience. What was the most illuminating question you asked your care...