[Best of Birthful] Understanding Your Birth Hormones

Best of Birthful, hormones, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Welcome to the Best of Birthful. Creator and host Adriana Lozada curated and edited each selection in this playlist of the show’s most popular episodes. It’s a tailored introduction to the expansive catalog she amassed over the first five years of...

What You Need to Know about Birth Positions

newborn, Podcast, Postpartum, short episode, skin-to-skin, TBPodcast

Adriana goes through positions for your body before, during, and after birth, and what makes each of them work for different stages of the birthing process. Which birth position (or positions!) were the most productive for you during labor? Tell us which ones and how...

Essentials of Partner Labor Support during a Pandemic, with Adriana Lozada

Birth Choices, Birth Partners, Childbirth Education, Labor & Birth, Parenting, Podcast, TBPodcast

In today’s episode, Adriana Lozada focuses on the essentials of partner labor support during this time of the pandemic. Many hospitals are limiting birth support to one healthy person, so we wanted to do a special episode on how to prepare for providing labor support...

The Purpose of Childbirth Pain, with Rhea Dempsey

Birth Plan, Comfort measures, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Today we’ll be rethinking birth pain! It’s not called labor for nothing, but is there a purpose to the pain? What happens when you stop thinking of birth as an emergency, and start seeing it as a physiological emergence? If you assume that your confidence will falter,...