How to Bring More Pleasure and Joy Into Your Birth (And Why It Makes a Difference!)

Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

If you want to minimize sensations of pain and even move them into pleasure, this episode is for you! Debra Pascali-Bonaro and Adriana explore how you can bring more pleasure and joy into your birth, and why doing so can help you not only have a better experience, but...

The Purpose of Childbirth Pain

Birth Beyond the Clinical Experience Series, Birth Plan, Comfort measures, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Rhea Dempsey is one of the foremost thinkers on the topic of working with pain in childbirth. She shares with Adriana the physiological purpose of pain during labor, why it gets such a bad rap, and suggests the pain relief paradigm is a medical construct that...

[Best of Birthful] What is the Purpose of Childbirth Pain?

Best of Birthful, Comfort measures, 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...

The Power of Comforting Touch During Labor

Birth Choices, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

How should you touch a laboring person during contractions? How should you touch them in between contractions? Should you use both hands? Should you lean in? How fast should you go? Why is touch helpful at all? Yiska Obadia has answers. Check it out!   Powered by...

The Power of Comforting Touch During Labor, with Yiska Obadia

Birth Choices, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

How should you touch a laboring person during contractions? How should you touch them in between contractions? Should you use both hands? Should you lean in? How fast should you go? Why is touch helpful at all? Yiska Obadia has answers. Check it out!     To...