[Birth Stories] Four Days After Her Water Broke and Still No Labor – Now What?!

Birth Partners, Birth Stories, C-sections, golden hour, homebirth, hormones, Hospital, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast, VBAC

What do you do when your water breaks and FOUR days later, there’s little sign of labor? For Sivan Dirks this meant almost drinking a castor oil smoothie! Instead, she leaned into the holistic and intuitive tools she’d gathered over her previous – and varied! – birth...

[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 Stories] Can You Even Prepare For Baby Hiccuping While Crowning?!

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

Danielle Fetty-Lovell has been through a lot in her births! But probably the most unexpected moment was when her first daughter had the hiccups while she was crowning for a really long time (making it both comical and excruciating). She shares with Adriana how being...

Vaginal Premie Birth Without Interventions, with Bernice Good

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Bernice Good went into preterm labor when her water broke at 31 weeks. Though the circumstances were less than ideal, she had what she describes as a lovely vaginal hospital birth with no interventions. The struggles continued during the 19-day NICU stay, and she...

Premie Hospital Birth with NICU Stay vs. Birth Center Birth, with Vanessa Young

Podcast, Postpartum Stories, TBPodcast

What happens when you plan for a birth center waterbirth and you end up with a 34 week preemie, and an onslaught of breastfeeding obstacles? How does this help you prepare differently for your next birth and postpartum? Vanessa Young shares her perspective. Check it...