[Birth Stories] Getting Baby To Flip From Breech With An ECV For A Flowing Vaginal Birth

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

What happens when a baby suddenly turns breech at 36 weeks? For Kaitlin Moore, this meant a hard pivot and lots of research to weigh her options between trying to get her baby to flip back or having a surgical birth. She shares the difficulties of finding the right...

[Birth Stories] Fast Homebirths And Liminal Spaces With A Pregnant Funeral Director

Birth Stories, homebirth, Podcast, TBPodcast

If birth and death are liminal bookends to our human experience, what conversations emerge as a pregnant funeral director is attended by a grieving midwife? Anna Walsh shares the story of her two fast births, and how she felt safe, heard, and respected as she...

[Birth Stories] Two (Non-Epidural) Inductions: With And Without The Fetal Ejection Reflex

Birth Partners, Birth Stories, Doulas, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Given that Pitocin contractions can be so intense, most people who have inductions also tend to have epidurals – but not Meredith Finch! Listen as she shares with Adriana how her preparation, flexibility, the crucial support from her husband and her doula, and a...

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...

Birth Center Birth After Three Miscarriages, with Shea Cole

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

For Shea Cole, getting pregnant was easy, the trick was staying pregnant. After three miscarriages, getting to the end of a pregnancy was a huge mix of happiness and relief, yet it brought along its own set of unusual circumstances, like Shea breaking her leg, having...