Eight Questions To Ask Your Care Provider (Especially In Your Second Trimester!)

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Interventions, Podcast, Pregnancy, short episode, TBPodcast

Adriana Lozada shares eight great questions for sussing out your provider’s protocols and practices as your pregnancy advances, in order to help you figure out how much shared decision-making and agency you will truly have in your birth experience. Powered by...

How To Know If You And Your Provider Are Truly A Good Fit

Birth Choices, C-sections, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Labor & Birth, Podcast, VBAC

Dr. Brad Bootstaylor talks with Adriana Lozada about how vital it is to establish shared decision-making with your care provider and the problem with the prevailing fear-based approach in perinatal care. Plus: why no one should ever roll their eyes at your birth plan....

[Best of Birthful] Tips to Advocate for Yourself During Birth

Activism, Best of Birthful, Birth Choices, 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...

How to Stand Up for Your Birth Rights

Activism, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy

One in six women experience mistreatment during childbirth. Birth justice attorney Indra Lusero talks to Adriana Lozada about how to defend your and other pregnant people’s birth rights. Have you felt heard during your pregnancy and birth experiences? Let us know...

How to Have a Great Hospital Birth

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

You can have a fabulous birth experience at a hospital, but it requires thoughtful preparation. Adriana Lozada helps simplify this process by going through some of the best practices to get you there. What steps have you taken to prepare for your hospital birth? Tell...