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[Birth Stories] Why Having An Audience Stalled Her Birth

[Birth Stories] Why Having An Audience Stalled Her Birth

Birth Stories, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Podcast, TBPodcast

Heather Lauf was so clear on the importance of choosing the right care provider for her birth that she switched practices, twice! Even with her ample preparation, labor still threw her for a loop when she found out her water hadn’t broken (it really seemed it had!),...
[Birth Stories] Pivoting From Wanting An Immediate Epidural To An Unmedicated VBAC Over Four Births

[Birth Stories] Pivoting From Wanting An Immediate Epidural To An Unmedicated VBAC Over Four Births

Birth Stories, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

After having three hospital births– that included inductions, vaginal births, and a cesarean– Mariah Robinson couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing from her experiences. She shares with Adriana how she searched far and wide for a collaborative care...
Last Minute Switch to a Home Birth, with Kara Fransted

Last Minute Switch to a Home Birth, with Kara Fransted

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Kara Fransted and her husband had never considered having a home birth, but as the pandemic hit and there was a real possibility of her husband having to miss the birth of their third child, they looked into it. Never mind that she was already 38 weeks pregnant. Check...
Embracing Imperfection in Time for a  VBAC, with Laura Kline-Taylor

Embracing Imperfection in Time for a VBAC, with Laura Kline-Taylor

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Laura Kline-Taylor spent most of her first pregnancy preparing for motherhood while healing from infidelity, and then had three days to get ready for an unexpected breech cesarean. Second time around, both she and her husband were in a much better place to come...
    • Adriana Lozada, a Latina with curly gray hair, is wearing a blue-green top and long necklace, looking fierce in a pose with her hands on her hips
      9 Most Badass Birth Moments (From Adriana’s Doula Career)
    • Michelle Rose, with her dark hair under a scrub cap, reclines in a hospital bed with her twin babies, wearing caps and swaddle blankets, on her chest
      [Birth Stories] Triumphant Vaginal Birth Of Twins Despite Preeclampsia And Triggering Interventions
    • Sivan Dirks, a white-presenting woman with dark hair, presses her cheek against her newborn baby's. who is wearing a cap and swaddle, following her cesarean birth
      [Birth Stories] Four Days After Her Water Broke and Still No Labor – Now What?!
    • Adriana, a Latina with tan skin and short curly dark hair, holds infant Seph in her arms against the backdrop of Caracas, Venezuela
      [Birth Stories] Celebrating Our 10 Years With Adriana’s Birth Story!
    • Ujarak Appadoo, a brown-skinned Indigenous woman with long dark hair, carries her baby on her back
      [Birth Stories] Weaving Together Four Unmedicated Births To Reveal Her Authentic Self

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