[Birth Stories] When Place-Of-Birth Policies Keep You Thinking Instead Of Birthing

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

Emily Salahuddin set out to have an unmedicated birth at a birth center, but trying to remain within the risk boundaries of that facility turned into an all-consuming mind game, bringing with it an onslaught of non-medical interventions. Ironically, it was after being...

[Birth Stories] When The Curveballs Come Before And After The Birth

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, TBPodcast

Mandy Alexander got pregnant at 40, having had bariatric surgery seven years before that. During what she describes as her “bariatric-geriatric” pregnancy, she worked through her fear of childbirth and ended up with the unmedicated and collaborative birth...

[Birth Stories] How She Confidently And Calmly Gave Birth In A Moving Car

Birth Stories, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Laura Loos has had two non-medicated vaginal births, with her second one happening so super fast, that it involved birthing while in a moving car! She shares with Adriana how connecting with her inner voice and trusting the abundant preparation she had done during...

[Birth Story] How She Embraced Physiology to Avoid Pushing for Three Hours Again

Birth Stories, Models & Places of Birth Series, Podcast, TBPodcast

April Teel shares with Adriana how her thoughtful preparation set the stage for her to have wonderful birth experiences at both a freestanding birth center (with a midwife) and a hospital (with a family practice doctor). She reflects on how what surprised her the most...

[Birth Story] Birth: Not as Bad as Hiking the Machu Picchu Trail

Birth Stories, Podcast, TBPodcast

Shelley Wylie shares with Adriana how marvelous it can be to see your partner really have your back and tell the nurse to wait until your contraction is over, how birth is not as horrendous as the Machu Picchu trail, and how you can absolutely have a lovely birth,...