[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] A Scheduled Surgical Birth And A Home VBAC: Both Based On Her Intuition

Birth Stories, C-sections, homebirth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Even though five doctors had cleared Jessica Pinney for a vaginal delivery with her rare placental conditions of vasa previa and velamentous cord insertion, she listened to her intuition and decided to have a planned surgical birth for her first child. For her next...

[Birth Stories] From Traumatic Cesarean To Healing (And Fast!) VBAC

Birth Stories, C-sections, Hospital, Podcast, TBPodcast, VBAC

What’s more stressful: a panic attack right before a surgical birth that takes your breath away and leaves you with memory gaps, or your baby’s shoulders getting stuck on the pubic bone after the head is out and needing a manual placental extraction? For today’s birth...

What You Need To Know About Obstetricians (OBs)

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, C-sections, Care Providers During Pregnancy Series, Doulas, homebirth, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast, Uncategorized, VBAC

Obstetricians are the go-to care providers when giving birth in the U.S., but not all OBs are created equal. How do your obstetrician’s background and training impact the care you get, and is that aligned with the care you deserve? Dr. Stuart Fischbein shares...

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....