Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Pod...
Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast is a weekly podcast about home birth and our decision to go from a traditional hospital birth with an OBGYN to a natural birth at home with midwives. This is a raw and honest show that explores homebirth from every angle. We talk about the fears and judgements thrown at you when you choose home birth. We share resources that we found tremendously helpful for understanding our birthing options. We confess the magic and craziness in preparing for pregnancy, home birth, motherhood and fatherhood. We talk about having sex while pregnant and maintaining your connection and intimacy as a couple. We reveal how to stay centered and not lose yourself through pregnancy, and tons more! This show is all about adding an empowered conversation to the topic of home birth and natural birth, while keeping it real, grounded and fun. So strap in and join us as we’re doing it at home!
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135: Why Are You Choosing Home Birth?
Why did you choose home birth? Or any of your birth plans? There are usually a collection of motivating factors that go into creating the birth vision you have in mind. So after talking to a lot of amazing mamas on the show and reflecting on some of our own intentions for our birth, we decided to dedicate an episode to the reasons why some might choose home birth. This is based on the most common feedback and experiences we’ve heard and talked about on the show.
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134: A Maternity Concierge and Doula Shares How...
Have you ever thought about pregnancy being a time to pamper yourself? It’s not something I would typically think about. I mean, you plan for birth, buy all the baby gear, take the classes, etc. But what about a time to give yourself that self-love...
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133: HOME BIRTH STORY - A Home Birth Story and ...
Was anyone blindsided by the postpartum experience? This is a home birth story with conversation on what can happen after baby arrives and how you can use your empowering birth experience to support you in challenging postpartum times. In this episode...
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132: World Doula Week 2018: Serving and Advocat...
How awesome are doulas?! It’s a trick question - because they’re so awesome it’s almost impossible to put into words how awesome they are. We’re celebrating World Doula Week this year by sharing some powerful conversations with doulas in...
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131: A Powerful Chat with Mom of 7 (Including 2...
Who are some of your heroes in the birth world? We got to chat with one of ours in this episode. Lindsey Bliss, also known as @doulabliss on Instagram - mom of 7 (including 2 sets of consecutive twins), doula, doula trainer, co-director of Carriage...
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130: What is Empowered Birth?
What does it mean to have an empowered birth? Bottom line - it’s up to you - you make it your experience and mean what resonates most with you. In this episode we share some of our ideas on the elements that contribute to an empowered birth, and how...
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129: Changing Our Culture Around Postpartum wit...
Why do we expect women in our culture to get everything back together right after she has a baby? Whether it’s her body, work or anything resembling her lifestyle before motherhood, there is a lot of misconception and skewed conversation around the...
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128: How Multiple Cesarean Births Inspired a Fa...
How many mamas have felt that sensitive belly and jumbled organs feeling after giving birth? It’s not a great feeling right? You’ve just had a baby and are learning to navigate that whole new journey, but your physical body is also in a very...
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127: Birth Roundup: Royal Home Birth, Birth Pho...
What’s new in the birth world? What’s the latest and greatest? Or to quote a classic film of our time (Mean Girls) - “What’s the 411? What has everybody been up to? What's the hot gossip? Tell me everything.” This is a very fun, goofy, chill...
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126: HOME BIRTH STORY - The Emotional Journey o...
How do you stay in a space of trusting your body and the process when getting pregnant presents an emotional journey of challenges? This was Caitlin’s reality when she and her wife, Shona decided to start a family. First there were the conversations...
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125: My Home Birth Postpartum Experience (Rebro...
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast of episode 19 where Sarah shares her postpartum story. Enjoy! --- Hey all, Sarah here. In this episode I’m solo and talking all about my home birth postpartum experience. I’m currently almost 4 months...
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124: A Talk About Birth and Boobs with Badass B...
If you were a part of a Facebook group for breastfeeding mamas, would you be surprised to be kicked out of the group for sharing a photo of yourself breastfeeding in public? Probably...right? Well, so was Abby Theuring when that happened to her. So...
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123: HOME BIRTH STORY - Replacing Tension, Anxi...
How do you deal with fear, anxiety and negativity that might pop up during pregnancy and planning for a home birth? For Lizzy, it was a process of “reprogramming” those thoughts and beliefs that were holding her back from trusting and surrendering...
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122: Sex After Having Kids: How We Keep Our Sex...
Does your sex life have to change for the worse after kids? We know of course the answer is “No, it doesn’t”, but how do you keep it from turning stale? How do you keep the fire burning for your partner after you’ve had a kid or two? Today...
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121: Education, Empowerment, Support and a Home...
What do you do when you become so passionate about birth that you are essentially compelled to dive into the work and make it part of who you are? Yukie McGregor answers that question for us in today’s episode. And for her - that looked like...
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120: What We'll Do Differently for Our Second H...
So what are our plans for a future baby and birth? This episode is inspired by another listener question - how we’re going to plan for future births and babies. What would we do differently? What would we keep? We break it down for you - starting...
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119: Creating A New Paradigm In Birth: A Conver...
In today’s episode we’re talking to an amazing woman, mom, entrepreneur, midwife, and all around powerhouse -- Maryn Green. Maryn is the creator of Indie Birth (yes, THAT Indie Birth!), and together with her business partner and friend Margo, has...
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118: HOME BIRTH STORY - 11 Births, An 11 Pound ...
What do you do when you’re 41 plus weeks pregnant and your doctor is pressuring to induce and you don’t want to? For Danyel, that answer was to switch to home birth! For her, she felt “like a caged bird in a hospital” in her previous births,...
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117: How to Deal with Fears and Anxieties of So...
“But what if something goes wrong?” Does this sound familiar? It might to many home birth mamas and families. It’s a common thing that pops up, across many sources of feedback and advice and for a multitude of reasons. In this episode we are...
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116: HOME BIRTH STORY - Two Non Hippie-Dippy Ho...
Does having a home birth mean you’re all “hippie-dippy” and stuff? Maybe, if that’s what works for you and that’s how you would describe yourself. You could also be a former pre-med student and do lots of research and dive head first into...
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115: The Postpartum For Dads Episode: Matthew S...
How do dads balance life after baby? It’s easier to find resources and conversations around motherhood postpartum, and that makes a lot of sense. But dads are greatly impacted too in their own ways with their own set of challenges and lessons. So...
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114: HOME BIRTH STORY - Using Mindfulness To He...
Is it possible to have a “traumatic” home birth? With the kind of conversations we have on this show and the energy and education we seek to create around home birth - of course we want to reduce the number of any traumatic births. However, birth...
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113: HOME BIRTH STORY - Burning Man, HBAC and t...
How do you turn the trauma from one birth experience into a trusting, healing HBAC? Diana Tayan shares with us in today’s episode how she did just that. She takes us through the journey of both of her pregnancies and births of her sons Arakel and...
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112: HOME BIRTH STORY - Veteran and Eco-conscio...
What links the terms black minimalism, veterans, eco-conscious lifestyle and home birth? Today’s birth story! In this episode we’re chatting with Pastaveia and Sean St. John, new parents to their daughter sage and an awesome couple with a powerful...
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111: First-time Mom Preparing for Home Birth wi...
As a first-time mom, how do you navigate your birth options and then make the best decision for you and your family? Well in this episode we explore that with Brooke Nielsen, first-time mama-to-be and wife to her husband Jordan. Brooke reached out to...
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