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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197: HOME BIRTH STORY - High-Risk Pregnancy, Tr...
How do you learn to trust your body after some difficult experiences and a high-risk label? In today’s episode, we’re talking with Erin Zekis about her journey to home birth. From premature labor with her first pregnancy and a hospital transfer, to exploring different methods of care for her second pregnancy, Erin and her husband Kevin were very intentional about what they wanted to experience for the birth of both their sons, Tobin and Aldrin.
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196: HOME BIRTH STORY - 53-Hour Labor, Hospital...
When asked a question by a care provider, do you have to respond right away? Most of us don’t know or realize that we have choice. And especially when it’s not an emergency, we can take time to process and decide what we want to do and even refuse...
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195: Caring for Infant Acid Reflux with Kira Volpi
What is infant acid reflux and why does it go so unnoticed and untreated in babies? You’ll hear these answers in today’s episode in our interview with Kira Volpi of Infant Acid Reflux Solutions.
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194: HOME BIRTH STORY - Rainbow Home Birth Baby...
What would you do if you really trusted yourself? This is a beautiful question that comes up in today’s episode, and I think everyone can take something from it and carry it into their lives. Mellisa Reeves of Motherbirth is sharing part of her journey with us.
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193: HOME BIRTH STORY - Blood Sugar Challenges ...
What can make a birth traumatic? There are a multitude of answers, because everyone has their own experience and ways of processing and healing.
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192: HOME BIRTH STORY - Journeying From Cancer ...
How could lessons from surviving cancer empower you in your birth? For Eva Whipple, going through cancer at age 19 shifted up her perspective on things. It taught her about priorities and her ability to push through.
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191: HOME BIRTH STORY - Experiencing Home Birth...
What’s it like for a midwife to experience her own birth? In today’s birth story, we’re chatting with Sophia Williams, a midwife, doula and published photographer. Sophia walks us through her entrance into birth work, and then how becoming a doula and eventually studying to become a midwife influenced her own birth choices.
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190: Connecting to the Magic of Birth Through B...
What do birth work and the art of acting have in common? The connection might not seem so obvious. But trust us, after you listen to this episode, you’ll get it. You’ll also feel empowered and energized around the magic of birth and self-care in all stages of fertility. We had the honor of chatting with Carson Meyer. Carson wears many hats, among which are actor, doula, birth photographer and natural skin care entrepreneur.
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189: HOME BIRTH STORY - How Research, Options, ...
How do you set yourself up for success when it comes to your birth? For one thing, that requires looking at what you want to create and experience. What’s the vision? In today’s episode, we get to hear Lauren Thomas’s journey to home birth and...
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188: HOME BIRTH STORY - Having a Victorious HBA...
“Is my body able to give birth?” This is one of the questions that Christina Winsnes asked herself as she prepared for the home birth of her second child, after an unplanned cesarean birth with her first child Emma.
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187: All Women Can Have Orgasmic Births with Ki...
Do you want an orgasmic experience of your pregnancy and birth? Who wouldn’t?! In today’s episode, Kim Anami, holistic sex and relationship coach, joins us for a powerful conversation about mamas reclaiming their sexual energy, intuitive power and...
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186: HOME BIRTH STORY - A Pediatric Intensive C...
How do you address the fears related to home birth when you work in a hospital? For Elise Kuehner, a self-proclaimed planner and researcher, she went down the rabbit hole of content to explore for herself and work through any disempowering thoughts. I...
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185: HOME BIRTH STORY - Two Mamas Welcome Their...
Were you surprised when your labor started? For mama Caitlin Thompson, she shares that even though she felt somewhat ready, there was still a part of her that didn’t expect it. Today’s home birth story is a followup to our interview with Caitlin.
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184: Mum of 16 Plus Creating Your Home Birth Plan
In today’s episode Sarah reIn today’s episode Sarah reads listener emails and talks about creating a home birth plan. How should you approach your home birth plan?ads listener emails and talks about creating a home birth plan.
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183: HOME BIRTH STORY - 23 Years After Home Bir...
Why home birth? That’s typically a question we ask every guest in some form or another. For today’s guest, the response circled around family and culture.
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182: Preconception Home Birth Planning (Listene...
Do you have questions regarding your home birth planning process? Like where and how to find midwives and how to choose your birth team? In today’s episode we’re answering a listener email from our friend Ellie. We get into some of the preconception birth talk conversations and things you can do to prepare for a powerful birth experience.
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181: HOME BIRTH STORY - 3 Home Births and Pregn...
Did anyone else forget about preparing for postpartum? Sometimes we get so focused on pregnancy and birth (which makes a lot of sense!) that we neglect the transition and experience that comes after baby arrives.
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180: How We Organize Working from Home with Chi...
What’s your childcare and work schedule like? This is a question we received from a beloved listener as she navigates her own journey of entrepreneurship and raising a child.
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179: HOME BIRTH STORY - Building Confidence and...
How do you build the confidence and support to prepare for an HBAC after 2 cesarean births? Our guest in our latest birth story, Erin Holohan, is an example of this. After moving through 2 disappointing birth experiences with a lot of recovery and healing to do, she was determined to have her home birth for her third baby.
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178: HOME BIRTH STORY - Home Birth for Baby #3 ...
Would you consider using an enema during the labor process? In today’s birth story, we’re chatting with Alyssa Reeves, wife to Kirk and mama to twin boys Sam and Niko and daughter Zooey. And while there’s a lot more and totally magical elements...
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177: Maya and Doing It At Home Celebrate A Birt...
Today is a special day, so we have a special episode :) It's September 11, 2018, and that means it's Maya's 2nd birthday! Not only is Maya turning 2 today, but the Doing It At Home podcast itself is turning 2! So in today's special episode we recap...
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176: HOME BIRTH STORY - PPD, Infant Loss, Infer...
How can we do more for women and mothers as they prepare for and transition into the experience of motherhood? Well, powerful conversations are a great start. And this episode is a prime example of that. Sarah got to sit down with licensed...
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175: HOME BIRTH STORY - 2 Unassisted Home Birth...
What do you do when you were born at home yourself, over 30 of your cousins have been born at home and you have over 40 chiropractors in your extended family? It’s a safe assumption that you’d have your babies at home too! For our guest Jani...
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174: Talking Birth and Sexuality with Internati...
What do birth and sexuality have in common? A lot. There. The end. Just kidding! In today’s episode we have international midwife, speaker and author Jutta Wohlrab joining us. Jutta has been a practicing midwife for over 30 years and has traveled...
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173: HOME BIRTH STORY - Home Birth for Second B...
What happens when the news and experience of your pregnancy isn’t all sunshine and rainbows? We’ve talked about this once or twice on the show and we know it’s more common than culture and society would have us convinced of - that sometimes What...
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