Yoga Birth Babies
Take ownership of your pregnancy, birth, and parenthood! Join Deb Flashenberg as she dives into conversations with some of the world’s leading pregnancy, birth, yoga and parenting experts. Deb and her guests are voices of calm and reason, sharing practical, relevant, insightful and evidence based information that is helpful for people at all stages of parenting. These lively conversations will inform and entertain you as you embark on this new phase in your life.
Deb is the founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC, a labor support doula, Lamaze childbirth educator, Spinning Babies Parent Educator, prenatal yoga teacher and mother of 2. Please visit Prenatalyogacenter.com
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Processing Your Birth Story with Nikki Shaheed
Birthing from Within's Nikki Shaheed talks to Deb about processing birth stories, and even helps Deb unpack one of her own.
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Preparing for Postpartum During COVID-19 with G...
Grace offers solid and supportive ideas for how to navigate new parenthood with limited external help and provides wonderful questions new parents should ask their care providers and pediatricians before their birth.
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Birth Flow and Balance with Gail Tully of Spinn...
Gail explains the Spinning Babies Methodology and shares how the baby’s position and the pregnant body impacts the birth flow.
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Pregnancy and Birth During the Coronavirus Pand...
Deb speaks with NYC veteran doula and childbirth educator, Terry Richmond. Terry candidly talks about how she has been supporting her clients during this intense pandemic. She gives usable tactics and tools for how to best keep birth as normal as possible and lays out plans for how the birth partner can best support the laboring person.
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Community Birth Stories: Strength, Endurance, a...
Prenatal Yoga Teacher, Childbirth Educator, and Labor Support Doula Hess Kim shares her birth story
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Transformed by Birth with Britta Bushnell
Deb and Britta talk the 8 cultural ideals we've created around birth and the place of fear and pain in birth.
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Understanding Postpartum Hormones with Aviva Ro...
Night Sweats, Hair Falling Out, what's going on with postpartum hormones, a discussion on what to expect and when to get some help with Dr. Aviva Romm
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Comfort for Birth with Yiska Obadia
Massage, relaxation, and counter pressure techniques for physical comfort during labor.
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Who's Responsible: Student or Teacher? with Bec...
Who's responsible for the safety of a pregnant person or their baby in a yoga class? Deb and Bec discuss giving the student autonomy while still providing appropriate support and modifications.
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Epidurals with Dr. Claire Sandberg
Claire breaks down common myths and misconceptions about epidural anesthesia and clearly presents the facts about epidurals so listeners can make an educated, informed choice.
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Surrogacy: Helping To Create A Family with Anas...
In our conversation, Anastasia explains the very in depth process of becoming a surrogate, the relationship between the intended family and the surrogate carrier and what is it like carrying and birthing someone else’s child.
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All About Adoption with Rebecca Mendel
In this episode of Yoga|Birth|Babies, I speak with adoptive and assisted reproduction lawyer and adoptive mother Rebecca Mendel.
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Preparing for Cesarean: A Necessary Conversatio...
Mary Esther explains how a cesarean birth unfolds and offers tools to use for a mindful cesarean. We also talk about how to integrate protocols more associated with a vaginal birth.
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Community Birth Stories: The Importance of Self...
Can you imagine the need to be the main advocate for yourself in the middle of labor ? That is exactly what happened to Jessie Katz.
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Understanding "Big Babies" with Rebecca Dekker
Rebecca and I had a chance to speak about a problem many pregnant people face towards the end of their pregnancy, macrosomia, also know as “big babies.”
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Breastfeeding 101 with Tamara Hawkins
Deb speaks with director of Stork and Cradle, Tamara Hawkins, FNP, RN, IBCLE, LCCE, CHHC, about everything an expectant and new mother needs to know about breastfeeding.
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Parenting a Child with Special Needs with Bridg...
Deb speaks with Bridget Tichar, Mom of Teddy, a 2 and a half year old with Type 1 Diabetes.
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The Pregnancy Project with Alex Berke
Deb speaks with employment litigator and founder of Berke-Weiss Law’s Pregnancy Project, Alex Berke about maternity leave, hospital bills, and employing a care giver.
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The 4th Trimester with Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Ann Johson discusses her challenging postpartum experience and how she resolved massive pelvic floor and abdominal diastisis. She also shares valuable postpartum rituals and philosophies from other cultures and how we can adopt some of those ideas to better serve our postpartum people.
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Tongue Tie with Robin Kaplan
Robin Kaplan IBCLC explains what tongue tie is, how to identify it, and ways to resolve it.
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#IHadAMiscarriage with Dr. Jessica Zucker
Deb speaks with the creator of the #IHadAMiscarriage campaign, psychologist Dr. Jessica Zucker. She opens up about her own pregnancy loss at 16 weeks and what inspired her to break down the shame and stigma of miscarriage.
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Life With Twins with Natalie Diaz
Twiniversity founder Natalie Diaz skillfully and humorously breaks down life with two.
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Yoga for Pelvic Health with Shannon Crow
One of the most commonly used phrases in exercise and yoga is “engage your core”. But what does that even mean? What muscles are being asked to work and is it really helpful or healthy to have an engaged core?
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Postpartum Psychosis with Lisa Abramsom
Deb talks to Lisa Abramson about her story and paths to recovery with postpartum psychosis.
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Birth Plans with Terry Richmond
Terry talks about how to approach a birth plan, what you may want to include and topics to leave off and how to get a practice with multiple doctors to honor the individual’s birth preferences.
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