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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Baby-Led Weaning: When & How To Start Solids wi...
Deb talks to Jenny Best founder of Solid Starts about baby-led weaning, first foods, choking versus gagging and more!
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Making Work Life Balance Easier with Lauren Smi...
Today, in a time of a pandemic where childcare may have adjusted, finding flexible, creative ways to meet the demands of your job may require some creativity and negotiations.
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Babies After 35 with Shannon Clark
What's it like to have a baby after 35? How likely can you get pregnant? and What is it like to have "geriatric pregnancy"?
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Community Birth Story: How to Talk About Birth ...
Eliana bravely talks about two very different and traumatic births and how she processed and resolved them.
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Ups and Downs in Motherhood with Dayna Kurtz
In this episode of Yoga|Birth|Babies, I speak with author, speaker and licensed social worker Dayna Kurtz about her new book, Mother Matters: A Holistic Guide to Being a Happy, Healthy Mom.
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Improving the Birth and Health Outcome for Blac...
Deb speaks with founder of Spirited By Truth Alexandra Samuel-Sturgess about the maternal health racial disparities and unconscious biases in the medical world.
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Baby with Debra...
Debra talks about her new book The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Baby: Secrets to Love and Intimacy offering tips to reclaim your sexy wild woman.
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Loss, Grief, Anxiety and Isolation During Pregn...
Pregnancy, birth and early parenthood, are often a time of family gatherings and celebrations. But now during this unprecedented time, these milestones are being experienced in isolation. This massive departure from how one may have originally envisioned the transition into parenthood can lead to feelings of loss and grief. In this episode of Yoga|Birth|Babies, I speak with Licensed Social Worker and facilitator of our New Mother’s Support Group here at PYC, Jessica Shapley.
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Understanding Telehealth with Eugenia Montesenos
What to expect in prenatal and postnatal visits that are now being offered through telehealth and what parts of medical care are essential to be done in person.
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Breastfeeding and Epidurals with Dianne Cassidy
“If mothers realize the swelling and difficulty latching is just from the epidural, not forever, they just have to get through this and then they will have better breastfeeding”, explains my guest, Dianne Cassidy, author and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
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Community Birth Story: Birthing During a Pandemic
Can you imagine giving birth and entering postpartum in the middle of a pandemic? Candice Baehr faced this exact scenario.
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Hypnobirthing with Kristy Rodriguez
Kristy explains the philosophy and approach to HypnoBirthing® and how relaxation and stress reduction techniques can help support a functional labor. She also talks about the vital role the partner plays in birth preparation.
55 min
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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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