The VBAC DOULA is a channel committed to encouraging listeners with empowering VBAC and HBAC stories, facts, and guided meditations. We will also occasionally release content for those who are not experiencing VBACS.
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Motherhood Flow - VBAC tips, preparing for a vaginal birth after c-section, preventing cesareans
Hannah Gill | VBAC Mom, VBAC Doula, and Childbirth Educator.
Welcome to Motherhood Flow, your go-to motherhood podcast with a good mix of VBAC preparation tips and VBAC birth stories. While I focus heavily on VBAC and prevention of unnecessary c-sections, you can bet I'll be discussing topics from preconception to birth, to mothering toddlers and navigating your relationship after children, I cover it all here. Get ready for insightful conversations, expert interviews, and personal stories. Motherhood Flow is your space to walk through birth and mothe ...
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I want to educate and empower you to follow your intuition and trust your body and instincts in pregnancy, birth, relationships, breastfeeding, and life.
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A Podcast of Mothers' stories of childbirth. Weekly interviews with mothers giving their first hand accounts of child birth in Australia. Designed to help educate and inform first time pregnant women, parents wanting to have better subsequent births and birth enthusiasts who love to hear and tell birth stories. An entertaining and heartfelt resource for pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum.
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🎙️ Welcome to the VBAC Junkie Podcast, hosted by me, Petra Cruz – a passionate birth doula and proud VBA3C mom. Join me on this powerful road where I open up about my personal cesarean experiences and my VBA3C journey, sharing the highs, lows, and everything in between. In each episode, incredible moms who've experienced a VBAC will sit down with me to share their unique stories. We'll laugh, cry, and celebrate the strength within each birth journey. BUT this podcast isn't just for those who ...
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Los Angeles-based prenatal focused chiropractor Dr. Elliot Berlin searches for unbiased information on the most pressing topics for growing families with interviews from pregnancy and parenting experts, celebrities, and new and expectant parents. Entertaining and informative, new episodes drop weekly every Thursday. We'd love to connect! Facebook: @Informed Pregnancy Instagram: @doctorberlin Twitter: @doctorberlin
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Hosted by Thérèse Hak-Kuhn, toLabor Executive Director and nationally-renowned doula educator and moderated by Sarah Allen-Short, toRaise Questions Doula Podcast gives doulas and birth workers free access to some of the most thoughtful and experienced experts who will share their insights in order to improve knowledge and increase professionalism and the integrity of each doula. Please send in your questions! 1) Email toraisequestions@gmail.com 2) Post on our Facebook page 3) Private message ...
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A resource to support expecting moms (and partners, too!) with evidence-based information to navigate the awesome adventure of pregnancy, birth, and being a new parent. Vanessa Merten provides evidence based info that goes way beyond the typical “pregnancy instruction manual”. Every episode is designed to give you all of the evidence, research, pros, cons, risks, and benefits – all so you decide what the best option is for YOU and feel confident about your decisions during your pregnancy and ...
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Birth is amazing, beautiful, wonderful . . . and it can throw you for a loop! Despite our very best birth “plans,” we can find ourselves taking some twist and turns during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum that we don’t expect. Enter the Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy Podcast! Hey mama! My name is Stephanie, and I’m a mom of three boys, a professional doula, childbirth educator, and the creator of the Online Birth Course - My Essential Birth www.myessentialbirth.com. I love to help mothers just ...
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A podcast featuring Australians sharing their journey of vaginal birth after caesarean. Through sharing and learning from each other's lived experiences the podcast is designed to empower and educate those whose VBAC journey may have just begun, help all expecting mums achieve a more natural birth if that is their intention, and better inform birth professionals about one's journey to a VBAC.
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Fat & Pregnant– the podcast that’s about plus size pregnancy, parenting and so much more. Learn how you can confidently navigate pregnancy and early parenting without the diet culture BS!
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The Resource Doula provides curated resources that empower women to advocate for themselves and make informed health and wellness decisions for pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting.
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Everything a pregnant woman and her partner need to know to support them in preparation for labour, birth, and the early days with a new baby. This podcast gives both you and your partner the confidence and knowledge about the role they play throughout your birth, so they don't undermine or ruin the birth for you. Throughout these episodes, my guests and I will share with you our experience of being a birth keeper and advocate for women across the globe. This podcast is inclusive and invites ...
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Engineer turned Mama, Jess, meets mothers at the intersection of instincts and evidence to cut through the noise of parenting and wellness advice. On Modern Nurture, we’ll look to experts in thought provoking interviews, we’ll look to our biology to unpack the instincts and processes we’ve forgotten in the modern era, and we’ll have heart to heart conversations with real moms from every background as we seek to build a community where every mother and mom-to-be can find relatability and supp ...
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The Birth Choices podcast uncovers the choices available to you in pregnancy and birth. By showcasing personal stories of birth choices — interviewing women and birthing people about how they chose and experienced their model of care, and speaking with experts in each of these domains, we aim to leave you feeling informed, able to make autonomous decisions, and ultimately confident in your innate ability to birth. https://www.instagram.com/birthchoices_
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Birth As We Know It ™️ is a podcast that is dedicated to recognizing the many different ways that birth unfolds. You will hear birth stories and experiences from the perspective of the storyteller. That includes birthing people, partners, providers, birth workers, and more! This podcast was created to be a place where people can learn more about pregnancy and birth, all while hearing about what really happens in the birth space.
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Many women find that their first-time birth experience wasn't exactly what they wanted or hoped for. If you'd like more knowledge about how to better prepare for labor and delivery, or want to know that you're not alone on your birthing journey, this podcast is for you. Every episode shares a real-life lesson learned from a real-life labor and delivery experience. Every episode offers the chance to connect with other women, to increase our knowledge of the birthing world, and to advocate for ...
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This is a space to share reproductive wisdom, traditions and stories of indigenous families and indigenous birth workers.www.indigenous-midwifery.org
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Birth Kweens is a wildly honest and fun dive into all things natural-pregnancy, birth, postpartum and women's health related. It's hosted by two Birth Kweens and friends: Karly Nuttall, a licensed midwife of 15 years, and Ali Feroah, a birth and postpartum doula of 7 years. Listen along on Thursdays as we share fun birth stories and dish out top notch info about our favorite subjects to help you realistically prepare for birth, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, baby care and women's health ...
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A Nourishing Space for Creatives, Plant People and Care Workers! Dig into these conversations about art, creativity, herbalism, magic, tending to ourselves and others and more. Hosted by Sara Marie Miller, Certified Clinical Herbalist, Functional Nutritionist, Multimedia Artist and Postpartum Doula. We share growth tips for holistic creatives to flourish. Do you struggle to make consistent work? Or want to better care for your health? Tune into these chats with artists, herbalists and creati ...
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This is the Real Birth Podcast: a safe, welcoming platform to share birth stories. I'm Lucy Hill, a doula, mother, wife and total birth nerd living in Frome, Somerset in the UK. When I was pregnant, one of my favourite things to do was to listen to birth stories. During this time I read and listened to literally hundreds and hundreds of birth experiences shared by all kinds of parents, having all kinds of births. I quickly became obsessed with the narrative of birth and the power of storytel ...
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Dani equips you with a birth affirmation episode that allows you to center and ground yourself. Use this episode as much as you like, especially when in labor. Modalities used during this episode are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Support the Show.By Danis Bailey, MSW, MFT, Full Spectrum Doula
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Preparing for a NICU Stay: What Families and Doulas Need to Know with Mary Farrelly
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In this episode, I speak with Mary Farrelly, a certified Level IV NICU nurse and trained doula, about the crucial topic of navigating the NICU. We dive into: What is the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit)? How common is it for a baby to need NICU support? Essential tips on how families can prepare for a NICU stay in advance (even for an unexpected…
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63. How to have an informed and confident birth with Doula HeHe
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Plans in birth can change and that's okay, knowing what to expect, realizing you have options, and feeling confident in whatever decision you make is of utmost importance. I chatted with HeHe about all of these and she gave us her best tips for making sure your birth unfolds in a way that feels good to you. Some highlights from the episode: 🔥 What …
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Ep 47 Real Talk With Dr Stuart Fischbein
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Send us a Text Message. Dr Stu is a legend in the birth worker community. His journey from OB with a private practice working in hospitals to leading midwives in the art of vaginal breech birth at home, Dr Stu is inspiring many of us in the community that change for the better can be possible. His passion to educate on undisturbed birth and the ben…
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Evidence-Based Methods to Prevent and Relieve Back Pain
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Many physical changes during pregnancy can impact your back and cause pain or discomfort. Back pain during pregnancy is almost always lower back pain within three categories: lumbar spine pain, posterior pelvic pain, or a combination of these two. The prevalence of back pain in pregnant women is estimated to be 50% in the first trimester, 40-70% in…
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Ep. 417 Hilary Duff: A Birth Story (Part 2)
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Hilary Duff returns to discuss the birth of her fourth child in part 2 of this two part series. Connect with Hilary: @hilaryduff A message from the host: Get 20% off your first order of my favorite perinatal supplements with code BERLIN. Shop thisisneeded.com Want more pregnancy + parenting? Informed Pregnancy Plus is a new streaming platform by pr…
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Ep.64-Melissa Llarena-3 Vaginal Births-Twins-Gabriel, Noah & Nicholas
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Send Kiona a Text Message! In this episode, Melissa shares her two personal birth stories of her three boys. She talks about what it was like to give birth for the first time while being induced and then going on to have a precipitous vaginal twin birth the second time around. Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes only with …
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7 Ways Your Birth Partner Can Support You
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When it comes to your birth partner, they may be thinking that all they have to do is show up, right? Wrong! There are so many ways they can step in and help to make the birth experience a beautiful bonding moment as your sweet baby comes into the world. Listen in for practical tips and advice! Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth Course My Essentia…
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Dani explores the phrase of Mark Twain and applies it to the realm of birth, in this episode the modality used in motivational interviewing which allows the listener to find their strength from within, empowers them and their choice to give birth or become a parent and helps them sort through their motivation on their birth choices. If you would li…
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491 | Louise, three babies, public hospital, spontaneous labour, induction, 3C perineal tear, planned caesarean
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Today’s episode is a beautiful example of doing your research and making an informed choice, even if it’s not your first birth preference. Louise works as an osteopath and opted for public hospital midwifery care.. Her first birth was very straightforward and her second labour was incredibly quick, resulting in a 3C tear that she recovered from wit…
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Ep 46 Has Midwifery Changed? With Sara Edwards CNM
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Send us a Text Message. Dr. Sara Edwards has devoted her 35-year career to transforming nurse-midwifery research, education, and clinical practice caring for women before, during and after pregnancy and birth. She is also a nurse researcher examining how the mother’s gut microbiome health impacts fetal and maternal health. Over her career, caring f…
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Welcome to the VBAC podcast with Danis Bailey (Dani) ! This is our introductory episode so you know what to expect as we continue to grow and learn over the next few years ! Feel free to check out our website thevbacdoulafl.com Support the Show.By Danis Bailey, MSW, MFT, Full Spectrum Doula
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Is Any Amount of Alcohol Safe During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding?
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There are many common questions about alcohol when trying to conceive, during pregnancy, and breastfeeding. Does drinking alcohol make it more challenging to get pregnant? Can you drink any alcohol during your pregnancy? Does it affect your baby? How much is okay? Can you pump and dump if you drink while breastfeeding? Doctors and midwives usually …
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Ep. 416 Hilary Duff: A Birth Story (Part 1)
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Hilary Duff returns to the podcast to share about the pregnancy and birth of her fourth baby in the first of this two part series. Connect with Hilary: @hilaryduff A message from the host: Get 20% off your first order of my favorite perinatal supplements with code BERLIN. Shop thisisneeded.com Want more pregnancy + parenting? Informed Pregnancy Plu…
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Birth Story: Working through Tough Decisions and All the Outcomes with Confidence with Whitni Synakiewicz
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In today's birth story, Whitni found out her baby had velamentous cord insertion. She and her husband took the birth course and used the knowledge and confidence they gained to work through all of the possible outcomes this diagnosis meant for her pregnancy, labor, and baby’s birth. Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth Course My Essential Birth Post…
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14. Emily & Josh’s birth story — physiological waterbirth in the public system with caseload midwifery care + doula support
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In this episode we speak with first time parents Emily and Josh about their experience of navigating their choices in pregnancy and birth, and preparing for what was a beautiful physiological waterbirth in the public system. Em and Josh sought out continuity of care through their local caseload program, and chose additional support from a doula. We…
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490 | Emily, surrogate, twin pregnancy, identical twins, vaginal birth, antenatal expressing
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In today’s episode, Emily - a mum of three - shares her journey as a surrogate (or an ‘oven’ as she refers to it). When her youngest was three she started to miss the pregnancy and birth journey so she began researching surrogacy in Australia. She joined the facebook group and reached out to two intended dads. They hit it off immediately and within…
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Ep 45 No Longer Silent with Midwife Anya Djumabaev (Casteel)
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Send us a Text Message. This is years of pent up frustration, but also our deep desire to empower women. If you listen all the way through, it will be a journey of empowerment, education, emotions, fascinating stories, and why we are NO LONGER STAYING SILENT! I have so much respect for midwives and wise women who truly respect the physiological pro…
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How Much Caffeine Is Safe During Pregnancy and Breastfeeding?
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Caffeine is a psychoactive drug because it changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, or consciousness. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant found naturally in the seeds, nuts, and leaves of over 60 species of plants. This stimulant is commonly in coffee, tea, and energy drinks and is the most widely consumed d…
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Is your skin acting funky during pregnancy? Here are some unexpected pregnancy skin issues.
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Curious about some of those weird skin changes during pregnancy? Listen to today's episode as I briefly highlight a few pregnancy skin issues you may not know about. You probably aren't the only mom out there looking at your skin thinking, "What in the heck is this?!" If you're experiencing any abnormal skin changes always talk to your healthcare p…
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Jessica works in the mental health and addiction space in a leadership role at an outpatient clinic. She shares her fascinating and inspiring journey from addiction to recovery to motherhood. Connect with Jessica online: @jess6ee Want more pregnancy + parenting? Informed Pregnancy Plus is a new streaming platform by pregnancy focused chiropractor D…
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489 Postpartum | Helen, sleep support, Early Parenting Unit, pregnancy after loss, postpartum after loss
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This is a profoundly important episode for any new parent navigating sleep challenges with their baby. Helen is a mother of three and trauma-informed midwife who shares her experience of baby loss and PTSD. She acknowledges that her trauma has coloured her postpartum experience with her third baby and while the initial months were quite textbook wh…
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Ep.63-Tessa & Jeff Sanders-IVF-2 Vaginal Births-Marcela & Rosie-5AM Miracle
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Send Kiona a Text Message! In this episode, Tessa and Jeff share their conception journey with IVF and talk about the two birth stories of their daughters Maisie and Rosie. Let’s just say that both ended up being accidentally unassisted because Tessa utilized hypnobirthing techniques. Disclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational purposes on…
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Breech Births: What Are Your Options and What Are the Risks with Rixa Freeze, PhD
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Dr. Freeze is the founder and president of Breech Without Borders, which is dedicated to breech training, education, and advocacy. We talk about what mamas can do if they are coming up to birth and baby is breech, what the risks are, and what having a breech birth looks like. Where to find Rixa: Website Instagram Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth…
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488 | Emily, three babies, type 1 diabetes, private obstetrician, induction, spontaneous labour, breastfeeding, antenatal expressing
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In this episode Emily details her diagnosis and experience with Type 1 diabetes. It has significantly informed her three pregnancies and births because she’s deemed high risk (diabetes increases the risk of placental deterioration, stillbirth and hypertension). She takes us through her different models of care in the private and public hospital sys…
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Ep 44 Gina Mundy A Guide to a Safer Childbirth
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Send us a Text Message. Gina Mundy is an attorney specializing in childbirth cases. For over 20 years, her focus has been investigating and analyzing mistakes that arise during labor and delivery. She has spent countless hours meticulously scrutinizing childbirth cases, conducting interviews with delivery teams, and thoroughly examining medical rec…
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Effective Treatments for Constipation During Pregnancy
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You may be completely regular as far as going to the bathroom before getting pregnant, and then suddenly, you are stopped up and have issues when you need to go #2. If you are constipated, you have difficult or infrequent bowel movements, your stools are hard, and you may have pain or discomfort in your stomach. The prevalence of constipation is 40…
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Actress and musician Aly Michalka returns to tell the story of the birth of her first child. Connect with Aly: @iamaly, alyandaj.com Want more pregnancy + parenting? Informed Pregnancy Plus is a new streaming platform by pregnancy focused chiropractor Dr. Elliot Berlin. Dedicated to pregnancy, parenting, and everything in between, IP+ offers everyt…
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EP37 Bea | Born in the car! BBA, Fast Second Labour, Long First Birth, Birthing Stool, Birth Centre
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Today's two birth stories are from Beatrice Haines, a fantastic artist living in Wiltshire. Bea has two sons, one of whom was born at a birth centre after a long and exhausting labour, and the other who arrived at the speed of light in the car! Bea's second birth happened in the front seat of her knackered old Honda Jazz just two hours after contra…
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What to Expect When You're Having Twins with Natalie Diaz of Twiniversity
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It's one thing to find out you're pregnant, but what do you do when you're pregnant with twins?! Natalie Diaz, founder of Twiniversity, gives us all her tips and advice for pregnancy with multiples. As a twin mom herself, she's got great advice that you will want to hear! Where to find Natalie: Website Instagram What to Do When You're Having Two Li…
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13. Midwife Clare’s birth stories — from unplanned caesarean section through to choosing when and how to birth by caesarean
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In this episode we speak with private midwife Clare from @tobirthbeautifully_ about the births of her four boys by caesarean section, and her various experiences of both labour and theatre. Choosing midwifery-led care (via MGP) for her first pregnancy, Clare takes us through her first labour and birth, and the choices she made which she feels contr…
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487 | Amelia, three babies, twins, PROM, induction, emergency caesarean, twin VBAC, breastfeeding, Dr Bisits, breech vaginal birth
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In today’s episode Amelia shares her first birth which was a challenging induced labour that ended in an emergency caesarean. She always knew she wanted a VBAC so when she discovered she was pregnant with twins, she made it her mission to find a care provider to support her. Thankfully, she discovered Dr Andrew Bisits at the Royal Hospital for Wome…
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Send us a Text Message. Joel Warsh aka DrJoelGator of the popular parenting Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/drjoelgator/ is a Board-Certified Pediatrician in Los Angeles, California who specializes in Parenting, Wellness and Integrative Medicine. He is the author of Parenting at Your Child’s Pace: The Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to…
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Aly Michalka is an actress and musician who landed her first role at age 13 on the Disney Channel. From hit shows and films to the musical stage as half of pop duo Aly & AJ, she’s always been dedicated to her craft, and now she's looking forward to a new job as 'mom' with the arrival of her first baby. Connect with Aly: @iamaly, alyandaj.com Want m…
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Ep.62-Allison Goyne-2 Vaginal Births-NICU-Believe in Birth
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Send Kiona a Text Message! In this episode, Allison dives into how her first birth with her daughter was traumatic and how it led her to become a birth doula. She also shares the the details of how she felt when she was unexpectedly pregnant with her son after being adamant of “one and done” in addition to sharing about her redemptive home birth. D…
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Our Best Advice on Navigating and Setting Boundaries with Loved Ones & How to Handle Postpartum Expectations
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Postpartum is really a time for mom to be healing, and for bonding to happen between mom, baby, and birth partner. It's this sacred space that you get to enjoy together as a family. There are some things that make it go well, and there are some things that can make it not go as well. Links Mentioned: My Essential Birth Course My Essential Birth Pos…
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