366: “What counts as a home birth?” with Marissa Miller
“Does that count as a home birth?” That is the question Marissa found herself asking after her planned home birth shifted to a non-emergent hospital transfer towards the end of her labor. Marissa walks us through her process of choosing home birth, which happened before conceiving, navigating feedback and opinions from friends and family and […]
365: Trusting Birth, Questioning the System and Supporting Parents and Birth Workers with Dr. Nathan Riley
How do you truly honor birth? Dr. Nathan Riley joins us for the second time on the podcast. First time was back in 2019, and a lot of life has changed for him. For one thing, he’s welcomed both of his daughters into the world. And today we talk about the home birth of the […]
364: Primal, Ancestral and Awe-inspiring Birth with Charly and Dan Swanberg (DIAH Classic)
How do you trust in the process of your birth experience? In today’s birth story, we’re chatting with Charly and Dan Swanberg about the births of both of their daughters: Luna and Kaiya. Charly’s mother had 3 home births herself, so the experience was already familiar and normalized for Charly. Both chiropractic students, Charly and […]
363: Training for the Marathon of Birth with Brooke Cates, Founder and CEO of The Bloom Method (DIAH Classic)
Can you train for the experience of birth? We’ve often heard birth compared to a marathon. Most people have a lot of intense and focused training when it comes to their marathons. So how can a woman prepare for the marathon of birth? In today’s birth story we’re chatting with Brooke Cates, the founder and […]
362: HOME BIRTH STORY – Plan for the Success of Your Birth and Lean Into Your Vision with Angela Potts-Mang’andah (DIAH Classic)
What are you focusing on the most when it comes to your birth? As you prepare for your home birth, there are obviously many factors and considerations. Are you truly allowing yourself to envision the success of the experience, whatever that looks like for you? Today’s guest, Angela Potts-Mang’andah, walks us through her home birth […]
361: HOME BIRTH STORY – Using Trust and Intuition to Have a Raw, Real and Beautiful Unassisted Birth Experience with Adina Rivers (DIAH Classic)
What do you do when your care providers drop you and tell you to change your birth plan, at 35 weeks? This is the exact circumstance that Adina Rivers found herself in during her second pregnancy. Originally planning for a home birth with a midwife, Adina was now facing not only her midwife releasing her […]
360: HOME BIRTH STORY – Normalizing Going Past Due Date: Natural Induction at 41 Weeks with Jessica Prigmore (DIAH Classic)
What happens if you go past your due date? That depends on a number of factors. One thing that we’ve found helpful when it comes to due date or “guess date,” as we’ve seen it referred to (and tend to prefer), is that this is an area of variation of normal. That a very small […]
359. Top 3 Things on Learning About Motherhood and Training to Be a Mom with Jessica Lorion
How do you train for motherhood? This is the question that Jessica Lorion found herself asking. And from her own personal inquiry, that question sprouted a podcast and community dedicated to preparing for motherhood. We’re huge fans of this idea. Having a number of “non-moms” or “soon-to-be” or in Jessica’s community, “mama in training,” we […]
358: HOME BIRTH STORY – Second Home Birth Abroad: Intentional, Faith-based and Precipitous with Amy Jo and JJ Mann
How can you be very intentional and faith-driven in your birthing plans? This is a big theme of our conversation with Amy Jo and JJ Mann, veterans of the Doing It At Home podcast. In our second interview with the couple, they share the details of their second home birth experience. From Amy Jo: “We […]
357: HOME BIRTH STORY – Peaceful Home Water Birth After Traumatic First Birth Center Birth with Briahnna Roy and Jeremy Scott (Rebroadcast)
Today’s birth story features Briahnna Roy and Jeremy Scott, a couple sharing their journey to home birth. For their first baby, Briahnna and Roy chose to deliver in a birth center. The experience wasn’t everything they wanted, and when it came time to decide on the location for baby number two, they opted for home […]