336: HOME BIRTH STORY – Using Trust and Intuition to Have a Raw, Real and Beautiful Unassisted Birth Experience with Adina Rivers
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 […]
335: HOME BIRTH STORY – Second Generation En Caul Home Birth with Nuchal Cord and Hand with Morgan Oberstein
What happens when you were born at home, and then you grow up to realize that it’s actually not considered “normal” for most people? For Morgan Oberstein, home birth was a very normalized thing within her family. Not only was she born at home, but she and other home birth children amongst the extended family […]
334: HOME BIRTH STORY – From an Unplanned Cesarean to a Planned, Unassisted HBAC with Sarah Leahy
Can birth be redemptive? We often hear on the show how different birth experiences bring the opportunity to heal and take back your power. This is an element of our conversation with Sarah Leahy. Sarah shares the varying aspects of her two birth experiences. Her first, an unplanned cesarean with multiple interventions, left her feeling […]
333: HOME BIRTH STORY – Birth Vision, Informed Consent and Body Autonomy with Rose Schieck
How do you even describe the floodgate that opens the moment you meet your baby? This is a question that comes up in today’s conversation, when Rose Schieck shares details from both of her birth experiences. Plus the fact that she was born at home herself, and had witnessed her sister’s births in both center […]
332: HOME BIRTH STORY – Having a Peaceful Home Birth in 2020 with Michaela Sarver
How could you possibly have a peaceful home birth during a turbulent time in your life? Ask Michaela Sarver, because she did! In January of 2020, Michaela took custody of her sister’s 3 children, then found out she was pregnant with her second child on the day that schools closed because of COVID-19. So, there […]
331: HOME BIRTH STORY – From Hospital to Birth Center to Home Birth with Martina Cifiello
What influences your birth choices? It’s helpful to look at this, to see what matters to you when it comes to birth, and how you can create a birth environment and culture around you that supports you best. Today we’re chatting with Martina Cifiello about her birth journey. From a hospital birth with her first […]
330: Our Conception Journey Part 3 (Creating Space)
How’s our conception journey going? We answer that question in today’s episode. It’s been about 13 months since we actively began “trying” to get pregnant. There have been ups and downs. We first opened up on this topic on the podcast back in September 2020 with part 1, then followed up with a part 2 […]
329: Trusting Baby and Staying Empowered During a Postpartum Hospital Transfer with Lauren Leduc
What does it mean to become a student of birth? For Lauren Leduc, that was the role she took on when she planned for her home birth. “I took on pregnancy and birth like it was my major in college!” Who else can relate to that? Lauren shares her birth story of her daughter Gemma. […]
328: HOME BIRTH STORY – Being Very Intentional with Planning and Having Your Home Birth: Part 2 with Erica James-Strayhorn and Anthony Strayhorn
Who are you going to be when birthing time comes? Today is a fun episode. Not only is it a part 2, but a highly requested one. AND we get to talk to some of our favorite people. Anthony and Erica joined us back in August 2020 to talk about their pregnancy and plans for […]
327: HOME BIRTH STORY – Overcoming Diagnoses of “Incompetent” Cervix and IUGR with Sarah Schade
How do you plan for a positive hospital birth experience, when you were originally intending to have a home birth? This is such a great topic to cover. For many who start out with a home birth plan, sometimes that changes for various reasons. Sarah Schade shares her story with us. From a diagnosis of […]