326: HOME BIRTH STORY – Navigating Challenges of Switching to a Home Birth at 25 Weeks with Porshe Turner
Where do you feel most safe to give birth? Ultimately, that’s one of, if not the most important question to consider when it comes to your birth plan. When it came down to it, home was the answer for today’s guest, Porshe Turner. This was Porshe’s third pregnancy. Influenced by COVID-19 and circumstances related to […]
325: HOME BIRTH STORY – Normalizing Going Past Due Date: Natural Induction at 41 Weeks with Jessica Prigmore
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 […]
324: HOME BIRTH STORY – An HBAC with Switching Care at 36 Weeks Pregnant with Sarah Schlichter
When can you change care providers/plans? Answer: any time you want. This comes up frequently on the podcast. As long as it’s an important and relevant part of the pregnancy and birth experience (which it will always be), we will keep addressing this theme. Because for one thing: many do not know or realize that […]
323: HOME BIRTH STORY – Doula for 6 Years Before Having a Full Moon Home Birth with Ellen Barnard
“Why doesn’t everybody do this?” That’s the question that David, Ellen’s husband, asked after the home birth of their daughter Willow. Ellen walks us through her journey to home birth — from her doula work for 6 years before her birth and what inspired it, to changing care from a birthing center to home birth, […]
322: HOME BIRTH STORY – Catching My Fifth Baby at Home with Delayna Wilkins
What does it mean to birth “your way?” What are the steps you take, conversations and experiences you have to build an understanding of what birthing on your terms looks and feels like for you? Of course it’s different for all of us. Today our guest Delayna Wilkins shares her journey that brought her to […]
321: How Nutrition and Real Food Prepare You for Pregnancy and Birth with Lily Nichols (DIAH Classic)
What and how should you eat during pregnancy? This is a big question that comes up often, and there are lots of thoughts around it. So where is a place where you can get all the info you need, in a clear, empowering and informative way? Enter Lily Nichols, our guest today. Lily is a […]
320: Sex After Having Kids: How We Keep Our Sex Life Hot As New Parents (Rebroadcast)
Today we’re excited to bring you another SEX-PISODE, this time pulling the covers back on what our sex life has been like after having a baby. This episode joins our growing series of sex-pisodes. There are three main areas we’re going to focus on: How we schedule sex into our busy lives Why keeping the […]
319: When You Find Out You’re Pregnant and Don’t Know What to Do Next with Brittney Seitz
What did you do the moment you found out you were pregnant? What was going through your mind? How were you feeling? We talk about that in today’s episode with our guest Brittney. Brittney actually reached out to us within the first few hours of discovering she was pregnant, and it opened up a beautiful […]
318: BIRTH STORY – Giving Birth in Another Country Without Fear, Intervention or Complication with Amy Brown
What’s it like giving birth outside of your native country? It’d be understandable to have fears and/or reservations around birthing in a different country. But what if it could be normal, uncomplicated, supported and without fear? Our guest today is Amy Brown. Amy traveled from Chicago, Illinois to Peru in 2011 to work as a […]
317: Talking Pregnant Fitness, Doula Work, Chiropractic and Home Birth Prep with BIRTHFIT Founder and CEO Lindsey K. Mathews
How are you connecting with your body during your pregnancy and birth prep? Today we’re joined by Lindsey K. Mathews, Founder and CEO of BIRTHFIT, prenatal and postpartum programs for mind and body, as well as seminars and education for users of the program and coaches for the organization. Lindsey walks us through the inspiration […]