166: Helping Self-Employed Women Prepare for Maternity Leave and a Home Birth in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with Arianna Taboada
How does a self-employed mama prepare for maternity leave? Today’s home birth story mama, Arianna Taboada, helps tackle that question with the women she serves in her private consultant practice. In this episode, we hear Arianna’s amazing birth story of her son Leon in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. We get to hear about her process […]
165: How We Create a Healthy Relationship to Our Finances
How do you approach the topic of spending, bills and saving money? This is a question we got from one of our listeners, so we figured why not tackle it? Not 100% birth related we’ll grant you, however it’s a very real topic for parents as we navigate the world of our marriage and partnership, […]
164: HOME BIRTH STORY – HBAC Story of Baby #3 with the Dope Doula Rachel Cunningham
Wanna hear a story about a sassy doula having a healing HBAC? Today we’re chatting with Rachel Cunningham, a small business owner, doula, wife to her husband Bernard and mama to her three girls: Greta, Beatrice and Agnes. Rachel shares with us, in such funny, vulnerable and real fashion, her journey in the birth world. […]
163: Inspiration from the DIAH Community and the Famous Oxytocin Tattoo
Today we’re sharing a few listener emails, talking about their birth planning and experiences. It’s such a testament to this community and the space of the DIAH platform. So many mothers that we interview on the show share how excited they are to tell their stories, mostly because they feel this beautiful opportunity to “pay […]
162: HOME BIRTH STORY – From Dealing With Stressful Situations During Pregnancy to the Magic of Holding Your Baby with Lindsay Robinson
Did you have any stressful circumstances pop up during your pregnancy? Today’s episode is Lindsay Robinson’s birth story. In it we talk about some of the challenging and hectic situations that she and her husband Chris experienced while preparing for the birth of their son Elric. This is such an inspiring story and one that […]
161: HOME BIRTH STORY – From A Four Month Hemorrhage To An Incredible Birth Experience with Raimee Botner
How do you process being pregnant and planning for a birth that you thought you could never have? Our DIAH mama in today’s episode, Raimee Botner, shares her experience of finding out she was pregnant after believing she couldn’t have children. Then healing through an intense miscarriage. Finally to find out she was pregnant again, […]
160: HOME BIRTH STORY – Choosing Home Birth from an Academic Perspective and the Power of Women with Isis Rose
Are you the type to research and look for evidence and information to support your decisions when it comes to your birth? In today’s episode, we’re chatting with Isis Rose, a PhD student, doula and mama to baby Xena. Isis shares her journey to home birth, which first entered her awareness during a doula training. […]
159: Our Back and Forth Journey to Deciding on a Home Birth (Rebroadcast)
Today we’re bringing you a rebroadcast of the second ever episode we published on the podcast! Hope you all enjoy this throwback : ) — When we began our pregnancy adventure, home birth was pretty far from our mind. We kicked things off the traditional way: going to see an OBGYN at a great hospital. But […]
158: HOME BIRTH STORY – A Home Birth Story After a Torn Cervix and Years of Infertility with Jenn Irizarry
Where did your journey to birth begin? For today’s guest Jenn Irizarry, her story links back to a life-threatening accident she had when she was 17 that tore her cervix. She had emergency surgery as a result of the internal bleeding and shock. 44 staples in her abdomen down to her pelvis later, Jenn was […]
157: The Mama and Story Behind the Birth Documentary “These Are My Hours” with Emily Graham
Have you seen “These Are My Hours” yet? Well if you haven’t, this is your official suggestion and reminder. If you caught our last episode (number 156) – you’ll remember Matthew’s conversation with Scott Kirschenbaum, the creator of the documentary film that shows the process of birth completely through one woman’s perspective. And in today’s […]