023: Home Birth and Pregnancy Affirmations for Moms and Dads
In this episode we’re giving you some powerful affirmations to help you prepare for your pregnancy and home birth. We have 2 affirmations for moms and 2 for dads. We’ve talked a lot about affirmations on the show at different points in time – a little bit in our story and then in the stories […]
022: HOME BIRTH STORY – Finding Your Home Birth Midwives and Releasing Fear with Marissa Olivera
In today’s episode we’re talking with Marissa Olivera, a mom of 2 from Utica, NY, with both a hospital birth story and home birth story. Marissa experienced intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) with her first pregnancy. That, along with some early signs of labor made for a hospital birth that included a lot of intervention and […]
021: 9 Questions To Ask Yourself When Considering A Home Birth
In today’s episode we’re giving you nine questions to ask yourself to decide whether home birth might be an option for you and your family. This podcast is all about providing resources, stories and empowering around the home birth conversation. We personally chose homebirth to welcome our daughter into the world, but we realize that […]
020: HOME BIRTH STORY – Birth Center Transfer and Planning A Home Birth with Lindsay Bonnar
In today’s episode we talk to mom Lindsay Bonnar about her home birth story. Lindsay planned a home birth for her first baby, but circumstances required a transfer to a birth center. Now pregnant with her second, Lindsay and her husband are planning a home birth again for the second round. —- This episode is […]
019: My Home Birth Postpartum Experience
In today’s episode I’m sharing my postpartum story. I get into the nitty gritty details of the very first postpartum stages after my home birth. I also talk about what I experienced with postnatal visits with my midwives, healing a perineal tear, breastfeeding, diastasis recti (aka ab separation), postpartum sex and more! — Hey all, […]
018: HOME BIRTH STORY – A Home Birth Story and A Birth Center Story with Maria Mengel
Today we’re talking with Maria Mengel about her 2 birth stories. Maria’s first daughter was born at a birthing center with a midwife, and her second was an unassisted home birth (also known as “freebirth”). In this episode Maria gets honest about her two birth experiences and shares some of the things she learned during the process. […]
017: 6 Things You Don’t Say To A Homebirth Mom
In today’s episode we talk about 6 comments and questions that you absolutely don’t want to say to a homebirth mom or family! We heard these things as we prepared for our home birth and can say from experience that they are not helpful at all. Some things are better left unsaid, and that applies to […]
016: Normalizing Birth And Empowering Families with CPM Debbie Schneider
Continuing our work to bring real and honest stories of home birth to you, we sat down with Debbie Schneider, CPM extraordinaire. Debbie is actually our midwife. She delivered Maya, and has become a very important part of our lives. We’ve known we wanted to interview Debbie since we started the podcast. She’s an amazing […]
015: HOME BIRTH STORY – Talking Home Birth and Placenta Encapsulation With Jenny DiPietro
In this episode we’re talking with mom of 4 Jenny DiPietro, who has had multiple home births, a homebirth turned hospital transfer, a water birth at home, and who performs placenta encapsulation for families. We get into a lot in this one! Oh yeah, and we’re also entering a new phase of the podcast! In […]
014: Is Home Birth Messy?
In today’s episode we address the question, “Is home birth messy?” It’s a great question that I know crossed my mind once or twice during pregnancy, because let’s be honest, most images we have about birth is that it’s a bloody, sticky, gross mess! But here’s the truth on mess during a homebirth: yes there […]