013: When Things Don’t Go As Planned: Leonie’s Honest Birth Story
Today’s episode was inspired by a listener email. Leonie, listening all the way in Australia, reached out to share her birth story. She had planned for a minimal intervention birth in a midwife led public hospital program (way to go Australis!) but things didn’t go exactly as anticipated. Her email was amazing – raw, honest […]
012: Picking Your All Star Home Birth Team
A lot goes into creating a badass and powerful team. You want a team that works together and has synergy. You want individual members who can hold their own yet contribute to the totality of the group. You want to be able to trust everyone’s competence and commitment to the overall goal. These teams win […]
011: An Intimate And Unforgettable Message From My Husband During My Home Birth Active Labor
In this episode, I invite you into a precious and intimate moment. You see, during the early parts of birthing time (labor), we placed a recorder in the room – to capture the experience and be able to listen back to it later on. While I was moving through my birthing waves (contractions) in the […]
010: Seriously?!? Dealing With Unsolicited Pregnancy Advice And Commentary From Strangers
I had always heard pregnancy can be a vulnerable time. You’re dealing with a lot of changes – physically and emotionally. Not to mention, the more pregnant you become, the more obvious your circumstance is to anyone who lays eyes on you. And for some reason, actually lots of reasons – there’s something about a […]
009: Our First Home Birth Story: Star Wars, Kiddie Pools, and Hypnobabies
This is it, folks! The episode you’ve all been waiting for….our birth story! Matthew and I sit down (in bed, as always) with our first guest – less than a week old baby Maya. She lies quietly (for the most part, you might hear some coos and little grunts in the background at times) on […]
008: The In Between Stage: The [Agonizing] Final Days Of Pregnancy
“We are not a culture that waits for anything, nor are we believers in normal birth; waiting for a baby can feel like insanity.” This is a powerful quote from an article that had a profound impact on Matthew and me. The article is about the “in between” stage of the last days of pregnancy […]
007: The 10 Best Things We Did For Our Home Birth Prenatal Care
We preface this episode with a little disclaimer and I feel it necessary to include it here as well – WE ARE NOT DOCTORS OR MEDICAL EXPERTS AND WE ARE NOT GIVING MEDICAL ADVICE. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get into some fun stuff. Today we’re talking about our top 10 list […]
006: Sex While Pregnant: The Ins, The Outs, The Reach Arounds
Let’s talk about sex, BABY! Not just the kind that makes the babies, but the kind you continue doing while the bun is in the oven. There’s plenty of topics around pregnancy that receive just the surface level of attention paid to them in the blogs, books, and classes. Sex was the big thing for […]
005: Reactions To Home Birth From Family, Friends and Strangers
When you’re expecting, it’s very common to hear the question, “Where are you delivering?” If not that specifically, people generally ask about your doctor or your doctor visits. Whether it’s close friends and family or total strangers, most will insert some sort of advice or personal experience to whatever birth plan it is you’ve chosen. […]
004: Watching Home Birth Videos
Remember the horrible films you’d watch in sex ed classes featuring a scary, screaming, bloody mess of a woman giving birth in total agony (probably because she had sex before marriage and was birthing the baby out of wedlock – I went to Catholic school so I’m convinced those videos were purely to warn off […]