Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#191 | Placental Abruption: Meghan's Third and Final Birth
Season 3 Episode 191
Meghan Murray and her husband decided to have one more baby. She'd already experienced beautiful vaginal births with her first two boys and, like so …
3 years, 7 months ago
#190 | Babies in the NICU: Three Mothers' Stories
Season 3 Episode 190
No matter how beautiful, long, short or difficult your birth experience is, nothing compares to the agony of your brand new baby being whisked out o…
3 years, 8 months ago
#189 | November Q&A: Cholestasis; Growth Curve Worries; Petite-Women Birth Concerns; The McRobert's Position; Retained Placenta; Burping & Formula
Season 3 Episode 189
Hello everyone! It is Wednesday, and we are back with our monthly Q&A!
In this month's extended Q&As (always ad-free and available to all by subscr…
3 years, 8 months ago
#188 | Rhogam for Rh Negative Mothers: How It Works and When It Doesn't
Season 3 Episode 188
In today's episode we discuss the problem with Rh negative blood types and how it impacts future pregnancies. We've invited Courtney, mother of three…
3 years, 8 months ago
#187 | Carrying the Torch of the Midwives Before Us: An Off-The-Record Kind of Conversation with Home Birth Midwife Lindsey Meehleis
Season 3 Episode 187
Lindsey Meehleis is a midwife in Southern California who practices traditional midwifery and has supported women in home birth over the last nineteen…
3 years, 8 months ago
#186 | Five Tips for Your Easiest Birth with The Naked Doula
Season 3 Episode 186
Emma of the naked doula is a mother, instagram phenomenon, artist, and passionate, bold birth educator residing across the pond from us, in England. …
3 years, 9 months ago
#185 | Reyna's Unmedicated Twin Birth Against Doctors' Orders
Season 3 Episode 185
When Reyna learned she was pregnant with twins she was told she would need to be induced and get an epidural and that there was no point in staying …
3 years, 9 months ago
#184 | October Q&A: Evening Primrose; Breastmilk Storage; IUGR; Pumping the Second Side; Bacteria in Urine; Longer Gestations & Early Milestones; Postpartum Meals
Season 3 Episode 184
Hello Friends! It is Wednesday, and Cynthia & Trisha are here with your October Q&A episode. To kick it off, we share a story from a listener who wa…
3 years, 9 months ago
#183 | Group B Strep: Screening, Risks, Protocols, Problems and Alternatives
Season 3 Episode 183
GBS affects approximately one-third of all pregnant women, and involves widespread use of intravenous antibiotics in labor even though the screening …
3 years, 9 months ago
#182 | Labor Induction: Risks, Reasons and Results with Dr. Rachel Reed, PhD
Season 3 Episode 182
Dr. Rachel Reed, PhD, author, midwife, researcher and expert in physiologic birth joins us for the second time on the Down to Birth Show to discuss t…
3 years, 10 months ago