Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#146 | Finding Autonomy and Asserting Your Birth Plan with Fierce Lizzie
Season 3 Episode 146
Lizzie Bolliger of Fiercelizzy doesn't consider herself necessarily a fierce person but very much a fierce advocate for autonomy and informed decisi…
4 years, 2 months ago
#145 | January Q&A: Hypertension & Induction; Boundaries with In-Laws; Posterior Babies; Birth Centers; Distracted Breast Feeders; Limited Provider Options; The "Nurse Curse"; Quickies!
Season 3 Episode 145
Our January Q&A is here and has a special treat! In addition to your more in depth questions we've add a "quickies" series to the end of the episode.…
4 years, 2 months ago
#144 | Restrengthening from Within through Yoga with Deb Flashenberg of The Prenatal Yoga Center
Season 3 Episode 144
How is yoga like birth? They both ask us to get uncomfortable and sit with that discomfort. How long can we sit with it? Where does our mind go when …
4 years, 3 months ago
#143 | Radical Boundaries in Birth with Guest Host Tranquility by Hehe
Season 3 Episode 143
Can you be so firm and stable in your boundaries around pregnancy and birth that it doesn't actually matter who attends your birth because you know …
4 years, 3 months ago
#142 | Healing from Birth Trauma with Hypnosis: Molly's Birth Story
Season 3 Episode 142
Molly had a textbook first pregnancy and went into labor just at 37 weeks. After an uneventful labor, her baby was born with an APGAR score of one. …
4 years, 3 months ago
New Year's Eve Bonus | Our Youngest Listener
Season 2
New Year's marks exactly two years since we launched our first episode of Down To Birth. While we didn't know what to expect, we never dreamed so man…
4 years, 3 months ago
#141 | December Q&A: Increasing Breastmilk; Urge to Push; Cervadil; Posterior Cervix; PP Anxiety; Big Placentas; The Purple Line; Amusement Parks in Pregnancy
Season 2 Episode 141
Our December Q&A is here and loaded with entertaining and informative questions: We begin with a question around increasing supply without pumping: I…
4 years, 3 months ago
#140 | How to Write Your Birth Story with Carrie Murphy
Season 2 Episode 140
Writing your birth story seems like a simple thing to do, yet so many of us struggle with where and how to begin; and many of us never get it on pape…
4 years, 4 months ago
#139 | Katie's Gentle Birth After a Host of Unnecessary Interventions the First Time Around
Season 2 Episode 139
At 41+1 weeks Katie was pressured into an induction beginning with a foley bulb followed by forcefully rupturing her bag of water, high amounts of P…
4 years, 4 months ago
#138 | Legal Case Study #1 with Attorney Hermine Hayes-Klein: Traumatized at a Major Teaching Hospital While Interns Watched and Learned
Season 2 Episode 138
Today on the show we have attorney Hermine Hayes-Klein, a fearless legal advocate for sexual and reproductive rights with a particular passion for de…
4 years, 4 months ago