Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 8 months ago
#137 | When Providers Get It Wrong: Kassidy's Birth Story of Mistreatment and Claiming Her Power
Season 2 Episode 137
When Kassidy was preconception, she had Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and was told she would never conceive. But she did. When she told her pro…
4 years, 8 months ago
#136 | November Q&A: Membrane Sweeps, PP Hemorrhage, PP hormones & Mood Disorders, When to go to the Hospital, Cord Traction, Group B Strep
Season 2 Episode 136
Our Q&A is here again! We open with some interesting survey results on how long mothers spend in the waiting room versus in the actual prenatal appo…
4 years, 8 months ago
#135 | Covid Vaccine Research for Breastfeeding Moms with Dr. Kaytlin Krutsch of Texas Tech University's Infant Risk Research Team
Season 2 Episode 135
Breastfeeding women have been having a difficult time knowing whether to get the Covid vaccine, given that the vaccine is new and neither the CDC nor…
4 years, 8 months ago
#134 | Pitocin for Labor: Why and Why Not
Season 2 Episode 134
Did you know that Pitocin is said to be the most abused drug in the world today? Did you know it is used 97% of the time for off-label purposes? Did…
4 years, 9 months ago