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Back to Search#84 | Lynne's Last Minute Home Birth After Two C-Sections
Season 2 Episode 84
For Lynne, giving birth via Cesarean just didn't feel like giving birth. Learning she was pregnant with her third and having had two prior C-sections…
5 years, 5 months ago
#83 | February Q&A: Plus-Size Pregnancy; What to Wear During Birth; Waking a Sleeping Baby; Implications of a Subchorionic Hematoma; Waterbirth & Baby's First Breath; Best Times to Pump
Season 2 Episode 83
Our February Q&A episode is here! Today, we discuss a wide variety of topics from the influence of medical rhetoric on our decisions in pregnancy an…
5 years, 5 months ago
#82 | Birth Story Mini: Stefanie's Home Birth After C-Section (HBAC)
Season 2 Episode 82
“I would give birth like that ten more times!” In today’s mini-sode Stefanie tells her story of choosing a homebirth VBAC (HBAC) for her second birt…
5 years, 5 months ago
#81 | Andrea Left the Hospital AMA (Against Medial Advice) to Avoid Induction
Season 2 Episode 81
Andrea was thirty-three years-old and experiencing a low-risk healthy pregnancy when she went in for her prenatal visit at five days past her guess d…
5 years, 5 months ago
#80 | Roundtable: Mothers Who've Miscarried
Season 2 Episode 80
Approximately 1 in 5 known pregnancies result in miscarriage before 12 weeks, and 1 in 4 women have experienced a miscarriage in their lifetime. Des…
5 years, 6 months ago
#79 | Cynthia Mini: What is Medical Rhetoric?
Season 2 Episode 79
Medical Rhetoric involves language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often lacks sincerity or meaningful conten…
5 years, 6 months ago
#78 | Christina's Run From Induction to a Home Birth with Group B Strep
Season 2 Episode 78
When Christina showed up at the hospital with ruptured membranes and GBS+ status, the hospital informed her that she was not allowed to leave—not eve…
5 years, 6 months ago
#77 | January Q&A: Co-sleeping; Prodromal Labor; Switching Providers; Third Babies; Conceiving While Breastfeeding; Vaginal Dryness; Baby-Led Weaning; Hep-Locks and IVs
Season 2 Episode 77
This month's Q&A is packed with valuable information! Check it out below:
Did you Co-Sleep with your babies?
I am thinking about leaving my provider. …
5 years, 6 months ago
#76 | Birth Story Mini: Tara's Empowered Birth During Covid
Season 2 Episode 76
After losing her first baby in utero at five months, Tara and her husband became pregnant again and quickly realized they were with a large group of …
5 years, 6 months ago
#75 | Fetal Monitoring and Fetal Distress with Midwife-Author Amy Romano
Season 2 Episode 75
To monitor or not monitor: that is the question. More specifically, how to best monitor your baby in labor without causing undue worry and intervent…
5 years, 6 months ago