Podcast Episodes
Back to Search#54 | Spinning Babies: Optimizing Your Baby's Position for a Faster, Easier Labor with Gail Tully
Season 1 Episode 54
Do you know why some vaginal births are fast and others slow? Some easy and others difficult, if not impossible? Optimal fetal positioning is the ans…
5 years, 10 months ago
#53 | Birth Story Mini: Candra's Back Labor with Group B Strep
Season 1 Episode 53
Today's Birth Story Mini-Episode features Candra, a first-time Mom who had GBS (Group B Strep), release of membranes, antibiotics, vomiting and inten…
5 years, 10 months ago
#52 | September Q&A: Hilarious Husbands; Birthing Positions; Flat Nipples; Gentle Cesarean; Unassisted Home-Birth Tips; Anterior Placentas
Season 1 Episode 52
Imagine if your husband left for the hospital without you while you were in labor? What does it mean to have an anterior placenta? How might flat nip…
5 years, 10 months ago
#51 | Postpartum Incontinence: Author Luce Brett's Journey Through the Wet-Knickered Wilderness to Dry Land
Season 1 Episode 51
She asks for a list of things that make me leak – my first incontinence homework. I begin: ‘Walking, running, stretching, coughing, sneezing, lifting…
5 years, 10 months ago
#50 | Postpartum Mini: You're Not Going Crazy, It's Probably Postpartum Anxiety
Season 1 Episode 50
Hi everyone! In this Postpartum Mini episode Cynthia talks about Postpartum Anxiety, which is four times more common than Postpartum Depression, thou…
5 years, 10 months ago
#49 | Dr. Neel Shah OBGYN: Agency, Dignity, & The Number One Risk Factor for Cesarean Birth
Season 1 Episode 49
Dr. Neel Shah, an obstetrician and professor at Harvard medical school, is dedicated to improving maternity care in the United States.Think part-scie…
5 years, 10 months ago
#48 | Becky and Tom's DIY Home Birth
Season 1 Episode 48
Today we're talking with Becky and Tom, one of several HypnoBirthing couples Cynthia has worked with who ended up with an unplanned home birth. When …
5 years, 11 months ago
#47 | Pregnancy Story Mini - Jess Hears Herself
Season 1 Episode 47
Hi all! One of Cynthia's expecting HypnoBirthing moms had a story to share in class that brought her to tears, and now she's sharing it for all of yo…
5 years, 11 months ago
#46 | Sandy's Secret Home Birth
Season 1 Episode 46
Some things are best kept to ourselves...when Sandy and her husband decided to have a home birth, they also decided to keep their decision just betwe…
5 years, 11 months ago
#45 | August Q&A: Outrageous OB Comments; Pooping in Labor; Mastitis; C-Sections and Genetics; Birth Plans; Children in the Birthing Room
Season 1 Episode 45
We are kicking off this month's Q&A with some outrageous, real-life OB comments (#shitmyobsaid) because it is all too common that women are subjected…
5 years, 11 months ago