Professional dancer Elisa Toro Franky shares her transformative birth story, exploring the profound connections between dance and labor, trusting your intuition through pregnancy loss and induction decisions, and the power of "becoming the wave" during childbirth. Learn about body wisdom, cultural support, movement in pregnancy, and navigating birth with courage and surrender.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 124 - Rachel’s VBA2C: A Black Mother and Advocate’s Path to Doula Work
Rachel shares her journey from two traumatic c-section births to a triumphant vaginal birth after 2 cesareans (VBA2C), and we discuss the disparities for Black birthing people and how much advocacy and change is needed.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 117 - Is Homebirth Safe? w/ Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki
NYC homebirth midwife Sorayya Kassamali Rickicki shares all things homebirth, including answering the most common reason people are hesitant to consider giving birth at home.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 109 - A Black Doula’s 2 Unmedicated Hospital Births
NYC birth doula, postpartum doula and lactation counselor Theresa Lasbrey Peters shares her own 2 birth stories, discusses her empowering experiences with Hypnobabies and unmedicated hospital births, how it informed her approach as a birth worker, doula, and a passionate advocate for empowering birth experiences.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 100 - When Baby Prefers Car Over Waterbirth
Sierra envisioned a waterbirth for her baby in a birthing center and a doula, but baby has others plans while in the car en route to the birth place. Sierra shares those exciting details plus details the night and day difference between how she was treated when seeing an OB vs. the midwifery model of care.
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