Birth Matters Podcast, Ep 119 - Rapid Arrival: An Unmedicated Hospital Birth After Switch to Midwife

Upper West Sider Diana’s rapid, unmedicated birth story unfolds with her and partner Josh navigating spontaneous water rupture, fast labor, and timely hospital arrival with the help of doulas after switching from a large OB practice to much more personable midwife support.

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Birth Matters Podcast, Ep 111 - A Pediatric ICU Nurse’s 3rd Preemie

Ellen returns to share her 3rd baby’s preterm birth story. Despite being slightly premature and having a cleft lip, her son doesn’t need to go to the NICU and breastfeeds beautifully. Postpartum mental health struggles and needing to speak up for more support are also highlighted in this story.

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Birth 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.

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Birth Matters Podcast, Ep 98 - Belly Birth for Breech with Bicornuate Uterus

Crystal shares her positive belly birth (cesarean) story. Due to her bicornuate, heart-shaped uterus, her baby was persistently breech and therefore needed to be born surgically since the majority of providers aren’t trained in safe vaginal breech birth.

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