Sheyda and her partner Corentin share their experience of choosing a home birth. The homebirth is smooth, but then after birth, Sheyda makes an informed decision with the collaborative care of her midwife to transfer to the hospital so she could recover more efficiently from bleeding a lot after birth.
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 105 - Body Confidence Reclaimed in 2nd Birth
Melissa shares 2 birth stories, 1 hospital birth with epidural, the 2nd in which she reclaimed her body confidence in an unmedicated birth in a birthing center with midwives.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 99 - Strong Circle of Support for Unmedicated Birth & Beyond
Despite the fact that EmJ has always had a self-professed low pain tolerance, she finds instinctive coping mechanisms that work for her to have the unmedicated birth that she had hoped to have in a Manhattan hospital, largely because she had uncommonly doula-like support from the nurses and an OB she loves. This is a story of ongoing, essential community and support that started in birth class.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 78 - A Pelvic PT’s Curve Balls in Pushing
Pelvic DPT Helene shares the story of her spontaneous, unmedicated labor & hospital birth with doula support in which she stayed very active to promote progress in early labor. She did things in pushing that she doesn’t usually recommend but that felt necessary both due to exhaustion & concern about the baby’s heart tones.
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