Claire shares her birth story and discusses misdiagnoses during labor and an empowering postpartum.

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Avery shares her birth story and discusses the upsides of having her birth and postpartum plans go awry.

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Amanda shares her birth story and discusses the postpartum struggles that led to her founding Nest Collaborative.

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After over 4 years of dealing with infertility, Gisselle and her husband, Lynneric, found out they were pregnant due to an IUI.

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Poppy shares her birth story and discusses a five-day NICU stay postpartum.

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Makayla shares her conception journey and birth story.

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Lindsey Henke is the founder and Executive Director of Pregnancy After Loss Support, a writer, clinical social worker, wife, and most importantly a mother of two beautiful daughters and one sweet-smiling little boy. Tragically, her oldest daughter, Nora was stillborn after a healthy full-term pregnancy in December of 2012.

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Chloe shares two birth stories and discusses infertility, using IVF, and postpartum depression.

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Angela shares her birth story, discusses her journey with infertility, and also shares about losing her baby late in her second trimester.

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Carolyn shares her birth story and discusses her postpartum recovery challenges.

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Lana shares her birth story and discusses postpartum preeclampsia.

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In Part 2, Zahra picks up with her first postpartum story and shares her second birth story, a cesarean section.

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Zahra shares her unmedicated hospital birth story in this first of two episodes.

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Daniela shares her birth story and discusses diaphragmatic breathing.

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Beth shares her birth story and discusses her journey to conceive.

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Ashley shares her two birth stories.

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Cara shares her birth story and discusses being pregnant during med school and COVID.

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Lisa shares her hospital and home birth stories.

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Alyssa, founder of Seed & Sew, shares her birth story.

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Rhea Dempsey is a childbirth educator, speaker, counselor and birth attendant (doula) with experience at over one thousand births. In this conversation, we discuss reframing the way we think about birth with an emphasis on what Rhea refers to as the 'crises of confidence' among laboring people and how our culture doesn't support us through those moments. Rhea also makes a unique argument for why you need a birth plan. Plus, lots more!

Sarah shares her birth story, and discusses what the body is capable of and the power of motherhood.

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Natalia shares her birth story and her physically and emotionally challenging postpartum.

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Monica shares her birth story and discusses being medevaced at 33 weeks.

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Joelle shares her birth story and discusses transferring from a home birth practice to a midwife-led OB/GYN practice at 35 weeks.

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Lottie shares her birth story and discusses how important fetal movement monitoring was to her story.

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Sarah shares her birth story and discusses her positive NICU experience.

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Angela shares her pregnancy and birth stories.

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Christi shares her birth story and discusses being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, delivering at 36 weeks, and postpartum phototherapy jaundice treatment.

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Chae shares her conception and birth stories, and discusses going in for an induction due to gestational hypertension that turned into an unscheduled c-section.

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Hadar shares her gentle cesarean birth story.

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Allison shares her birth story, her experience with the Know Your Options Childbirth Course, and about hiring a postpartum doula for her 4th trimester.

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Jill shares her three, very different, birth stories and discusses the challenges of pandemic postpartum.

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Lauren shares her two, unmedicated hospital birth stories.

Taylor shares her birth story and discusses her struggles with breastfeeding.

Aubrey shares her waterbirth story.

After planning for a baby for years, the time finally came for Kayla and her husband to start trying. They successfully got pregnant fairly quickly, but found their timing to be all but perfect as news of the pandemic began to spread. Although adapting to this new way of life during pregnancy was difficult, Kayla had a relatively normal pregnancy and planned for an unmedicated hospital birth with midwives.

Jasmine shares about being induced at 37-weeks for pre-eclampsia and discusses her postpartum treatment experience as a black woman.

Bert Anderson had three positive vaginal births in hospitals. She used epidurals for all three births and for the most part she had uncomplicated pregnancies. After her first birth she was diagnosed with postpartum depression when her son was four months old. Since then she has become aware of her mood and depression so she can recognize the warning signs.

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Logan and Brian are parents to five, four girls and their newest arrival, their son Maverick Moon. This was Logan's third homebirth and one of the goals was for the midwife to make it this time! Logan shared her previous birth stories on episode 441. You can listen to those at here.

Camilla shares three birth stories and discusses postpartum during covid.

Today's birth story comes from mom of two, Monet Moutrie, who shares her experience giving birth at a birth center in Denver, Colorado. Monet comes to birth with the unique perspective of having photographed hundreds of births as a birth photographer—in other words she's pretty much seen it all! 

Sarah shares her empowering hospital birth story.

Shauna shares her two very different hospital birth stories.

Emelie shares her two birth stories: the first, an induction due to preeclampsia; the second, an emergency c-section due to a placental abruption.

Brenna shares her epidural-free birth story and discusses testing positive for GBS, but not receiving antibiotics due to the rapid onset of active labor.

Keelie shares her two different birth experiences, one with and one without an epidural.

On this episode, Annie shares her three birth stories, and having postpartum depression and pelvic floor issues.

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Madison shares her two cesarean birth stories, and how her preparation for the second made for a positive birth and postpartum experience.

Aubrey shares her two brith stories. Find her birth videos on the show-notes page!

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A few days before Jenny was 41 weeks with her fifth baby, she came to the Midwife Center to start a natural induction - pumping and walking. After a few hours, her water broke and her labor began.

Lori shares her 2- year pregnancy journey, birth story, and discusses her postpartum complications.

Before she was even pregnant, Loi had read all there is to read about pregnancy and childbirth. She knew that she wanted an unmedicated birth, and began to prepare herself by learning all she could about labor and delivery. After a smooth pregnancy, Loi had a home water birth with a midwife attending in Nairobi, Kenya!

Nikki shares the birth of her twins and shares advice for NICU parents.

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Arden is a grief and bereavement doula who found her calling to help others through pregnancy loss after a long fertility journey to her son, Cameron. In this episode, she opens up about pregnancy and live childbirth after infertility and loss.

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Hattie shares her two birth stories and discusses birth and postpartum resources in a rural community.

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Lola worked during most of her pregnancy and walked 6 km a day. She was quite scared about going into labor, so she chose a doctor who really made her feel confident about herself. The doctor had a reputation of standing back during most of the delivery and letting things follow their natural course, and would step in as needed. Another important factor that made things easier was that the hospital was only a 3 minute walk away from their apartment.

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Brittany shares her two birth stories.

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Caroline and Matt tried everything under the sun to turn their baby head down in an effort to avoid a c-section: moxibustion, acupuncture, Spinning Babies, flips in the pool, and two ECVs. Ultimately, Caroline found acceptance in a scheduled c-section and loved her birth experience. She was able to advocate for all of the gentle cesarean practices including immediate skin to skin, a clear drape, arms free, music playing, etc.

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Meghan shares about her molar pregnancy and loss, and her subsequent hospital births with a midwife.

Victoria shares her three birth stories.

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After being faced with needing to transfer care at 34 weeks, Georgiana wound up letting go of the “hypnobirth of her dreams” due to the need for an urgent caesarean section at 37 weeks.

After a fairly normal pregnancy, Nicky developed high blood pressure at 37 weeks and had to be induced. Despite a long labor she was able to have the epidural-free birth she’d hoped for. Postpartum, she struggled with triple feeding and was diagnosed with Insufficient Glandular Tissue.

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Rachael shares the stories of her hospital birth and brain surgery a few weeks postpartum.

January Harshe shares her first four birth stories: a cesarean, a homebirth transfer to cesarean, a hospital VBAC after being dropped from care by her homebirth midwife, and a very healing unassisted homebirth. You can hear her 5th and 6th birth stories on her podcast that she hosts with her husband, The Harshe Podcast.

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Kayla shares her the story of her unmedicated hospital birth.

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Kalen shares about the birth of her son with hearing loss and her VBAC birth of twin girls.

Charlotte found out she was pregnant with her 2nd child in December 2019. In January, while still in her first trimester, it was confirmed that she was moving to Singapore from London with her 2 year old daughter and husband in May. However, due to coronavirus their moving plans were changed and they ended up spending 6 months in her husband's home country of New Zealand.

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Hannah shares her birth stories and struggles breastfeeding.

A doctor told Chelsea there were no trophies for women who have an unmedicated birth; but, Chelsea felt passionate about having a serene, med-free experience in the hospital. When she had to be induced at 38 weeks with gestational hypertension, her preparation and self advocacy paid off for a successful hypnobirth experience.

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Jerika shares her experience birthing with the assistance of her husband and a 911 operator.

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Genny shares her birth stories and discusses hypnobabies and switching care providers. Her husband, Dave, shares his experiences on TBH's Partner Podcast at patreon.com/birthhour.

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Following an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured one of Shana’s fallopian tubes, she unexpectedly got pregnant almost immediately after her first loss. At the time, she was living in London, England and preparing for her husband, Doug, to move in early 2020.

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Sarah shares her birth and postpartum stories.

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Elise Hurst shares her three birth stories—two unmedicated hospital births and one homebirth. She also shares some fun and interesting tidbits from pregnancy and her struggles with breastfeeding and postpartum. 

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Brittany and Mickey worked with a team of 2 midwives who delivered at their local hospital. COVID threw a wrench in their baby plans, and she ended up needing a medically required induction. When the first two induction methods didn’t work, Brittany was started on Pitocin. Thanks to their doula (who the hospital made a one-time-COVID exception for), they were able to make it through 19 hours of labor without an epidural.

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At Nathalie’s twenty week ultrasound, she learned that she was at high risk for placental challenges and pre-term labor. In the eighteen weeks between her twenty week ultrasound and birth, she would make over 52 visits to various doctor's offices, including twice-weekly non-stress tests and dopplers. The gravity of Nathalie’s health challenges and her desire to make it to term caused an overwhelming amount of stress. To cope with her anxiety, Nathalie turned to Expectful's meditations and hypnobirthing. Within one week of using Expectful, Nathalie saw her condition stabilize, and she was able to make it to term.

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Andrea used hypnobirthing for her two births. Her births were similar in that they both lasted about 8 hours with 20 minutes of pushing. Her first birth to her daughter ended with meconium presenting and a third degree tear. Her second birth was started via induction. After a failed epidural, Andrea gave birth to a surprisingly huge 10lb 12oz boy.

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After a 20 hour labor, Liesel delivered her son epidural-free at the hospital (and department) where she worked.

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After learning she had fibroids shortly after she started her TTC journey, Mabel decided to have a laparoscopic myomectomy done to remove multiple fibroids from within her uterine wall. The journey to get pregnant continued on for another 2 years before she got a positive pregnancy test. She had a relatively smooth pregnancy except for fibroid degeneration and gestational diabetes. Her son was born vaginally after a 36 hour labor.

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Hillary shares her birth story and about her postpartum challenges with nursing and gallstones.

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Along with sharing her birth story, Danielle discusses experiencing several early miscarriages and being diagnosed with preeclampsia.

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