10: Singing Baby Down with a Midwife
This episode will be the shortest interview we’ve shared thus far. In this birth story, Dara describes her experience of giving birth as “magical & frustrating”. This is the story of a first-time labo...
5 Marras 201936min
9: Induction w/o Pain Meds & Baby Music Therapy
Today you’ll hear Mariko’s & Rick’s story of hiring a doula very well-suited to them for Mariko’s labor and who served them in very practical and holistic ways throughout pregnancy, labor, and into po...
29 Loka 20191h 16min
8: A Physician's Perspective on Giving Birth
Today you’ll hear a birth story told by Leah & Trevor, first-time parents. Leah is a hospitalist physician, and she’ll detail how her professional background informed the way she approached assembling...
22 Loka 201959min
7: Choosing Home Birth for a 2nd Baby
In this episode, Kat & Tom share their positive, empowering story of their 2nd son’s rather efficient birth at home with midwife Cara Muhlhahn (who just happens to both have been host Lisa's midwife f...
15 Loka 201957min
6: An Uncomplicated Hospital Birth with Doula Support & Epidural
Ariel’s birth story includes laboring at home for a good, long time until active labor (6cm), then moving on to epidural once at the hospital, and an efficient pushing stage. She also details the impo...
8 Loka 201957min
5: Hospital Induction with Doula Support
On today’s episode, Julie shares the story of struggles to conceive for 6 years and ultimately conceiving via IVF, and then goes on to tell her son Cian’s birth story. Her water breaks as the first si...
1 Loka 201946min
4: When Water Breaks in Birth Class
This birth story is one of Lisa's favorites because it was the very first time a student’s water broke in class, right in the middle of a meditation/relaxation exercise! It’s the story of a 5-hour, un...
24 Syys 201951min
2: Host Lisa's 1st-born's Birth Story
In this episode, Host Lisa and her husband, Bryan, share their first baby’s birth story. It’s a story of giving birth in an in-hospital birthing center in Manhattan at Mt. Sinai West in 2005. You’ll h...
17 Syys 20191h 11min
