
137: Grace and Growth: A Dancer's Path to Motherhood
In this episode, professional dancer and voiceover artist Elisa Toro Franky shares her transformative birth journey with a depth and poetic beauty that makes this conversation truly special. Originall...
25 Mar 1h 37min

136: Surrender and Support: 2 Brooklyn Journalists’ Journey into Parenthood
In this episode, it's Karen Yi’s and Kristofer Rios's turn to share their story. As a public radio journalist and a producer of documentaries, they both crave education and information and it shows in...
24 Jan 1h 41min

135: Untangling Tongue Ties: Early Intervention & Empowering Parents with a Speech Language Pathologist
Our guest today is Rachael Rose, speech-language pathologist and owner of Creative Speech Therapy in Manhattan. We discuss the identification and treatment of tethered oral tissues (TOTs) in infants, ...
17 Des 20251h 7min

133: Taylor Swift, Toilet Time, & the Truth About Labor: Jane’s & Sam’s Story
Jane & Sam, New Yorkers who met in San Francisco, share the story of their unmedicated, physiologic birth attended by midwives in a Manhattan hospital and supported by a doula. A year or so into being...
15 Aug 20251h 15min

132: When Acupuncture Helps & Numbers Don't
Today’s birth story is shared by Aatreyi, a podcast listener who worked with a wonderful doula from East River Doula Collective. She shares her experience navigating pregnancy and birth in New York Ci...
31 Jul 20251h 4min

131: Joyous Homebirth, False Alarm Hospital Transfer for Placenta
In today's episode, we're joined by Priscilla and Micah, who share their deeply personal journey from miscarriage to a blissful home birth experience. They open up about the challenges of navigating t...
13 Jul 20251h 26min

130: Hypertension Induction w/o Pain Meds for 2nd Birth
Following Michelle’s first baby’s unmedicated hospital birth, which she shared in Episode 86, Michelle is surprised to be told at around 39 weeks that she needs to go straight to the hospital to be in...
28 Jun 20251h 18min



















