66: An Opera Singer’s 2 Hypnobirths
So it was a very stressful situation to be sent to the hospital and be told if you can't get your blood pressure down, you're being induced today. It's sort of the worst thing you could tell somebody ...
13 Apr 20211h 27min
65: Grief in Growing a Family
What happens when you grow your family from an only child to two children? Today Danuta & Jacek share two birth stories -- one hospital birth with an obstetrician and one birthing center birth with a ...
6 Apr 20211h 5min
64: Non-Linear Grief: A Brooklyn Homebirth
Today Sarah & Steve share their daughter Molly’s birth story as a special way to celebrate and honor her on her 13th birthday, which is the day this story is airing. It’s a story of an unmedicated vag...
30 Mar 20211h 17min
63: A Black Birth Pro’s Fast 2nd Birth at Home & Tongue Tie
Today Simone Toomer joins us again to share her second baby’s birth story. Simone is a Black perinatal professional who serves birthing folks and families in a number of capacities, but at this point ...
23 Mar 202159min
62: A Wellness Practitioner’s Early Induction for HELLP Syndrome
What happens when you’ve planned a peaceful, undisturbed birthing center birth but are diagnosed at 37 weeks with a rare form of preeclampsia called HELLP Syndrome? Jennifer shares how this unexpected...
16 Mar 20211h 9min
61: [TTC] A Lesbian Couple's Overlapping IVF Pregnancies
In this last episode in our fertility journey series, we share a fertility journey story (2, actually), that may be particularly useful for folks who identify as queer and who are on the TTC path. Tri...
9 Mar 202152min
60: [TTC] The Fifth Vital Sign: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack on FAM
In today’s episode, fertility coach Lisa Hendrickson-Jack joins us to explain how the fertility awareness method can be used for the TTC fertility journey as well as for postpartum and lifelong bodily...
2 Mar 20211h 9min
59: [TTC] Reframing a Challenging Vaginal Birth
We’re nearing the end of our fertility journey series before we return to birth stories; this week we have a bit of both. In the last couple of weeks of Jenn’s pregnancy and with the deadline set to ...
23 Feb 20211h 31min
