025: Preparing Your Space For Your Home Birth

025: Preparing Your Space For Your Home Birth

In this episode we’re talking about ways in which you can prepare the physical space (i.e. your home) for your home birth. For our home birth, Matthew and I were very intentional in wanting to create a peaceful, comfortable, relaxing space to welcome Maya into the world. We were also gifted with incredibly fabulous things like a home cleaning and a “homebirth space setting” ceremony, which really helped create the most amazing environment for birth. So in this episode we share with you all the things that worked for us and some ideas to help make your home birth space as magical as it can be. Links: Our new "Doing It At Home" book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GVJ9KL?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 Our website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/ Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3jKtIYv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/ DIAH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoKeBfEZ143sWU7V9I5Gdg DIAH Store: https://yoursuccessfulhomebirth.com/ DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe Donate to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9 --- Rough Episode Transcript --- Ways to prepare the space for home birth - beyond the medical supplies and the “must-haves”: Candles Music Decorations Hire cleaners beforehand (or have friends do it like ours did) Especially if you have pets; don’t want pet hair all over the place when you’re laboring Sage, some kind of clearing of the space…. Which leads into our specific example There are a lot of awesome things you can do, by yourself, with your partner or family/extended community members and I wanted to share a recent experience I had and how it impacted me as we prepare for birth anytime over the next couple of weeks. Group of women gathered at our house - unbeknownst to me The Ceremony: We all sat in a circle and shared our names, our mother’s name and our grandmothers’ names Then everyone shared a significant motherhood story - whether they were mothers and shared their birth story or something about their kids or how they have helped raised others, or a story from when they were a baby Then each woman gave a token representing something significant to them and they were strung together on a necklace We drummed and sang and hugged Then we decorated the birth room - have nice things to look at during the birthing process Fantastic method to prepare for your homebirth. So that’s one idea, but I’m sure there’s a million awesome things you could do to prepare and put yourself in the space...just about what aligns best with you. Have you done something like this or do you have any ideas for one? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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107: Sex While Pregnant: The Ins, The Outs, The Reach Arounds (Rebroadcast)

107: Sex While Pregnant: The Ins, The Outs, The Reach Arounds (Rebroadcast)

Have you been wondering "What is sex going to be like when I'm pregnant?" If so, this is the episode for you! Let’s talk about SEX, BABY! Not just the kind that makes the babies, but the kind you continue doing while the bun is in the oven. This episode is inspired by an article I wrote on some of our experience with pregnant sex. You can find that article here - http://backtocomplete.com/sex-while-pregnant/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Dec 201744min

106: HOME BIRTH STORY - Gestational Diabetes, Birth Center Transfer and Multiple Water Breaks with Renee and Sean Kleve

106: HOME BIRTH STORY - Gestational Diabetes, Birth Center Transfer and Multiple Water Breaks with Renee and Sean Kleve

In this episode we have another mom and dad conversation. Sean and Renee Kleve share the story of their pregnancy and birth of their first baby, their son Mason. Mason is just 4 weeks old at the time of this interview, so we are very grateful to both Sean and Renee for taking the time to hang out with us on the Doing It At Home podcast. The beautiful photos that accompany this episode (over on www.diahpodcast.com) are from Strom Strandell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6 Dec 20171h 4min

105: The Censoring Of Birth In Social Media and Society #Rant

105: The Censoring Of Birth In Social Media and Society #Rant

This episode is inspired by recent events in the online birth community. It’s pretty commonplace to have some of your images removed from Instagram if you are an account sharing images of birth. Due to things like “guidelines and regulations” as well as other users finding certain content offensive and then reporting it, we’ve seen a number of issues pop surrounding the censorship of motherhood since we ourselves started learning more about the community and being a part of the conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Dec 201749min

104: The Most Powerful Tool for a Mama is Intuition with Kathryn Orr

104: The Most Powerful Tool for a Mama is Intuition with Kathryn Orr

In today’s episode we’re talking with Kathryn Orr, a certified birth doula, childbirth educator and more recently the outreach coordinator for the fantastic documentary “Why Not Home?” We’re familiar with “Why Not Home?” over here at Doing It At Home - because we had the pleasure of having Jessicca Moore, the creator of the film, on the podcast back in episode 82. So we’re very excited to have this mama of 2 share her birth stories with us and talk about her obsession with all things birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

28 Nov 20171h 1min

103: A Few Things About Home Birth We're Thankful For

103: A Few Things About Home Birth We're Thankful For

In this episode we share why we're thankful for our home birth. Might sound like a weird topic, but having experienced home birth ourselves and interviewed dozens and dozens of moms and families who have chosen it as well (some who've also had experiences giving birth in a hospital), it's easy to see why we wanted to talk about the elements of giving birth at home which we really appreciate. Happy Thanksgiving to all the Doing It At Home listeners, moms, non-moms, dads, partners and supporters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Nov 201736min

102: HOME BIRTH STORY - Moving While Pregnant, Holistic Living and Home Birth Research with Carissa Breen

102: HOME BIRTH STORY - Moving While Pregnant, Holistic Living and Home Birth Research with Carissa Breen

In today’s episode we’re talking with Carissa Breen about her home birth journey and story. Carissa and her husband Ryan planned the home birth for their first baby, River, while simultaneously planning a move across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

22 Nov 201742min

101: Giving Women Confidence to Birth with Paige LoPinto of BirthTube

101: Giving Women Confidence to Birth with Paige LoPinto of BirthTube

In this episode I chat with Paige LoPinto, mama of 2 and creator of BirthTube, a private Facebook group dedicated to connecting women through pregnancy and birth, specifically by live streaming births of members of the group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Nov 201744min

100: Looking Back On The Moments, Mamas, And Magic From 100 Episodes Of The Doing It At Home Podcast

100: Looking Back On The Moments, Mamas, And Magic From 100 Episodes Of The Doing It At Home Podcast

You guys!! Episode 100 is here! I can’t even believe it’s been 100 episodes. To all of our listeners and supporters - those of you who have just started listening, dropped in to hear an episode or two, and those who have been with us from the beginning or binge-listened to catch up….we freaking LOVE you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Nov 20171h

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