Giving Birth in a Midwife-Run Hospital

All of Maddison's births were peaceful, easeful homebirths. Even her third birth—an early loss of twins—unfolded gently at home and left her feeling at peace. Her postpartum experiences, however, were extremely challenging. Freshly out of an abusive relationship and pregnant for ...  Show more

Welcome to Season 7 of the podcast! When today's guest, Jordan, reached out to me to explore what it looks like to move forward when birth isn't healing—when it feels unresolved or leaves lingering questions—and how to find your own healing by integrating your lived experience, I ...  Show more

"How do you plan to give birth this time around?" 🤔

We are a few months away from giving birth to baby #4!! And most of the questions we are asked center around how we plan to bring this little one into the world. 

We have been through the bi ...

I’ve heard and been a part of a LOT of birth stories but I have never heard a birth story quite like this one. Vincia’s second birth was the epitome of precipitous labor. Baby number one arrived two days past his due date after 36 hours of labor - eight hours medicated with Pitoc ...  Show more

Kelsey had a cesarean for her first birth and when she got pregnant with her second baby VBAC wasn’t exactly on her radar. After discussing it with her doctor, her hope was to either have a medicated vaginal birth or a c-section but, of course, neither of those happened. The deli ...  Show more

In Episode 4 we walk you through Poppy's birth story from start to finish telling you ALL the details. What we thought was going to be a normal birth quickly turned into different procedures and eventually led us into an unplanned C-section. If you haven't yet, please rate and su ...  Show more