Tracy shares her challenges both with a harder 2nd pregnancy as well as with baby being in transverse position late in pregnancy, getting chiropractic care to flip baby and avoid a C-section, and how she confidently advocated to buy time and avoid unnecessary interventions in labor.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 111 - A Pediatric ICU Nurse’s 3rd Preemie
Ellen returns to share her 3rd baby’s preterm birth story. Despite being slightly premature and having a cleft lip, her son doesn’t need to go to the NICU and breastfeeds beautifully. Postpartum mental health struggles and needing to speak up for more support are also highlighted in this story.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 109 - A Black Doula’s 2 Unmedicated Hospital Births
NYC birth doula, postpartum doula and lactation counselor Theresa Lasbrey Peters shares her own 2 birth stories, discusses her empowering experiences with Hypnobabies and unmedicated hospital births, how it informed her approach as a birth worker, doula, and a passionate advocate for empowering birth experiences.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 107 - 3 Transformative Births, Pt 2: Empowering VBAC & Express Homebirth
Kaitlin shares 3 birth stories: 1 birthing center to induction to cesarean that was traumatic because she didn’t receive respectful care, 1 blissful VBAC and one fast homebirth.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 106 - 3 Transformative Births, Pt 1: Traumatic Induction to Cesarean
Kaitlin shares 3 birth stories: 1 birthing center to induction to cesarean that was traumatic because she didn’t receive respectful care, 1 blissful VBAC and one fast homebirth.
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