Episode 155SN: What Happens when your Postpartum teaches you about Advocating for yourself? Jess’s Birth Story, Part I

I talk to a woman who shares the story of her transformative births:
 in particular :


How the postpartum and aftermath of the second birth changed the way she viewed herself and her career. 

It’s an impactful and inspirational story that I think many of us can relate to. What follows is the first part of our conversation.

hyperemesis and anxiety
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767058.2022.2089550

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-0528.14180


affect of fetal sex on pregnancy outcome
https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-020-00299-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75969-8
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00144/full
to find Jess’s companyhttps://www.instagram.com/motherme.io/

Episode 154 SN: What Can be Done about Premature Birth? A Conversation with Dr. Carl Weiner, MD, MBA

Today we’ll talk with Dr. Carl Weiner, MD, MBA

He has been working on  developing testing that can PREDICT PREMATURITY and EARLY ONSET PREECLAMPSIA as early as 12 weeks into the pregnancy.

*If it is detected, WHAT can be done?

*What  are his hopes for the FUTURE of PREGNANCY

You can find Dr. Weiner here: https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/weiner-carl-p

Episode 148SN: What a Specialist in Birth to 3 Yo learns from tongue tie and the adoption process: Angie’s Birth Story, Part I

In today’s episode I speak with a MINDSET COACH about her experience with pregnancy and with fostering and then adopting a child. She talks about what she learned with respect to colic and tongue tie and some of the challenges she met in this process and how she, someone trained in early interventions from birth to three, ultimately had to change the way she approached parenting. What follows is the first part of our conversation. 

Trends in home and birth center births, 2004-2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827343/#:~:text=(AABC%2C%202021)
Definitions of Preterm Birth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11386/
Tongue Tie
https://www.healthline.com/health/dental-and-oral-health/tongue-tie-in-adults#9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167863/

Episode 147SN: What Difference Does Birth Education make in your Experience? Suzzie’s Birth Story, Part II

his week I finish my conversation with Suzzie. She shares:
* how the second birth felt like a redemption of the first one
* all the things she did between the first and second births to make that outcome more likely, including:
* more birth education
* facing her fears
*managing her expectations.

 We pick up where we left off last week. Suzzie has spent hours contracting and waiting and ultimately her stalled labor leads to a C section. She’s now been left in the recovery room by herself, with little sense of where her husband and new baby are.

You can find Suzzie’s contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learn

What Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz:  https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/

Episode 146SN: What Happens when your Labor Stalls? Suzzie’s Birth Story, Part I

This week’s episode features that story of a woman who had two nearly opposite experiences of birth.
 Like many of us, the FIRST one was ROUGH–including anything but gentle treatment at the hospital and an unpleasant C section;

The SECOND was a vast improvement, which started her on a journey to learn more about birth and to become what she needed that first time around: an excellent DOULA;

 what follows is the first part of our conversation
Molar Pregnancy

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17889-molar-pregnancy

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/molar-pregnancy/symptoms-causes/syc-20375175
Connection between Psychological State and Labor Progress
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027004/

https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/giving-birth/labor-and-delivery/when-labor-stalls/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/

ACOG: infection after PROM

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/02/approaches-to-limit-intervention-during-labor-and-birth

To find Suzzie’ s contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learn

What Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz:  https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/

Episode 144SN: What Happens when you have a Pregnancy on a Boat with 4 other kids? Tanya’s Birth Story, Part I

This week’s episode features details of a pregnancy on a boat.

My guest Tanya shared her experiences of her other 4 births on an earlier episodes:

Her first episodehttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-you-learn-from-your-first-two-of-5-births/id1546909059?i=1000617239231

The second half of that storyhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-happens-when-with-each-birth-you-get-closer-to/id1546909059?i=1000618066765
 
She had a variety of experiences in the hospital:
*induced labor
*shoulder dystocia
*large babies
with midwives and OBs, but this pregnancy and birth are entirely different. 

She shares what she learned both about her body and the process of birthing, including the fears she had and how she overcame them. 

Acupuncture & Labor Induction

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953318/

https://www.ajogmfm.org/article/S2589-9333(23)00414-7/fulltext

Episode 145SN: What Happens when the Midwife sends you to do Acupuncture during the Labor? Tanya’s Birth Story, Part II

In todays episode we hear the end of Tanya’s story.

To remind everyone, last week we left Tanya:

*She’s spent the whole pregnancy on a boat with her 4 other children & husband
*the boat is docked in Sarasota Florida for the birth
*Although it’s her 5th birth, it doesn’t go quickly
*The midwife sends her to see an acupuncturist during her stalled labor
*Tanya is terrified of needles

Listen to how this birth unfolds….

Castor oil and labor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138266/

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/ebb-128-inducing-labor-with-castor-oil-and-dates/