Q&A: One Page Birth Plan
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83: When Birth Does Not Go as Planned
Listen Now Episode 83 Content and Overview You spend 9 months dreaming about the day you get to meet your baby, you meticulously design your birth, you draft up the…
Continue reading81: Labor Positions (Rebroadcast)
Listen Now Episode 81 Content and Overview For most of our entire human history a mother in labor was free to move around and change positions to whatever was most…
Continue readingEpisode 80: Interventions (Rebroadcast)
Listen Now Episode 80 Content and Overview An intervention is any procedure performed by a care provider that impacts your labor or birth. Interventions include IVs, epidurals, electronic fetal monitoring,…
Continue readingQ&A: Do I really need a written birth plan?
Question “”Is it really necessary to write out a copy of my birth plan and hand my doctor a paper copy?” – Jennifer Answer Additional Resources Your Birth Plan book…
Continue reading49: Your Birth Plan
Listen Now Episode 49 Content and Overview A birth plan is your plan of how you envision your birth and what happens directly following the birth of your baby. A…
Continue reading42: Home Birth
Listen Now Episode 42 Content and Overview It was not too long ago in our history that all births took place at home. Over the last century the number of…
Continue reading40: Natural Birth
Listen Now Episode 40 Content and Overview Natural birth is a birth without medical interventions, particularly anesthesia. It is not some hippie ideology that rejects the advances we have made in…
Continue reading37: Hospital Birth
Listen Now Episode 37 Content and Overview Hospitals have become the go to place to give birth in many countries. About 98% of all births in the United States are…
Continue reading36: Labor Positions
Listen Now Episode 36 Content and Overview For most of our entire human history a mother in labor was free to move around and change positions to whatever was most…
Continue reading35: Electronic Fetal Monitoring
Listen Now Episode 35 Content and Overview Electronic fetal monitoring is probably a topic that you don’t think you need to know anything about. Knowledge is power, and knowing how…
Continue readingEpisode 27: Cord Blood Banking
Listen Now Episode 27 Content and Overview This episode dives into what a cord blood bank is, how it is used, and what conditions it can treat. There are many…
Continue readingEpisode 26: Delayed Cord Clamping
Listen Now Episode 26 Content and Overview Everything you need to know and take into consideration about delaying the clamping of your baby’s umbilical cord. Your baby’s umbilical cord is…
Continue readingEpisode 8: Interventions
Listen Now Episode 8 Content and Overview An intervention is any procedure performed by a care provider, usually a doctor or midwife to assist in the delivery of the baby. …
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