Heidi chats with Emilee LIVE on Fireside! No editing in this episode! This episode is about falling in love with a person with Cystic Fibrosis and what that means for fertility. We discuss male factor infertility, IVF, and delivering at a birth center. Enjoy! Birth Story Academy is Open. Join today at BirthStory.com. Use code BIRTHSTORYPODCAST for $5 OFF.

In this episode I share about my week, why it is so hard to take care of ourselves as parents, and the 5 things that I wish I had done before I gave birth. The lack of these 5 things, I believe, trainwrecked my first birth experience and left me with a traumatic birth.

In this episode, Heidi is live on Fireside with Kelly (no editing) and talking all about fertility, IUI, unexpected twins, and her birth plan. She teaches us step by step how she planned and prepared and advocated for an unmedicated twin vaginal delivery. And then....they came 3.5 hours apart from each other. She moved her body and labored each one down perfectly avoiding a cesarean section!

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This week I am chatting about a planned wait and see attitude birth with a birthing person who opted for an epidural at 8 cm dilated and a planned unmedicated birth who experienced PROM and needed a little push to get her labor going naturally. Both were beautiful, non-traumatic, low-stress, low intervention births. And, that is my forte! I hope these short stories help you plan and prepare for the birth you want. 

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If you didn't catch episode 94 with Jenna- start there! In this episode, Jenna catches us up on life and her 2nd birth story.....but did the midwife make it is the real question?

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In this episode, Heidi shares about her rough week of advocacy as a doula and where the breakdown all began....when clients choose the wrong provider. Heidi walks through how to know if you are birthing with the right provider, what questions to ask to make sure, and what to do if you feel like your provider might be tolerant of but not supportive of what type of birth you want for your body and baby. 

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Here is the article I referenced on eating during labor: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-eating-drinking-labor/

Meet Caity- a mum from Australia and you can follow her on Instagram @living.the.abundant.way

In this episode she shares about a surprising double cleft palates and left cleft lip diagnoses with her son. When she felt like her whole world was crashing, she pulled herself into a very positive place and tells us how in this birth story. Caity pumped for 12 months and was never able to breastfeed. She shares about breastfeeding grief and the high highs and the low lows of navigating the NICU and newborn surgeries. 

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I can't wait to see you in class for the best online childbirth education to prepare you for birthing in a hospital-YOUR WAY!

XOXO Heidi

Hey! I just got back from Disney and I wrote a special episode on how I navigated two parks and never waited in a single line! These are my best tips for 1. Safety 2. Eating on the go 3. Staying Comfortable 4. Staying Hydrating 5. Staying Cool 6. Limiting Exhaustion 7. Making memories to last a lifetime!

XOXO Heidi

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In this episode, I chat with Tiffany from Santa Rose California about her unexpected pregnancy, her passion and love for all things birth, her work at a birth center and prepping for an unmedicated birth at a birth center as a single person. Her story also takes a twist when she gets appendicitis at 16 weeks. 

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To download the free guides to packing a hospital bag visit BirthStory.com and click on "the workbook" to find all of Heidi's free guides for pregnancy, labor, delivery, and newborn care. 

As you prepare for your birth, Heidi recommends considering cord blood and tissue banking with ANJAHEALTH.COM