Birthful

By Adriana LozadaEducation Self-Improvement Parenting Kids & Family

Birthful episodes

August 26, 2015 [Birth Stories] A Non-Emergency Cesarean
As we’ve heard, birth happens. You can do your best to prepare, but it’s going to unfold in its own unique way. So what if you’re suddenly classified as high-risk and told that you have to have a Cesarean? Monica Usery tells us what that was like.
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47 min
August 19, 2015 [Birth Stories] A Quick Non-Orgasmic Home Birth
Today’s story comes from Stephanie Cusenz Green, who may not have had the orgasmic birth she was hoping for, but still had a fabulous and empowering home birth.
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38 min
August 12, 2015 [Birth Stories] A 34-Week Preemie Surprise!
Today’s story comes from Jennifer Gillette, who was caught by surprise at 34 weeks by the birth of her son.
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45 min
August 05, 2015 [Birth Stories] Once Her Water Broke...
Today's story comes for Alexandra Meseke, who's the mother of a 2 year old and a 5 month old. Both stories start with her water breaking, and have happy endings, but they unfold very differently.
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42 min
July 29, 2015 [Birth Stories] Second Babies Come Quicker… Or Do They?
Danielle Major was a little thrown off by the fact that her second baby apparently didn't get the memo that second babies tend to come quicker, but the reward of finding out whether she had a boy or a girl was worth the wait. Find out how it all unfolds.
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50 min
July 22, 2015 [Birth Stories] Prodromal Labor with a Side of Acupuncture
Today’s story comes from Adriana Aleman-Crane, who has two adorable girls. Her first birth involved several days of prodromal labor, and if you don't know what that is, you really want to listen to this episode.
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40 min
July 15, 2015 [Birth Stories] Home Birth After 2 Cesareans, with Castor Oil and a Twist
We continue with our special “Birth Stories for the Summer” series. Today’s story comes from Alison Spath and it has a bit of everything, as it was a planned homebirth after two cesareans (HBA2C). I won’t tell you just yet how it turned out, so you are going to have to listen until the end. But there was castor oil involved.
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50 min
July 08, 2015 [Birth Stories] Birth and Cheese Tasting
For the next 8 weeks, I’m switching the spotlight from the pros to the amazing mamas, who share their birth stories in order to bust down TV and movie myths, and tell about what real-life birth looks like. Today we’ll hear from Hinda Mandell and husband Matthew White, who’s fabulous birth involves a cheese tasting.
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54 min
July 01, 2015 [Postpartum] Loving Your Body After Giving Birth
What would it look like if instead of trying to “bounce back” to our pre-pregnancy frames, we embraced the new changes: stretch marks, jiggly bellies and all? I talk with Ashlee Wells Jackson, about how she’s helping hundreds of women do just that, through the 4th trimester body project.
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38 min
May 27, 2015 [Breastfeeding] Working While Breastfeeding
Going back to work while breastfeeding can be a tricky situation. When should you start preparing and what do you do? What can help maintain your milk production? Will your baby start waking up more at night? What do you need to know about your pump? What about if things start going south? I talk to Nancy Mohrbacher to find out.
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40 min

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On Birthful, working doula and former journalist Adriana Lozada talks pregnancy, birth and postpartum with top experts and new parents. Every episode distills the overload of pregnancy information…