Birthing Outside the Box

Birthing Outside the Box

By Dr. Vivian Federowicz & Jani BarnesHealth & FitnessEducation
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Birthing Outside the Box episodes

  • 42. Birth Trauma Awareness Week with Kylie
    This week is Birth Trauma Awareness Week (which should not be a thing to begin with - which we talk about in the episode) and we speak to Kylie who had a very traumatic first birth in a hospital which resulted in a c-section. She courageously shares her birth story as well as how hard the postpartum period was. She vowed that that would never happen to her again and opted to have a midwife attended home birth for her second baby.
    1 hr 28 min
  • 41. Channeling the Chiropractic Philosophy During Birth with Courtney M
    There was a time in Courtney's life when she felt as though her body was broken and that something was wrong with her. She found chiropractic and integrated the chiropractic philosophy in all aspects of her life. She carried that right in to her pregnancy and birth. Trusting innate intelligence and surrendering to the process got her through a very fast, "early" birth process.
    57 min
  • 40. Two Wildly Different Home Birth Experiences with Courtney H
    Courtney had worked in a chiropractic office for several years before she was pregnant and that's how she came to know about home birth. Her first home birth was reletively easy and her second was much harder, both mentally and physically. Nonetheless both had great outcomes and she learned a lot along the way.
    1 hr 4 min
  • 39. Home Birth is a Meditation with Elizabeth
    Elizabeth had a pretty straight forward, fast and uncomplicated hospital birth with her first baby and yet she still chose to birth at home for her second. She explains how she came to that decision as well as the decision not to share that information with her family. She also so beautifully refers to home birth as a form of meditation!
    58 min
  • 38. 44 Weeks Gestation, TWICE with Oliva
    Oliva carried both her babies to 44 weeks and proceeded to have very long birth processes. Both lasting 7+ days. In this episode we talk about variations of normal, having faith in your body and how birthing at home is impacting generations to come.
    49 min
  • 36. PART 1: 6 Birth Stories with Fantasy & Birth Author Bree Moore

    In this 2 Part episode Bree shares with us her 6 birth stories, 5 of them being at home.

    Bree Moore lives in Utah with her amazing husband and six children. When she's not busy homeschooling or folding laundry, she sneaks off to write more urban fantasy. Bree also has a passion for pregnancy and childbirth which has led her to write birth related books as well. Her birth books can be found on amazon.

    1 hr 2 min
  • 35. Breaking Up With Your OB to Have a Home Birth with Annie

    In this Episode we hear from Annie, a first time mom who switched from OB care to midwifery care in her third trimester and decided to have a home birth. She had an 11.8 lb baby in six hours and relied on her hypnobirthing techniques she had learned throughout her pregnancy! Follow her on Instagram @mom.mindfully - she provides great birth related content!

    52 min
  • 34. An UNPLANNED Home Birth with Tori

    Tori had planned a Birth Center birth with a midwife for her first baby, but when labor started and she got into a good groove at home, she decided she didn't want to leave. Her midwife came over to her house and agreed to attend her birth at home. While this birth wasn't planned for home, it ended up being such a beautiful, calming and perfect birth experience. Because she had such a great and positive experience with her first baby, she planned a home birth right from the beginning for her second.

    1 hr 6 min
  • 33. Pitocin Induced Postpartum Anxiety followed by a Freebirth with Jennifer

    Jennifer vulnerably shares about her three birth experiences. Her first was a traumatic hospital birth. Her second was a better hospital experience but it was followed by a 7 month long battle with postpartum anxiety. When she was pregnant with her third she started doing a lot of research into physiological birth. She tried to find a midwife but realized along the way that she still wasn't taking full responsibility and was relying on a provider and that led her to decide to freebirth at home.

    1 hr 30 min

About Birthing Outside the Box

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Weekly conversations with women sharing their home birth stories in hopes of changing the current narrative around birth culture.

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