How often do you think about how your birth will unfold?

Today’s guests, Adriana and Tim Keefe, share the details of their two home birth stories. 

After a hospital birth for her first child, she decided on home birth for babies 2 and 3. 

Adriana and Tim both talk about the preparation process for their home births as well as helpful resources and the sequence of events in both births. 

From Adriana regarding her first home birth:

“I envisioned how my labor and delivery would go…and it went exactly how I envisioned it”

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Do you believe that you are built to birth?

From today’s guest Soni: “I was absolutely amazed that I actually did it, I’m one of those people everyone always thinks is just not tough.”

Soni shares her home birth story with us.

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How do you use your instincts during birth?

Today’s story features a combination of birth intentions, intuition and instinct. 

Lauren Smith shares her birthing journey with us. From 2 hospital births to 2 birth center births to 2 home births.

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Have you wondered about the first birth story we ever shared on this podcast?

Well, it’s our story! And today we’re bringing you the classic episode “Star Wars, Kiddie Pools, and Hypnobabies: Our Home Birth Story”.

In this episode, Matthew and I sit down (well actually, lay down) with our first guest - less than a week old baby Maya. She lies quietly (for the most part, you might hear some coos and little grunts in the background at times) on Matthew’s chest while we recount the story of our home birth, while it’s still fresh in our minds.

There were a lot of tears, a fair amount of blood, some laughs and so much love. So join us from our bedroom - where we made our baby, birthed her and are now hanging out with her and talking about the whole darn thing.

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How is the second trimester going?

Glad you asked! 

In this episode we’re giving updates on our second trimester, just as we’re about to enter the third.

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Do you have faith in your body to give birth?

Today’s episode dives into this topic. Brandi Jack joins us and shares details of her 4 birth stories, each powerful and unique.

From her first birth in a hospital to 3 home births, Brandi gives us an authentic and heart-centered storytelling.

Also note that we talk about the experiences of multiple miscarriages and an unhealthy marriage dynamic in Brandi’s previous relationship that impacted parts of the pregnancy and birth experiences.

From Brandi:

“I thought I was doing everything right before my first baby. I had the recommended OB, I did the hospital birth classes, I read the WTE book and I thought I knew everything I needed to know. But just like the first pancake in a batch, my first labor and delivery didn't turn out at all how I hoped. An unnecessary induction, no real understanding of what to expect and an episiotomy I didn't consent to quickly led to an experience that was nothing like I had imagined.”

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Is birth something to be managed?

No. Birth is intelligent divine design come to life. 

Today’s episode encompasses this idea.

We welcome back Katie McCormick to the podcast for the 3rd time, talking about her 3rd home birth - an unassisted home birth.

Katie walks us through her wild pregnancy and the intentions she set for her birthing space.

Plus how her husband Ryan was involved and how she had her other 2 children present at the birth.

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“Does that count as a home birth?”

That is the question Marissa found herself asking after her planned home birth shifted to a non-emergency hospital transfer towards the end of her labor. 

Marissa walks us through her process of choosing home birth, which happened before conceiving, navigating feedback and opinions from friends and family and then setting intentions for the birth space and including her husband Stephen in the experience. 

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Ever wanted to know more about the history of Doing It At Home or some of the behind-the-scenes life of running the show? 

In this bonus episode, we’re sharing the interview we did on the Birthing Outside the Box podcast with Jani and Dr. V. Last week we shared an episode (no. 394) where we interviewed them. So this week we thought it’d be fun to share the conversation where the roles were reversed and we got to be the interviewees.

What’s cool about it is we take off our “host hats” and we just have a powerful, candid conversation about our journey into DIAH, plus details of our 2-year “open to conceive” journey and how we found out we were pregnant, as well as thoughts on things we all observe in the birth world.

Check out our interview with Jani and Dr. V as well as their podcast and birth education with Birthing Outside the Box!

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What does it look like to follow your instinct when it comes to birth?

Today we’re chatting with Lindsay Robinson about the details of her second and third home births. Lindsay joined us back in 2018 to share her first home birth story.

Now we’re talking about her desire to have a freebirth for her second, but she really loved her midwives and was still open to having them there for the birth. Spoiler alert: the midwife arrived after the birth!

And then details from her third birth, where her midwife was present. 

There are a lot of great details and themes throughout this conversation. To name just a few:

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