Military Birth Talk

In today's episode, I'm speaking with Nicole, a Coast Guard spouse who is a chiropractor currently stationed and working in North Carolina. Nicole shares her home birth story, and then we talk about the benefits of chiropractic care during pregnancy, and how her identity as a military spouse has evolved through her birthing experience and her professional journey.

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In today’s episode, I’m joined by husband and wife team Shanon and Matthew Morris, both retired service members, Shanon from the Navy and Matthew from the Marine Corps. Shanon and Matthew share the story of their daughter’s birth, including some of the logistics around how they navigated their healthcare since Matthew’s service ended earlier than expected. We also hear about their forthcoming book which helps to prepare birth partners for their role during pregnancy. 

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In todays episode, I’m joined by Jessica. Jessica experienced a full term still birth while serving on active duty with the Air Force, and she shares that story with us today. In addition to hearing about that pregnancy and the loss of her and her husband’s first daughter, we’ll also hear about Jessica’s subsequent pregnancies and how her care was handled, including the wonderful support that she and her husband both received from their commands. 

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In today’s episode, I’m joined by Alexa who shares her experience of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum while stationed overseas in Japan. Alexa served 7 years in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman and is now a Navy spouse. She talks about receiving support from a fertility clinic out in town and then experiencing a miscarriage at 12 weeks. She then shares about her subsequent pregnancy and birth, and highlights many of the ways that her military affiliation helped her have a positive and supported birth and postpartum experience.

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In today’s episode, we’ll be hearing from Jess, who recently retired after 21 years in the Air Force. Jess shares a bit about the births of each of her three children, and then really dives into the realities of postpartum life as a service member and specifically as an aviator. She shares about being a dual-mil family, breastfeeding and pumping as an aviator, her advocacy work, and the nonprofit she now runs called Level Up Aviation which offers programming geared toward increasing diversity in aviation.

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In today’s episode we’ll be hearing from Master Sergeant Steve Maxwell, whose wife, Zarema, shared her birth stories in episode 4 of Season One. Steve sat down with me to offer his perspective on being a birth partner, and provided some great insight to what he experienced during the births of their three children, which took place at a civilian hospital, a birth center, and then at home with concurrent care through the MTF. 

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In today’s episode we’ll be hearing from Air Force spouse Patience, who shares her two off-base birth stories. One birth took place at a duty station with lots of close friends and neighbors, and the other took place during COVID at a new duty station, and with an unexpected deployment three months postpartum, so she discusses how that impacted her postpartum experience. Patience is Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a specialty in perinatal mental health, and she also works with Postpartum Support International, both with military families specifically and through the Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color.

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LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patience-riley-ncc-lpc-pmhc-bb948521/ 
Postpartum Support International: https://www.postpartum.net/

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In the season two premier of the Military Birth Talk podcast, we're hearing all about our host Anni's recent birth! Anni's husband Chris joins as a cohost for this episode, where they share some background from her previous birth, which was a planned c-section for breech, and a bit about their next pregnancy which culminated in a 19-week loss due to Trisomy 18. Then they dive into their most recent birth story, which took place only a few weeks ago. This birth was a planned induction turned spontaneous labor, with care provided at the MTF in Okinawa Japan, and ending in an whirlwind and empowering, unmedicated VBAC. 

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Season Two of the Military Birth Talk podcast is coming next week! This season, you'll hear from more service members, military spouses, and birth partners who share their stories of pregnancy, giving birth, and navigating the postpartum period all through the lens of the military experience. Follow or subscribe on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss an episode. 

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The Season 1 finale is here! We'll be taking a brief break and will be back with new episodes on February 1. If you'd like to help us connect with sponsors for Season 2, please send us an email at [email protected].

In today’s episode, we’ll be hearing from Alexandra, a Marine Corps spouse who shares one birth story. For the first half of her pregnancy, Alexandra was seen by a civilian provider and then she finished her pregnancy and birth under the care of a military treatment facility. She talks about the differences she observed between the two, and how positive her experience with the MTF was compared to the civilian provider. During our conversation Alexandra touches on how her identity as a new mother was supported and appreciated within the military community as compared to the world of academia where she was seeking her PhD at the time, ultimately finding her calling in birth work, and some of the things she feels providers can be doing better to support birth choice in a hospital setting. Here’s my conversation with Alexandra.

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