The Birth Nurses

If you're a healthcare professional, then you've probably heard of HCAHPS and are collectively groaning with your colleagues throughout America. HCAHPS = Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems. This is the means by which hospitals are given money and are "rated" on their customer service and overall quality of care for their patients. 

Liz and Shaina discuss if this is an appropriate measurement of healthcare providers and the hospital system. There are so many nuances to consider and the labor and delivery unit has specific differences to other units that aren't taken into account in the survey. 

Listen to this episode and let us know YOUR thoughts!

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Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

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Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

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Have you heard this buzz word: "Evidence-based practice" or "evidence-based birth"? In this episode, Liz and Shaina break down what that actually means and how you can be sure that you are getting evidence-based care prenatally and during labor and delivery. You should never feel bad about asking your healthcare provider "for evidence" or "the research behind" a particular intervention or birth practice. 

We would like to refer you to an awesome resource called Evidence Based Birth. It's an organization that does all of this work for you! They have done the research and written articles about virtually any birth practice or intervention that you can think of. Check out their website and their podcast!

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Having a hospital birth almost automatically signs you up to have some interventions done during your birth. There's evidence to show, though, that disturbing physiological birth with multiple interventions can lead to even more interventions and perhaps more harm than good. In this episode, Liz and Shaina give you 7 practical tips to follow to help you have a low-intervention birth in the hospital setting. They discuss what some of these interventions are and how to avoid them if you are in the category of a "low-risk pregnancy." 

Take a listen and please feel free to give us your feedback! Follow our podcast so you don't miss an episode and please leave a review for us on Apple Podcasts. We want the word to get out to all pregnant women that they can have a SMOOTH hospital birth experience. 

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Sunny thought she was going to be having her 4th baby in the hospital, just like her first 3 babies, but around 30 weeks along, she changed her mind! You may recognize Sunny's voice because we interviewed her last year toward the beginning of her pregnancy with baby #4. She had never even considered a home birth! Her pregnancy was textbook with no complications, and with everything going on in the world regarding COVID and hospital policies, Sunny decided that she wanted to have a home birth for her 4th baby. 

Listen to this episode to hear how Sunny made that decision, how her doctor was onboard with concurrent care, and how her home birth was such a pleasant and satisfying experience for her and her whole family. 

I want to direct you to this article that might be helpful to you as you decide where you'd like to give birth. 

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/what-is-home-birth/

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Liz and Shaina discuss how to prepare physically, mentally, and emotionally for birth. We are very strong advocates for taking a birth class, but there are many other ways to prepare your body and your mind for labor and birth too! Listen to the episode to hear how your preparation during pregnancy can directly affect your birth experience. 

Here are some resources and referrals mentioned in the episode: 

Heather Valinsky from Nurture Family Chiropractic https://www.nurturefamilychiro.com

Dr. Elliot Berlin https://www.doctorberlin.com

Rouel Cazanjian https://rouelcazanjian.com

Red Raspberry Leaf Tea evidence

Date fruit evidence

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth, breastfeeding and newborn care classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Liz and Shaina interview Lindsay Hammond Stoddard in this episode of the Birth Nurses Podcast. Both of her parents are nurses, she has a sister with autism AND she is a mother to two young boys, one of whom was a premature baby. Lindsay shared about what life was like growing up and how that impacted her motherhood journey. 

01:30- Lindsay's childhood and growing up with 2 nurse parents as well as an older sister with autism

20:10- Starting a family, experiencing a miscarriage, giving birth to her first son, experiencing postpartum anxiety

28:00- Getting pregnant with baby #2 and having a preterm delivery. Baby in the NICU and Peds unit, going through a pandemic with 2 young children

36:30 Lindsay's closing advice for new parents

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

On this episode, Liz and Shaina talk about how they got into the Birth Education world and why it is so important for a pregnant person (especially if it's your first baby) to take a birth class. Find out what makes Shaina and Liz's classes unique and consider taking one of their classes virtually or in person (if you're in LA)!

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

We had so much fun interviewing Lori Hammond, RN and learning about her nursing journey! She started off her nursing career kind of standing on the sidelines, but by the end she had found her voice for her patients, amongst her colleagues, and the nurses in her whole community! Listen to this episode to hear her thoughts on how nursing changed over her 35 year career and what nurses can do about it today.  

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Liz and Shaina talk about the new phenomenon they've noticed over the past couple of years of many new nurses transferring from other departments to the Labor and Delivery unit. Listen to this episode to hear their advice to these new nurses. 

We invite you to email us, DM us on instagram, or find some other way to contact us and tell us your thoughts.

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina--virtual birth and breastfeeding classes, lactation consults in LA

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz--virtual and in person birth and c-section classes in LA/Santa Monica

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net

Shaina and Liz interviewed Shaina's friend and fellow labor and delivery nurse, Jessica who works in Los Angeles, CA. With 7 years of nursing under her belt, she shares with such wisdom about what drew her to labor and delivery nursing and what keeps her there and what she'd like to see change. Take a listen and learn what is the appeal of hospital bedside nursing as opposed to being a nurse administrator, manager, researcher, or in any other avenue of nursing. 

We invite you to join in the conversation with us about the profession of nursing. If you have any questions, comments, or want to be a guest on our podcast, email [email protected]! 

For more information about us, our birth education businesses, and the classes we teach, visit our websites and instagram profiles:

Shaina

instagram.com/preparented

www.preparented.com

Liz

instagram.com/birthnurseliz

www.birthandbeyond.net