Megan is sharing her birth story with her third baby, Deseret! Listen to hear about Megan’s pregnancy, labor, and postpartum period. Megan shares her experience with mastitis and things she does to help remedy her symptoms.

This week we’re giving an update about Annie’s midwifery apprenticeship and discussing Megan’s pregnancy. We also share some of our favorite birth books, and which ones we think you should read! Our grandma gave us an awesome list of birth books that she recommends, and we also talk about other birth resources that you might like!

2024 has been busy, to say the least! This week we’re catching up on everything that we’ve had going on during the first few months of 2024! Megan announces that she's pregnant with a baby girl, and shares what she’s been doing to help her pregnancy go smoothly. Annie talks about her closing of the bones ceremony and shares some of her experiences as a student midwife. We chat about tons of other topics like free birth, age gaps between kids, taking beef liver as a prenatal, and immediate postpartum plans.

Maybe your mom talked to you about birth control, maybe she didn’t. But this week we’re reading stories from our listeners about their experiences using birth control. From weight gain to low libido to infertility, we’re talking about what it’s really like to take hormonal birth control. We also shared some hot takes and personal opinions at the end of the episode!

BIRTH CONTROL! It’s a hot topic, and we wanna talk about it. In this episode, we discuss how birth control works, some side effects and negative reactions that you may experience while using it, and what “breakthrough bleeding” is. We also spent a lot of time talking about Natural Family Planning, which is the method of birth control that both of us use! If you have questions, message us on Instagram @annienuttalll and @megandlamont. Thanks for listening!

This month we got to chat with Camille Jorgensen, an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) in Utah County! Camille shared some incredible information, and answered tons of questions from listeners and some from us as well! We discussed how to prepare for breastfeeding during pregnancy, talked about milk supply, and lots more! Connect with Camille on Instagram @the_lactationdoula or schedule a consultation with her here: https://lactivistactivist.com/book-now!

This is a fun episode with life updates, postpartum talk, and some impromptu birth research! We discussed some details about Annie's birth work in 2023, and she shared an exciting announcement that is coming in 2024. Megan talked about what 2024 will hopefully hold for her family! We talked about our transitions in motherhood from 0 to 1 kids, and then 1-2 kids, and gave details about what would have helped us through the process. We're so grateful for all the support we received during 2023, and we can't wait to share more birth content with our listeners in 2024!

We have some fun life updates about pumping, eating, and our Spotify wrapped! Annie recently posted about circumcision on her Instagram stories and we talked more candidly about that! We discussed The Brewer Diet and explained why eating protein and salt is so important during pregnancy. We also gave helpful tips on how to relieve morning sickness!

Join us for the second part of our interview with Kelsha and Lexi! We talked about how their husbands supported them during labor, and Kelsha shared more details about her hospital birth. We answered a few listener questions including “how to decide between a birth center and a hospital.”

Our good friends Kelsha and Lexi have had some incredible birth experiences, and it was so much fun to chat with them about all things birth! In the first part of this interview, we discussed their perspectives about birth before getting pregnant, finding care providers, and what their prenatal care has been like with each of their providers. Tune in next week for even more from Kelsha and Lexi!