Welcome to 2024! This year's podcast is being aired twice weekly! We get to have twice as much fun each week and chat with twice as many brilliant people to help you have a confident and informed birth experience! This season is about helping you avoid things you don't want in labor, advocate for your goals and take back your power! 
 
HeHe sits down with Jessie Brebner to dive into the subject of using cervical mucus as a way to track your fertility. Whether you are trying for a baby right now, or trying not to have a baby, this episode is for you! Our cervical mucus is constantly changing and those changes tell us a lot about what is happening in your body and with your fertility. Jessie shares how to learn your patterns and how to accurately identify your fertile window! Plus she dives into knowing the best times to time the deed based on your goals-- to make or not make a baby!
 
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Ep. 229: Tracking Your Fertility Using Cervical Mucous with Jessie Brebner

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Today's episode is all about Vaginal Birth After 3 C-sections! Petra Cruz, from The VBAC Junkie Podcast, joins HeHe to share her story of 3 cesarean births + a VBAC birth at a hospital that has a 'VBAC Ban' in place! Petra is stepping us through her decision making process to have a VBAC and how hard she had to fight in the hospital.
 
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Ep. 260: BIRTH STORY: VBA3C with Petra Cruz

Listener Discretion Advised- this episodes shares the story of inappropriate Pitocin use in labor resulting in severe birth trauma and neonatal complications. Please make sure you are in a space to receive this story.
 
Today's episode is so informative and educates us about the repercussions of inappropriate use of Pitocin in labor! Pitocin is neither good nor bad, it is simply a tool. However, it must be used with intention and respect. It comes with massive risk if it is not properly administered. Katie Spinks shares her story of obstetrical abuse and the horrors that followed a misuse of Pitocin for her and her precious daughter, Jolene. 
 
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Ep. 259: BIRTH STORY: Inappropriate Pitocin Use in Labor & the Aftermath with Katie Spinks

This episode is everything that so many of us need! Hannah Gill is a wealth of knowledge with a soothing voice and unmatched determination! Listen in as Hannah shares her story of a primary cesarean followed by an unmedicated, low intervention hospital VBAC-- or Vaginal Birth After Cesarean!
 
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Website: thehannahgill.com
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Podcast: https://motherhoodflow.buzzsprout.com
VBAC Training for Doulas (waitlist): https://www.thehannahgill.com/doulawaitlist
VBAC Prep Course for Parents (waitlist): https://www.thehannahgill.com/waitlist
 
 
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Ep. 258: BIRTH STORY: How to Achieve an Unmedicated VBAC in the Hospital with Hannah Gill

We all know that inductions are on the rise and many times they are not founded in evidence-based reasons! With so many women hoping to avoid unnecessary interventions, particularly c-sections, HeHe knew that Dr. Rachel Reed was the perfect expert to share how you can avoid an unnecessary induction which will lead to lower risk of unnecessary interventions and decrease your risk of a c-section.
 
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Ep. 257: Top 5 NON-Evidence-Based Reasons for Induction with Dr. Rachel Reed

Unnecessareans (Unnecessary c-sections) are on the rise in America and for many reasons! So many women prepare for labor from a place of wanting to avoid a c-section but fail to understand what actually CAUSES unnecessary cesareans! Without understanding WHAT causes them, it will be very hard to implement HOW to actually avoid one!  
 
There are things you can do, decisions you can make and conversations you can have that will mitigate your risk of unnecessary intervention and allow you to avoid having a cesarean birth when that is not your plan! 
 
This episode will teach you the three most influential things you can do to avoid an unnecessarean! 
 
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Sources for this episode: 
Spontaneous Labor:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/215/4538/1396
https://www.ejog.org/article/S0301-2115(98)00058-X/abstract
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0137188
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1948087/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26776817/
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2013/11/definition-of-term-pregnancy
https://www.acog.org/womens-health/faqs/when-pregnancy-goes-past-your-due-date
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/practice-bulletin/articles/2020/01/macrosomia
 
Labor at home:
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/american-obstetrics-in-the-1950s/
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/02/approaches-to-limit-intervention-during-labor-and-birth
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3660040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/
 
Failure to Progress:
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010088.pub3/full
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/obstetric-care-consensus/articles/2014/03/safe-prevention-of-the-primary-cesarean-delivery

Ep. 229: Tracking Your Fertility Using Cervical Mucous with Jessie Brebner

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