Birthful

Nov 20 2024 350 ep. 46 mins 376
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On Birthful, working doula and former journalist Adriana Lozada talks pregnancy, birth and postpartum with top experts and new parents. Every episode distills the overload of pregnancy information down to the most relevant and useful stuff. Adriana Lozada is a mom, author, speaker, birth doula, postpartum educator, and healthy-sleep consultant. Visit Birthful.com. Please note: Adriana has years of experience but she's not a doctor, and does not expect anyone to treat the show like medical advice. Please always consult with your care provider. This show does not dispense medical advice.

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[Birth Stories] A Scheduled Surgical Birth and a Home VBAC: Both Based on Her Intuition, with Jessica Pinney

Nov 20 2024 47 mins  
Even though 5 doctors had cleared Jessica Pinney for a vaginal delivery with her rare placental conditions of vasa previa and velamentous cord insertion, she listened to her intuition and decided to have a planned surgical birth for her first child. For her next pregnancy, listening to her intuition led her to have a homebirth. She shares with Adriana how these different circumstan

[Birth Stories] Knowing All Was Well Despite Seven Hours of Pushing, with Tabitha DeLorio

Nov 12 2024 54 mins  
Even though Tabitha DeLorio had a long pushing stage (and we’re talking 6 to 7 hours long!) at no point was she discouraged that something was wrong. She shares with Adriana how the trust she had in her body and her team, their loving support, and constant reassurance (as well as her baby showing no signs of distress) allowed her to power through despite her baby’s head being t

[Birth Stories] Getting Baby to Flip From Breech With an ECV for a Flowing Vaginal Birth, with Kaitlin Moore

Nov 05 2024 57 mins  
What happens when a baby suddenly turns breech at 36 weeks? For Kaitlin Moore, this meant a hard pivot and lots of research to weigh her options between trying to get her baby to flip back or having a surgical birth. She shares the difficulties of finding the right provider to do an External Cephalic Version (ECV), and how elated she was when the ECV was successful and she could wa

[Birth Stories] Fast Homebirths and Liminal Spaces With a Pregnant Funeral Director, with Anna Walsh

Oct 29 2024 46 mins  
If birth and death are liminal bookends to our human experience, what conversations emerge as a pregnant funeral director is attended by a grieving midwife? Anna Walsh shares the story of her two fast births, and how she felt safe, heard, and respected as she transferred to the hospital for a retained placenta after her first birth (and cheered the second one when it came easily!).

[Birth Stories] Creating a Beautiful Birth Experience Despite 5 Days of Interventions

Oct 23 2024 52 mins  
Can a chaotic labor with a myriad of interventions for preeclampsia and several failed epidurals be a positive experience? Olivia Styons shares with Adriana the hard pivots she and her team had to make and how crucial it was for her to speak up for her needs - from getting a shower to holding her premature baby for a few minutes - to resiliently turn a 5-day induction into a beauti

[Birth Stories] An Intentionally Unassisted Birth After Three Hospital Births, with Kemeera Nimahat

Oct 15 2024 57 mins  
Doula and perinatal dance instructor Kemeera Nimahat has given birth four times and is the self-proclaimed queen of ignoring early labor. She shares with Adriana how tuning into her intuition has been pivotal in deciding where and with whom to give birth (she switched from homebirth to hospital for her first) and the deep work she did in preparation for her most recent birth, which

[Birth Stories] Can You Even Prepare for Baby Hiccupping While Crowning?!, with Danielle Fetty-Lovell

Oct 09 2024 53 mins  
Danielle Fetty-Lovell has been through a lot in her births! But probably the most unexpected moment was when her first daughter had the hiccups while she was crowning for a really long time (making it both comical and excruciating). She shares with Adriana how being deeply focused on her labor meant that she didn’t care they got her dilation wrong (going from 8 cms back to 4!) an

[Birth Stories] An Unexpectedly Unassisted Blissful Breech Birth, with Toni Shama

Oct 01 2024 39 mins  
Toni Shama’s first birth asked for movement, and her third birth asked for much vocalization. Her second birth, however, asked for tons of intimacy with her husband. She shares with Adriana how when they fueled that passion, labor became so fast they barely had a chance to call their midwife before their baby was born. And how if any of them had known the baby was breech, it woul

[Birth Stories] When Place-Of-Birth Policies Keep You Thinking Instead of Birthing, with Emily Salahuddin

Sep 24 2024 64 mins  
Emily Salahuddin set out to have an unmedicated birth at a birth center, but trying to remain within the risk boundaries of that facility turned into an all-consuming mind game, bringing with it an onslaught of non-medical interventions. Ironically, it was after being transferred to the hospital that she was able to have a more hands-off experience… until the baby was born. She s

[Birth Stories] Two Non-Epidural Inductions: With and Without the Fetal Ejection Reflex, with Meredith Finch

Sep 18 2024 60 mins  
Given that Pitocin contractions can be so intense, most people who have inductions also tend to have epidurals – but not Meredith Finch! Listen as she shares with Adriana how her preparation, flexibility, the crucial support from her husband and her doula, and a profound emotional release with her careprovider helped her through her two inductions, ultimately letting her experien