hospital birth – The Birth Hour

Three Empowering & Peaceful Births

Posted on April 2, 2019 - 4:00 am by admin

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Three Empowering & Peaceful Births with Melissa Emler

Melissa’s children were born in Iowa under the care of midwives but in a hospital setting. In Iowa all midwives who are legally practicing are Certified Nurse Midwives and many of them are providing care within a hospital setting. The hospital that Melissa gave birth at was set up more like a birth center than the typical hospital image that you may have in your head. It had a large tub as well as other comfort measures that aided her with finding more natural methods of coping with labor than typical hospital pain medications. Melissa also practiced Hypnobirthing which really made a big difference with her births and kept her from even considering asking for an epidural.

Melissa Emler Bio

is a mom to three kids, Cooper, Addilyn and Conner and lives in Wisconsin where she works in education. She connects schools with the best and most useful tools available to them in the 21st century! Melissa also has a podcast called On the Vender Floor where she connects educators and entrepreneurs in conversations that positively impact learning.

Resource Links

Hypnobirthing

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An Emotional Birth Journey to VBA2C

Posted on November 8, 2018 - 4:00 am by admin 12

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A VBA2C Birth Story – Elizabeth Quinn

Elizabeth Quinn is married to Percy and they are raising three girls in Jackson, Mississippi. Her daughters are Chesley Cox, 6 years old, Anderson Lillian ‘Anders’ 4 years old, and Adella Calhoon 22 months old.

In almost seven years of motherhood she’s gone from the totally oblivious first time mom, focused on the nursery and stroller and clueless about all things birth related to a certifiable birth junkie. The journey from unwanted, unplanned, unnecessary cesarean section to incredible VBA2C (vaginal birth after two cesareans) has given her a passion for birth education and vbac support.

She’s now a co-leader of her local ICAN chapter, coordinator of the Jackson, MS Improving Birth Rally, and administrator of a Facebook group that advocates for evidence based practices in maternity care called Birth Circle.

Elizabeth did her fair share of research and preparation for her VBAC and has since been connected with even more amazing birth resources so you’ll definitely want to check out her resource list.

You can listen to Elizabeth’s fourth birth story (another VBAC) with her first BOY after three girls via our archives by becoming a listener supporter.

Resource Links

International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN)

ICAN of Jackson, Ms Facebook page and blog

Improving Birth

Evidence Based Birth

VBAC Facts

The VBAC Project

Trial of Labor

BLOGS

Birth Without Fear

Mama Birth

CHILDBIRTH EDUCATION COURSE

Birth Boot Camp

BOOKS

‘Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth’ by Ina May Gaskin

‘Cut, Stapled, Mended: When one woman reclaimed her body and gave birth on her own terms.’ by Roanna Rosewood

‘The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth’ by Henci Goer

‘Birthing Normally after a Cesarean or Two’ by Helene Vadeboncoeur

After Five Out of Hospital Births, Blythe Fike Decides it’s Time for an Epidural

Posted on December 8, 2017 - 4:00 am by admin

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Blythe Fike Shares Her Sixth Birth Story – The Epidural Birth

Y’all, I’m not gonna lie, this episode strays a bit from what you are typically hearing on The Birth Hour, but it was actually one of my favorite episodes to record. Blythe Fike is a mom of 6 and wife of 1 living in Southern California. After 5 unmedicated, out of hospital births, she went rogue for number 6 and headed to the hospital… on purpose. She loves talking all kinds of birth and you can find her sometimes doing that at thefikelife.com.

Blythe’s episode is pretty light hearted and will definitely make you laugh but I also think it’s so valuable in that she wasn’t afraid to trust her gut and go for the type of birth she wanted even though she had done things very differently the first FIVE times! I love how Blythe and her husband tease each other about how funny the hospital birth experience is after having so many homebirths. These two obviously really know each other on all sorts of levels and make an awesome birthing team.

Resource Links

The Bradley Method

Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin

The Business of Being Born

Hospital Births with Midwife and Doula

Posted on June 9, 2016 - 4:00 am by admin 1

In this birth story episode, Victoria Easter Wilson shares her two hospital births attended by midwives. The first birth was kind of overwhelming for her husband so when they were pregnant with their second daughter they spent some time processing the first birth story and preparing more this time by hiring a doula. This is a great episode if you want to hear some positive hospital birth experiences – I mean check out that tub and bar she got to use at the hospital!

Victoria is a wife and WAHM who thinks the Internet can be used for good and not evil if you have the right intentions. She is a new doula and birth educator, passionate about supporting women in their motherhood journeys. When she’s able to sneak away from the busyness for a few hours, you can find her enjoying a pretty latte and the company of a friend…also probably talking about birth. Connect with her on Instagram.

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Joni Edelman’s Homebirth Transfer Birth Story

Posted on May 3, 2016 - 4:00 am by admin

Today’s guest is Joni Edelman who shares the story of her most recent birth which was a planned homebirth that ended in a hospital transfer. She talks not only about the labor and birth but about the emotions behind not having the birth that she had dreamed of. She recently wrote an article titled My Labor And Birth Didn’t Go As Planned — And No, I’m Not ‘Over’ It and received quite a bit of backlash for it.

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joni edelman homebirth
I know from my own experiences as well as the hundreds of birth stories I’ve heard that there are many women who can relate to the sentiment of Joni’s article. Often women who are dealing with birth trauma are told that having a healthy baby is all that matters but research and antidotal evidence has shown that birth matters. It’s important for stories like Joni’s to be heard so women hear that it’s OK to mourn the loss of the birth they had hoped for while still being grateful for their healthy baby.

Joni Edelman in a nutshell!

Body-positive intersectional feminist. BP Type II. Diet industry dropout. Wife. Mom of 5. Bibliophile. Cake aficionado. Editor In Chief @ Ravishly. Types 17 WPM. Connect with her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Support the podcast by purchasing our first product – it’s an awesome high quality bag and comes filled with over $80 in fantastic products! Proceeds from each tote sold will also go towards supporting maternal health worldwide through a donation to Every Mother Counts. Christy Turlington Burns will be on the podcast on Thursday to talk about this organization that she founded.

Hospital Birth Story with Retained Placenta – Bricia Lopez

Posted on April 28, 2016 - 4:00 am by admin

Bricia shares her hospital birth story and all of the preparation she did prior to the birth and although the birth went very much like she had hoped, her placenta didn’t come and she had to be taken to the OR. Listen to her tell her whole story in her own words.

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Bricia Lopez’s Bio

Bricia is a partner at Guelaguetza, LA’s temple for Oaxacan cuisine. She has become a staunch proponent of Oaxacan culture and an integral figure in the gastronomic culture of Los Angeles. Her blog, moleandmore.com reaches a wide audience of young people in search of cooking tips and cultural experiences. Her and her family’s story have been featured in a number of multi-media national and international publications.

Bricia was also recently invited to the White house to participate in a roundtable discussion with President Obama and eight other of the country’s business leaders on immigration and economic issues. She has also spoken of young immigrant issues in front of Mexico’s President, Enrique Peña Nieto.

Bricia also co-hosts Super Mamas Podcast alongside her sister where new, experienced and expecting mothers come together to exchange knowledge and support. Connect with her on Instagram.

UK Mama Uses Yoga Practice in Birth

Posted on April 26, 2016 - 4:00 am by admin 2

Tammy gave birth in the UK and was in active labor with her son Milo for 24 hours. Tammy credits her yoga practice prior to getting pregnant for getting her through such a long and arduous birth.

Tammy is a Senior Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher & Therapist with over 1000 hours of training. She’s practiced yoga since the age of 14 and has been teaching for 8 years. She considers herself a life-long yoga student and teaches a wide range of people — from professional football players, cage fighters and snowboarders to pregnant ladies, children and senior citizens. She is passionate about inspiring and nurturing the intuitive and creative powers that are innate within women at all stages of the female life cycle including menstruation, conceiving, pregnancy and postpartum. She believes that yoga practice teaches that there is so much potency and wisdom available to women when they really open up to exploring it. You can connect with Tammy on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter or visit her website.

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Here is another UK birth Story if you want to hear another perspective.

Birth Resources

Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin

Guide to Breast Feeding – Ina May Gaskin

Childbirth Without Fear – Dick Grantly- Read

Mother’s Breath -Uma Dinsmore Tuli

Show Dad How (Parenting Magazine): The Brand-New Dad’s Guide to Baby’s First Year

Birth Skills – Juju Sundin

Gentle Birth Method – Dr Gowri Motha

The No Cry Sleep Solution – Elizabeth Pantly

Core Awareness – Liz Koch

Lynzy Coughlin’s Birth and Postpartum Stories

Posted on April 7, 2016 - 9:00 am by admin

Two Hospital Birth Stories with Lynzy Coughlin

Todays’s The Birth Hour podcast guest is Lynzy Coughlin. Lynzy is a Physician Assistant in the Emergency Room and the editor behind the life & style guide for motherhood, Lynzy & Co. She has two daughters, Olivia and Eliora and a husband that also lives off the adrenaline in the ER. I guess you could say that they like to live on the edge. When they aren’t working, they love to travel and fix up their “fixer upper” by the CT shoreline.

In this episode she shares her two hospital birth experiences including details like the crazy drive to the hospital, epidurals that only halfway took and her outlook on the whole experience as an ER physician’s assistant. Lynzy and I also had a great conversation covering helpful information about her postpartum and breastfeeding journeys.

To listen to this episode, and the rest of The Birth Hour archives, join our listener supporter group here!

You can connect with Lynzy on Instagram and be sure to follow her #latenightnursingfeed where she posts a different topic each night and you can connect with other mamas up late nursing their babies.

Resource Links

Lansinoh Soothies Gel Pads

Mother Love Nipple Cream

The Pregnant Chicken

photo credit: Rowanberry + Lavendar

Positive Hospital Birth Stories

Posted on March 31, 2016 - 9:00 am by admin 1

Christy Knutson’s Hospital Birth Stories

Christy Lee Knutson is a communications and creative professional at MoxieSpeak.com. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband (Jon), two children, Annazalie and Bennet, and 2 cats. She is also the founder of BirthMemoirs.com and the creator of Your Birth Story Journals.

In this episode, Christy shares her birth stories, both in a hospital, and both with the same birth team. Christy had positive experiences both times which she attributes to planning ahead, choosing a birth team she felt comfortable with and confident in, and using a hospital friendly to midwives, doulas, and especially, babies.

You can find Christy at her site Birth Memoirs, and be sure to use the promo code BIRTHHOUR to get 40% off your purchase!!!

Resource Links

Your Birth Story Journals (40% off promo code for listeners: BIRTHHOUR)

Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way

Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin

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A Hospital Birth with a Midwife Birth Story

Posted on March 22, 2016 - 9:00 am by admin 7

Lauren Barlis’s Birth Story

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Lauren Barlis is a teacher. She got her start teaching 10th grade English in Baltimore County and now teaches other teachers and administrators how to build powerful effective partnerships with the parents of their students. She is married to a wonderful man who also works with her at Step Up For Students, an education non-profit in Florida that provides scholarships to low-income families who want to send their children to private school. She has a daughter, Josie, who is 16 months old. She is also expecting a son, Benjamin, in May 2016.

Resource Links

Doula Match

Spinning Babies

The Business of Being Born

Daily Essentials: Activities for Pregnancy Comfort and Easier Birth

Pregnancy & Childbirth after PCOS

Posted on February 16, 2016 - 10:00 am by admin 1

Marissa Lawton’s Birth Story

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Today’s birth story episode features Marissa Lawton who discusses getting pregnant with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and dealing with fertility treatments. Marissa is a military spouse and discusses the experience she had giving birth at a military hospital. She experienced vast differences between the day and night shift of doctors and nurses and was in labor for over 30 hours.

Marissa also discusses the anxiety she dealt with about infertility, about whether a fertilized egg would be viable, how many babies she would carry and whether her baby would be healthy throughout her pregnancy.

She also explains that her anxiety also caused her to make birth choices she probably wouldn’t have otherwise. For instance, she wanted a natural birth, and did deliver vaginally, but was induced (41 and 5) with pitocin and ended up having an epidural after feeling unsupported by some of the hospital staff. Marissa also dealt with a strong nesting instinct that manifested almost like OCD.

She was apply to rely on prenatal yoga to help with anxiety and practiced it all throughout her pregnancy and wishes she could have listened to her yoga training during labor including bodywork over what the doctors were saying that didn’t feel right.

Pregnancy after PCOS

PCOS is becoming a more common endocrine system disorder among women of childbearing age. Women suffering from PCOS experience symptoms such as having enlarged ovaries that have small collections of fluid (follicle) which can be seen during an ultrasound.

Women can experience loss of menstrual periods or extra long periods. Other side effects of PCOS include acne, excess hair growth, and weight gain. Infrequent or no menstruation is usually one of the first signs used to diagnose PCOS in teenage girls.

The exact cause of PCOS isn’t clear but early diagnosis and treatment can reduce the risk of long-term complications. I’ve recently learned about a diet plan that has proven to help with PCOS called FLO living. You can read more about that here.

Marissa Lawton Bio

Marissa Lawton helps female entrepreneurs who are new moms balance the demands of being woman, wife, mom, and ladyboss so they can live a full, empowered, and integrated life. You can find her at www.risslawton.com.

Resource Links:

http://www.dona.org/

http://birthwithoutfearblog.com/

https://empoweredbirthproject.wordpress.com/

http://kellymom.com/

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Birth Center and Twin Birth Stories with Jesse Coulter

Posted on February 9, 2016 - 10:00 am by admin

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Jesse Coulter’s Birth Center and Natural Twin Birth Stories

Today’s episode features Jesse Coulter who is going to share the birth stories of both her son, born at a birth center, and her twins who were born vaginally in a hospital. The twins’ birth story is fast and furious as they arrived before the hospital staff even had a chance to put the IV in Jesse.

Jesse Coulter is a wife and mom of a 3 year old boy and newborn boy/girl twins. She is a full-time marketing professional by day and blogger by night. She blogs at JesseCoulter.net about DIY projects, fashion, marriage, motherhood, travel and more.

Jesse grew up in a small Texas town (currently lives in Austin), and loves traveling the world with her husband who she met while studying abroad in Austria. Some of her favorite things include binge watching Netflix in an old pair of sweatpants, aerobics, slavic languages, anything that comes from a bakery, living debt free, and mojitos. You can find her @JesseCoulter on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. “

Listen to Jesse’s The Lively Show podcast episode about living with painful sex here.

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