The Birth Hour - A Birth Story Podcast show

The Birth Hour - A Birth Story Podcast

Summary: Whether you are pregnant and looking for inspirational birth stories through your pregnancy, trying to conceive, a first time mom or a veteran mother of multiple children, you can learn, laugh and maybe even cry a little at these moving childbirth stories from women willing to share one of the most intimate moments of their lives.

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 438| Second Unmedicated VBAC - Caitlin Shrum | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:01

Listener favorite, Caitlin Shrum, is back to share her second VBAC birth story. You can hear her first two birth stories (episodes 185 & 244) in our archives. Archives are accessible to listener supporters via Patreon!

 437| Unmedicated Hospital Birth with Birth Tub, Therapy Balls, and Labor Bars - Kayla Bruccoleri | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:24

Kayla shares her the story of her unmedicated hospital birth.

 436| Pregnancy After Weight Loss Surgery & Precipitous Birth - Simone Torborg | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:28

Simone prepared to have a typical, long-and-late birth, but Mother Nature had a different idea. Nothing could have prepared Simone and her husband Gregg for their little boy to come 10 days early, fast and furious, with a precipitous labor.

 435| Gestational Diabetes & Epidural Hospital Birth - Joanna Lundeen | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:16

Joanna shares her experience with gestational diabetes and an epidural hospital birth.

 434| Type 1 Diabetes, Induction for Preeclampsia & Unplanned Cesarean - Lindsay VanNieulande | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:22

Lindsay and her husband, Jeff, live in Detroit, Michigan, with their son, Rivers. Lindsay has had type one diabetes since she was a child, and with it came some obstacles to navigate in order to start her journey to become pregnant. Lindsay became pregnant shortly after her team of doctors gave her a green light; and, her pregnancy went well until she was unexpectedly hospitalized at 27 weeks due to pre-eclampsia.

 433| 32 Hour Labor, 30 Hours at Home and 2 Hours at the Hospital - Julia FitzRoy-Chow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:07

Julia transferred to a midwife group at 30 weeks. She went into labour at almost 38 weeks, had a 30 hour labor at home with mostly back labor, and after a quick drive to the hospital, Frankie was born two hours later.

 432| Navigating Husband's Cancer Diagnosis and Starting a Family - Jennifer Hanks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:04

Jennifer’s husband was diagnosed with cancer two months after they were married. They were able to bank his sperm before he started chemotherapy and knew that IVF would be the only way to have children in the future. After years of battling cancer they decided they didn’t want to let cancer hold them back from living life. They implanted one embryo through IVF and were shocked when they found out their one embryo had split into two. They were expecting twins!

 431| Four Hospital Births: Two with Epidurals, Two Unmedicated - Cassi Robinson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:52

On this episode, Cassi shares her four hospital birth stories and some great resources. This episode is sponsored by Crane Humidifiers. Crane is generously offering $10 OFF and free shipping on all of their full-priced, 1 gallon, adorable animal shaped humidifiers and drop humidifiers with the code BIRTH20 at www.crane-usa.com.

 430| Unmedicated Hospital Birth with AROM - Julia Carrion [REBROADCAST] | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:15:45

Julia planned for an unmedicated, hospital water birth. After having to have her water artificially ruptured and finding meconium, the water birth was no longer an option. After laboring for nearly 26 hours, pushing for 4.5 hours and narrowly avoiding a c-section, Julia was able to have an unmedicated vaginal birth.

 429| Cesarean Birth and Accepting a 2nd Cesarean after planning for a VBAC - Danielle Estrada | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:59

Danielle shares her two cesarean birth stories

 428| Gestational Diabetes, Beautiful Birth Center Birth, and Postpartum Preeclampsia - Victoria Buker | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:28

On this episode, Victoria shares her pregnancy, birth, and postpartum stories. After dealing with Gestational Diabetes that was insulin dependent for her fasting numbers and finding out she had Group B strep, Victoria had the most amazing, beautiful birth. She labored for 24 hours, pushed for 3 hours, all with the wonderful support of her doula and birth center. Unfortunately things got harder postpartum.

 427| Doula Processing Secondary Trauma + Homebirth & Peaceful Postpartum - Carrie Murphy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:02

Carrie, an experienced doula, had an unexpectedly emotionally-difficult pregnancy. She worked hard throughout to release secondary trauma from being a birth worker, all in hopes of having a home birth with a truly community-centered birth team.

 426| Cesarean Birth and VBAC Birth Stories - Brittany DuValle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:10:17

Before getting pregnant with her first child, Brittany had hoped and planned for an unmedicated birth. Due to an unnecessary induction and several interventions her first birth ended in a cesarean. Immediately following that birth, she began preparing for a VBAC.

 425| Five Day Induction after learning about ICP on The Birth Hour - Katie Friedland | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:59

At 37 weeks, Katie went in for an induction due to an ICP diagnosis (thanks to learning about it from this show and Nicole Phelps' story!) Hoping for a very low-intervention birth experience, the team of midwives and nurses were amazing at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass in providing as gentle of an induction as possible.

 424| Traumatic First Birth & Redemptive Elective Cesarean Birth Stories - Tash Stokes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:29

Tash shares her two cesarean section birth stories, one traumatic, the other redemptive.

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