Doing It At Home: Our Home Birth Podcast show

Doing It At Home: Our Home Birth Podcast

Summary: Doing It At Home is a weekly podcast about home birth and our decision to go from a traditional hospital birth with an OBGYN to a natural birth at home with midwives. This is a raw and honest show that explores homebirth from every angle. We talk about the fears and judgements thrown at you when you choose home birth. We share resources that we found tremendously helpful for understanding our birthing options. We confess the magic and craziness in preparing for pregnancy, home birth, motherhood and fatherhood. We talk about having sex while pregnant and maintaining your connection and intimacy as a couple. We reveal how to stay centered and not lose yourself through pregnancy, and tons more! This show is all about adding an empowered conversation to the topic of home birth and natural birth, while keeping it real, grounded and fun. So strap in and join us as we’re doing it at home!

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 205: HOME BIRTH STORY - A Miracle Pregnancy and an Ecstatic Home Birth with Becca Coren | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:53

Can birth actually feel like you’re high and running through the jungle? Well, listen in because it can and it did for today’s guest, Becca Coren. Becca shares her journey to home birth - from a miracle pregnancy that brought with it challenges, a job change and move, tantric healing, and the result of an ecstatic home birth experience. She walks us through her process of healing her body, preparing for birth and sharing her story. Becca’s website - http://www.bexwellness.com/

 204: HOME BIRTH STORY - Making (Home) Birth and Motherhood Your Own Experience with Olivia Miller | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:55

How often do we carry fears from other people’s births into our own? In today’s story, you’ll hear about how you can make birth and motherhood your own unique journey. We’re chatting with our friend Olivia Miller about her 3 births (hospital, home and planned home birth moved to a hospital, in that order). Links: DIAH Shop - https://www.bonfire.com/store/diahpodcast/ Parents on Demand Network - https://parentsondemand.com/ Mama Z - Natural Living Family - https://naturallivingfamily.com/

 203: HOME BIRTH STORY - First Time Mother and Labor and Delivery Nurse on the Safety of Home Birth with Corrie Oyinloye | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:13

Why would a labor and delivery nurse choose home birth? There are quite a few reasons, at least for today’s guest Corrie Oyinloye. Corrie has been a labor and delivery nurse for 10 years. And two years ago, she chose home birth for the birth of her daughter, Rachel. Corrie’s story also includes creating the space for her husband Gabe to feel confident in the decision, a move to a different state, prodromal labor, a cervical lip, occipito posterior position of baby and a double nuchal cord.

 202: Couples Birth: Strengthening Your Connection with Your Partner and Including Them in the Experience with Lynn Griesemer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:58

Ever heard any of these approaches to birth: couples birth, daddy delivery, husband and wife birth? Well today our guest Lynn Griesemer, who is a mother of 6, marriage coach, podcaster and author (among many other things) joins us for a conversation about including your partner in the birth experience. Giving them an active role and making birth a family-led experience. Links: Lynn’s website: https://www.marriagecoachlynn.com/

 201: HOME BIRTH STORY - How Birth Reminds Us of Our Resilience with Kimra Luna | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:40

What did birth teach you? In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with personal branding and online business strategist Kimra Luna. She shares a little bit from each of her 3 births, a mix of circumstances and lessons. When she first learned she was going to be a mother, Kimra immersed herself in resources like “Business of Being Born,” Ina May Gaskin, Hypnobabies and searched for midwives and doulas to work with. LINKS: Kimra’s Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/kimralu

 200: Highlights from 2018 and Exciting Things in 2019 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:56

Can you believe it’s been 200 episodes of the Doing It At Home podcast?! Today we’re celebrating 200 episodes with our first episode of 2019. And it’s a fun one. We share some really cool things that are going on, things to look forward to in 2019. And we also take a trip down memory lane for some of our highlights

 199: Unwanted Comments About Your Birth and the Cost of Home Birth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:07

What did you do when people give you unnecessary and negative comments about your birth plan? Today we’re addressing a couple of listener emails, ranging from topics of dealing with comments about the pain of birth, incorporating your spirituality or religious faith into your birth planning and the discussion of costs of home birth. Links: Parents on Demand: www.parentsondemand.com Our website: www.diahpodcast.com DIAH Store: www.bonfire.com/Store/diahpodcast Sarah’s website: www.sarahbivens

 198: Having a Healthy Relationship with Food in Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum with Laura Jean | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:48

Would you say that you eat with awareness? Today we’re chatting with registered dietician and creator of Eat With Awareness, Laura Jean. Laura works with women and assists them in becoming the experts in their personal relationships with food. This covers the preconception, pregnancy and postpartum experiences. We talk with Laura about how to approach your nutrition with a holistic and loving mindset. This looks like learning what your body is saying and then figuring out how to honor that.

 197: HOME BIRTH STORY - High-Risk Pregnancy, Traditional Midwives and Trusting Your Body with Erin Zekis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:00

How do you learn to trust your body after some difficult experiences and a high-risk label? In today’s episode, we’re talking with Erin Zekis about her journey to home birth. From premature labor with her first pregnancy and a hospital transfer, to exploring different methods of care for her second pregnancy, Erin and her husband Kevin were very intentional about what they wanted to experience for the birth of both their sons, Tobin and Aldrin.

 196: HOME BIRTH STORY - 53-Hour Labor, Hospital Transfer and a Badass Mama with Bekah Kitchens and Jesse Carroll | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:46

When asked a question by a care provider, do you have to respond right away? Most of us don’t know or realize that we have choice. And especially when it’s not an emergency, we can take time to process and decide what we want to do and even refuse what doesn’t work for us. This is a powerful message from our guests - Bekah and Jesse Carroll - in today’s episode, who experienced this firsthand during the birth of their son while in the hospital after transferring from their home birth plan.

 195: Caring for Infant Acid Reflux with Kira Volpi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:12

What is infant acid reflux and why does it go so untreated in babies? You’ll hear these answers in today’s episode in our interview with Kira Volpi of Infant Acid Reflux Solutions. Together with the two physicians, Dr. P and Dr. Prince, Kira works tirelessly to provide information and resources for the treatment of acid reflux in infants. We go over the main symptoms and specifics of the condition. Plus, how the team has an approach through telemedicine to offer care for families around the world.

 194: HOME BIRTH STORY - Rainbow Home Birth Baby After 2 Miscarriages and a Stillbirth with Mellisa Reeves of Motherbirth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 44:00

What would you do if you really trusted yourself? Mellisa Reeves of Motherbirth is sharing her journey with us. From some of the traumatic elements of her first hospital birth with her first son Aiden, a stillbirth in hospital at 41 weeks pregnant with her second son Rowan and two subsequent miscarriages, she brings us to the healing process and experience of her home birth with her daughter, Etney. And along the way she started the Motherbirth podcast and has been providing resources for women.

 193: HOME BIRTH STORY - Blood Sugar Challenges and a Birth Center Closing at 34 Weeks with Bridgette Piatt | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:27

What can make a birth traumatic? For Bridgette Piatt, she believes the trauma associated with her first birth in the hospital was the result of poor relationships with care providers. This inspired her to look into other options for her second pregnancy, however she wasn’t sure of home birth just yet. She and her husband Daniel, who was actually born at home, explored midwives and landed on a birthing center.

 192: HOME BIRTH STORY - Journeying From Cancer to Home Birth with Eva Whipple | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:40

How could lessons from surviving cancer empower you in your birth? For Eva Whipple, going through cancer at 19 shifted her perspective on things. It taught her about priorities and her perseverance. It also taught her to be present. And this carried into both of her births, both on the same day two years apart. We chat about the road to home birth and the comparison of her two births, nursing a toddler while pregnant and how her practice of yoga has been a part of her life as a mother.

 191: HOME BIRTH STORY - Experiencing Home Birth and Hospital Birth as a Midwife with Sophia Williams | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:19

What’s it like for a midwife to experience her own birth? Today we’re chatting with Sophia Williams, a midwife, doula and published photographer. There are certainly some twists throughout Sophia’s stories. From a home birth with her son Benjamin to her post birth hospital transfer to remove her placenta. And when Benjamin was 8 months old, Sophia became pregnant with their second child, their daughter Gracie, who was born premature via cesarean. Sophia is an incredibly inspiring mama!

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