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Birth Story Podcast

Hi! I’m Heidi, experienced Birth Doula and host of the Birth Story podcast brought to you by Birth Story Media™. I support moms through their fertility and pregnancy journeys and help have trauma free birth stories and labor stories. When moms embrace their pregnant bellies and their pregnancy and await the arrival of their baby or babies they are going to feel many emotions and have many visions about what will happen during child birth. “Is this normal?” “What does a contraction feel like?” “What does the day of labor look like?” “What is a Doula?” I want every mom’s birth story to be peaceful, happy and a memory that they will love to share. Birth Story podcast is my way to provide childbirth education through story telling in the comfort of your home and to prepare a mom for motherhood with any birth story that unfolds for their pregnancy, labor and delivery. If a pregnant mom uses an OBGYN, a midwife, a doula, a birth doula, or has a home birth, water birth, natural birth, C-section, cesarean birth, hospital birth, medicated birth, epidural birth, pitocin birth, an induction or induced labor, are having multiple babies or a single baby, a birth plan or no birth plan; I started this podcast to help moms learn and prepare for their labor and delivery and birth though birth story telling.

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Latest Episodes:

61 Kirsty Part 2 When your birth center closes down and you choose a home birth Nov 25, 2020

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In the finale of this 2-part special, Kristy is back to talk to Heidi about the events that led to switching up her birth plan from utilizing a birth center to focusing on having a home birth while still using the midwifery model of care.

Kristy's featured pregnancy product is the TUSHY bidet.

Looking for a Virtual Doula to create a custom birthing experience and guide you through your journey to parenthood in the United States? Contact Heidi at www.mydoulaheidi.com

For additional free birth education resources and to purchase Heidi's book, Birth Story: Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal, visit www.birthstory.com.

Want to share your thoughts on the episode? Leave a review and send a message directly to Heidi on Instagram.

60 Meet Kirsty: on Miscarriage, Hospital Birth Induction with an Epidural & then a homebirth Part 1 of 2 Nov 17, 2020

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In part 1 of this 2 part interview special, Heidi interviews Kristy Gauransky, stay-at-home warrior mom of the two boys she battled to bring into the world. After experiencing heartwrenching child loss and fighting infertility, Kristy was able to achieve her goal of motherhood and found so much healing in recounting her first of two birth stories.

Kristy's favorite baby product is the Haaka breast pump.

Looking for a Virtual Doula to create a custom birthing experience and guide you through your journey to parenthood in the United States? Contact Heidi at www.mydoulaheidi.com

For additional free birth education resources and to purchase Heidi's book, Birth Story: Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal, visit www.birthstory.com.

Want to share your thoughts on the episode? Leave a review and send a message directly to Heidi on Instagram.

59: Meet Jodi Part 2 Homebirth in the US after an Int'l home birth Oct 19, 2020

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Wrapping up this two-part special, Heidi and Jodi discuss the differences between domestic and international healthcare as it pertains to pregnancy and childbirth. After a successful and happy birthing experience and life in Colombia, Jodi and her husband decide to move their family back to America to be closer to their families. They decided that the best option for the birth of their second child would be to utilize a midwife and have as natural of a homebirth as possible.

Jodi's favorite baby products were milk catchers and cozy nursing nightgowns.

Looking for a Virtual Doula to create a custom birthing experience and guide you through your journey to parenthood in the United States? Contact Heidi at www.mydoulaheidi.com

For additional free birth education resources and to purchase Heidi's book, Birth Story: Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal, visit www.birthstory.com.

Want to share your thoughts on the episode? Leave a review and send a message directly to Heidi on Instagram.

58 Meet Jodi Part 1: Homebirth in Colombia South America as an American Oct 19, 2020

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It is time for another international birth story!

This episode is part 1 of 2.

This week, Heidi interviews Jodi about her experience as an American birthing in Colombia, South America. After meeting her now-husband in university, the couple ventured to Bulgaria with the Peace Corps for a time before being married in Costa Rica. At this time, they decided to start their family abroad. After much travel, Jodi discovered she was pregnant while in Colombia. Listen in to this episode of Birth Story to hear Jodi's amazing tales of jet-setting and motherhood.

Jodi's favorite baby product was the Philips Avent Milk Catcher.

Looking for a Virtual Doula to create a custom birthing experience and guide you through your journey to parenthood in the United States? Contact Heidi at www.mydoulaheidi.com

For additional free birth education resources and to purchase Heidi's book, Birth Story: Pregnancy Guidebook + Journal, visit www.birthstory.com.

Want to share your thoughts on the episode? Leave a review and send a message directly to Heidi on Instagram.

57 Brook Machin Last Minute Swap to Homebirth due to COVID restrictions Oct 08, 2020

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In late 2019 when Brook found out she was pregnant, she had to decide where to birth since her trusted birthing center had closed. Little did she know that the coronavirus was about to impact this decision. Brook chose a hospital birth with her favorite midwives and hired a doula. As the pandemic spread, Brook made the secret decision with her husband to switch to a home birth. She received parallel care throughout her pregnancy with both the hospital and homebirth midwives.

About a week before the birth, Brook experienced classic prodromal labor that would start every night and last until about 2 am before she would be able to go back to sleep. On the day of labor, she knew it was different when she couldn't go back to sleep and she had a bowel movement at 3 am.

Brook had a long labor for a second baby laboring all through the night and the next day. After she put her older son to bed that evening surges increased to 4-5 minutes apart. Her midwife described her tension ring when she got to 5-6 cm dilated and she was holding on to her previous birth experience. Brook had to let go.

Brook labored in and out of the tub and her water was still intact just before pushing. She pushed for almost 4 hours before her son was born at 1:23 am. Her midwife and doula gave her permission to let go and get primal and roar her baby out. And that is exactly what she did. Brook achieved a beautiful homebirth despite the pandemic in the comfort of her own home surrounded by her family and support team.

Her favorite baby product is the Hatch Light which is a sound machine and a phase to wake clock.

56 Meet Brooke. Unmedicated Hospital Birth. Later contracted COVID. Sep 24, 2020

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Brooke is one of my doula clients and she was featured in last week's episode (episode 55) when we visitied True Rest Float Spa to try out float therapy while pregnant. This episode was the very beginning of COVID. I was able to attend Brooke's birth in person, but then the world shut down. We opted for a Zoom postnatal and on a whim I hit record when she was retelling her birth story.

She walks us through going into labor unexpectedly at 38 weeks, being in denial, and finally moving to acceptance. She was in triage asking for the epidural when her husband Jason called me to come. I said, "If you can wait until I get there without the epidural, I will get you through til the end."

I raced to the hospital and found her in the tub and went to work.

Brooke continued on, broke her own water, and pushed like a birth warrior goddess.

After she birthed, she and her husband and baby all contracted the Coronavirus. Brooke is currently in a study out of the UofCali to study the antibodies in her breast milk. All are recovered and hanging at home.

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55 Pregnancy & Float Spa Therapy with a Midwife, Doula, and a Pregnant Mom! Sep 10, 2020

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I sit down with Dr. Alex Montgomery, CNM and Brook Craft, NP and the owner of True Rest Float Spa in Charlotte, NC Doug Centola.

We talk about the safety of floating (in our professional opinions) and the research behind this amazing relaxation venue.

Pregnant and interested in being weightless? Of course you are! All 3 of us were a unanimous DO IT after experiencing it ourselves.

While we represent a midwife, a nurse practitioner and a doula, we are not YOUR care providers. If you have questions or concerns about float therapy, please consult your own provider.

If you are a POC or unable to wash your hair immediately after floating, please consult with the float spa in advance as to the best way to protect your hair from getting salty! We recommend TWO coverings.

To read Dr. Alex Montgomery's book, click on the following link "NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THAT, the first six weeks."

Have you purchased Heidi's Guide to Pregnancy?

Purchase Birth Story Pregnancy today!

Looking for a doula? Hire Heidi as your virtual doula or for in-person support by visiting MyDoulaHeidi

54 Happy Home Birth Podcast with Katelyn Fusco on their home birth Aug 27, 2020

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Imagine your ideal birth. Where are you? Who is with you? In what position are you laboring? Listen in to hear Katelyn's most recent birth story. Her experience was "magical," as she was surrounded with exactly the right people in exactly the right time– it was a peaceful, undisturbed birth. Katelyn set up her birthing space very intentionally and set her mind to the exact kind of labor she wanted to experience.

She and Thomas share their labor story, as well as a hilarious postpartum experience that occurred.

Katelyn's labor march:

Katelyn's birth video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2DSJQYpxCc8MHVyeWxfa0xhb3FiVVhkT3ctenZpQmhiWm8w/view?usp=sharing

Sponsorship:

Deepest Thank You to Our Sponsor! Hatched at Home-Midwife Carrie LaChapelle: www.hatchedathome.com https://www.facebook.com/MidwifeCarrieLachapelleLMCPM/ 864-907-6363

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53 Ashley Faldmo, Her Viral Birth Photo & The Accidental Home Birth with the Fire Department Birth Story Aug 20, 2020

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52 Saxonny Rich on Birthing in Brooklyn Aug 04, 2020

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This story is about birthing in Brooklyn and all New Yorkers who relate to having to take an Uber ride at the end of labor to the hospital.

Saxonny made the bold decision to preserve her fertility. But awhile later found herself pregnant naturally with her partner. She took preparing for labor as seriously as preparing for a major athletic event.

We learn all of her best tips and tricks for a healthy pregnancy, labor and delivery.

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