Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast

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436: High-Risk Pregnancy, Traditional Midwives and Trusting Your Body with Erin Zekis (DIAH Classic) May 13, 2023

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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.

Erin walks us through her process of coping with elements of her first birth, fears around premature labor and waters breaking early, to working with a traditional midwife for her second birth.

AND, Erin has kinda been on the show before! Back in episode 163, we read an email that she sent to show and she shared that she has an oxytocin tattoo! How cool is that?!

Links From The Episode:

DIAH Store - www.diahpodcast.com/merch
Episode 163 - https://www.diahpodcast.com/single-post/Inspiration-from-the-DIAH-Community-and-the-Famous-Oxytocin-Tattoo
Community Roots Midwife Collective - http://www.midwifecollective.com/
Indie Birth podcast - https://www.indiebirth.org/podcastarchive/

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435: Informed Choice, Empowered Pregnancy and Birth, Plus Breech and VBAC with Dr. Elliot Berlin May 07, 2023

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In today’s episode we speak with Dr. Elliot Berlin, an award-winning prenatal chiropractor, childbirth educator, labor support bodyworker, and co-founder of Berlin Wellness Group in Los Angeles, California.

Things we talk about in this episode:

Informed choice
Empowered pregnancy and birth
Breech births
VBAC

Links From The Episode:

Dr. Berlin’s website: https://www.doctorberlin.com/
Informed PregnancyⓇ Podcast: https://www.informedpregnancy.com/listen
Informed Pregnancy Plus: https://www.informedpregnancy.tv/
Chrissy Teigen clip chatting about Dr. Berlin: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqa8e_npO8q/

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434: A Healing Motherhood and Home Birth Journey - Listener Submitted Story from Teresa Sciarretta Apr 27, 2023

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Why home birth for Teresa?

After an empowering birth center experience with my first child, I absolutely knew home birth was my path for my second child. I felt confident in my body and my choice. My home is also a sacred place for me and part of my healing journey, so the idea of having such a life changing and memorable experience in our sanctuary brought me great joy. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else.

Some backstory from Teresa:

I had my son on November 13th, 2022, almost 9 years after the birth of my daughter. A dream come true in so many ways after many years of thinking I would never have another child. I am so grateful to have two powerful birth stories, one in a birth center and one at home, despite wildly different circumstances such as my personal life, different countries, a textbook first labor that was 23 hours and then an unexpected 3 hour labor 12 days before my guess date. Some themes that arise are switching providers at 30 weeks even though the care we were receiving before was "fine", the midwife not making it to the birth in time due to precipitous labor, and giving birth in a dark closet (channeling my inner mammal and my childhood cat, haha.) In retrospect, my biggest takeaways are trust, surrender, and standing in my power. My partner painted a beautiful labyrinth before our birth day to serve as a visual reminder of these truths of birth and life: you know you will enter, you know there will be an exit, but the path in between will be winding and unknown, full of potential challenges, but also full of growth and wonder.

Resources that were helpful for Teresa:

1. Hair comb - this was my number one coping tool

2. Spinning Babies, particularly their Daily Essentials video was super helpful during my pregnancy

3. Craniosacral therapy

4. For domestic violence resources, the national hotline is 1.800.799.SAFE I also highly recommend following One Mom's Battle

5. For trauma recovery resources, including anyone who's had a traumatic birth, EMDR therapy can be helpful and any tools or professionals that help you regulate your nervous system and feel safe

Links From The Episode:

Teresa’s website: www.onixbloom.com

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433: Sharing Our Postpartum Experience Plus an Important Announcement Apr 19, 2023

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How has postpartum been?

Are you going to have more babies?

We’re answering these questions, plus breaking down many of the elements of our early days of postpartum.

Links From The Episode:

Our second home birth story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000601018385
Follow up to our birth story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000606397362
Silverette: https://silveretteusa.com/
Cal Newport: https://calnewport.com/

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432: Infertility, First Pregnancy, Successful Home Birth and Postpartum Hemorrhage - Listener Submitted Story from Paige Conant Apr 12, 2023

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What helped you when you were preparing for home birth?

For Paige, “Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth” and Doing It At Home podcast were two of the biggest resources in her journey.

In Paige’s submitted audio story, she walks us through her preconception journey as well as the planning for home birth and the birth of her son, Cole.

Themes and topics from Paige’s story:

Unexplained infertility and struggling to conceive
IUI process
Exploring a birthing center option
Finding a midwife
Support from husband
Different positions during birth
Postpartum hemorrhage
Healing and recovery
Addressing questions and comments around home birth

Links From The Episode:

Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth: https://amzn.to/41gwx8F

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Send us your birth story: https://bit.ly/3jOjCKl
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vJcPmU
DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
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431: Birth and Postpartum Support are the Best Baby Shower Gifts with Kaitlin McGreyes of Be Her Village Apr 05, 2023

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What sort of stuff do I need to prepare for a baby?

Great question. And what if it’s not about the “stuff?” What if we focus less on the “stuff” and look more at the support and resources that mothers and parents need after they have a baby?

Enter Be Her Village, an online cash gift registry where parents can select services and support for friends and family to contribute to. You can customize your registry to include things like your midwifery care, a doula (birth and/or postpartum), lactation consultant, physical therapy, massage therapy, chiropractic care, nutritionist, etc.

Kaitlin talks about her journey that inspired the idea for Be Her Village, plus how it works for parents to use it (ps - it’s ALWAYS free for parents to use), as well as how birthworkers can use it to list their services and be a part of the $12 billion industry for baby gifts (spoiler: majority of them are not necessary!).

For parents: go to www.behervillage.com and start your registry (and let them know DIAH sent you when you sign up!)

For birthworkers: go to www.behervillage.com to list your services (which is free!), and you can use the code ATHOME for 20% off any course or certification you’d like to sign up for

Links From The Episode:

Be Her Village: https://behervillage.com/
Be Her Village Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/behervillage/
Episode 370 with Kaitlin: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000551843569

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430: Things We Forgot About Our Birth Story Plus Answering Your Follow Up Questions Mar 29, 2023

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But what about the bag of waters?!

We answer this and other questions that we received as follow ups to our second home birth story for baby Naomi.

There were also some things from the birth story that we forgot to mention and wanted to expand upon further.

This includes but is not limited to: crying during labor, the cord snap, birthing the placenta and the moment when we discovered that baby was a girl.

Links From The Episode:

Naomi’s Birth Story: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000601018385
Erica and Anthony on the podcast part 1:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000489077553
Erica and Anthony on the podcast part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/doing-it-at-home/id1153134918?i=1000521255751

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429: When Home Birth Is Just A Normal Thing with Celia Donaldson (DIAH Classic) Mar 22, 2023

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When did you first learn about home birth?

For today’s mama, Celia Donaldson, she herself was born at home. So for her growing up, it was just “normal.” So there didn’t have to be this explanation and deep dive into what it was or why people might choose it.

It’s this normalcy that carries through how Celia shares her story, from research she did while pregnant, the conversations with her partner Ali and assembling a birth team that would support her in what she wanted to create (while also receiving prenatal care at a hospital).

With about a month of “practice labor” prior to birth, Celia was ready to meet her baby, her son Nadir.

We hear the birth story as well as some of Celia’s favorite resources, as a birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator herself. Check the links for more on her and the resources she shared.

Links From The Episode:

Celia’s website: https://www.intuitivebirth.org/
Evidence Based Birth: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/
Birthful podcast: https://www.birthful.com/
The Birth Hour podcast: https://thebirthhour.com/

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428: A Passion and Love for Birth - Listener Submitted Story from Lauren Carney Mar 08, 2023

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Enjoy another listener story submission! This one is from Lauren Carney about the birth of her son Jasper.

Things mentioned in this story:

Advocating for yourself
Looking into a birth center
Care providers that make you feel safe and care about you properly
Falling in love with midwifery
Switching plans at 24 weeks from OB to midwifery
Baby flipping positions
Humming through contractions
Water easing sensations

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427: 25 Ways to Know Labor is Starting (DIAH Classic) Mar 01, 2023

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How do you know when labor is starting?

This is a question we put out there into the community, and received some really great answers and examples. So we’re sharing them with you! Plus our experience of what it was like when we realized it was “game time” -- what it felt like, what was going on, and what we did once it was clearly active labor.

There’s a wide range of possibilities and experiences when it comes to discovering you’re in labor. Our goal in sharing this conversation with you is to help you should you find yourself experiencing anything similar to these situations. And for those who have already been through the birthing experience, something to reflect back on and connect with.

We also share some bonus tips on what you can do when you do discover you’re in labor, to avoid any unnecessary stressors and create a smooth and peaceful environment.

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