Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast

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166: Helping Self-Employed Women Prepare for Maternity Leave and a Home Birth in Playa del Carmen, Mexico with Arianna Taboada Aug 01, 2018

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How does a self-employed mama prepare for maternity leave?

Today’s home birth story mama, Arianna Taboada, helps tackle that question with the women she serves in her private consultant practice.

In this episode, we hear Arianna’s amazing birth story of her son Leon in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. We get to hear about her process of choosing home birth, selecting care providers and how the experience unfolded.

Then we get into some tips and tools for mamas in finding the right mix of information and intuition when it comes to everything from your birth choices to how you integrate into working postpartum.

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165: How We Create a Healthy Relationship to Our Finances Jul 29, 2018

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How do you approach the topic of spending, bills and saving money? This is a question we got from one of our listeners, so we figured why not tackle it? Not 100% birth related we’ll grant you, however it’s a very real topic for parents as we navigate the world of our marriage and partnership, running a business and a household together. We go through our previous beliefs around money, the tools/practices we use to help us have healthy conversations around money and how we work as a team.

164: HOME BIRTH STORY - HBAC Story of Baby #3 with the Dope Doula Rachel Cunningham Jul 25, 2018

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Wanna hear a story about a sassy doula having a healing HBAC? Today we’re chatting with Rachel Cunningham, a small business owner, doula, wife to her husband Bernard and mama to her three girls: Greta, Beatrice and Agnes. Rachel shares with us, in such funny, vulnerable and real fashion, her journey in the birth world. From an emergency c-birth with her first daughter, to a successful yet interesting VBAC in a hospital, and finally to her most recent birth at home.

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Our new "Doing It At Home" book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GVJ9KL?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
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163: Inspiration from the DIAH Community and the Famous Oxytocin Tattoo Jul 21, 2018

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Today we’re sharing a few listener emails, talking about their birth planning and experiences.

It’s such a testament to this community and the space of the DIAH platform. So many mothers that we interview on the show share how excited they are to tell their stories, mostly because they feel this beautiful opportunity to “pay it forward” to other mamas. They’ve been so inspired by the stories they’ve heard and want to be a part of the collective energy of empowered birth.

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162: HOME BIRTH STORY - From Dealing With Stressful Situations During Pregnancy to the Magic of Holding Your Baby with Lindsay Robinson Jul 18, 2018

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Did you have any stressful circumstances pop up during your pregnancy?

Today’s episode is Lindsay Robinson’s birth story. In it we talk about some of the challenging and hectic situations that she and her husband Chris experienced while preparing for the birth of their son Elric. This is such an inspiring story and one that we know you’ll enjoy!

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The Home Birth Hub: www.diahpodcast.com/hub
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DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
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161: HOME BIRTH STORY - From A Four Month Hemorrhage To An Incredible Birth Experience with Raimee Botner Jul 14, 2018

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How do you process being pregnant and planning for a birth that you thought you could never have?

Our DIAH mama in today’s episode, Raimee Botner, shares her experience of finding out she was pregnant after believing she couldn’t have children. Then healing through an intense miscarriage. Finally to find out she was pregnant again, this time with a pregnancy that would come full term and give her her son Otis.

We talk about Raimee’s process of doing a lot of self-work and self-love practice. For her, birth was easy in comparison to everything that led up to it.

We also touch on the legality of home birth in her state of Kentucky, the details of her doula and midwife traveling over an hour to get to her birth, and her realization of what love truly is.

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More From Doing It At Home:

The Home Birth Hub: www.diahpodcast.com/hub
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DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
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160: HOME BIRTH STORY - Choosing Home Birth from an Academic Perspective and the Power of Women with Isis Rose Jul 11, 2018

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Are you the type to research and look for evidence and information to support your decisions when it comes to your birth?

In today’s episode, we’re chatting with Isis Rose, a PhD student, doula and mama to baby Xena. Isis shares her journey to home birth, which first entered her awareness during a doula training. She’s a PhD student studying birth and reproductive justice. Her husband Chris, a fellow academic, is a visiting professor at UIUC. So it makes sense that Isis took a very analytical approach to planning her birth. She searched for truth and wanted to make sure she was as informed as possible when it came to her options.

We hear about her transition into home birth planning, finding midwives and working through the legality and costs associated with direct-entry midwifery being illegal in her state of Illinois.

An African-American woman and survivor of emotional abuse, it was important for Isis to have the support she needed and to do things her way - like by keeping their plans to home birth private from friends and family.

And there’s a twist in the immediate postpartum hours that gave Isis the opportunity to feel in control and release any unnecessary fear.

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More From Doing It At Home:

The Home Birth Hub: www.diahpodcast.com/hub
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vJcPmU
DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
DIAH YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pzuzQC
DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe
Give Back to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9

159: Our Back and Forth Journey to Deciding on a Home Birth (Rebroadcast) Jul 07, 2018

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Today we're bringing you a rebroadcast of the second ever episode we published on the podcast! Hope you all enjoy this throwback : ) --- When we began our pregnancy adventure, home birth was pretty far from our mind. We kicked things off the traditional way: going to see an OBGYN at a great hospital. But three months later we parted ways with our OBGYN, partnered up with a midwife group working out of their home, and began our home birth journey.

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More From Doing It At Home:

The Home Birth Hub: www.diahpodcast.com/hub
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vJcPmU
DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
DIAH YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pzuzQC
DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe
Give Back to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9

158: HOME BIRTH STORY - A Home Birth Story After a Torn Cervix and Years of Infertility with Jenn Irizarry Jul 04, 2018

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Where did your journey to birth begin?

For today’s guest Jenn Irizarry, her story links back to a life-threatening accident she had when she was 17 that tore her cervix. She had emergency surgery as a result of the internal bleeding and shock. 44 staples in her abdomen down to her pelvis later, Jenn was just happy to be alive. She wasn’t too caught up in the conversation that doctors brought up of the likelihood of her ability to have children.

But fast forward to when she and her husband Mike were trying to conceive, fertility became a popular topic. They went through rounds of unsuccessful IUIs and began the discussion of saving for IVF. In the process, she started seeing a Chinese Medicine doctor for acupuncture and a variety of herbs.

Spoiler alert - Jenn gets pregnant naturally and she made the switch from an OB to a midwife and home birth plan around 20 weeks.

We get to hear the whole birth story and what this meant to Jenn after such an emotional journey.

Links From This Episode:

Pure Natural Pregnancy Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/pure-natural-pregnancy/id1102030053?mt=2
DFW fertility http://www.dallasfertility.com/about-dallas-fertility/mika-r-thomas-md/
Acupuncture resource - http://www.acupuncture4women.net/
Jenn’s midwife - https://barefootmidwifery.com
Dallas Doulas - Becky Hines - https://www.dallasbirthdoulas.com
Jenn’s episode on Dallas Birth Guide Podcast - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dallas-birth-guide/id1344643887?mt=2&i=1000410800251

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Expectful - use the code DIAH25OFF for 25% off an annual membership: https://expectful.com/

More From Doing It At Home:

The Home Birth Hub: www.diahpodcast.com/hub
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3vJcPmU
DIAH Website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
DIAH YouTube: https://bit.ly/3pzuzQC
DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe
Give Back to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9

157: The Mama and Story Behind the Birth Documentary “These Are My Hours” with Emily Graham Jun 30, 2018

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Have you seen “These Are My Hours” yet? Well if you haven’t, this is your official suggestion and reminder. If you caught our last episode (number 156) - you’ll remember Matthew’s conversation with Scott Kirschenbaum, the creator of the documentary film that shows the process of birth completely through one woman’s perspective. And in today’s episode, I get to speak with this powerful woman and mother, Emily Graham.

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