NYC professional dancer Hannah and her husband Tommy share about reconciling Hannah’s very physical profession with the huge bodily changes in pregnancy and postpartum, and how she chose to give birth in her Upper West Side home with the support of a great midwife and doula team.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 82 - An Afro-Caribbean Psychotherapist’s Homebirth
A Black social worker-psychotherapist who has worked in NYC's maternal healthcare system and her partner share their son’s uncomplicated homebirth story with midwives and a doula.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 77 - Transferring Care for a Peaceful Homebirth
Jaymie & Kurt switch from a hospital to home birth and share the story of a peaceful, unmedicated labor/birth in the suburbs of Boston attended by midwives.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 74 - A NYC Doula's Home VBAC
Sophia shares her 2nd born's HBAC/VBAC (homebirth/vaginal birth after cesarean) birth story, helps listeners learn strategies for having a successful VBAC, and compares and contrasts having a cesarean to a physiologic birth.
Read moreBirth Matters Podcast, Ep 70 - Low-Income Folks Deserve Homebirths, Too!
Scharisse was getting lackluster care in her pregnancy at a hospital under Medicaid and thought she’d just have to deal until she met a doula who encouraged her that she deserves to have respectful care and a great birth. With the doula’s help, Scharisse switches to giving birth at home -- something she never thought someone on Medicaid could do. She shares about the radically better care she received from her team and details specific ways in which she felt heard and safe.
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