Harvest Birth Stories

welcome to episode 37 where we chat today with a good pal Nicole. (Aka she was one of my past wedding clients and I adore her). Nicole brings us along on her journey of her relatively "normal" (what is normal, right?) pregnancy where she decided she desired to have an unmedicated labor. She prepped with spinning babies and hypnobirthing and ultimately went overdue but had a positive induction proc...

HI HI HI. If you haven't heard, I am pregnant lol. Today we chat with ME about my first trimester recap. I first and foremost want to say this is in no way any medication recommendations. IF this is something happening to you, please reach out to a care provider before starting any medications or medical interventions. This is just my personal experience, and I want women to be able to listen and...

welcome back, friends! today we chat with Taylor, who has 3 births under her belt. Taylor has 3 very different birth experiences; one OB in hospital, one PCP in hospital and then one home birth. Taylor chats ALOT about the importance of maternal instincts and trusting your body and process during those final weeks of pregnancy. I truly enjoyed chatting and listening to these stories, and I hope yo...

Just to let you all know, Shannon and I can talk for hours. So apologies in advance for talking your ears off ;) Today we talk to Shannon, AGAIN! Before you listen to this podcast makes sure you go back and listen to her first birth story. Shannon had a second breech baby, which I'm not sure the exact statistics but its pretty dang rare to have 2 back to back. Regardless; we chat today about allll...

Welcome welcome welcome! Chatting with Emma today was a real fun time. Emma is a stay at home mom of two beautiful babes who juggles mom life with her quilting busiess in small town north dakota. (will link!) Buckle up for a fun chat because Emma & I can TALK. ;) Emma chats about her anxieties & desire for physiological birth along with breastfeeding and how a necessary cesarean took some...

Welcome to episode 32! Today we talk with Samantha who had premature rupture of membranes in her first pregnancy with a breech baby resulting in a cesarean birth and a NICU stay. Samantha explains her worries for a vaginal birth and breastfeeding throughout the podcast and I just want to reiterate that on this channel and page we support ALL birth & feeding desires and plans. Every single mama...

Welcome back to officially posting birth stories again (hopefully!). Today we talk to Jaci; who not only is a mom of three but is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in our FM area! Jaci is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to all things boobies, babies and birth. She not only has had 3 children but she had three VERY different labors and births for each. Im excited to cha...

HEY friends and family! We hit 30!! podcasts! Sorry I have been MIA here - the podcast explains it all. But here we are, in 2024...starting fresh. Today we chat about postpartum funnies. the good, the not so good and everything in between with some tips at the end. Thanks for tuning in & i'm excited to start recording again! :)

Hi friends! We are nearing 30 EPISODES OF HARVEST BIRTH STORIES! I cant believe it. Today Samantha shares her story of her two very different births. One medicated and one redemptive unmedicated birth. We chat about her struggles with HG (those of you who don't know, thats like excessive nausea and throwing up during pregnancy OOOOFFF), and she overcame it. Its a beautiful day out today and I'm ex...

It is such an absolute joy to be chatting with Tanya today! Tanya has two beautiful boys both born via belly birth. Tanya experienced placenta previa in her first pregnancy that magically moved right before the end of term. She had a trial of labor which resulted in a cesarean. We chat a lot about the affects that RSV had on her son, Jett, who caught it at just one week of life. Continuing on we g...

I am so excited to share this fun podcast with you today! Kelsey jumped on the poddy this week to chat about her two births. She explains how her first birth was positive but went into with zero knowledge of what she wanted to choose. During her second birth she switched care providers and hired a doula in anticipation to have the unmedicated birth she desired. Without planning; she found herself...

Todays episode, to me, is a very very special one to share. Janna and her husband Kyle were some of my first doula clients and have FINALLY welcomed their little girl Emma Jean into this world after 3 + years of infertility and an IVF journey. In this episode we talk A LOT about her pre-pregnancy vs postpartum journey into motherhood. One that took a lot of waiting, doctors, science and prayers. W...

Today we chat with Savanna. Savanna has a beautiful baby boy Behr, and she reached out to me awhile back to record to share her postpartum story to help other not feel so alone. Savanna had a positive hospital labor and birth but we really focused on chatting about the importance of care and support after going home. Thanks so much for joining!

First time mama Annie chats about her beautiful hospital birth of her daughter Lennie. We chat about her worries and anxieties around birth being she was previously a NICU nurse. We also chat about her postpartum breastfeeding journey and her experience with a prolapse. Thanks for joining Annie :)

In episode 23 I answer some questions you asked on instagram! I talk about how to prepare for birth and also what the benefit of a doula is for a cesarean birth. I also touch on lactation preparation. Thanks for joining!

Welcome, friends! It is such a pleasure and honor to have Dr Emily Acosta on the podcast today. Emily has one birth, which was a beautiful physiological home birth. Emily speaks on her desires and wants to have a home birth and how she prepared with her knowledge of the body; being a specialized womens (pre & postnatal) chiropractor. Emily dives into her NICU transfer from home after birth and...

Buckle up todays podcast is a chatty one! I like to force my friends to record their birth stories so today we chat with Morgan who has two little girls at home. The first birth Morgan experiences early rupture of membranes (water) at 35 weeks, but resulted in a relatively normal delivery. Her little sister followed suit at 38 weeks. Morgan chats about her struggles with breastfeeding, triple feed...

We have hit EPISODE 20! O H M Y G O S H. Thank you all so so much for listening, tuning in and ALSO sharing your stories. It has truly been such a fun experience. Today we are chatting with Beth, who has one beautiful daughter. Beth had an uncomplicated positive hospital birth after laboring at home for the greater amount of time. Beth chats to us about her struggle with unknown low milk supply ri...

HI + HELLO my friends! We are nearing SO close to 20 episodes on this podcast. WOW. SO. AMAZING. Today we're chatting with Molly, who has four beautiful girls. The first two births were singleton in hospital inductions and the last two happened to be a beautiful twin vaginal delivery via induction. Molly chats about her continuing higher blood pressure trends with every pregnancy as well as her jo...

It was such a joy to chat with Emma on her birth with her first daughter, Navy. Emma planned for an unmedicated hospital birth and chats about her reasonings of so. Emma chats about her breastfeeding journey and how going back to work affected it. Emma is a good long time friend of mine so it was such a fun thing to chat. She is now preparing for her second child coming this late summer / early fa...

Today we chat with Laura who shares her stories of her three beautiful babes. Laura had three vaginal births in hospital with one requiring a successful ECV prior due to breech presentation. We go on to chat about her differences in postpartum experiences as well as breastfeeding journeys for all three babes. Thanks for joining, Laura!

Today we speak to Krystina who has two babes. Her first labor she goes through the bliss of a successful unmedicated vaginal labor with her midwives. Going on to talk about her second child, she encountered some complications while pregnant which ended in a cesarean. Krystina speaks about her trauma of having a birth not going to plan as well as postpartum breastfeeding and trauma. Krystina is a c...

Episode 15 we chat with one of my closest friends, Alli. Alli and her husband have two daughters. One birth was induced due to pre-eclampsia with the second being an overdue precipitous birth during the Christmas storm of 2021. Alli chats about her struggle with [extreme] oversupply during her first child and how that impacted her journeys for both children, along with anxiety revolving postpartum...

Episode 14 we chat with Kasey who has two births to share today. Kasey chats about her switch to a more rural small hospital setting with a midwife group after experiencing being at a bigger hospital. We chat about her two births and her desire to have an unmedicated water birth along with her struggles of miscarriage and anxiety revolving miscarriage. Thanks so much for joining, Kasey..such a ple...

I want to give a warm welcome and big thank you to Ashley Riley of Move Wise Therapy for joining on the podcast today. Ashley & her husband John had a whirlwind of conception and location challenges during their pregnancy journeys but now have been blessed with two amazing children. Ashley chats about her struggles with perinatal anxiety and breastfeeding troubles in her first birth and we go...