The Midwife's Pocketbook

Who's really supposed to be in that birth room? In this episode of the Midwife's Pocketbook Podcast, certified nurse midwife Angelina gets real about one of the most overlooked parts of birth planning — your guest list. Whether you're planning a home birth, birth center birth, or hospital delivery, the energy and people you invite into that space matter more than you think. Midwife Angelina breaks...

In this deeply personal episode, Midwife Angelina opens up about her two birth experiences — the first as a scared 17-year-old at Martin Luther King Hospital in Watts, and the second twenty years later as a labor and delivery nurse in midwifery school. She shares the raw emotions, the unexpected complications, the loneliness, and the postpartum depression she didn't recognize until years later. Th...

Certified Nurse Midwife Angelina introduces the Midwife's Pocketbook podcast, focused on birth, parenting, postpartum life, and issues affecting women, drawing on her home birth and hospital experience and featuring guests like doulas, parents, and her niece Treasure. After noting a previous recording with no sound, she previews topics such as choosing where to give birth, transfers, informed cons...