Birth Story Podcast

Dr. Jess Michaels is an osteopath, doula, and founder of The Birth Sling, a powerful tool for movement and support during labor. In this episode, she shares her own birth story of transferring from a home birth plan to a hospital birth, including laboring on the beach, listening to her body, and creating the Birth Sling for other birthing persons after DIY-ing her own for her daughter's birth. In...

Heidi and Jen sit down and chat about all things birthy with love and affirmation for those of us in bigger bodies. This is an episode not to miss especially if things like scales in hallways, small blood pressure cuffs, and monitoring have you stressesd TF out! Let us pour some positivity into your day today! Follow Jen at plussizebirth.com and on IG at instagram.com/plussizebirth XOXO-Heids (IG...

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The second I saw Meg Thompson's Reel on IG about unmedicated birth, I was hooked. I devoured all of her content. She is funny, and open, and raw! She is an Urban Homesteader, and crunchy mom advocate! I shared one of my favorite reels on her page and it got over 1 million views! So, naturally, I had to have her on the show. Enjoy! You can follow meg here: https://www.instagram.com/flourishingmothe...

O.M.G. This is my absolute favorite episode that I have published to date on the Birth Story Podcast. Britta Bushnell and her book, Transformed by Birth, are a gift to the birth world and I am beyond excited to share her and this book with each of you.  Grab a latte and get ready to learn all about Apollo and Artemis as she takes you on an incredible metaphor journey. Get ready for Greek mythology...

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This episode is packed full of 2 birth stories. First, Julie walks us through being a party girl after a massive trauma in her life. She was pregnant after only a few dates with her now husband. We chatted and laughed about dating while pregnant. The conversation turns into the murder of her dad and needing a trauma informed birth team. She shares about changing plans from unmedicated birthing to...

Heidi chats wtih Rachael from Hey Sleepy Baby! about her thriving IG business supporting parents wtih healthy sleep habits....and her incredible birth stories! So how did her third delivery go? Hopefully Rachael will return to tell all! You are invite into Birth Story Academy with a friends and family code of BIRTHSTORYFRIEND for $20 OFF for listening to this podcast episode to plan and prepare fo...

Woah. This episode took a turn I was not expecting.  Bri shares about her fertility journey with 2 egg retrievals and multiple losses with unexplained infertility-seriously the most annoying infertility diagnosis there is.  Her doula, Sabrina, joins us to share about laboring with her at home, transferring her to the hospital, hugging her good-bye on a stretcher. You see it was the beginning of CO...

Heidi chats with Jess all about a surprise diagnosis of Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in her 20's and what that meant for Jess' fertility and family planning. Jess shares the RAW story behind how Mamas in Training came to be! Mamas in Training Podcast Suggest Episodes: https://www.mamasintraining.com/episodes/ 106 112 92 Jess' favorite baby products! Get 25 % Boom Boom Body Suits at https://bo...

Thank you for being here and sharing this podcast episode with someone that you know that is parenting and/ pregnant and Down's Syndrome is part of their story.  Heidi sits down with Abby Rose Green of the HERself Podcast to chat about fertility, an unexpected anatomy scan, an amniocentesis, chromosomal uniqueness, Down's Syndrome, and birth.  Abby was originally planning an unmedicated homebirth....

In this Doula Diaries episode, Heidi chats for a quick 10 minutes on being fat, fit, healthy, beautiful, capable and worthy. This episode is for encouragment and how to navigate pregnancy weight gain conversations with your medical provider especially if you have a history of disordered eating prior to pregnancy! Thanks for being here. If this episode resonates with you then please leave a review...

The light after loss.  In this episode, Jenna continues her journey with us by sharing about her Rainbow baby and pregnany after loss. Jenna has an unplanned cesarean and she walks us through what that looks like ending in an OR when you planned a vaginal birth.  If you are open to hearing Jenna's loss stories including a stillbirth, scroll back to episode 155 that was released on Tuesday.  XOXO-...

TRIGGER WARNING This episode discusses miscarriage, a blighted ovum, and stillbirth. This episode is to honor and support all of the loss parents out there needing comfort and community. If this content will not serve you, please end it and tune in to Episode 156 on Thursday when Jenna continues this story with her rainbow baby's birth story. We know that many of you may not have a rainbow baby li...

If you are planning a home birth then this episode is a MUST listen. Even though a hospital transfer has a low likelihood of occuring, I want to lift you up with a postive story just in case. This week, Heidi chats with Morgan McKittrick all things homebirth and homebirth transfer. Morgan was able to stick to her plan of unmedicated birthing and having a non-traumatic positive birth experience eve...

Today Heidi and Collin share about their week where they had 2 clients receive the exact same vaginal exam of 5/80/-2 and how both labors played out extraordinarily differently.  They take a very deep look into why vaginal exams predict nothing at all, but can be used to help make decisions when used infrequently and appropriately.  Loving Birth Story Podcast and want to learn more from Heids. Cho...

Tune in to this conversation between Heidi and her doula partner Collin as they re has their most exciting birth to date. It will make your heart race! Thanks to Mackenzie for letting us share! Join Birth Story Academy today with $20 OFF at BirthStory  using code BIRTHSTORYFRIEND

What a gorgeous episode with Amy of Expecting and Empowered and the Herself podcast .  She sits down and shares all about her birth stories and the creation of Expecting and Empowered with her sister Crystal and the Herself Podcast with her co-host Abby.  This episode is jam packed full of pregnancy, birth, fitness, parenting and postpartum advice.  And, its our biggest giveaway of the year. Win a...

Heidi interviews Ashley Roberts from CarolinasNewbornCare.com on how to manage your sleep with a new baby's sleep cycles and patterns. This is a holistic approach. The Birth Story Podcast does not endorse the cry it out method and this episode is a whole lot of help without any techniques that are emotionally harmful to newborns like the cry it out method.  The Birth Story Academy Facebook group i...

Did you listen to Part 1? Trigger warning: Sexual assault conversations In Part 2 of this conversation with Juanita Chase, Heidi and Juanita explore tangible advice for creating a trauma informed birth team and preparing for birth post-trauma in order to have an empowering birth. This episode is all about how to take back your power and conquer your fears during childbirth.  Thank you for listenin...

Trigger Warning: Sexual assault and childhood sexual assault Heidi sits down with Juanita Chase and discusses her history of sexual assault and how that shaped her life and pregnancies.  In this episode Juanita shares about her first 2 birth stories and how her past trauma surfaced in labor. In part 2 (the next episode) Juanita shares her 3rd birth story when she took her power back and created a...

This week Heidi shares a story of one of her doula clients who had an unmedicated, homebirth like story, birth at a hospital. Heidi outlines how you can have a story like this too (if that is something you want!). Listen this week to hear about having the right midwifery team, being educated, having an involved partner, the right doulas, and flipping an OP baby to the perfect OA position.  Jump in...

Heidi brings her doula partner Collin on the show today to chat with sexuality educator Erica Smith. The conversation was intended for rapid fire, but it organically unfolded to be about sex, sexuality, sex in pregnancy and postpartum, initating after babies, and how to talk to your kids about sex. We even talk about the importance of naming body parts appropriately when you talk to your baby, tod...

Sarah Martin brings all the WOW in this episode. Trigger Warning: Infant loss at 18 weeks.  Sarah talks about being a young mom in her 20s and 30s and just doing whatever the doctors told her to do which led to epidurals and losing her power.  At 40, in a new marriage and healing from loss, she explores having a doula, and orgasmic birth, and gets into her power and into all the woooooo. This is b...