BirthNotes Podcast

Naomi Mitchell shares her remarkable 20-year journey from an unexpected C-section to six successful vaginal births after cesarean (VBACs) and the home birth she'd always dreamed of. In this episode, she opens up about navigating a healthcare system with limited VBAC support, changing providers, learning to advocate for herself, and discovering the difference a supportive midwife can make durin...

This week, it's just me. Before BirthNotes, before doula work, and before supporting families through pregnancy and postpartum, there was chronic illness, unanswered questions, and a search for healing. In this episode, I'm sharing how a functional medicine doctor and home birth midwife changed the course of my life, how I found my way into birth work, and why I felt called to create Birth...

Amber came into her birth with a plan. She left with an emergency C-section and a tangle of grief, fear, and joy she needed time to sit with. In this episode, Kristin sits down with therapist and mother Amber to talk about what it was like to give birth at the height of COVID restrictions, navigate an emergency intervention she never saw coming, and carry the quiet weight of a birth story that loo...

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Morgan as she shares her full journey into motherhood, from an unplanned pregnancy and unexpected gender disappointment, to a hospital birth that left her doubting her body, to a redemptive home birth with her daughter, Evelyn, that changed everything. This one is for every mother who has ever left a birth feeling like she failed. You didn’t. Your body al...

What happens when your entire labor lasts just two hours? In this first episode of BirthNotes, Morgann, a mom of five, shares the story of her second birth, the arrival of her daughter Dillan eight years ago, during a precipitous labor that moved faster than anyone expected. What began as a planned hospital birth quickly turned into an unexpected home birth, reminding us just how powerful and inst...

Welcome to BirthNotes , a podcast where women share their real birth stories. The raw, the emotional, the unexpected, and the deeply transformative moments that shape the journey into motherhood. After years of supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as a birth and postpartum doula, I saw how every birth carries more than just a medical outcome. Each story holds growth, fear, str...