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Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast

Independent Podcast Network | Sarah Bivens and Matthew Bivens

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast is a weekly podcast about home birth and our decision to go from a traditional hospital birth with an OBGYN to a natural birth at home with midwives. This is a raw and honest show that explores homebirth from every angle. We talk about the fears and judgements thrown at you when you choose home birth. We share resources that we found tremendously helpful for understanding our birthing options. We confess the magic and craziness in preparing for pregnancy,

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389: When the Midwife Doesn’t Make it to the Birth...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/06/28

What happens when your baby arrives before your midwife does? For our story today, according to DIAH mama Summer, she says that her midwife had a feeling she might not make it to the house before baby was born. Summer first joined us on the show back in 2019 to share the story of her first birth (link is below!). Now she’s here to talk about giving birth to her second child at 41 years old. Things we talk about in this episode: Ultrasounds Chiropractic care in pregnancy Miscarriage Bradley

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388: The Precipitous En Caul 10 lb Baby with Jessica...

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2022/06/21

If your first birth didn’t go the way you wanted, what would you do to change things the second time around? In today’s episode we’re chatting with Jessica Cotter about the details of her second birth, her first home birth. After her first birth with her daughter Grace, Jessica felt disappointed by the circumstances and felt that it could have been prevented. She felt defeated, and like her birth was not how she pictured it going. Fast forward to her second birth, Jessica sees the process as

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387: Doula for 6 Years Before Having a Full Moon Home...

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2022/06/15

“Why doesn’t everybody do this?” That’s the question that David, Ellen’s husband, asked after the home birth of their daughter Willow. Ellen walks us through her journey to home birth -- from her doula work for 6 years before her birth and what inspired it, to changing care from a birthing center to home birth, to getting her husband on board with the decision. Ellen also shares some of the postpartum challenges, highlighting that sometimes when you have all the knowledge and take in a lot of

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386: Baby Bivens #2 - Weeks 7-10 of the Pregnancy

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2022/06/07

In this episode, highlighting more of our pregnancy journey as we prepare for our second home birth, we’re covering weeks 7-10. Just some of the main topics you can look forward to in this discussion: Ebbs and flows with nausea and fatigue Sore boobs Shifts in exercise and running Looking into a birth photographer Wardrobe changes And special announcement for this week: The Home Birth Hub is now open! This monthly online membership is for parents or soon-to-be parents planning for home birth,

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385: 1 Unplanned Home Birth and 1 Planned Home Birth...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/06/01

How can having a home birth change your life? We’ve heard lots of cool examples of folks having big life changes as a result of having a home birth. Sometimes it opens the doors to other new things or experiences, creates projects or businesses or even influences career choices like going into birth work. Our guest today, Tori Smith, can relate to this. Her experiences inspired her to write a book! From Tori: “I had two home births. The first was UNPLANNED (he came so quick, but the midwife came to

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384: Birth Worker Burnout and the Balance of Holding...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/05/24

How do we prevent birth worker burnout? This is one of the great topics we dive into this week with Martha Lerner, birth doula and photographer. Martha shares her wisdom with us around the following topics: some of Martha’s memorable moments from home births she’s attended in the birth worker role tips for those who want to get into birth work best practices for staying in birthwork long term how to balance/manage all the space holding as a birth worker and what the birth community collectively

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383: Navigating Challenges of Switching to a Home...

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2022/05/18

Where do you feel most safe to give birth? Ultimately, that’s one of, if not the most important question to consider when it comes to your birth plan. When it came down to it, home was the answer for today’s guest, Porshe Turner. This was Porshe’s third pregnancy. Influenced by COVID-19 and circumstances related to it, Porshe and her husband Jeremy switched to a home birth plan at 25 weeks pregnant. They kept their plans quiet, like many others we’ve spoken to on the podcast (some prefer to keep

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382: How to Optimize Iron and Ferritin Levels for a...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/05/13

What is iron, what’s its role in pregnancy and why is it important to understand? This episode is a comprehensive conversation about iron and pregnancy. Our guest Dr. Matt Angove, naturopathic physician and creator of Dr. Wholeness, shares a ton of knowledge with us on the topic of iron and specifically ferritin levels. Here are some of the questions we address: What is iron and what role does it serve in the body? What makes iron important during pregnancy? Do needs change for preconception

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381: Baby Bivens #2 - Weeks 0-6 of the Pregnancy

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/05/10

As we shared last week and in case you missed it: WE’RE PREGNANT! Going forward, the first Tuesday of each month will feature a conversation between us, highlighting the recent events of the pregnancy and birth preparation. Here are the main things we cover in this discussion, focusing on weeks 0-6: Brief recap of the past 2 years of being open to conceive (ttc) The details of how we found out we were pregnant Telling some of our family and friends Securing our midwife We want your questions

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380: Important Announcement - Some Big Changes are...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/05/03

PLEASE listen to this important announcement regarding some future changes for DIAH. Stay tuned for next week’s episode that goes into further details. We love you all and thank you for your continued support of the podcast and community :) Links: Our website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/ Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3jKtIYv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diahpodcast/ Donate to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9 DIAH Shop: ttps://bit.ly/3qhwgAe Needed: https://bit.ly/2DuMBxP - use

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379: Openly Sharing Miscarriage at Home Story for...

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2022/04/27

How does sharing about some of our deepest pains help to process, heal and find meaning within our experiences? Our guest Susan Stange examples that today by talking about her recent miscarriage experience. After 4 hospital births, for this pregnancy, Susan was set on a home birth. Around 11 weeks, the pregnancy ended. A month later, Susan went through a labor and birth experience in her home. She walks us through her process - the ups and downs, what’s been helping in the healing journey and how

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378: Q&A with Midwives About the Midwifery Model of...

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2022/04/19

What does a midwife do? Might seem like an obvious answer if you’ve been in the birthing world for a while. But if you’re unfamiliar with different models of care or exploring home birth for the first time, it’s a very legitimate question with answers that could be very significant in your birthing journey. Today we’re joined by Sarah McClure and Charli Zarosinski, midwives of Hearth and Home Midwifery and hosts of The Homebirth Midwife Podcast. We unpacked a lot of really great topics in this

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377: 2 Home Birth Stories with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack...

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2022/04/13

Who knew they were going to have a home birth before ever becoming pregnant? This was the case for Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, today’s guest and creator of the “Fertility Friday” podcast and author of the book “The Fifth Vital Sign.” Lisa is a holistic reproductive health practitioner specializing in fertility awareness method. She’s helped thousands in their reproductive journeys. And today, we get to hear both of her birth stories! We learn what got Lisa interested in home birth back in her 20s, plus

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376: 45 Hour Hospital Birth and 4.5 Hour Precipitous...

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2022/04/06

Enjoy this DIAH Classic today, featuring a brand new bonus segment at the beginning of the episode - a short interview with listener Malina and her mother Char. What inspired your journey to birth empowerment? For today’s guests, Jazmin and Ben, their journey began in 2017 in Seattle following an ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage. It prompted them to do research and plan for future pregnancies in a different way. According to Jazmin, “It was my first experience realizing I had to advocate for

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375: Pregnancy Loss at 21 Weeks and the Grief Process...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/03/29

Today we welcome back previous guest Katy Drew, who originally joined us in 2017 to talk about future planning for home birth and why “non-moms” are important in birth conversations. When Katy and her husband Nick became pregnant in September 2021, they planned for a home birth with the assistance of a group of midwives they found in the area where they live in Puerto Rico. They also worked with an OBGYN to support their care. At 21 weeks, there was no heartbeat. Katy walks us through the process:

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374: Birth as a Rite of Passage: Messages for...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/03/22

Where will you hear about home birth story details, the difference between modern and traditional midwifery, what to do when you are inspired to enter birth work and the connection of birth with sexuality and spirituality? This episode of the podcast! We’re joined by Blyss Young, LM CPM. Blyss is a home birth midwife, teacher, circle facilitator, energy healer, reiki practitioner, mother, yoga teacher, entrepreneur, breathwork facilitator, placenta encapsulator and natural living consultant. Through

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373: IUGR Misdiagnosis That Almost Disrupted Home...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/03/16

What if a questionable diagnosis was threatening your plans to have a home birth? In today’s home birth stories, Rosa Clemens shares about the birth of both of her children. Her first pregnancy included a misdiagnosis of IUGR (intrauterine growth restriction) which presented some interesting hurdles regarding planning for home birth and the doctor’s initial recommendations to induce. We also get to hear about her second home birth and how helpful her midwives were to achieve her desired outcome

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372: Postpartum Hemorrhage and a Safe, Successful...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/03/08

What if...? Probably the biggest question that comes up around the choice to have a home birth. Whether you ask it to yourself, your birth team, or you have other people ask you - it comes up. As today’s guest Janette puts it - “Things did not go to plan, birth never does.” We talk about Janette’s decision to have a home birth - both she and her husband work in a hospital (her as a childbirth educator and doula and her husband as an RN), and so after feeling hesitant to give birth there, she leaned

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371: Holy Castor Oil! From a Marathon Hospital Birth...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/03/01

How does it feel to go from a marathon of a birth for your first, to a sprint race for your second?! In today’s home birth story, Nicole shares about why she switched to a home birth plan for her second birth, after having a hospital birth for her first. We also talk about choosing a midwife that works best for you, even if that means driving 1 hour to see them! Plus - castor oil. It comes up often in conversations around birth and moving labor along. Nicole shares her experience with it, plus how

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370: A Doula Learns About Fetal Ejection Reflex The...

Doing It At Home - The Home Birth Podcast ·

2022/02/22

Today we’re chatting with Kaitlin McGreyes about the birth of her 3rd child, which was her first home birth. After a cesarean and then a hospital VBAC for her first two births, she decided to have a different experience for her third. Kaitlin was a doula for 2 years before her home birth. And interesting fact: in the beginning of her doula work, she was against home birth. We talk about the shifts in her thoughts about home birth and the reasons for having one for herself. Plus really awesome

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