Jerika Smith joins us this week! She’s studying to be a midwife and comes on the podcast to talk about her path to becoming a CPM, attending births, and how home birth and birth centers became an option for so many during the pandemic. We range from talking about midwife Read more…
Megan talks about how she ended up switching from planning a hospital birth to having her baby in a birth center with a midwife and doula, how she feels about those decisions in retrospect and what she might do differently the next time around.Hanna talks about her process from fearing Read more…
Megan describes delivering the placenta, the ‘golden hour,’ newborn exam and taking home their brand new human! She talks about her and her partner’s first decisions as new parents and what it felt like to hold their little one for the first time. If you are squeamish and don’t want Read more…
Megan had a positive, peaceful, and powerful water birth at a free-standing birth center with a midwife (CLM), and talks all about her birth from being in denial, to chilled out laboring at home, using hypnobirthing techniques, and the AWESOME support she had from her birth partner and birth team. Read more…
Megan talks about her birth preparation, why she loves hypnobirthing and wants to preach the calm birth gospel for all kinds of births! Links we mentioned in the episode: Hannah Mickalak’s birth video Louise Pentland’s birth video The Positive Birth Company The Positive Birth Company’s YouTube channel Hypnobirthing US – Read more…