Down to Birth
A podcast by Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig - Wednesdays
336 Episodes
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#271 | June Q&A: Boundaries When Pregnant, Pre-eclampsia & AROM, Mobile Monitoring, Posterior Babies & Pelvic Shape, Placenta Consumption for PPH
Published: 6/26/2024 -
#270 | Trusting Birth: The Journey From Maiden to Mother with Lea @trusting_birth
Published: 6/19/2024 -
#269 | Healing, Protecting, and Restoring Your Pelvic Floor with Dr. Lizzie Kieffer
Published: 6/12/2024 -
#268 | Navigating Infant Food Reactivity in the Breastfed Baby with Dr. Trill @Free.To.Feed
Published: 6/5/2024 -
#267 | May Q&A: Pre-eclampsia & Gestational Diabetes, Steroids for Pre-Term Labor, Declining the Anatomy Scan, IM vs. IV Pitocin, Preventing Mastitis
Published: 5/29/2024 -
#266 | The ARRIVE Trial Reaches Overseas: Birth Culture in France with Nicola Thompson and Her Daughter
Published: 5/22/2024 -
#265 | The Art of Hands-Off Birth with Beautiful One Midwifery
Published: 5/15/2024 -
#264 | Breastfeeding Q&A: Pacifiers, Pumping, Bottles, Domperidone & IGT, Flat Nipples, Weaning and Breast Implants
Published: 5/8/2024 -
#263 | Amanda's Good Birth Despite Abandonment, Harassment and Threats
Published: 5/1/2024 -
#262 | April Q&A: Prenatal Vitamins, Premature Rupture of Membranes, Painless Breech Birth, Precipitous Labor, HypnoBirthing, Prenatal Hypertension
Published: 4/24/2024 -
#261 | Emma the Naked Doula on Pleasurable, Orgasmic Birth and Her New Book
Published: 4/17/2024 -
#260 | Triplets at Home! With Traditional Midwife Kristine Lauria @globalmidwife64
Published: 4/10/2024 -
#259 | Resisting Coercion: Carolyn Marrone's Story of a Miscalculated Due Date and Standing Up To Pushy Providers
Published: 4/3/2024 -
#258 | March Q&A: Implants & Breastfeeding, Giving Birth Advice, Ultrasounds, Newborn Transition in Waterbirthing, Posterior Babies, Family Boundaries
Published: 3/27/2024 -
#257 | Labor & Delivery Nurses' Roundtable: How Their Hands are Tied to Doctors' Orders
Published: 3/20/2024 -
#256 | Transforming Your Hospital Birth Experience with Taylor Dilk @taychayy
Published: 3/13/2024 -
#255 | What's Up with Intrauterine Growth Restriction: An Off-the-Record-Style Conversation with Dr. Stu Fischbein
Published: 3/6/2024 -
#254 | February Q&A: Vomiting in Labor, Cord Traction, Pacifiers, Probiotics and Plugged Ducts, Breast Milkshake, PPH, Bicornuate Uterus
Published: 2/28/2024 -
#253 | The ACOG Files: Exploring the Guidelines That Support Physiologic Birth
Published: 2/21/2024 -
#252 | A Father's Perspective on his Baby's Inaccurate IUGR Diagnosis
Published: 2/14/2024
Join Cynthia Overgard and Trisha Ludwig once per week for evidence-based straight talk on pregnancy, birth and postpartum --- beyond the clichés and beyond the system. With 40 years' combined experience in midwifery, childbirth education and advocacy, publishing, research and postpartum care, we've guided thousands of families toward safer, more empowered choices. Down to Birth is all about safe childbirth, while recognizing a safe outcome isn't all that matters. We challenge the status quo, explore women's rights in childbirth, and feature women from all over the world, shining shine light on the policies, culture, and systemic forces that shape our most intimate and transformative of life experiences. You'll hear the birth stories of our clients, listeners and numerous celebrities. You'll benefit from our expert-interviews, and at any time you can submit your questions for our monthly Q&A episodes by calling us at 802-GET-DOWN. With millions of downloads and listeners in 90 countries, our worldwide community of parents and birth professionals coms together to learn, question and create change, personally and societally. We're on Instagram at @downtobirthshow and at Patreon.com/downtobirthshow, where we offer live ongoing events multiple times per month. Become informed, feel empowered, and join the movement toward better maternity care in the United States and worldwide. As always, hear everyone, listen to yourself.
