Blog - Birthful

9 Most Badass Birth Moments (From Adriana’s Doula Career)

Adriana celebrates a decade of podcasting by sharing some of the most badass moments she’s witnessed as a doula, including an unassisted waterbirth at the hospital, a uniquely calm and undisturbed physiological birth (in the hospital lobby!), and more moments where...

[Birth Stories] Triumphant Vaginal Birth Of Twins Despite Preeclampsia And Triggering Interventions

Best of Birthful, Birth Stories, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, Pregnancy Loss, short episode, TBPodcast

Michelle Rose describes her birth as that of her dreams, despite having a two-and-a-half-day-long induction for preeclampsia with a low platelet count, enduring a magnesium drip, a non-working epidural, a horrific vaginal check, hemorrhaging badly enough to require a...

[Birth Stories] Four Days After Her Water Broke and Still No Labor – Now What?!

Birth Partners, Birth Stories, C-sections, golden hour, homebirth, hormones, Hospital, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast, VBAC

What do you do when your water breaks and FOUR days later, there’s little sign of labor? For Sivan Dirks this meant almost drinking a castor oil smoothie! Instead, she leaned into the holistic and intuitive tools she’d gathered over her previous – and varied! – birth...

[Birth Stories] Celebrating Our 10 Years With Adriana’s Birth Story!

Birth Choices, Birth Plan, Birth Stories, Childbirth Education, Parenting, Podcast, TBPodcast

What better way to celebrate this incredible 10-year milestone than by having Adriana share her own birth story? But there’s a twist… actually more than one! First, it’s Adriana’s daughter, Persephone (Seph), doing the interviewing. They’ll be sharing the evolving...

[Birth Stories] Weaving Together Four Unmedicated Births To Reveal Her Authentic Self

Birth Stories, homebirth, Hospital, Podcast, Pregnancy Loss, TBPodcast

One of the biggest surprises for Ujarak Appadoo when she first got pregnant was that she would need to prepare or adjust for living in a pregnant body and giving birth. She’d figure she’d just carry on doing life as she’d seen her peers do, and that everything would...

[Birth Stories] A Scheduled Surgical Birth And A Home VBAC: Both Based On Her Intuition

Birth Stories, C-sections, homebirth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Even though five doctors had cleared Jessica Pinney for a vaginal delivery with her rare placental conditions of vasa previa and velamentous cord insertion, she listened to her intuition and decided to have a planned surgical birth for her first child. For her next...

[Birth Stories] Knowing All Was Well Despite Seven Hours Of Pushing

Birth Stories, homebirth, Podcast, TBPodcast

Even though Tabitha DeLorio had a long pushing stage (and we’re talking six to seven hours long!), at no point was she discouraged that something was wrong. She shares with Adriana how the trust she had in her body and her team, their loving support, and constant...

[Birth Stories] Getting Baby To Flip From Breech With An ECV For A Flowing Vaginal Birth

Birth Choices, Birth Stories, Hospital, Interventions, Labor & Birth, Podcast, TBPodcast

What happens when a baby suddenly turns breech at 36 weeks? For Kaitlin Moore, this meant a hard pivot and lots of research to weigh her options between trying to get her baby to flip back or having a surgical birth. She shares the difficulties of finding the right...

[Birth Stories] Fast Homebirths And Liminal Spaces With A Pregnant Funeral Director

Birth Stories, homebirth, Podcast, TBPodcast

If birth and death are liminal bookends to our human experience, what conversations emerge as a pregnant funeral director is attended by a grieving midwife? Anna Walsh shares the story of her two fast births, and how she felt safe, heard, and respected as she...

[Birth Stories] Creating A Beautiful Birth Experience Despite Five Days Of Interventions