Informed Pregnancy Podcast

Julie Sawaya recounts her final weeks of pregnancy and shares her empowered homebirth story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sawaya, Co-Founder of 'Needed', a nutrition company driven to provide women proper nutritional supplements for every stage of pregnancy explains her motivation for making better supplements for womens health and shares her own pregnancy journey as she plans for birth during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Female empowerment artist shares her pregnancy journey and surprise filled path to a beautiful birth experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Michelle Tsai, OBGYN sheds light on HELLP syndrome, a little known yet serious pregnancy complication that affects the blood and liver. Dr. Tsai talks about the connection between preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, symptoms, odds of recurrence, and potential treatments.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Librarian turned software developer Kelly Potter share her unique conception and pregnancy journey including her battle with HELLP syndrome,  a rare yet life-threatening pregnancy complication that most people dont know enough about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Certified doula, yoga instructor, massage therapist, aromatherapy practitioner, and mother of two, Rebecca Benenati discusses unique challenges and solutions for doulas and their clients during the covid-19 pandemic.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Health coach and work life balance coach Gigi Gibbs relives her two very different birth experiences and reveals how she handled challenging roadblocks along the path to the birth setting that she wanted with incredible determination and self empowerment.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Alyssa Berlin is a clinical psychologist specializing in individual and couples counseling before, during and after pregnancy and is the creator of The AfterBirth Plan workshop - a program that helps expectant couples baby proof their relationships and to prepare for a physically and emotionally healthy postpartum transition. In this episode, Dr. Alyssa shares invaluable insight into postpartum mental health and common struggles new parents often experience.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fashionista, entrepreneur and new Mom Randi Wood shares her pregnancy journey and unique birth story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sleep expert and chiropractic Dr. Sarah Mitchell, discusses healthy sleep habits for parents and children, how to deal with travel and time changes, sleep during sickness, and some great tips and tricks for making bedtime fun and enjoyable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alaina Meyer is back to share her birth story. In her BEFORE episode Alaina shared that her birth plan had changed from hospital to homebirth to home breech birth.  The twists and turns did not end there. Tune in to hear Alaina share the rest of her story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alaina Meyer, event planner and welder, shares insight into her unique profession and her most recent project; pregnancy! Midwife Aleksandra Evanguelidi also joins the conversation as Alaina explores her options, considering midwifery care vs medical care and home vs hospital birth with the added factor that the baby is currently in a breech presentation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Los Angeles based family medicine doctor and founder of Lactation Lab Dr. Stephanie Canale returns to the podcast with valuable insight into pre and postnatal nutritional needs and the importance selfcare for new moms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Juliet Guisasola is a master yoga, pilates, and fitness instructor known for her playful and mindful approach to exercise. She specializes in Pre and Postnatal health and wellness for various stages of child rearing and individual levels of fitness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Jen Lilley shares her journey from being a mentor for Child Help to becoming a foster and adoptive parent. This episode is packed full of information about the foster care system, how to become a foster or help out without fostering, how the pandemic affects children in the system and common misconceptions surrounding foster care. May Is National Foster Care Month! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Talented actress and comedian Angelina Spicer recently shot her first one hour comedy special and is using her platform to bring awareness, action and resources to postpartum mental health. She shares her pregnancy, birth and personal challenges with postpartum which led her to becoming a postpartum mental health advocate warrior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian actress and model, Ildiko Ferenczi joins the podcast to share her birth story and life as a mom and entrepreneur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Founder and CEO of Evidence Based Birth® Dr. Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN explains her process for gathering evidence based research and reporting her findings in relation to issues related to pregnancy and childbirth. We dig deep into the topic of Group B Strep (GBS): how and when it's tested for, risk factors, what test results mean, treatments, and potential prevention. Connect with Dr. Dekker and Evidence Based Birth® online: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/ and  https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth/ Read more about GBS here: https://evidencebasedbirth.com/groupbstrep/ Keep up with Dr. Berlin and the Informed Pregnancy Project online! www.informedpregnancy.com www.instagram.com/doctorberlin/ www.facebook.com/InformedPregnancy www.twitter.com/doctorberlin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode takes a deep dive into surrogacy from the point of view of a recent surrogate. Kelila Green has spent most of her life working with babies and after having three kids of her own with uncomplicated conception, pregnancy and birth she yearned to help others who were struggling with fertility to achieve their dream through surrogacy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Integrative and Holistic Pediatrician Dr. Joel Gator Warsh discuses the rise in chronic disease including possible causes and effective prevention measures as well as kids during the coronavirus outbreak, breastfeeding with Covid19, and what signs and symptoms to be on the lookout for in kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices