Informed Pregnancy Podcast

Sponsored by Thrive Market. Save 25 to 50% on organic groceries delivered right to your door! Special offer - get $60 in free organic groceries + free shipping when you click here. Award-winning childbirth educator, celebrated speaker, and specialist in guiding audiences to revolutionary new approaches to childbirth Dr. Britta Bushnell PhD talks about blending her experience in childbirth with her doctoral study in mythology and psychology, bringing a fresh approach to an age-old human experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by Thrive Market. Save 25 to 50% on organic groceries delivered right to your door! Special offer - get $60 in free organic groceries + free shipping when you click here. Prenatal Chinese Medicine practitioner, lecturer and author Laura Erlich MTOM, LAc (FABORM) talks about the various modalities within Chinese Medicine, how they work, and how they are used during and after pregnancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsored by PipandGrow.com. Nap your baby safely virtually anywhere in the Next Generation Baby Bassinet.  Click to learn more and use promo code INFORMED to save $10 on the Woodland Smitten. Dr. Emiliano Chavira, an OBGYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist engages in an informative, practical and sensitive conversation about preterm labor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsor: My1stYears - adorable personalized gifts for kids. Save 10% with promo code BERLIN Dr. Jennifer Angell is a chiropractor, doula and now, student midwife. We discuss her journey, her calling to midwifery and what the training is like to become a direct entry midwife. Co-Host Kristin Palase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early miscarriage is fairly common but rarely discussed. As a result many women and their partners feeling alone during what can be a sad, painful and difficult experience. October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Dr. Berlin and midwife Blyss Young sit down and open dialogue about early miscarriage with actress and doula Ashley Williams who shares her personal experience with early miscarriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsor: My1stYears - adorable personalized gifts for kids. Save 10% with promo code BERLIN Actress and doula Ashley Williams shares her two birth experiences including an episode of shoulder Dystocia - which occurs during childbirth when the head emerges, but the shoulder gets stuck and don't spontaneously come out. Our guests OB/GYN Dr. Allison Hill and Midwife Blyss Young weigh in on how they are trained to handle shoulder dystoica in the hospital and at home settings respectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsor: My1stYears - adorable personalized gifts for kids. Save 10% with promo code BERLIN Could labor and delivery possibly move too quickly? Precipitous labor is when labor and birth occurs with less than three hours of regular contractions. Our guests actor and model Anna Anisimova Schafer and Labor and Delivery Nurse/student midwife Lilit Sarkissian share their super fast birth stories plus insights and tips to get a sense of how fast labor is moving. CoHost: Angelica Ortiz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Becca Gordon is a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth and lactation educator, doula mentor, yoga instructor, and the founder of Two Doulas Birth. She specializes in supporting women and families who have previous history of trauma or loss. Becca is a native of Memphis, TN and currently lives in Glendale, CA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author and speaker Thais Nye Derich discusses her journey through unexpected cesarean with her first baby and her quest for a natural birth after cesarean with her second. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sponsor: My1stYears - adorable personalized gifts for kids. Save 10% with promo code BERLIN CoHost - Kristin Palase Small but mighty, your pelvic floor muscles play important roles in sexual and reproductive health. Learn about normal pelvic floor structure and function, how to care for your pelvic floor in general and in relation to pregnancy and postpartum and how to recognize when symptoms may be related to your pelvic floor.  Our guest, Stephanie A. Prendergast, MPT is a pelvic floor physical therapy expert. She was the first physical therapist to be president of the International Pelvic Pain Society’s Board of Directors and she co-authored the recently published book, 'Pelvic Pain Explained.'  You can find Stephanie on Twitter @pelvichealth, on Facebook at facebook/pelvicpainphysicaltherapy and PHRC’s blog at  www.pelvicpainrehab.com/blog. Topics Discussed: What is the pelvic floor?Triggers for pelvic dysfunctionHow to keep your pelvic floor happyCore vs pelvic floorChanges in pelvic floor during pregnan

Sponsor: My1stYears - adorable personalized gifts for kids. Save 10% with promo code BERLIN CoHost - Kristin Palase Guest: Bailey Gaddis, Author of 'Feng Shui Mommy' discusses: Preparing For Birth Feeling safe at birth Hypnosis vs Meditation Hypnobirthing - accessing the subconscious mind  Bradley method Unconscious memory Evolution of Cesarean Section What is Feng Shui Postpartum - Hardest for many Clutter affects mood Making the informed choices for yourself Getting in touch with intuition Upset after birth Chakras and birth  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Marisa shares her (even more!) unusual third birth experience: Part II Topics Mouth Dryness in pregnancy Finding out its multiples One baby being “absorbed” Breech - hospital policy; risks; strategies for turning Doctors who deliver breech vaginally Stalling birth Induction Birth audience Applause  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest Marisa shares her unusual birth experiences: Part I Topics: Having Birth Options Preparing for a natural birth Hypnobirthing class Marisa's Birth Story What to do when a baby is born and nobody is there to help Vaginal Steaming CoHosts: Atoosa Benji Nicole Sessions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Very open and honest discussion with actress, model, singer-songwriter, new mom and inspirational human Amanda Seyfried.  Part II Topics - Pregnancy reveal to Tommy, OCD, pregnancy, back labor, epidural, fear of throwing up during labor, mom life, breastfeeding, tasting breast milk, sanitizing frenzy, first mothers day. ​co host: Kacy Byxbee Sponsor: Cam Jewelry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Very open and honest discussion with actress, model, singer-songwriter, new mom and inspirational human Amanda Seyfried.  ​Part I Topics - Childhood, early modeling and acting, exploding career, crying in public, weed, music, work/life balance, panic attacks, face blindness and taxidermy.    ​​​co host: Kacy Byxbee   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teresa Palmer is a mother of two, blogger and actor who among many credits recently starred in Mel Gibson's Oscar nominated film Hacksaw Ridge and the thriller Berlin Syndrome. Teresa discusses award shows just after giving birth, work-life balance and life with a growing family. Part 2 of 2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Teresa Palmer is a mother of two, blogger and actor who among many credits recently starred in Mel Gibson's Oscar nominated film Hacksaw Ridge and the thriller Berlin Syndrome. Teresa talks open and from the heart about her second pregnancy and preparations for her second birth after the first didn't go quite how she had hoped and planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Berlin and co-host Kacy Byxbee chat with pregnant comedic actor Casey Wilson. Casey Wilson was a series regular on the sitcoms Marry Me and Happy Endings. Variety has called her one of the "Top10 Comics to Watch." Wilson was a featured player on Saturday Night Live for two seasons and has guest starred on HBO's Bored to Death and How I Met Your Mother on CBS. Wilson also stars in the Hotwives series, a Hulu original comedy, taking place in a different city each season. Wilson and Danielle Schneider co-host the Housewives-centric Bitch Sesh podcast where they have tapped an obsession for their own intoxicating pop culture guilty pleasure and tour the country doing live shows.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrity power couple Sarah Shahi and Steve Howey candidly discuss their pregnancy and birth experiences, including home birth with twins (one of which was breech) together with their OBGYN Dr. Stuart Fischbein, comedian Kira Soltanovich and Dr. Elliot Berlin.   Part 3 of a 3 part Series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Celebrity power couple Sarah Shahi and Steve Howey candidly discuss their pregnancy and birth experiences, including home birth with twins (one of which was breech) together with their OBGYN Dr. Stuart Fischbein, comedian Kira Soltanovich and Dr. Elliot Berlin.   Part 2 of a 3 part Series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices