Season 3
June 15, 2025
Building Your Birth Dream Team: Finding the Right Doula
Send us a text Navigating the search for your perfect birth doula can feel overwhelming. How do you find someone who aligns with your vision, fits your budget, and helps you feel secure during one of life’s most vulnerable moments? Drawing from over a decade of obstetric nursing experience, I’m bre…
June 1, 2025
Making a Birth Plan? Here’s What You’re Probably Missing
Send us a text The birth plan has become a staple of pregnancy preparation, but most expectant parents are approaching it all wrong. What began as a revolutionary tool for restoring autonomy during the natural birth movement of the 1960s has too often devolved into a rigid checklist that sets birth…
May 25, 2025
One Way or a Mother Episode 1: A New Podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC
Send us a text One Way or a Mother is a new narrative podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC, host of The Informed Pregnancy Podcast. Each season is an intimate story of one woman, one pregnancy, and all of the preparations, emotions, and personal history leading up to the birth. Episodes feature the e…
May 11, 2025
Reimagining Postpartum Care: The 100 Weeks Project with Dr. Venice Haynes
Send us a text "Congratulations, you're both alive." This shockingly low bar for maternal healthcare success reveals everything wrong with how America treats new mothers. In this eye-opening conversation, Dr. Venice Haynes, Senior Director of Research and Community Engagement at United States of Ca…
April 27, 2025
When Nurses Become Magicians: Getting Babies Unstuck with Marya Eddaifi
Send us a text From personal birth trauma to revolutionary solutions for laboring mothers—this conversation with Marya Eddaifi reveals how innovative manual techniques are changing birth outcomes worldwide. Marya's journey be...
April 13, 2025
The Birth of Milk in Motion: One Mother's Journey to Help Others with Laci Tang, IBCLC
Send us a text When Laci Tang experienced painful breastfeeding with her first child, she had no idea it would launch her into a career transforming how mothers receive lactation support. Her journey from anxious first-time m...
March 30, 2025
Balancing Knowledge and Intuition: Birth Insights with Dr. Elliot Berlin of Informed Pregnancy Media
Send us a text Dr. Elliot Berlin transforms how we view childbirth, challenging the check-box mentality that leaves many parents feeling they've failed when birth veers from their rigid plans. Through our conversation, he int...
March 16, 2025
Podcasthon Special Episode: Breaking Barriers in Birth Work with BeboMia
Send us a text 🎙️ Special Podcasthon Episode: Breaking Barriers in Birth Work with the BeboMia Doula Scholarship This Birth Journeys Podcast® episode is part of Podcasthon , a global movement uniting podcasters to spotlight i...
Feb. 24, 2025
The Healing Power of Touch: Motherhood, Advocacy & Infant Massage with Khyati Desai-Seltzer
Send us a text What if the journey from womanhood to motherhood offered more transformation than you ever imagined? Join us in a heartwarming episode with Khyati Desai-Seltzer, a mompreneur with a passion for social impact, a...
Feb. 10, 2025
Pearls of Wisdom: If you could go back, what would you tell yourself?
Send us a text Imagine facing the transformative journey of motherhood armed with the insights you wish you'd known before your first contraction. Our latest episode in the Birth Journeys podcast, part of the Pearls of Wisdom...
Jan. 27, 2025
United States of Care and 100 Weeks of Maternal Support with Natalie Davis
Send us a text Natalie Davis, a passionate advocate for maternal healthcare reform, joins us to share her journey and groundbreaking work with the 100 Weeks initiative. Natalie’s personal experiences, from navigating the chal...
Jan. 13, 2025
Birth Shame and Reconnecting with Your Body with Wendy Powell CEO of MUTU System
Send us a text When Wendy Powell, founder and CEO of Mutu System, first grappled with postpartum challenges, she unknowingly began a journey to revolutionize women's health conversations globally. In our latest episode, Wendy...
Dec. 16, 2024
Progesterone: Navigating Motherhood's Hormonal Maze with Dr. Shweta Patel
Send us a text Discover the underestimated power of progesterone with Dr. Shweta Patel, an OBGYN and women's health expert, who shines a light on its critical role in pregnancy and beyond. Gain insights into how this often-ov...
Dec. 2, 2024
Embracing Postpartum Emotions with Emily Finnell
Send us a text Emily Finnell returns to the podcast, sharing her deeply personal and emotional journey through the postpartum phase of motherhood. With a background as a certified HeartMath coach and former special education ...
Nov. 18, 2024
Twins Born at Week 26: Jennifer Bernardo's Journey of Strength and Hope
Send us a text What happens when your carefully laid plans take an unexpected turn? Jennifer Bernardo, author of "Week 26," brings us into her world as she shares the complexities of premature birth and the NICU journey. Rush...
Nov. 4, 2024
Emily Finnell's Path Through Loss and the Gift of Adoption
Send us a text To kick off Season 3, we’re going back to where it all began. Emily Finnell’s story of a harrowing birth experience and a “free-fall into faith” culminates in a beautiful open adoption that was more life-changi...