Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy
Birth is amazing, beautiful, wonderful . . . and it can throw you for a loop! Despite our very best birth ?plans,? we can find ourselves taking some twist and turns during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum that we don?t expect. Enter the Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy Podcast! Hey mama! My name is Stephanie, and I?m a mom of three boys, a professional doula, childbirth educator, and the creator of the Online Birth Course - My Essential Birth www.myessentialbirth.com. I love to help mothers just like you feel empowered and confident during pregnancy, birth, and into motherhood by taking my years of knowledge and personal/professional experience in the birth world and breaking down complex birth topics to make preparing for labor & birth a breeze! Every week, you?ll hear from women ready to share their knowledge with other pregnant moms about pregnancy and birth topics that will have you feeling knowledgeable and in the driver?s seat of your best birth experience. Your best birth starts here >>>> www.myessentialbirth.com/getstarted
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7 Ways to Prepare Your Mind & Body during the 3rd Trimester!
If you are in your third trimester, this is 100% for you! If you're in the third trimester and you're feeling like, "Oh my gosh, what is coming next? Labor is so exciting and I can't wait, but what am I supposed to be doing?" Do these 7 things to prepare your mind and body for birth!
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A Guide to Knowing Pain Management Options BEFORE Your Contractions Begin
You get to decide what will work best for you. It's important to plan for the birth you want, the one that will light you up and bring you joy, whether if it's with an epidural, an unmedicated birth, or somewhere in between. You get to pick! Have all the information to make those decisions.
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Birth Story: Preparing & Practicing for an Unmedicated Birth with Autumn and James Cosgrove
Having a birth partner that is on the same page as you is critical when you're working through planning your birth map! This week, James and Autumn share their birth story and how communication, the My Essential Birth Course, and their preparation helped them achieve their desired birth!
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Tongue Ties & Chiropractic Care for Mama + Baby with Dr. Casey Baker
As a mama, it can be overwhelming wading through all the information out there regarding best practice and alternate options when it comes to care. Dr. Casey Baker, who specializes in chiropractic care for mamas AND babies, gives us a wealth of info as we dive into tongue ties and general chiro care!
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An Overview of Breech Babies: What You Can Do To Prevent It, The Risks, and Your Options
Having a breech baby can kind of throw a wrench in your birth plans. BUT! With breech babies, it's similar to any kind of vaginal delivery. You allow mom and baby to work together, let intuition do its thing and have an excellent, carefree birth in the safety of a good provider.
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Scheduled for an Induction? Here's What You Should Know with L&D Nurse, Mackenzie DeClark
You've heard me talk about inductions before, but this time, we're walking through what to expect with Labor & Delivery Nurse, Mackenzie DeClark. She gives us the nitty gritty about what induction is, different methods, and how it affects your birth plans.
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Birth Story: Delaying Her Induction Three Times with Taylor Ward
Taylor Ward joins me to share her unmedicated birth story! She knew she wanted to go the midwife route. At 41 weeks, she started hearing talk of induction. She postponed her induction 3x and had her baby at 41+5. Taylor shares how My Essential Birth helped her prepare for the birth of her baby.
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{REBROADCAST} Contractions: What You Can Expect, How to Know It?s Time for You to Head to Your Birth Place, & How to Keep Track
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Most births are not like the movies. They don?t typically start with a massive gush of water followed by insanely intense contractions that have mom rushing to the hospital. ? That?s not to say a birth can?t start with your waters breaking and even immediate contractions, but most often, you?re going to have some time to ease into labor.
With that in mind, I?m going to walk you through what you can expect with those first contractions, what you can do to help manage them as they increase in intensity and consistency, and how you can easily keep track if you want to. ?
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Introducing Ellement, Prenatal Supplements Created and Personalized for Each Mother, with Doreen Bloch and Dr. Nate Fox
No pregnancy is the same, and every body is different. Why would we think prenatals would be the same for everyone? Our guests, Doreen Bloch and Dr. Nate Fox dive into the world of prenatal supplements with us and talk about how Ellement is geared towards providing care for women individually.
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Low Iron or Anemia during Pregnancy? What Can You Do Now to Raise Your Levels?
Fifteen to twenty-five percent of moms will experience low iron levels or anemia during pregnancy. Don't worry! There are a few ways that you can raise those levels to remain in control of your birth, pregnancy, and delivery! Listen in!
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Birth Story: Navigating Birth Together with Alisha & Brady Williams
It's so important to have your birth partner on the same page as you. This week, we talk to a husband and wife who prepared together for birth. By preparing and educating themselves together, Brady was able to anticipate Alisha's needs when she couldn't verbalize them herself.
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Birth Control: What Kind of Options Do You Have and How Do You Choose the Right One?
We talk a lot about what to do to get pregnant, have a healthy pregnancy, and achieve the birth of your dreams. What about planning for more babies? Or no more babies? We dive into your options for birth control and talk about pros and cons so you can make the best choice for you and your family!
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Prepare for an Empowered, Informed, and Supported Birth with Grace Pastuck, Birth & Postpartum Doula
Get ready for an incredible episode with Grace Pastuck, a Birth & Postpartum Doula. We talk about how to prepare for an empowered, informed, and supported birth. Your birth team is crucial when it comes to achieving the birth experience that you desire!
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Will "Advanced" Maternal Age (Pregnancy at Age 35 Years or Older) Affect Your Pregnancy?
This episode is for our mamas who are 35 years or older and planning to have an unmedicated birth. While some would consider your pregnancy to be "geriatric," being prepared and selecting the right provider can make a huge difference!
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Birth Story: Managing the Process of Natural Birth with Lisa Thrower
Birth is not suffering! It is a manageable process that you can work through by preparing your mind and body. This week's episode is about reframing how you approach birth with Lisa Thrower. She used her traumatic birth experience as the catalyst for researching her options for a natural birth.
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The Nitty Gritty of Postpartum
In this episode, we delve into the unspoken challenges of postpartum, discussing mental health, physical recovery, and the societal pressures faced by new mothers. This is one of those episodes that you can listen to again and again, and then tuck away for when you need it.
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Getting Your Body Ready for Pregnancy & Tracking Ovulation
We talk a lot about what to do during your pregnancy to achieve your desired birth experience. What about before you get pregnant? Stephanie talks about things you can do now to prepare your body for getting pregnant and how to have a low risk birth.
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How to Take Charge of Your Birth with Kyleigh Banks from The Autonomy Mommy
You've heard us talk about being empowered with knowledge to stand up for yourself, but what does that actually look like? How can you prepare for your birth when it comes to trusting your instincts or standing up for yourself? Kyleigh Banks from The Autonomy Mommy answers all these questions!
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Trust Your Parenting Instincts for Your Baby's Sleep with Lauren Weber from Isla-Grace Sleep
Baby sleep is a huge concern for parents, but what will work for you and your baby? Lauren Weber from Isla-Grace Sleep talks about trusting your instincts as a parent, safe sleep, and how to lay the foundation for helping your baby regulate their emotions and what's biologically normal for sleep.
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Birth Story: When Birth Partner Support Really Matters with Laura & Mark Rowdon
Having your birth partner as your support person is SO important but even more so when you're in another country! Mark and Laura share their birth story while in Japan and how they worked together to overcome language barriers, what kind of support was needed, and ways to look at birth differently!
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What If Your Loved Ones Don?t Support Your Plans for Your Birth Experience?
It's so important that you have positive places, spaces, and people around you as you prepare for your birth so that you can be excited, confident, and ready for this experience rather than fearing it. So what can you do if you don't have the support of your loved ones?
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What Can You Do to Prepare for Your 2nd, 3rd+ Birth?
When it comes to your births after that first one, you may be thinking, I've totally got this! And you do! However, it's important to continue learning all you can and seeing if there are any ways that you can improve your birth experience from the previous one!
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Birth Story: Envisioning the Birth You Desire with Allie Robinson
This week's birth story is about a mama who envisioned the birth she wanted, BUT she also put in the work to make her dream a reality. Things like the three daily exercises, drinking red raspberry tea, and listening to positive birth stories can make all the difference!
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The Wonderful Benefits of Booby Food: Turning Your Breast Milk into Freeze-Dried Powder
We dive into the benefits of Booby Food, a service that will freeze dry your breast milk, which retains more nutrients than traditional freezer storage. It?s shelf stable, travel friendly and can be added to your babe?s foods when transitioning to solids!
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Subchorionic Hemorrhage: What It Is & When To Talk to Your Provider
Any kind of bleeding in pregnancy can be worrisome. So what can you do when you experience bleeding? In this episode, we'll talk about causes, when to see your provider, and what to do to stay positive if it happens. This is all just information for you to work through anything that comes your way.
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The ARRIVE Trial & What It Means for Mamas
We're diving into the ARRIVE Trial, which studied if elective inductions would result in a lower death and complication rate for babies compared to waiting till at least 40+5 weeks for elective induction. Join us as we look over the findings and discuss what they did not include in their findings.
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Pregnancy & Prenatal Depression with Sarah Merrill of the Bottle Service Podcast
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Join us as we interview Sarah Merrill, creator and host of the Podcast Big Kid Problems along with the Bottle Service Podcast. We talk about Sarah's pregnancy, working through her prenatal depression, and lessons learned for any future pregnancies!
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Birth Story: Unmedicated Hospital Birth with Jamie Peterson
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Jamie knew she had the goal to go unmedicated, and did EVERYTHING she could to accomplish her goal. She put in the work to prepare her body and become as educated as she could about birth. With the support of her husband and doula, her labor lasted for three hours after a membrane sweep!
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Water Birth: Is It for You and What Are the Benefits?
Are you interested in having a water birth? You can utilize a water birth early to get in the zone, or you can utilize it later in labor to take that edge off to keep things moving, to get a break, or just to feel a little bit more comfort and ease for the laboring process. You get to choose!
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Prodromal Labor: How to Survive the Mental & Physical Exhaustion
If you've experienced prodromal labor, you know the mental and physical exhaustion that come along with it. If you haven't experienced it, listen in on tips to manage your contractions, positively frame the experience, and know what to expect.
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Birth Story: When Pregnancy & Birth Don't Go According to "Plan" with Jake & Danielle Winter
Every pregnancy and birth is different, but no one plans to have a less than ideal experience. So what happens when things don't go according to "plan"? Jake & Danielle share their experience and lessons learned from infertility, miscarriage, and complicated pregnancies.
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Finding Freedom and Confidence in Parenthood with Sleep & Well-Being Specialist, Taylor Kulik
Our guest this week is Sleep & Well-Being Expert, Taylor Kulik! When it comes to baby sleep, it's exciting to know what's normal and when it's not normal, what can I do? How can I make it a positive experience? And all of those kinds of questions, which we get the answers here today.
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The Birth Heard 'Round the World
We're celebrating our 200th Episode for My Essential Birth! ? To celebrate, Stephanie King, the host of the Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy Podcast and creator of the My Essential Birth Course AND My Essential Postpartum Course, will be sharing her birth stories (one Cesarean, one VBAC, and one home birth!) and how it impacted her to become a doula! You won't want to miss this celebration episode!
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Preterm Labor & Birth: Signs, Symptoms, & Options
Having preterm labor can be nerve wracking for a mama. In this week's episode, we talk about signs, symptoms, and the options you have if you're having preterm labor. You always have choices, and it's important to know educate yourself on what to do if preterm labor comes up during your pregnancy.
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Birth Story: Water Birth at Birth Center for First-Time Mom, Valerrie Craig
We love sharing positive birth stories with our listeners! This week, Valerrie Craig shares about her water birth at a birth center for her first baby. She takes us through her pregnancy journey, how she prepared for labor, and how she pushed through the mental blocks towards the end of her labor.
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Prenatal & Postpartum Preeclampsia: Signs to Watch For
While prenatal and postpartum preeclampsia is not uncommon for women, there are still some signs to watch for and things you can do to prevent it. Even if you are diagnosed, there are still choices you can make for what is best for you and your baby's health.
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Postpartum Doula, Gigi Vincent, Answers Your Questions!
When it comes to postpartum, you may feel that you need some extra help navigating all the new experiences of motherhood. Postpartum Doula, Gigi Vincent, answers questions we've received from mamas like you! Having someone in your corner can make such a huge difference in your healing journey!
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Birth Story: Unmedicated Birth for First Time Mama, Amanda Warnsholz
First time mama, Amanda Warnsholz, shares her unmedicated birth story following an abnormal pap smear before her pregnancy and the complications afterwards. She shares all about how she and her husband pivoted to prepare for a more holistic approach to birth and labor. Relaxation practice was super helpful for her and she tried to stay active her whole pregnancy!
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Birth Story: Home Birth at 43+1 Weeks with Stephanie Bratton
Whether you go right up to your guess date or pass it, having that number in your head can really throw you for a loop! But at the end of the day, your body and your baby know when the time is right. So trust that your body knows what it's doing. This week, Stephanie Bratton shares her home birth story after going 43+1 weeks with her sweet babe.
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A Guided Pregnancy Meditation for Mamas
Meditation can be powerful. The mind is very powerful and very suggestive during pregnancy. We want to give it the good stuff to help us have a good mindset for pregnancy & birth. This simple, guided meditation will help you feel calm, relaxed, and in-tune with your body.
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Unmedicated Birth: How To Prepare If This Is Your Goal
There is no one right way to give birth. There is no judgment here whether you choose to go unmedicated or not! If having an unmedicated birth is your goal though, listen in for practical and helpful tips on how to achieve the birth you desire!
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Let's Talk about Pelvic Floor Exercises, Diastasis Recti, and Holistic Approaches to Infertility with Dr. Lizzie Kieffer, DPT
We tend to think of pelvic floor exercises as something you do postpartum. This week's guest, Dr. Lizzie, DPT, talks about how crucial it is to prepare your body before and during pregnancy! We talk about pelvic floor therapy, diastasis recti, and infertility. You'll want to listen in for the incredibly helpful information in this episode! ?
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Birth Story: Preparing for the Mental Game of Labor & Birth + The Difference the Right Support Can Make with Taryn Hoeksema
Having an unmedicated birth is a huge decision and requires so much preparation physically AND mentally. Your body will do what your brain tells it to! For your body to enter "Labor Land", it's imperative that mom feels safe and supported. Taryn shares her birth story about how her support and mental preparation helped her achieve the birth she desired for her third baby girl.
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Your Questions Answered + All the Tips & Advice for Pregnancy/Postpartum Workouts, Fitness, & Recovery with Shayli Campbell
Healthy eating habits and moving your body is SO important when you're pregnant. It sets you up for a healthy pregnancy keeps you low risk! Shayli Campbell, pre/postnatal instructor, shares her advice and answers your questions about fitness during and after pregnancy!
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Motherhood or Postpartum Depression: Navigating the Rollercoaster of Life as a Mother & Knowing When To Seek Help
If you are a mom, and you?re feeling like things are hard, life is rough, you don?t know how to make things works, it is just part of the process! Just stick with it! Welcome to motherhood. We?re all in this together. I see you. I support you. You?re doing better than you think you are. ?
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The RhoGAM Shot during Pregnancy and at Birth: Why Is It Important? When Would You Need It?
In this quick to the point but informational episode, if you are Rh negative, you will now have all the information you need about the RhoGAM shot, when you?ll receive it (if you choose!), how it?ll affect you and your baby, and all the benefits and risks. As always, you have a choice!
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Birth Story: From Navigating through Infertility to Experiencing the Sacred Place of Birth with Starlee Galbraith
"I believe God made my body to do this." With this mantra, Starlee was able to achieve the birth she wanted by preparing her body and mind with the My Essential Birth Course. After struggling with infertility, she was able to focus on her dream of becoming a mother. Her husband also learned knowledge is power, which gave him confidence to be an active participant in the birth experience.
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Kim West, The Sleep Lady, Talks All Things Baby Sleep with Practical Tips and Loving Advice
Parents get so much "advice" on what to do and what not to do when it comes to baby sleep. Kim West, author and sleep coach, takes a gentle baby-led approach to creating sleep habits that will guide you and your family on your sleep journey.
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Placenta 101: Let's Talk about Function, Risks, Complications, and Signs to Look For
Today's episode is information all about the placenta: its function, risks, complications, and how to equip yourself with knowledge in order to make the best decisions for you and your baby should you run into one of these conditions. My goal for this episode is purely informational so you can tuck this away and refer back to it IF this happens to you. ?
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Birth Story: Not Asking for Permission & Preparing for Her Unmedicated Birth with Jo Gibson
An unmedicated birth experience doesn't just happen. It requires so much preparation physically and mentally. It also requires you knowing what you want and letting your provider know "this is the plan, get on board." This week's birth story with Jo Gibson is the perfect example of how knowledge is power and the more you know, the more options you have.
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