Birth As We Know It ™️-Birth Stories and Experiences
If you are planning to become pregnant, trying to conceive, currently pregnant, have given birth in the last few years, or work in the birth field, Birth As We Know It ™️ is the podcast for you. Birth As We Know It ™️ is a birth story and birth experience podcast that is dedicated to recognizing the many different ways that birth unfolds. The good, the bad, and everything else in between. You will hear birth stories and birth experiences from the perspective of birthing people, birth partners, birth providers, birth workers, and more! This podcast was created to be a place where people can learn more about pregnancy, birth, and a little bit of postpartum, all while hearing about what really happens in the birth space. Every other week, join Kiona Nessenbaum as she interviews guests who encourage birth education by sharing their personal birth stories and birth experiences. She believes that hearing a birth story directly from the person who lived it, brings the individual human experience back to the forefront of childbirth education. Kiona is a mother of 3, a birth doula, a birth assistant, and a former student midwife who has supported over 140 birthing families. Through this podcast, you will find a connection in knowing that you are not the only one who has experienced something unexpected on your journey to parenthood. As people share their personal birth stories and experiences, you will hear about their entire journey through conception, pregnancy, labor, and birth. They will also touch on newborn feeding choices and overall postpartum experiences. You will also hear what providers and birth workers think and feel as they support birthing families on their journeys to parenthood. To learn more about the host Kiona Nessenbaum or see pictures of those who have shared their stories, go to birthasweknowitpodcast.com Subscribe to our newsletter: birthasweknowitpodcast.com/newsletter Connect with Kiona Nessenbaum on Instagram: @birthasweknwitpodcast and join the private Birth As We Know It ™️ Podcast Community on Facebook: birthasweknowitpodcast.com/community
Episodes
Maddie and Macka take us along on their journey to parenthood as they discovered their daughter Maya was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. At the time of the recording, Maya is only 6 months old. Throughout the episode, you will hear how Maddie and Macka had to uproot their lives for 10 weeks to live in a different city so Maya could get the support she needed immediately after birth. This support included a...
Sierra shares how devastating it was to experience a miscarriage during her first pregnancy and how that impacted how she felt throughout her pregnancy with her daughter Ember. She also touches on how her size, while being completely healthy, leads her providers to treat her differently and push her into an unnecessary induction.
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Art dives into what it was like to watch his wife of 40 years give birth and become a mother to their children more than 20 years ago. He also talks about what it was like to be in the hot seat and to catch their second child per the doctors request. Spoiler alert, he highly encourages all partners to do so if they ever get the chance.
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Mackenzie was saddened when she had to get an induction with her first son Jack due to low amniotic fluid levels, but was very surprised when the induction went faster than anyone had expected. Her first birth inspired her to birth with midwives for her second son Teddy. The way that birth unfolded was more than she could have ever imagined.
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Kelly shares how she came up with the idea of the breastmilk-sharing app Share The Drop. She also talks about its impacts on the breast cancer community and families with new babies as well as going into how the search filters work on the app.
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Carly and Jonathan experienced two very different births with their daughters. Their first daughter Kinsley was an induction at the hospital and the birth of their second daughter Raelynn was an unplanned unassisted water birth at home. Carly trusted her body and listened to her intuition throughout both experiences. Jonathan had some advantages since he was in medical school at the time both of them were ...
Nicky was birthed into motherhood through adoption, but it was far from easy for her and her husband to have a baby placed with them. The birth mother of their son Jack also had an interesting situation that caused Nicky and her husband to be stuck in California for 3+ weeks before being able to take their baby back home.
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Mariela expected to have one child and be done. Little did she know that getting pregnant for a second time unexpectedly 9 years later would lead her to twins and a breast cancer diagnosis. Tune in to this episode to hear Mariela talk about her journey of discovering she was pregnant with twins, that she had breast cancer as well as discussing the importance of mental health.
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When Ashley found out she was pregnant with twins she was very surprised, but not as surprised as she was when she found out that she was pregnant again. This is because she needed some assistant with getting pregnant the first time and the second time happened unexpectedly without any additional assistance. Tune in to hear the how Ashley did things differently her second time around.
Even though Jeanelle worked in healthcare as a registered nurse, she still decided that giving birth in the healthcare system was not the safest option for her or her babies. After getting diagnosed with PCOS at 16 and then gestational diabetes during her pregnancy she was put in the high-risk category for pregnancy and birth. Because of this she decided to dive deep into her own research and choose her ow...
In this episode, Hannah shared her experience with being cared for by out-of-hospital midwives and birthing her son Hunter at a stand-alone birth center. She also talks about how during the immediate postpartum time she had to be transferred to the hospital before being released home to obtain sutures for a 3rd degree vaginal tear.
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In this episode, Aly talks about how she emotionally handled caring for and losing her father during her first pregnancy with her son Cristian. She also gives all the details about how her second labor with her daughter Sara did not go as planned because it was extremely fast as well as touching on how her two postpartum experiences differed from each other.
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In this episode, Lindsay speaks on the assumptions people make when they find out you have gone through the route of adoption to grow your family. She also talks about what it was like to find the two different local families that she matched with in order to grow her family from two to four in less than two years time.
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In this episode, Bettina discusses the quick and lovely start to her relationship with her husband and the challenges she experienced while conceiving her third child. Even though she conceived her first two children on the quicker side, Bettina experienced three miscarriages prior to experiencing her final full-term pregnancy with her daughter.
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In the episode, you will hear Valerie talk about her 3 birth experiences. She goes into detail about how challenging her first pregnancy and birth were and how medical bullying played a huge role in her NICU experience. She then goes on to talk about what it felt like to finally have a baby that stayed on her chest without issue after giving birth to her son.
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In this episode, Morgan shares her preterm birth experience with her son Josiah as well as her birth center birth experience with her son Noah. Both babies ended up in the NICU for different reasons. She also dives into how being an adoptee has impacted how she envisions herself as a mother to her own biological children.
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In this episode, Nicole shares her experience with loss through miscarriage as well as diving into her two very different birth experiences with her son Baker and daughter Sophia. She goes into detail about how different it was for her to birth in the hospital and then chooses a last-minute homebirth during the prime time of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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In this episode, Mandy shares what it was like to be pregnant for the first time with her daughter Brooke. She dives into detail about a choroid plexus brain cyst scare that happened midway through her pregnancy as well as how her birth went quicker than expected. We end our interview by talking about her current pregnancy at the time of recording.
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In this episode, Elliott shares her two preemie birth stories of her daughter Adelaide and her son Brennan. She talks about how being a midwife was both a pro and a con while pregnant and how she learned about her special bicornuate (heart-shaped) uterus.
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In this episode, Kelli talks about her struggles with infertility that led her to the option of IVF. With her first round of IVF failing she turns to adoption and the way she finds a family is not how you would expect. Kelli also shares what it was like to find out she got pregnant naturally by surprise.
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