The Harshe Podcast welcomes its first guest! Tara Brooke from Doula Trainings International joins January to speak about the difference in parenting culture in Spain vs the US, racial disparity regarding birth in the US, the importance of making a postpartum plan, dealing with family after the birth, not being afraid to ask for help from family or your doula,…
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The Harshe Podcast – Episode #25: Doulas and Seahorses
January and Brandon talk doulas on their way to date night! They discuss their three experiences with doulas, the advice about pee January received from a doula that sticks with her to this day, and how emotionally unstable male seahorses are to be getting pregnant immediately after birthing hundreds of babies! Subscribe to the Harshe Podcast on iTunes! Subscribe to…
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A Bathroom Hospital Birth with 2 Doulas and a Midwife
I woke up around 3:00AM on April 29th with an achy feeling and saw that daughter Mia had wandered into my room and was staring at me. I like to think that somehow she knew today would be the day; that kids know these things. I couldn’t get back to sleep so I got up, made myself a red raspberry…
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Epic HBA2C After a Surrogacy
The Prequel to the Sequel There are so many ways to begin the story of Osiris’ birth, whether that be by marking the arrival of contractions and prodromal labor, the arrival of my birth posse or possibly what kicked me into active labor, a handcrafted cheesy In & Out burger, fries and a beer. But what makes this birth story…
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Empowering Hospital Birth with HypnoBabies and Massage
September 28th, 2012. I was a week overdue and I had been in false labor for over a week. Things were getting frustrating and the pressure was on from the doctors to induce once I went past my due date. I knew that Peanut was just fine in there and was not willing to accept that my body would just…
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Normalizing Twin Births; Twins Born Naturally in the Hospital
*A few parts of Jess’ birth footage were used in part 3 of More Business of Being Born, so if you’ve seen that, you’ll see her! Nothing about my pregnancy went according to plan. After nearly 13 years of marriage and completion of my clinical social work graduate program, we decided it was finally time for us to start thinking…
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Ellen DeGeneres! Doulas Singing in the Bathroom Just For You!
Xylina and her sisters and made this silly video to hopefully get on Ellen and spread the news that doulas make birth better! They filmed it in the bathroom just like Ellen does with her musical guests! Hope you enjoy!
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Cytotec, Birth Trauma, Hypnobirthing and a Healing Birth Center Birth
This is the first time I have written this down. I’m sure it will be emotional, even though you will only get the very shortened version of my hospital birth experience. I had had a fairly normal pregnancy with Ethan. Nothing out of the ordinary until around 36 weeks when my blood pressure went up suddenly. I was from then…