Life with Your New Baby
Adapting to life with a new baby presents many joys and challenges. Learn about the importance of self-care, relationship skills, tips for managing da...
Transition to Parenthood
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20-minute episodes summarize key information you need to prepare for labor, birth, and the early days of parenting. Host Janelle Durham, co-author of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn is a mom, doula, parent educator and childbirth educator. She pulls together research-based recommendations with realistic advice from her experience with thousands of families. Episode transcripts and links to more resources available at transitiontoparenthood.wordpress.com.
Caring for Your Newborn
Offers a brief overview of key information – how to figure out what baby needs by observing their cues, how to meet those needs with feeding, diaperin...
Choices in Maternity Care
We’ll talk about all the choices you make in your maternity care, from choosing a care provider and birthplace and developing a birth plan to what hap...
Birth and Baby’s First Hour
This episode covers second stage labor – the birth of a baby, third stage – the delivery of the placenta, and the first hour of baby’s life. Addresses...
Pain Medications for Labor
An overview of medications for labor pain and childbirth. Includes benefits and risks of nitrous oxide, IV opioids (narcotics) and epidurals. Plus lab...
Labor Support
Continuous labor support, which can be provided by a partner or spouse, other family or friends, a professional doula or by medical caregivers has bee...
Comfort Techniques for Labor
Comfort techniques for labor include cognitive strategies (visualization, affirmations), pleasant distractions (massage, music, aromatherapy), counter...
Stages of Labor and the 3R’s
An overview of the stages of labor, and how Relaxation, Rhythm and Ritual help for coping with labor pain.
Understanding Labor Pain
I discuss the physiology of pain and ways that people who have been through birth describe how contractions feel. Given all of the physical changes a...
Labor Pain Toolbox
Podcast Episode 1: The most common question from people preparing for labor is ‘how will we handle the pain’? This episode provides an overview of all...