27. What Every Mom Needs to Know About Birth with Trish, Nurse Birth Mama

Most moms don’t need more opinions...They need clarity, context, and real education about birth.In this episode of The Female Blueprint Podcast, I sit down with Trish — a labor and delivery nurse and educator known as Nurse Birth Mama for an in-depth conversation about what women are rarely prepared for in the birth room.In this episode, we cover:• What actually happens during labor in hospital settings• Why so many women feel powerless or rushed during birth• Hospital policies vs true informed consent• When “failure to progress” is and isn’t an emergency• How fear, tension, and environment affect labor• Pain myths vs reality in labor• Cervical checks, consent, and your right to say no• Induction, Pitocin, epidurals, and understanding your options• Immediate skin-to-skin and why it matters• Home birth transfers and what moms should know• How labor choices affect postpartum recovery• Pelvic floor health during pregnancy and after birth• Why knowledge is only powerful if you know how to use itTrish shares what she’s seen after years at the bedside, and why education without advocacy often falls short. My goal with this episode is to help women walk into birth informed, confident, and able to advocate for themselves, no matter where or how they give birth.Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, planning another birth, or supporting someone you love through labor, this is an episode every mom deserves to hear.Follow Trish | Nurse Birth Mama👩‍⚕️Follow Trish for evidence-based birth education, advocacy tools, and real-world insight from a labor and delivery nurse who’s seen it all.Instagram: @labor.nurse.mamaEducation & Courses: labornursemama.comTrish's Podcast: ⁠The Birth Experience⁠ Follow Me🎙️Follow me for honest, science-backed conversations on women’s health, birth, postpartum recovery, pelvic floor wellness, strength, and learning how to advocate for your body. Instagram: @thefemaleathletedoc Website: www.threesixtywellness.coTopics in this episode include 🔍 hospital birth, labor education, birth advocacy, informed consent, labor pain, induction, Pitocin, epidurals, C-sections, VBAC, skin-to-skin contact, postpartum recovery, pelvic floor health, nervous system regulation, maternal wellness.