The Birth Class Podcast

Precipitous Birth + Hospital Triage: Unhinged birth advice, part 2

If Dani Austin Were My Client: Unhinged (and must have) advice for unmedicated hospital birth

When first-time moms choose home birth, Morgan's two home birth stories

Red Raspberry Leaf Tea or.. NORA? , with Morgan Spencer of Mama Bear Supply Co

My Water Broke… and Labor Didn’t Start for 32 Hours, Kelsey’s Homebirth Story

Birth Plans vs. Birth Preferences, Why Language Matters

What is Precipitous Birth? Marissa's "drive-by" birth story

If you are due in 2026, START HERE

209 | Why don't hospitals have birth combs?

208 | TREND ALERT: Continuous Fetal Monitoring, What the Unmedicated Girlies need to know

207 | The birth you didn't plan (aka the Cascade of Interventions)

206 | START HERE for writing a birth plan

205 | Write 3 birth plans and thank me later

204 | Healing Hyperemesis Gravidarum: A Root-Cause Roadmap with Jes Reynolds

203 | Fentanyl, Morphine & Stadol: What you're really saying yes to

202 | Processing Birth Trauma: The Prep No One Talks About, with Brigid Tebaldi

201 | From 'high-risk' to heart-mending, Sarah's story of her unmedicated VBAC

200 | 🔥 Ring of Fire: Sarah’s Why, Cravings & Coping Tools

199 | I didn’t get my unmedicated birth… Now what?

198 | What birth taught me about selling, showing up and not shutting up, with Lisa V

197 | PART 5: Be the boss of your birth

196 | PART 4: Prioritizing an undisturbed birth

195 | PART 3: Prenatal Care YOUR Way

194 | PART 2: Drink all the raw milk you want

193 | PART 1: Your permission to fire your crappy provider

192 | Empowered Mom Summer Series, It’s Time to Take Control of Your Birth

191 | Want to avoid cesarean? Do this.

190 | When is a cesarean really necessary?

189 | 10cm and still a Cesarean

188 | Circumcision Deep Dive: What to know before you decide

187 | The Informed Consent Crisis: Hear from the experts inside the hospital

186 | Going all in: Audie’s fifth and final birth story

185 | Defining informed consent, here's what you're not being told

184 | Why Mom Advice is So Confusing: Modern Motherhood vs. Physiology

183 | Hospital birth is a system (and here's how it works against you)

182 | Kicked out of the birth center: Vanessa’s medicated, no-epidural birth story

181 | Every intervention except the epidural: The untold story of my 'natural' births (part 2)

180 | Every intervention except the epidural: The untold story of my 'natural' births (part 1)

179 | The Hospital's Birth Plan: Cascade of Interventions

178 | Which birth interventions are really necessary? What you need to know to get informed for birth

177 | She refused to have another unnecessary cesarean, Nina's unmedicated VBAC in the hospital

176 | Epidural Diaries: Why your bestie got an epidural and how to be more prepared

175 | Behind the birth video, what you need to know if you’re having a baby in 2025

174 | Steal the U|G's unmedicated toolkit, the importance of having different coping tools in labor

173 | Why you haven't heard of nitrous oxide (and why you should ask your hospital for it)

172 | DO this, NOT that: Birth Class Edition, Don't make these 6 birth prep mistakes

171 | A second unmedicated birth with her husband as her doula, Juliana's birth story

170 | 2 reasons the unmedicated girlies decline glucola

169 | 3 tips for LESS overwhelming birth education

168 | The famous birth binder, Grace’s Christmas birth story featuring Elinor