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Birth, Baby, and Life — 217 episodes

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BBL 217: What REALLY Happens to a Woman’s Body After Pregnancy?

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BBL 216: The #1 Overlooked Factor for a Healthy Pregnancy (It’s NOT More Tests!)

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BBL 215: How to Refuse Medical Procedures During Childbirth

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BBL 214 – What 8 Babies Taught Me About Pregnancy and Birth

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BBL 213: What You’ve Been Told About Abortion is Wrong

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BBL 212: Is Pregnancy Actually Dangerous?

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BBL 211: The Neurodivergent Mama

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BBL 210 – The Neurodivergent Breastfeeding Mom & Newborn

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BBL 209 – The Neurodivergent Birth

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BBL 208: The Neurodivergent Pregnancy

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BBL 207: How to Recover from Negativity About Womanhood and Mothering

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BBL 206: The Case Against Erasing Women From Pregnancy & Birth

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BBL 205 – Breech Birth: What You Need to Now

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BBL 204: 7 Steps to Boost Fertility Holistically

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BBL 203: How to Use Quantum Fertility to Conceive a Healthy Baby

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BBL 202 – The Sword is Not With the Goddess: Abortion and Women

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BBL 201 – The Birth Journey: Into Chaos

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BBL 200: Are Pregnancy & Childbirth a Rite of Passage?

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BBL 199: What Does Pronatalism Mean for Women

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BBL 198: A Pronatalism Primer for Moms

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BBL 197: Why Mothering is Your Greatest Project

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BBL 196: What Women REALLY Want in Childbirth

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BBL195 – How I Took 5 Kids Camping as a Single Mom

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BBL194: What to do When Your Doctor Isn’t Supportive of Natural Birth

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BBL193: How to Help Everyone in the Family Calm Down

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BBL192: How to Handle It All as a Working Mom

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BBL191: Mom Balance – Why You Need to Ditch the Housework

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BBL190: How Much Pregnancy Weight Gain is Normal?

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BBL189: How to Prevent Preeclampsia: An Evidence-Based Guide

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BBL188: IUGR Pregnancy Diet – What You Need to Know to Get Baby Growing

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BBL187: How Your Birth Partner Can Really Help

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BBL186: How to Deal With People Who Don’t Approve of Your Birth Choices

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BBL185: How to Deal with stress in pregnancy

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BBL 184: Why Childbirth is Much Safer Than You Think

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BBL 183: How to Overcome Mom Burnout

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BBL 182: Childbirth and the Feminine Power of Women

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BBL 181: How Moms Can Get What They Need

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BBL 180: How to Choose a Pregnancy Doctor or Midwife

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BBL 179: Straight Talk on Labor Pain Perceptions

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BBL 178: Living Well on a Budget with a Growing Family

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BBL 177: Taming Toddlers

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BBL 176 – The Value of Mother

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BBL 175 – You Can Give Birth Without Fear

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BBL 174: How to Speak Up For Yourself During Childbirth

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BBL 173: Pregnancy Body Changes Nobody Tells You About

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BBL 172: The Best Birth Positions to Catch Your Own Baby

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BBL 171: Write the Perfect Natural Birth Plan

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BBL 170: What To Do When You Keep Yelling at Your Kids

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BBL 169: What To Do When Labor Throws the Unexpected

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BBL 168: Pregnancy and Birth Are a Forgotten Rite of Passage

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BBL 167 – How to Get Off the Childbirth Conveyor Belt (and have a Sacred Birth Instead)

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BBL 166 When You Feel Unhappy With Your Last Birth

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BBL 165: Why It’s Okay to Feel Upset About Your Last Birth

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BBL 164: The Real System Behind Childbirth

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BBL 163 – Is Birth a Medical Event?

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BBL 162: So, You Want a Faster Labor?

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BBL 161: How to Stay In Control During Childbirth

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BBL 160: How to Practice for Natural Childbirth

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BBL 159: What is Dad’s Role in Birth?

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BBL 158: How to Handle Haters When You Plan a Natural Birth

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BBL 157: The Truth About Exercise and Childbirth with Deb Flashenberg

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BBL 156 Self-Care is Non-Negotiable for Moms

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BBL 155: Should You Use Mother-Directed Pushing?

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BBL Special: How to Prepare for a Natural Birth (and updates)

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BBL 154: Why You Need to Take Your Baby Outside

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BBL 153: The Mom Hack That Gets Everything Done

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BBL 152: Why It’s Essential to Prepare for Natural Birth

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BBL 151: My Secret to Stress-Free Fancy Meals

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BBL 150: Step #1 in Creating the Home You Want

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BBL 149: Preparing to Conceive a Healthy Baby

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BBL 148: Create a Family Vision for a Life You Love

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BBL 147: How to Keep Labor MOVING!

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BBL 146: The Great Dinner Challenge

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Fewer Preemies, More Breastmilk: Lessons Learned from Quarantine

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How Mamas Can Find Time to Get Moving!

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Making Meals Simple

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How to Catch Up on Housework

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“Mom Systems” to Save Your Sanity

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Managing the Kids Without a Lot of Help

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How to Keep Up the Weight While Breastfeeding

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How to Prepare Your Child for a New Sibling

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The Part-Time Elimination Communication Guide

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How to Juggle the Books and a Baby – Life as a Student Mama

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What to Eat to Boost Your Breast Milk Supply

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Why Your Pregnancy Diet Advice is All Wrong

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What Nobody Tells You About Cesarean Section

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How to Relax During Labor and Really Enjoy Your Birth with Sarah Prince

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Should We Take Women Out of Birth?

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Wait… The VBAC Super Power

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VBAC Birth Essentials

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Building Your VBAC Dream Team

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Why Plan a VBAC – and Choosing the Right Care Provider

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The Birth of Phoenix Arthur

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Final Countdown: Getting Ready for Baby

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What You Need to Know About Plus-Sized Pregnancy with bebo mia

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How to Let Little Ones Help with Chores

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Inspiring Creativity and Problem-Solving In Your Preschooler

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Gratitude, Attitude, and Abundance for Moms

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How to Trust Yourself During Pregnancy

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The Power of Ecstatic Birth with Dr. Sarah Buckley

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How to Handle Crowning and Bring Baby Up Yourself

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Handling Loneliness while Mothering

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The Life of a (Pregnant) Student Midwife

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Parenting for the Person You’d Like Your Child to Become

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What Your Kids Are REALLY Saying With Their Behavior

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How to Beat Overwhelm and Take Back Your Life

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How to Overcome Fear of Pregnancy (and Childbirth)

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Homeschool Scheduling with Little Ones

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Our Family’s Journey

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How to Juggle Homeschooling, Babies, and Toddlers!

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How to Handle Complications During Home Birth

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Working from Home with Young Children

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How to Find More Energy and Balance in Your Life

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Battling for the Microbiome

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Getting Started with Homeschooling

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Bringing Baby to Work

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Listening to Pregnancy Intuition with Hannah Smerkonich

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Standing Firm in Your Choices with Hannah Smerkonich

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Feeling Great Postpartum with Arianna Taboada

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What if YOU Were in Charge of Pregnancy & Birth?

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Should You Eat Your Placenta?

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How to End the Fight Over Healthy Food with Sarah Bester

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The Daily Soul Sessions for Pregnancy

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How to Avoid Induction of Labor

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Building Baby’s Immune System

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Finding Real Relief from Morning Sickness with Dr. Levine

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Helping Your Child Become Big Brother or Big Sister

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BBL 091: Do I Really Need All That Baby Gear? (Part 2!)

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The Mommy Wars Lied to You

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BBL 088: Fitness with Baby in Tow

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BBL 087: Building Your Birth Kit

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BBL 086: Bringing Birth Home with Starr Meneely

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BBL 085: Thoughts on Postpartum Weight Loss

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BBL 084: Pregnancy and Birth as a Mama of Many

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BBL 083: How to Prevent Flat Head Syndrome with Jennifer Todd Barnard

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BBL 082: Having Older Kids at Birth

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BBL 081: Is Fetal Monitoring Really Saving Babies?

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BBL 080: Getting Daddy Ready for Labor and Birth

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BBL 079: How to Beat Morning Sickness – Naturally

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BBL 078: Fertility First Steps

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How I Want to Change the World

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BBL 076: Get Breastfeeding Off to a Great Start with Lyn Hrivnak

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BBL 075: The Secret to Great Pregnancy Sleep with Dr. Rosenberg

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How to Handle Gestational Diabetes

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What Does Being Rh Negative Mean for Your Pregnancy?

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What’s the Best Child Spacing for Your Family?

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BBL 071: Essential Parenting Tips with Tracy Cutchlow

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BBL 070: Handling Childhood Illnesses at Home

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BBL 069: How Life Changes After Baby

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BBL 068: The Smart Mama’s Guide to Prenatal Testing

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BBL 067: Taking Prenatal Care Into My Own Hands

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Elimination Communication Method – Is It Worth the Hassle?

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BBL 065: How to Get Your Toddler to Have an Alone Time

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BBL: 064 Getting The Baby Who Doesn’t Nap to Take a Nap

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BBL 063: Does Childbirth Hypnosis Really Work?

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BBL 062: Sadie’s Birth Story

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BBL 061: How to Clean Your House (Even When Kids Live In It)

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BBL 060: The Truth About the First Few Months

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BBL 059: My Pregnancy Mistakes (and What I Did Right)

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BBL 058: Why AP Moms Can’t Get a Good Night’s Sleep (and What to Do About It)

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BBL 057: Handling the Kids When You’re Outnumbered

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BBL 056: Plumping Up the Skinny Baby

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BBL 055: What You Need to Know About Pushing Your Baby Out

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BBL 054: How to Wean (and How to Keep Breastfeeding)

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BBL 053: Why Birthing Classes Are Worth It

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BBL 052: Family and Relationship Q&A Session

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BBL 051: Why You Need a Birth Doula with Nikki Knowles

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BBL 050: Choosing and Working With Your Care Provider Q&A

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BBL 049: How Play Makes a Healthier Baby with Rachel Coley

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BBL 048: Birth Complications Q&A

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BBL 047: Preventing Pregnancy Complications Q&A

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BBL 046: Childbirth Preparation Q&A

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BBL 045: Q&A on Pregnancy Exercise

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BBL 044: Q&A on Pregnancy Diet

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BBL 043: What is Physiological Birth?

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BBL 042: Your Baby’s Experience of Childbirth

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BBL 041: Your Baby’s Experiences in Pregnancy

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BBL 040: Handling Picky Eaters & Feeding Trouble

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BBL 039: Nursing in Pregnancy and Tandem Nursing

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BBL 038: How to Give Baby Healthy Gut Flora

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BBL 037: Building Baby’s Health from Birth

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BBL 036: How to Boost Your Milk Supply Naturally

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BBL 035: What to Do When You’re Not Getting Pregnant

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BBL 034: Breastfeeding and Your Fertility

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BBL 033: How Charting Helps You Get Pregnant

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BBL 032: The Newborn Exam, Step-by-Step

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BBL 031: Your Awesome, Flexible Pelvis

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BBL 030: More on How to Handle Postpartum Changes

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BBL 029: What to Expect in the Early Postpartum

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BBL 028: Getting Better at Giving Birth

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BBL 027: How to Survive the Holidays While Pregnant and with a New Baby

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BBL 026: It’s Birth Story Week on NaturalBirthandBabyCare.com!

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BBL 025: Why Taking a Few Minutes of You-Time Makes You a Better Mama

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BBL 024: Fit Childbirth Prep (or Anything) Into Your Busy Life

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BBL 023: Meeting the Needs of Your Toddler and Newborn

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BBL 022: Avoiding Induction and Preventing Fatigue During Labor

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BBL 021: What’s Normal and What’s Not – Baby Development

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BBL 020: Reader Q&A with Pregnancy Nursing, Natural Twins, Stress Relief, and Heartburn!

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BBL 019: Pregnancy Diet Made Easy

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BBL 018: Why You Should Skip This Common First Food – And Save Your Baby a Lifetime of Health Problems

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BBL 017: Birth is Your Revolution with Roanna Rosewood

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BBL 16: The Definitive Guide to Diapering Your Baby

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BBL 015: Why Families Choose Natural Childbirth

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BBL 014: Handling Closely Spaced Pregnancies

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BBL: 013 A Day in the Life of a Diaper Free Baby

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BBL:012 Should You Use a Baby Schedule?

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BBL: 011 The Things People Say (And Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Them)

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BBL 010: How to Handle a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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BBL 009: Growth Spurts: How to Handle the Baby Feeding Frenzy

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BBL 008: Corwin’s Birth Story (Plus Easy Steps to Having a Great Pregnancy and Birth)

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BBL 007: How to Sleep Tight Every Night (Even if You Have a Baby, Toddler, or Both!) with Malia Jacobson

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BBL 006: A Birth Hack for Hospital, Home, and Anywhere In Between

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BBL 005: Newborns for New Year’s: Caring for Your Newborn Baby!

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BBL 004: Keeping Up with it All While Parenting… and How to Survive Morning Sickness

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BBL 003: How to Have a Diaper Free Baby the SMART Way with Andrea Olson

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BBL: 002 An Off-Switch for Your Baby’s Cry… and Family-Centered Cesareans!

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BBL 001: Welcome to the Birth, Baby, and Life Podcast!