ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
BirthNotes is a podcast where women share their real, raw, and transformative birth stories and the conversations that follow them.
Hosted by birth and postpartum doula Kristin, each episode explores hospital births, home births, unexpected complications, and empowering experiences. Through honest conversations with mothers and experts, BirthNotes dives into pregnancy, birth, postpartum, motherhood, and women's health.
Hosted by birth and postpartum doula Kristin, each episode explores hospital births, home births, unexpected complications, and empowering experiences. Through honest conversations with mothers and experts, BirthNotes dives into pregnancy, birth, postpartum, motherhood, and women's health.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
26 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
12 episodes
since March 27, 2026
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Brooke planned a birth center birth with midwives, but at 42 weeks pregnant, she found herself at an induction, a hospital transfer, and more than 30 hours of labor before finally meeting her nine-pound, six-ounce son.
In this episode, Kristin sits down with doula Brooke to talk about going past he…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Maia went into pregnancy knowing exactly how she wanted to give birth: at home, surrounded by trusted support, just as she had grown up seeing it. She spent her pregnancy preparing through research, reading Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, working with her midwife, and doing pelvic floor physical the…
Dr. Stefanie is a chiropractor, Webster-certified practitioner, and mom of three who has experienced three very different home births. In this episode, she shares the stories of each birth, from her first water birth to a fast second labor and an unexpected third birth where her husband caught thei…
Arielle went into her second birth planning for a birth center birth. She left with an unexpected hospital birth, a 13-minute pushing stage, and a deeper understanding of what it means to let go of the birth you planned without letting go of your power.
In this episode, Kristin sits down with birth…
Planning a home birth often comes with one big fear: What if I have to transfer to the hospital?
In this episode of BirthNotes, birth doula Jessica Allison shares the powerful story of how a planned home birth unexpectedly became a hospital birth after her water had been broken for more than 24 hou…
What does it look like to choose a home birth in a new country, far from family and familiar healthcare?
In this episode of BirthNotes, Sweetu shares her incredible journey from Florida to rural Panama, where she and her husband built a farm, welcomed their first child through a peaceful home birth…
Naomi Mitchell shares her remarkable 20-year journey from an unexpected C-section to six successful vaginal births after cesarean (VBACs) and the home birth she'd always dreamed of. In this episode, she opens up about navigating a healthcare system with limited VBAC support, changing providers, lea…
This week, it's just me.
Before BirthNotes, before doula work, and before supporting families through pregnancy and postpartum, there was chronic illness, unanswered questions, and a search for healing. In this episode, I'm sharing how a functional medicine doctor and home birth midwife changed th…
Amber came into her birth with a plan. She left with an emergency C-section and a tangle of grief, fear, and joy she needed time to sit with.
In this episode, Kristin sits down with therapist and mother Amber to talk about what it was like to give birth at the height of COVID restrictions, navigat…
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Morgan as she shares her full journey into motherhood, from an unplanned pregnancy and unexpected gender disappointment, to a hospital birth that left her doubting her body, to a redemptive home birth with her daughter, Evelyn, that changed everything.
Th…
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