

Informed Pregnancy Podcast
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Los Angeles-based prenatal focused chiropractor Dr. Elliot Berlin searches for unbiased information on the most pressing topics for growing families with interviews from pregnancy and parenting experts, celebrities, and new and expectant parents. Entertaining and informative, new episodes drop weekly every Thursday.Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!informedpregnancy.com@doctorberlinYoutubeLinkedInFacebookX
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Jan 7, 2026 • 43min
Ep. 493 In Conversation with Esther Friedman Schwartz
Globetrotting physician assistant and health tech entrepreneur Esther Friedman Schwartz discusses her rocky pregnancy journey.
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LinkedIn
Grow with us on IP+! Informed Pregnancy Media presents two all new intimate short-form video series following Garrett and HeHe's real-time pregnancy journeys as they prepare for an empowered birth and postpartum experience. Each episode features weekly updates with personal photos and videos to help bring these raw stories to life, a visually dynamic guide through each mother's emotional and physical experiences.
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Dec 31, 2025 • 40min
Ep. 492 Introducing Growing with HeHe
We have a brand new addition to the Informed Pregnancy family! This week on the podcast we have a special holiday audio preview of the first 3 episodes of Growing with HeHe. Or check out the full visual series here!Growing with HeHe is an intimate short-form video series following HeHe Stewart’s real-time first pregnancy journey. You may know her as a doula, educator, and advocate for trauma-informed birth but this time, she’s turning the spotlight inward.
From her roots in a small Mississippi town to founding The Birth Lounge, HeHe has spent years empowering others with calm strength and fierce clarity. Now, she invites us to follow her own path, sharing week by week the emotional highs, physical shifts, and vulnerable truths of her first pregnancy. Through honest reflection and intimate storytelling, we meet HeHe, her husband Nick, and the circle of people who shape her journey.
Connect with HeHe:
@tranquilitybyhehe
@the.birth.lounge
thebirthlounge.com
The Birth Lounge Podcast
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Dec 25, 2025 • 43min
Ep. 491 Introducing Growing with Garrett
We have a brand new addition to the Informed Pregnancy family! Here's a special holiday audio preview of the first 3 episodes of Growing with Garrett. Or check out the full visual series here!
Growing with Garrett is an intimate short-form video series following Garrett Kusmierz’s real-time pregnancy journey as she prepares for a more empowered second birth and postpartum experience. The series was inspired by Garrett’s guest appearance on The Informed Pregnancy Podcast where she shared her remarkable story: an easy conception, a traumatic birth, a challenging postpartum recovery, and an unexpected struggle with infertility leading up to her second pregnancy.
We’ll follow Garrett through weekly checkins as she navigates this pregnancy differently, armed with lessons learned from her past and a deep commitment to making this experience better. Each episode features Garrett’s personal photos and videos to help bring her raw story to life, a visually dynamic guide through Garrett’s mental and physical experiences.
Connect with Garrett:
@garrettnwood
@kozekozemama
@kozekozepodcast
@kozekozemama on TikTok
kozekoze.com
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Dec 17, 2025 • 45min
Ep. 490 Unexpected Harmony with Amanda Nordelius & John Russell
International songwriting couple Amanda Nordelius and John Russell discuss their creative and home lives, including how they met on stage at Universal Studios and a surprising home breech birth.
Connect with the guests:
gluten-freemusic.com
Grow with us on IP+! Informed Pregnancy Media presents two all new intimate short-form video series following Garrett and HeHe's real-time pregnancy journeys as they prepare for an empowered birth and postpartum experience. Each episode features weekly updates with personal photos and videos to help bring these raw stories to life, a visually dynamic guide through each mother's emotional and physical experiences.
Watch Growing with Garrett
Watch Growing with HeHe
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
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Dec 11, 2025 • 54min
Ep. 489 The Journey to Pregnancy with Carli Roth and Joshua Katz
Carli Roth and Joshua Katz are expecting their first baby after a successful pregnancy with eggs retrieved before they even met. They discuss their journey to pregnancy and what inspired them to create a company based on an often uncomfortable topic - hemorrhoids.
Connect with the guest:
@getnorms
@carli_ar
@joshuadanielkatz
getnorms.com
Grow with us on IP+! Informed Pregnancy Media presents two all new intimate short-form video series following Garrett and HeHe's real-time pregnancy journeys as they prepare for an empowered birth and postpartum experience. Each episode features weekly updates with personal photos and videos to help bring these raw stories to life, a visually dynamic guide through each mother's emotional and physical experiences.
Watch Growing with Garrett
Watch Growing with HeHe
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
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Dec 4, 2025 • 47min
Ep. 488 All About Vaccines with Dr. Joel Warsh
Dr. Joel Warsh is a Los Angeles based integrative pediatrician, speaker, and advocate for balanced discussions around children's health and vaccination. Combining conventional and holistic approaches, he recently authored a forthcoming book exploring nuanced, evidence based conversations about this complex topic.
Connect with the guest:
@drjoelgator
theshotbook.com
Grow with us on IP+! Informed Pregnancy Media presents two all new intimate short-form video series following Garrett and HeHe's real-time pregnancy journeys as they prepare for an empowered birth and postpartum experience. Each episode features weekly updates with personal photos and videos to help bring these raw stories to life, a visually dynamic guide through each mother's emotional and physical experiences.
Watch Growing with Garrett
Watch Growing with HeHe
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
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Nov 26, 2025 • 59min
Ep. 487 Love & Loss with Kristin Mundy
Kristin Mundy is a doula and childbirth specialist with a focus on birth after loss. She's the host of the Rainbow Connection, a podcast for mothers who have experienced. This episode discusses topics that may be uncomfortable for some listeners, including pregnancy loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss. Please listen with care.
Connect with the guest:
@therainbowconnectionpodcast
thedoulalife.ca
Informed Pregnancy Media and Mahmee present an all new podcast! One Way or a Mother is a new narrative podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Each season is an intimate story of one woman, one pregnancy, and all of the preparations, emotions, and personal history leading up to the birth. Episodes feature the expectant mother along with her family, doctors, and birth work team.
Start listening to Episode 1: I Should Have Died featuring Arianna Lasry
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
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Nov 20, 2025 • 51min
Ep. 486 Care for the Modern Mother with Margot Del Rey
Margot Del Rey is a French born fashion veteran turned holistic postpartum and lactation specialist. After a transformative move to California, she founded Sisterhood, an integrative postpartum and motherhood support practice combining Ayurvedic care and yoga based healing.
Connect with the guest:
@with.sisterhood
withsisterhood.com
Informed Pregnancy Media and Mahmee present an all new podcast! One Way or a Mother is a new narrative podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Each season is an intimate story of one woman, one pregnancy, and all of the preparations, emotions, and personal history leading up to the birth. Episodes feature the expectant mother along with her family, doctors, and birth work team.
Start listening to Episode 1: I Should Have Died featuring Arianna Lasry
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
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Nov 13, 2025 • 49min
Ep. 485 Catching Up with Jenna Pastuszek
Los Angeles based actor, singer, and mom of two Jenna Pastuszek discusses her experience with birth, motherhood, rehearsals, and what "break a leg" means to her.
Connect with the guest:
@thejennap
jennapastuszek.com
Informed Pregnancy Media and Mahmee present an all new podcast! One Way or a Mother is a new narrative podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Each season is an intimate story of one woman, one pregnancy, and all of the preparations, emotions, and personal history leading up to the birth. Episodes feature the expectant mother along with her family, doctors, and birth work team.
Start listening to Episode 1: I Should Have Died featuring Arianna Lasry
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
Youtube
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Nov 6, 2025 • 37min
Ep. 484 Transformative Postpartum with Francesca Fondevila
Francesca Fondevila is a postpartum care provider and the founder of Mother Bones, a boutique in home practice offering nourishment, bodywork, and ritual support for new moms. She discusses postpartum as not only a recovery period but as a transformative passage of becoming.
Connect with the guest:
@_mother_bones_
mother-bones.com
Informed Pregnancy Media and Mahmee present an all new podcast! One Way or a Mother is a new narrative podcast from Dr. Elliot Berlin, DC. Each season is an intimate story of one woman, one pregnancy, and all of the preparations, emotions, and personal history leading up to the birth. Episodes feature the expectant mother along with her family, doctors, and birth work team.
Start listening to Episode 1: I Should Have Died featuring Arianna Lasry
Keep up with Dr. Berlin and Informed Pregnancy Media online!
informedpregnancy.com
@doctorberlin
Youtube
LinkedIn
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