Informed Pregnancy Podcast

Hollywood Love Coach Bianca White discusses intimacy during and after pregnancy.​Topics: ​What is a sex coach? - Balancing Partners Sexual Desires - Fertility and the “Mechanical Love Life” - How Pregnancy Changes Sex - Vaginal Steaming - The Femininity of Pregnancy - Sex After Baby - Dr. B’s 1st Doula Experience ​​​​​co-hosts:Kira SoltanovichNicole SessionsNote: This episode contains mature content.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hilary Duff shares details about the last few days of pregnancy and what it was like to experience labor and delivery at home. Spoiler alert: She's a total G. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Jennifer Lang discusses prenatal nutrition.Sponsored by WONDER MOTHER. Wonder Mother has developed a dietary supplement designed especially for mothers containing nutrients formulated to meet their specific nutritional needs. It dissolves in water to form a refreshing drink! Obstetrician Dr. Jennifer Lang stops by the podcast to discuss her new book The Whole 9 Months and prenatal nutrition. She explores different topics related to cesarean birth, hypnobirthing and the importance of getting the right nutrition for yourself and your baby.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah is expecting her second baby and hoping for a different birth experience this time around. Together with her doula Katharine, Sarah talks us through her first pregnancy, plans for non-interventive birth and her labor experience ending in an unexpected cesarean birth. Sarah candidly discusses her physical and emotional postpartum struggles that followed. Tune in to find out what she learned from the experience and what she is planning for her upcoming birth.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress and producer Marianna Burelli talks about her unusual upbringing, meeting her husband on-set and her inspiring, magical, and empowered hospital birth story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holistic Health Obstetrician-Gynecologist Dr. Bente Kaiser discusses selecting the right OBGYN for you, establishing trust with your pregnancy and birth provider, and patient advocacy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen returns to share her labor and birth journey starting with her water breaking during a routine obstetric checkup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Gabriela Sheets is a biologist whose research on the early development of infant gut microbiome has earned prestigious awards and grants. She joins the podcast to talk all things bacteria, fungi, protozoa and virus that live in and around our bodies and how we pass along (or don't pass along) the good, the bad and the neutral to our babies.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After deciding late in pregnancy to switch from hospital birth to homebirth Pallavi is ready and waiting...and waiting..and waiting. One week after her estimated due date Pallavi tries several natural efforts to get the birth ball rolling. A few days later she begins to feel contractions and her labor journey is under way.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jen McLellan is a birth professional, speaker, blogger, founder of Plus Size Birth and host of the popular Plus Mommy Podcast. Jen joins us for an informative conversation regarding misconceptions about plus size birth, and shares valuable tips for women of size to have a healthy and empowered pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices