The Birth Hour - A Birth Story Podcast Bryn Huntpalmer

Brynn!

So happy you changed the mix of stories. It started out very pro-natural birth and anti-intervention which I was all about until I had a traumatic and birth injury. I was shocked after hearing all these vanilla, positive stories when I had a birth that was so different.

Now back listening during my 3rd pregnancy and so happy with the variety of stories being told. Glad more types of women, perspectives and type of births being shared.

I have been listening since 2018 while in nursing school, as I wanted to be an L&D nurse and also a mother one day. I’m such a birth nerd and listen several times a week for the past few years. I wanted to hear women’s perspectives, not just what is taught medically, to better serve my patients. I just recently was pregnant and had a baby in Jan 2023 and continued to find the podcast so high quality and wonderful, and focused more on positive stories. It was so comforting to hear stories especially during that time. It inspires me to be the best possible nurse for my labor patients and try to give them their ideal experience as much as possible, with as many choices as possible. I truly cannot thank Bryn enough. My favorite podcast by far.

Many of the stories I hear from my friends and family involve multiple hospital interventions and/or pain medication. For someone who has wanted the courage to go pain med-free and be as intervention-free as possible, I have found that courage with this podcast’s help! I so appreciate that I can find unmedicated stories via the episode titles. I love hearing birthing mother’s unique descriptions of what the stages of labor feel like to them, and also hear the random tricks they and their partners used throughout the laboring process to make it through. Thanks to all the contributors for tracking so many useful details!