Built To Birth Podcast
The Built To Birth Podcast, hosted by childbirth educator and doula Bridget Teyler, aims to counter scary birth narratives by sharing true and uplifting birth stories from mothers. It serves as a resource to remind and inspire women that birth is a normal, natural, and beautiful event. Bridget’s goal is to help women discover their strength and power in pregnancy, birth, and motherhood through education and real stories. The podcast focuses on starting the journey of motherhood in a positive and empowered way.
Episodes
#17: Bethanie's Birth Story
The Built To Birth Podcast | Episode 17Childhood friends reconnect to share a positive birth story. Bethanie's journey from pregnancy to labor and delivery is filled with challenges and triumphs, highlighting the importance of preparation, support, and endurance. Bethanie shares her challenging yet empowering birth story, from a long labor to delivering her doctor's biggest vaginal delivery ever.
#16: Ashley's Birth Story
In this episode of the Built to Birth Podcast, we’re sitting down to talk through Ashley's birth story—from preparing for birth and choosing the right birth team to navigating an unexpected preeclampsia diagnosis and induction.We talk about what it looked like to make decisions when birth didn’t go exactly as planned, how important it was to feel informed and supported along the way, and why havin
#10: Jerrianne's Birth Story
Every birth story is different and can be unpredictable, and it’s easy to become overwhelmed if you’re facing a situation that wasn’t apart of your plan. In today’s Built to Birth podcast, Jerrianne shares about her two birth experiences- her induced hospital birth and her second time giving birth at home as well as her experience with midwifery care. Jerrianne shares about how both her induction
#7: Eloise's Birth Story
In episode 7, Eloise shares her diagnosis with endometriosis, fertility journey, IVF success story, and natural birth story. She shares with us the many twists and turns life took before getting pregnant at 40 years old, discovering she had a short cervix during pregnancy, and then uncovering how to have a positive birth story while giving birth during COVID 19. Whether you are looking for inferti
#12: Melissa's Birth Story
Listen to Melissa’s captivating story as she shares her first birth experience which she described as traumatic and her most recent birth experience for which she could not get an epidural. Melissa shares her experiences with and without an epidural and also gives us powerful encouragement and insight on dealing with postpartum depression and miscarriage. Her positive birth story is one you won’t
#15: Shannon's Birth Story
Join me today for my sister in love's birth story! She chose to switch care from a traditional OBGYN at the hospital to a midwife for a homebirth and having her home birth was one of the best decisions Shannon made for her labor and delivery experience.In this positive birth story episode we chat about how ANYONE can have a homebirth. So many women think you have to be a certain type of person to
#13: Kristina's Birth Story
In Episode 13 of the Built To Birth Podcast, Kristina shares her TWO birth experiences, both at a birthing center but the first being somewhat traumatic and the second being healing and empowering. Kristina talks about everything from raspberry leaf tea to induce labor, back labor, transition, different labor positions, to what do contractions feel like, postpartum care, and beyond! I absolutely L
#9: Tea's Birth Story
Birth is not always how we expect it to be, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be a beautiful and empowering experience. In the most unforeseen circumstances, you can learn how truly strong and amazing you are- that you truly are BUILT TO BIRTH.In today’s positive birth story, the amazing Tea talks about her experience giving birth quickly (in the car!!) and her previous birth experiences with an epid
#8: Crissa's Birth Story
Is it hard for you to imagine yourself giving birth with no epidural and having a positive birth story? Many women, because of fear surrounding birth, don’t believe that their body is capable of a natural labor and delivery. In today’s Built to Birth Podcast, Crissa shares her journey from thinking that an epidural was her only option to believing that she truly is BUILT TO BIRTH without an epidur
#6: Madison's Birth Story
In this episode of the Built To Birth Podcast, Madison shares her quick change from a hospital birth to a home birth after realizing the changing protocols at her hospital due to COVID 19. Her journey toward motherhood includes pregnancy loss, staying positive and navigating through the season of infant loss, then facing pregnancy and COVID 19 at the same time, and then figuring out what giving bi
#5: Tess' Birth Story
INDUCED HOSPITAL BIRTH WITH EPIDURAL vs. SPONTANEOUS LABOR WITHOUT EPIDURAL || Guess what… they can BOTH be beautiful experiences. In this podcast, Tess shares her second time mom tips and her positive birth story for her first birth which was an induced labor and her second time giving birth without an induction or any pain medication and what the road to postpartum recovery looked like in both c
#4: Lexi's Birth Story
The journey to pregnancy and birth is not always rainbows and butterflies. There are often gray skies and unexpected challenges that test the joy of the season that should bring joy during the pregnancy experience. In Episode 4 of the Built To Birth podcast, first time mama, Lexi, from The Cole Life (CHECK OUT HER YOUTUBE CHANNEL HERE: https://www.youtube.com/thecolelife) shares her first time IVF
#3: Kayla's Birth Story
Listening to POSITIVE BIRTH STORIES teaches you SO much about BIRTH and how to prepare yourself for it. For a first time mom birth holds a lot of unknowns and hearing a labor and delivery story can help clarify and eliminate fears about childbirth. In Episode 3 of the Built To Birth Podcast, Kayla shares how listening to positive birth stories inspired and educated her on the kind of birth that s
#2: Daesha's Birth Story
A BEAUTIFUL HOME BIRTH DURING COVID-19 | Almost all births in the United States happen at hospitals that it seems almost crazy to think about giving birth at home nowadays. In Episode 2 of the Built to Birth Podcast, we hear about a home birth experience from first time Mama, Daesha, who drew insight and confidence from the generations of women before her who experienced labor and delivery their o
#15: Kastle's Birth Story
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#11: Victoria's Birth Story
Today, Victoria shares her 4 birth stories- one an unexpected C-section, the other 2 successful VBACS with only partially working epidurals, and her 4th, an induced VBAC without an epidural. Her story shares so many different experiences and tips and tricks for how to prepare for labor and birth as well as recovery from c-sections.MORE RESOURCES FOR A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, AND EASIER BIRTH:www.built
#14: Marieta's Birth Story
Speaking up for yourself and your birth preferences is hard to do as a pregnant and birthing woman especially when things don't go according to plan and you need more answers than you're getting. In this Episode of the Built To Birth Podcast, Marieta shares her POSITIVE BIRTH STORY including how she chose between an OBGYN and a Midwife for her hospital birth, her amniotic fluid leaking before labo
#1: Ranzel's Birth Story
Giving birth during COVID-19 is not the most ideal situation for most expecting Mamas. In this episode we hear from the amazing Ranzel who was up against the quickly changing hospital protocols, the possibility of her husband not being with her as she birthed their baby, and the unknowns of being a first time mom. Ranzel's story of her quick, natural, and powerful labor will encourage every mama a
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