Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting

Jeanne celebrates Thanksgiving and 100 great conversations about pregnancy, prenatal care, politics, parenting, healthcare and then some. Plus, She also answers listener emails with Chris Beard, CNM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about podcasting and parenting with Sunny Gault, founder of New Mommy Media and The POD Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Dr. James Lozada, an anesthesiologist and broadcast journalist with a passion for maternal justice. We talk about epidurals, health journalism, switching careers, finding your mission and what maternal justice means in the labor room and around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with midwife Chris Beard, CNM about a recent article on NPR about maternal deaths and emergencies, about violence in Charlottesville and about fat shaming in maternal health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne reads listener emails and answers questions about getting pregnant on your period and what to do when your doctor is bullying for an induction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Jo Saxton about faith, leadership, parenting, finding your spiritual home and whether or not you need religion to raise kids in the 21st century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne is on vacation this week, so we're sharing her conversation about insomnia in your first trimester, and then talks with Romper.com writer, Kelly McWilliams, about how anxiety impacts pregnancy and what the hell to do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Commonsense Pregnancy teams up with Commonsense Childbirth's founder and director, midwife Jennie Joseph to talk about healthcare disparities and how to solve them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Nikia Lawson about the impact of race on women's pregnancy, prenatal care, birth, post partum period, survival and future as a parent plus the role of doulas, childbirth educators, and birth workers in this critical and global conversation.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about our national stress level and interviews author Bailey Gaddis about her new book, Feng Shui Mommy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Rachael, a labor and delivery nurse who is expecting her second child, about midwifery care versus OB care, birth center versus hospital birth and about the pregnancy complications she had with her first birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about how Mother's Day started, this year's political focus, what Dads and partners should do for Mother's Day and answers a motherless listener's email about raising her own baby and missing her Mom.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with writer Sarah Menkedick about her new book, Homing Instincts and about why women's literature and books about motherhood aren't taken seriously and how books like Sarah's and Common Sense Pregnancy are changing the narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Dr. Ginger Breedlove about how her 40 year career as a nurse, midwife, birth center founder and advocate for mothers and families has led to where she is now - co-founder of the Mother's March on Washington and VP at Baby+Co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne explains the State Departments announcement to cut funding for UNFPA and answers listeners questions about best tips for having a natural birth and what it means when your c-section scar hurts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Sara, a graduating student nurse who's just starting her career in the birth world, about labor and delivery nursing, whether or not to become a midwife and how to plug motherhood into your career plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne answers reader emails about inductions, gestational diabetes, bacterial vaginosis, and one grandmother's concern about her daughter's healing c-section scar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne answers listener emails about how to achieve a vaginal birth after having a cerclage and about how to pay for a midwife if your insurance won't cover it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Dr. Brett Einerson, a high-risk obstetrician who studied why risks go up with night shift and weekend births. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with physical therapists, Bill Reif and Joanna Mullett, about why so many women get back pain during and after pregnancy and what the heck they should do about it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices