Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting

Jeanne answers listener emails about what to do when you're not happy you're pregnant with a revisit of our conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff, author, yoga instructor and life-changing workshop leader.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with certified nurse midwife, Chris Beard, CNM about how midwives manage 80% of Kaiser Permanente births in Portland with an 8.6% C-section rate. Then we rant about how new ACOG guidelines are just like age-old Midwifery guidelines and about political activism among nurses.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne reads email from a labor nurse who wants to change her hospital's culture and talks with Ben Weingrod - the dude who lobbies on Capitol Hill for global maternal health policies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Keysha Lleras about how running helped this single mom survive domestic violence and depression and turned her into a magazine cover model and triathlete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne answers emails about birth and herpes and alternative approaches for bacterial vaginosis when the whole nine yards doesn't work.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne goes to D.C. for the march and brings you with her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne is taking Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting on the road, or more accurately, she's walking over to Another Mother Runner Co-founder, Sarah Bowen Shea's house to talk about running, parenting, sanity, resolutions, and so much more. Fair warning - Jeanne's using portable equipment for the first time and this episode's a bit of an experiment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne starts out 2017 by taking a look back at the history of American parenthood from the 19th century to today with UC Berkley Historian, Paula Fass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about late-stage parenting, how hospitals staff their labor units for the holidays, and answers a listener's email about early contractions and inductions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne and Dr. Shah talk about obstetrics today, new fatherhood, cesarean sections, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with CARE's VP David Ray and CARE Action's! Rachael Lehman about what the election means to humanitarian assistance for girls, women, parents and families living in the poorest countries on earth. Spoiler alert - They're more reassuring than you'd expect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne challenges listeners to dig in and commit to active citizenry and chats with Dr. Pamela Stone, an archaeologist, anthropologist and expert on the intersection of culture, birth, death and gender-based oppression. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting is ONE! Jeanne answers a reader's Q about how to start labor naturally with a reading from the book. Plus, Jeanne talks with Child Fund International's Suzanne Berman about how brand new motherhood measures up to the hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Chrysula Winegar about how she connects mothers and solutions to global challenges all women face. We also talk about raising big families, sons versus daughters, nature versus nurture, laundry...all of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with renowned midwife, Robyn Churchill about how midwives work to improve global maternal health, including in the U.S and how taking care of midwives is essential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne covers current events on why maternal mortality in the U.S. is on the rise, plus International Day of the Girl (10/10). This week's guest is John Santelli, MD, a pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist at the School of Public Health at Columbia University. Jeanne and Dr. Santelli talk about what the most recent statistics tell us about teens, sex, and pregnancy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne answers a listener email about skin color and scars and also talks with writer, Rachel Kramer Bussel about her Salon essay, "Having it all” is impossible: What women really need is balance, fairness and respect." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Biz Ellis, co-host of the podcast, One Bad Mother, about life after giving life and how unnatural motherhood can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Emily's List's Alyssa Franke about why this campaign is critical for women's and maternal health and all our lives as parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne answers listener's email questions about what contractions feel like and FAQs about epidurals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices