Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting

Jeanne talks with Sarah Fleisch Fink at the National Partnership for Women and Children about parenting, paid leave and pregnancy laws state-by-state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Dirty Revival's lead singer, Sarah Clarke about how becoming a mother 5 years ago motivated her to become a professional musician and how she's integrating motherhood with life on the road. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with obstetrician, Heather Weldon, MD about how birth is different in different countries and answers a few reader questions about c-sections, early births and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with NPR reporter Rae Ell Bichell about how journalists report on women's health, pregnancy, drug trials and women. We also talk about the huge information and research gaps pregnant women face when the need medication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Amal Omer-Salim, co-Executive Director of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) about World Breastfeeding Week and this year's theme of global sustainability and poverty eradication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne and midwife Chris Beard, CNM answer listener questions about spotting, cramping, sex, epidurals and a whole lot more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about the tragedy of stillbirth before shifting gears to talk with actress, author and performer, Lauren Weedman (one of the stars from HBO's show, Looking and author of Miss Fortune – Fresh Perspectives On Having It All From Someone Who Is Not Okay! (Penguin Random House, March, 2016) about parenting during and after divorce and bring motherhood on to the stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about Black Lives Matter and chats with Jane Chen, founder of Embrace Innovations and Little Lotus Baby about the miraculous, portable, inexpensive and no-electricity-needed incubator that's saving babies lives in some of the poorest communities in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with author, journalist Roger Thurow about how hunger and malnutrition robs mothers and children of their chance to reach their full potential. He writes about women in the U.S. as well as developing country to tell the stories of how hunger affects women all over the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Terri McCullough, director of the No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative started by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and The Clinton Foundation. We talk about feminism, adolescent daughters, how women support each other and the work she does to break ceilings for all girls and women.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks about fatherhood, pregnancy, birth, co-parenting, changing times and changing diapers with her favorite Dad on earth - her husband. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with writer, translator, Olga Mecking in the Netherlands about maternal healthcare in Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What exactly does it mean to be high risk during pregnancy and why are so many women being treated that way? Jeanne answers emails about risk factors, inductions, c-sections and late pregnancy curve balls.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Jacqueline Sibanda about issues mothers face all over the world, especially when raising boys to be men. We also talk about the extra challenges mothers face in America where race, intolerance and gun culture put some teenagers at high risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with a nurse/friend in Germany about hyperemesis, finding your tribe, pregnancy #4 and how parenting differs in Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with her own kids about growing up in a big family, with a labor nurse for a mom and about gender, reproductive health,and what feminism, birth and parenthood look like for young adults today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with a brand new mom of an adopted baby girl about her journey to motherhood, the bond she's created with her baby and about being adopted herself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with fellow-labor nurse, Amie, about the long hours, working weekends and holidays and taking care of patients when you're missing your own kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No parent is perfect, but in some states, like Tennessee, pregnant women who need and want treatment for addiction are being prosecuted instead of receiving the help they need. Jeanne talks with Allison Glass from Health & Free Tennessee, a coalition of groups working to protect women's reproductive rights, about The Pregnancy Criminalization Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeanne talks with Harvard public health researcher, Gillian SteelFisher about what people do know and what they need to know about the virus that's been linked with severe birth defects.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices