Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting

Jeanne talks with Marque Robinson about breaking stereotypes, work as a humanitarian, and what it takes to raise African American children in the U.S. 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 with fitness pro Melissa DiLeonardo about pregnancy and parenting, postpartum anxiety and depression and how practicing her own fitness and wellness advice helped her heal. 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 answers listener email about insomnia in your first trimester and talks with Romper.com writer, Kelly McWiliams, about how anxiety impacts pregnancy and what the hell to do about it. 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

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