1KHO 867: Every Baby Makes You a New Mother | Beth Barbeau, Who Delivers Your Baby?

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The person who delivers your baby can shape far more than what happens on the day your baby is born. Beth Barbeau is back for her ninth conversation on the podcast, and this time I’m finally telling the story of my first home birth after two C-sections and what that experience taught me about my body, motherhood, and the kind of care women need before, during, and after birth. We talk about the differences between OBs, midwives, and doulas, why the relationship with your provider matters so much, what I wish I had understood about postpartum recovery, and why every baby makes you a new mother, whether it’s your first or your seventh. Beth also has an incredibly helpful FREE guide, Who Delivers Your Baby?, that walks through your options and gives you the information I wish I’d had when I was starting out. Find Beth, the free guide, her newsletter, and more at Indigo Forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Gene here, to my founder of 1,000
0:03.8	Hours Outside, and I'm honored and thrilled and delighted that my friend and midwife, Beth Barbeau,
0:08.9	has returned to be with us today. Beth, thank you. You're welcome. Thanks for having me. I love
0:14.5	coming in being with all of your cool people. We've had some eclectic conversations, which I think is
0:19.8	really special. Everything from things that we want to pass on to our kids, we have a podcast called 50 Things I Hope You Know, which is the lessons, thinking through the lessons, the intentionality of what we want to pass down.
0:31.6	We've talked about air quality.
0:33.1	We've talked about birth and babies.
0:35.1	We've talked about first aid.
0:36.2	We've talked about a lot of things.
0:38.4	It's really been fun, and almost all of it is tied exactly. We had asked the midwife and there was
0:43.5	a lot there that tied into. We talked about thousand hours. Yeah, getting outside and trusting
0:49.1	yourself and trusting your kids. So as promised today, I was going to share my home birth story. So we've kind of
0:56.8	skirted around it a little bit, kind of dabbled with it here and there and other podcast episodes.
1:02.2	But I had an experience the other day with a friend who has a five-year-old and there was someone
1:09.7	in their family, a cousin that just had a baby. And so they had the baby at a birthing center the there was someone in their family a cousin that just had a baby and so they had the
1:13.1	baby at a birthing center and there was the tubs and and all those types of things there and the little
1:18.0	girl asked her mom she says how much time do I have to decide if I'm going to do birthing center
1:24.0	or hospital or homebirth. Yeah.
1:30.2	Isn't that wonderful though? Isn't that wonderful to have exposure as a young child to the different options that are out there?
1:36.3	It sounds to me like that, that mom and that family is doing a great job.
1:39.7	That child already knows more than a lot of people having baby, more than you knew.
1:43.3	The day you started to be
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