[Birth Stories] Giving Birth to Twins as a Disabled Person, with Dani Izzie

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Adriana Lozada

Education, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.7 • 706 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dani Izzie, a disability advocate who is quadriplegic, tells Adriana how her years of navigating the medical system, connecting with a community that understands her, building a supportive team, and her deep understanding of her body helped her through the birth of her twins. If you liked this episode, listen to our interview titled If Pregnancy Becomes Medically Complicated: Working With a Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician and our episode on Navigating the NICU. Also, here’s the episode on Family-Centered Cesareans that Adriana mentioned in the show. You can learn more about Dani on Instagram @daniizzie and about her film at danistwinsfilm.com. Get the most out of this episode by checking out the resources, transcript, and links listed on this episode’s show notes page at Birthful.com. While you’re there, download Birthful's Postpartum Plan FREE when you sign up for our weekly newsletter! You can also sign-up for Adriana’s Own Your Birth online BIRTH preparation classes and her Thrive with Your Newborn online POSTPARTUM preparation course. Connect with Birthful @BirthfulPodcast and email us at [email protected]. Follow us on Goodpods, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/birthful/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hey, Mighty One, we are going to be taking a break from our usual series from now until September,
0:06.4	but don't worry, we're not going to leave you hanging.
0:09.3	In the meantime, we're going to be resharing with you some of our favorite birth stories
0:14.2	that you probably haven't heard yet.
0:17.2	To start us off, today we're going to be resharing our episode with the amazing, amazing Danny Isay.
0:24.7	And that seemed both serendipitous and appropriate since this episode is being released on July 26th,
0:32.2	which is also National Disability Independence Day in the U.S., and is the day we commemorate the signing of the
0:39.7	Americans with Disability Act. Danny is a huge disability advocate and a wheelchair using mother
0:47.2	to twin toddlers. If you want to know even more about her journey, you can also check out the
0:53.0	award-winning documentary she co-produced and
0:56.0	starred in called Danny's Twins, which helps amplify issues faced by disabled pregnant people.
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