FFP 417 | A Home-birth Story | Sarah & Matthew Bivens

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Sarah and Matthew Bivens are the creators of Doing It At Home (DIAH), a platform for empowering home birth content and community. DIAH started in 2016 when they were pregnant with their first child and switched from a hospital birth to a home birth halfway through the pregnancy. Both balanced lifestyle coaches prior to becoming parents, Sarah and Matthew have taken their past coaching experience and married it with their passion for home birth to make DIAH the ultimate space for home birth empowerment. DIAH includes a podcast, online community and content, resources and coaching. Together since 2012, Matthew and Sarah currently live in Marietta, Georgia with their daughter Maya.

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Topics discussed in today's episode:

What brought Sarah and Matthew to where they are now
Sarah and Matthews pregnancy experience
What prompted Matthew and Sarah to change their mind to have a home birth
What were Matthews concerns with home birth and was he onboard with it at first
What the differences are between a hospital setting and home birth setting
The differences in experiences with the midwife and the obgyn
How Sarah and Michael got passed their fears of home birth

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by my fertility awareness mastery online self-study program.
0:05.9	Learn fertility awareness from the comfort of your own home at your own pace for a fraction of the cost.
0:11.1	Head over to fertility friday.com slash mastery for details.
0:15.0	That's fertility fratty Friday.com slash mastery.
0:18.0	This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 417.
0:28.1	Welcome to the Fertility Friday podcast, your source for information about the fertility
0:32.7	awareness method and all things fertility. I'm your host, Lisa Hendrickson Jack. I'm the author of the Fifth Vital
0:38.7	Sign and the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Journal. I'm a certified fertility awareness
0:43.6	educator and holistic reproductive health practitioner with nearly 20 years of experience
0:48.6	teaching women to connect to their fifth vital sign through menstrual cycle charting, balancing
0:52.7	hormonal health, and optimizing
0:54.5	the menstrual cycle without hormones. I'm outspoken about hormonal birth control and its impact
0:59.9	on fertility and overall health because you have the right to know how your body works and how
1:05.2	artificial hormones disrupt that natural process. I teach women's health professionals how to utilize the menstrual cycle as a
1:12.0	vital sign in their practices, and I host live coaching programs to help you achieve optimal
1:16.6	fertility and health, because it's important to have healthy menstrual cycles regardless of
1:22.0	whether or not you want to have babies. I'm also a wife and mother of two beautiful boys. I know,
1:29.7	I'm a busy girl, but I managed to fit it all in. This podcast is designed to empower you to take full control of your cycles, your fertility, and your overall health.
1:36.4	And I'm so excited that you're here with me today.
1:47.9	Today's episode is all about homebirth.
1:54.1	And home birth has a special place in my heart because when I was pregnant with both of my sons, I decided to have them both at home.
1:57.3	And this was not a decision that I came to when I was pregnant. It was actually something I had
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