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Birth Story Podcast

Birth Story Podcast

By: Heidi Snyderburn
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Summary
 Hi! I'm Heidi, experienced Birth Doula and host of the Birth Story podcast brought to you by Birth Story Media™. I support moms through their fertility and pregnancy journeys and help have trauma free birth stories and labor stories. When moms embrace their pregnant bellies and their pregnancy and await the arrival of their baby or babies they are going to feel many emotions and have many visions about what will happen during child birth. "Is this normal?" "What does a contraction feel like?" "What does the day of labor look like?" "What is a Doula?" I want every mom's birth story to be peaceful, happy and a memory that they will love to share. Birth Story podcast is my way to provide childbirth education through story telling in the comfort of your home and to prepare a mom for motherhood with any birth story that unfolds for their pregnancy, labor and delivery. If a pregnant mom uses an OBGYN, a midwife, a doula, a birth doula, or has a home birth, water birth, natural birth, C-section, cesarean birth, hospital birth, medicated birth, epidural birth, pitocin birth, an induction or induced labor, are having multiple babies or a single baby, a birth plan or no birth plan; I started this podcast to help moms learn and prepare for their labor and delivery and birth though birth story telling. BIRTH STORY PODCAST INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/birth.story.academy BIRTH STORY PODCAST FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/birthstorypodcast LOOKING FOR A DOULA IN CHARLOTTE, NC? HIRE MyDoulaHeidi: https://www.birthstoryboutique.com BIRTH STORY PODCAST SHOWNOTES: https://www.birthstory.comAll content on this podcast is trademarked and Copyright possession of Birth Story, LLC Parenting & Families Relationships
Episodes
  • S1 || 227 Heidi's Mom Tells Heidi Her Birth Story on her Birthday

    S1 || 227 Heidi's Mom Tells Heidi Her Birth Story on her Birthday
    Nov 3 2026
    Heidi shares an unedited recording of a birthday conversation with her mom about Heidi's birth on November 2, 1978. Her mom recalls being past due (due on Halloween), spending a normal workday, then labor starting at home while Heidi's dad was an hour away at the coast with friends; several girlfriends came over to support her as contractions continued. When her water broke around 10:00–10:30 p.m., her friend Pam drove her to the hospital, where her mom labored mostly in bed in a 1978 hospital setting and remembers labor as "slow, slow, slow, fast, fast, fast," with a quick, unstoppable pushing phase similar to her other births. She believes a doctor (likely Dr. Curry, from a two-doctor rotation) delivered Heidi around 8:00 a.m.; Heidi was about eight pounds, and her dad was not allowed in for the birth and fell asleep while sitting with her earlier. They also discuss how Heidi's name was chosen and briefly touch on breastfeeding and the mom's earlier postpartum struggles with a prior baby who couldn't keep milk down and eventually did better on lactose-free formula.
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    41 mins
  • S1 || 226 Heidi's own client goes into labor while out of town

    S1 || 226 Heidi's own client goes into labor while out of town
    Oct 14 2026

    In this birth story episode, Heidi talks with her former doula client Christine about a pregnancy marked by unimaginable loss and resilience. While navigating her first pregnancy at 37, Christine was also caring for her sister, who was battling stage three vulva cancer. Her sister passed away on Christmas Eve — just two weeks before Christine developed severe preeclampsia and was induced at 33 weeks at Duke University Hospital. After a long induction, Christine delivered her son via emergency C-section, and he spent time in the NICU. A powerful story about grief, advocacy, and finding support in unexpected places.

    If you are looking for a doula in Charlotte, NC you can connect with Heidi at BirthStoryBoutique.com

    We always have seats availabe in Birth Story Academy. Use the link https://www.birthstory.com/all-products/birthstoryacademy and code LOVE to receive $50 off this amazing childbirth education class!

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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • S1 || 225 Positive Birth Story Induction of Labor for Gestational Diabetes/Hypothyroid/Hypertension

    S1 || 225 Positive Birth Story Induction of Labor for Gestational Diabetes/Hypothyroid/Hypertension
    Aug 5 2026

    Today's episode is with Bethany Burdine as she chats about working with a doula from Birth Story Boutique and her positive induction birth story with an epidural and a vaginal birth.

    I would love to have you follow in Bethany's footsteps with your childbirth education preparation by jumping into Birth Story Academy. Use code LOVE for $50 Off.

    XOXO- Heidi

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    1 hr and 9 mins
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