Podcasts

Great prenatal podcasts to checkout!

  • The Birth Hour (Bryn-Hunt Palmer)

  • Week By Week (Celeste Busa)

    • Overview: “Week By Week is an insider’s view of pregnancy and parenthood. Host Celeste shares personal stories and has candid conversations with experts and parents about all the messy, hard, lonely, joyful, and under-talked aspects of pregnancy and parenthood and by the end of it hopefully we feel a little less alone.”

  • Pregnancy Podcast (Vanessa Merten)

    • Overview: “The Pregnancy Podcast provides information that goes way beyond the typical ‘pregnancy instruction manual’ by sharing research-backed, evidence-based information. Vanessa Merten designs every episode to give you all the evidence, research, pros, cons, risks and benefits. You will have all of the knowledge you need to decide the best options for you and feel confident about your decisions during your pregnancy and beyond. This podcast covers everything from trying to conceive, pregnancy, prenatal care, labor, birth, postpartum recovery, breastfeeding, newborns, and being a new parent.”

  • Is It Normal? The Pregnancy Podcast (Jessie Ware)

    • Overview: “Is it Normal? The Pregnancy Podcast is the new podcast from Jessie Ware in which she speaks to different experts to explore and reassure everybody about what is going on with our bodies and our babies during pregnancy and birth. This podcast follows Jessie’s pregnancy week by week, she is joined by doctors, midwives, sonographers, anesthetists, home birth midwives, doulas, mental health experts, reflexologists the list goes on…And with the help of questions from other pregnant people aims to cover all aspects of pregnancy and giving birth.”

  • Pregnancy Confidential (Parents Magazine)

    • Overview: “Pregnancy Confidential is a series of 32 podcasts designed to be accessed weekly by expectant moms. Hosted by editors from Parents and Fit Pregnancy and Baby Magazines, each 10-20 minute podcast walks listeners through the physical, emotional, and/or lifestyle markers of that week of pregnancy. The tone is friendly, fun, and conversational —you can read the medical information about pregnancy elsewhere. This podcast will be your best friend taking you through the real feelings —the joy and the annoyances— of pregnancy so you never have to experience any of it alone. This is real talk/girlfriend-to-girlfriend stuff you might not get elsewhere.“

  • For LGBTQ+ parents: If These Ovaries Could Talk (Robin Hopkins and Jaimie Kelton)

    • Overview: “If These Ovaries Could Talk is a podcast where two lesbians chat about non-traditional families. Jaimie Kelton and Robin Hopkins go in-depth with weekly guests about hopes, dreams, fears, and setbacks of bringing a new life into the world with a lot of love and a good amount of science. What happens when these families enter a world designed for straight people?”

  • Big Fat Positive (Laura Birek and Shanna Micko)

    • Overview: “Big Fat Positive is a smart and funny podcast about two best friends who found out they were pregnant at the same time. This show follows the moms-to-be on their journey through pregnancy and into new motherhood, week-by-week. With weekly check-ins, special guests and segments such as “OMG I’m Freaking Out,” hosts Shanna Micko & Laura Birek recount the often hilarious and always honest highs and lows of being a pregnant woman and new mom.”

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