Calm guidance for birth, babies, and parenting.
Yoga Birth Babies blends birth education, prenatal yoga perspective, and candid parenting support. Episodes move between expert interviews and community birth stories, with careful attention to agency, preparation, medical choices, and everyday family stress.
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Yoga Birth Babies is a pregnancy, birth, and parenting show with a clear educational spine. Deb Flaschenberg guides conversations that are warm, grounded, and practical. The show is especially strong when a topic is emotionally loaded: preterm labor, induction, vaccination, a long labor, an unplanned C-section, or a child in the middle of a meltdown. It does not treat those subjects as abstract debates. It breaks them into choices, signals, questions, and support systems. Recent episodes show a consistent interest in agency. A partner may want to help during birth but not know what showing up actually looks like. A pregnant person may hear that induction at 39 weeks is standard and still need space to ask what the data says, what it does not say, and what tradeoffs matter to them. A parent may see a tantrum and learn to think about sensory processing, regulation, and transitions instead of blame. The birth-story episodes bring the same values into lived experience. They highlight preparation, community, a trusted team, and the confidence that comes from being spoken to clearly when decisions have to be made. The expert conversations are similarly concrete. Guests discuss progesterone, preterm risk factors, lifestyle and environmental contributors, racial and socioeconomic disparities, vaccines, baby positioning, and ways to open the pelvis during labor. Yoga is present as a body-aware foundation, not as a vague wellness overlay. The result is a show for people who want calm language around high-stakes moments. It gives listeners more vocabulary for appointments, birth planning, partner conversations, and the daily work of caring for children.
Made for: Expectant parents, parents, birth partners, and caregivers who want practical, evidence-minded support around pregnancy, labor, parenthood, and children.
What sets it apart: The show combines prenatal yoga perspective, expert interviews, and community birth stories, keeping agency and real-world decision-making at the center.
Take ownership of your pregnancy, birth, and parenthood! Join Deb Flashenberg as she dives into conversations with some of the world’s leading pregnancy, birth, yoga and parenting experts. Deb and her guests are voices of calm and reason, sharing practical, relevant, insightful and evidence based information that is helpful for people at all stages of parenting. These lively conversations will inform and entertain you as you embark on this new phase in your life. Deb is the founder and director of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC, a labor support doula, Lamaze childbirth educator, Spinning Babies Parent Educator, prenatal yoga teacher and mother of 2. Please visit Prenatalyogacenter.com
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A steady, practical look at what ARRIVE clarifies about 39-week induction, and what still needs a patient-specific conversation.
Yoga Birth Babies takes up the ARRIVE trial and the way it is shaping conversations about 39-week induction. Deb Flaschenberg keeps the focus practical with Dr.
Emily Silver's candid birth story reflects how the right support helped her feel respected, heard, and steady through a challenging experience.
Emily Silver's birth story centers on the choices, discomforts, and steady support that carried her through pregnancy, labor, pushing, and postpartum.
A clear, grounded review of parental stress, regulation, and the pressure to perfect every parenting choice.
Deb Flaschenberg frames parenting stress through nervous-system regulation, focusing on the everyday pressures that can make being present for children feel unusually hard.
Blunt maternal health, birth, and body wisdom.
A pregnancy, counted out loud one week at a time.
Reported stories of responsibility and its consequences.
Deb Flaschenberg revisits a popular interview with Gail Tully about using Spinning Babies techniques for a smoother, more balanced, and efficient birth.
Deb Flaschenberg hosts Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard who shares her empowering birth story of a 36-hour labor and unplanned C-section, highlighting lessons from prenatal yoga.
Deb Flaschenberg introduces a birth story episode featuring Amber Hogue, who shares her empowering journey of self-advocacy during childbirth.
Mika Fox shares her journey from planning an unmedicated birth to having a joyful cesarean, highlighting the importance of flexibility and support.
Deb Flaschenberg revisits a podcast with Dr.
Host Deb Flashenberg interviews therapist Kat Sabath about nervous system regulation for parents.
Emily Silver shares her birth story, from a chemical pregnancy to the birth of her daughter Teddy via C-section after 30 hours of labor.
Deb Flaschenberg and Yiska Obadia discuss how partners can effectively support birth, addressing common fears and misconceptions.
Host Deb Flaschenberg interviews Dr.
Deb Flaschenberg interviews pediatric occupational therapist Madeha Ayub about understanding sensory needs and regulation in children, focusing on tantrums, meltdowns, and transitions.
Deb Flaschenberg introduces a birth story episode featuring Hayley Antonelli, who shares her positive birth experience emphasizing agency and a supportive team.
A revisit of a 2022 interview with Dr.
Deb Flaschenberg of Yoga, Birth, Babies centers this episode on the ARRIVE trial and induction at 39 weeks after hearing pregnant students say, “my provider said, this is what we do at 39 weeks because the ARRIVE trial.” Her guest, Dr.