E123: Your Everyday Stress Response Shows Up In Labor

About this episode

The episode discusses how everyday stress responses can impact labor and offers insights into understanding these patterns.

Send us Fan Mail Labor has a way of turning your everyday stress habits up to full volume. So before we talk about the “perfect” birth plan, we zoom out and ask something more revealing: when your day goes sideways, what do you actually do? I walk through two questions I use with my doula clients to quickly understand how a pregnant person and their partner respond to frustration, surprises, and uncertainty, because those default patterns often show up in the birth room. We start with the sm...

People in this episode

Host: Angie Rosier

Topics covered

• stress response
• labor
• birth plan
• pregnancy
• frustration
• uncertainty

Keywords

• stress habits
• birth
• doula
• pregnant person
• partner response
• labor room

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