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Real stories, honest advice, and answers to the questions partners ask about home birth.
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How Do I Interview a Home Birth Midwife, and What Should I Ask?
Go together and bring your hardest questions. What to ask a home birth midwife about her training, safety, transfers, and your role.
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Why Do Dads Freeze During Birth, and How Do You Speak Up?
Nick Lampp froze in the delivery room when it mattered most. Now he coaches dads to stop standing in the corner. Our full conversation, and what he'd tell you.
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What Do Dads Wish They'd Known Before a Home Birth?
Most of them started out skeptical. What dads who have been through a home birth would tell the next guy, in their own words.
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What Do Midwives Wish Partners Knew?
Show up early, stop coaching, and believe in her. What our midwife and doula wish every partner understood before the birth.
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What Does a Home Birth Actually Look Like From the Partner's Side?
Quieter than you're picturing. A walk through a homebirth from where the partner stands, from early labor to the moment the midwife's team heads home.
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What's It Like to Have a Home Birth Abroad? A Husband's Story from Bali
Todd Parker never considered home birth until he and his wife Chelsea found a midwife in Ubud. A video interview about finding his role in the room.
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What Is a Water Birth Like for the Partner?
Most of your water birth happens on your knees beside the pool. What to set up beforehand, what to do during labor, and what the medical groups say.
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Is Home Birth Anti-Medicine?
Birth moved to the hospital within a single generation. A short history, and why choosing home today still keeps medicine close.
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What's It Like for a Husband to Catch His Own Baby at a Home Birth?
Rowan caught his daughter underwater after a 30-minute labor. Our interview on two home births from the husband's side, with the full video.
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How Do I Stay Calm When I Feel Helpless During Labor?
Why watching your wife in labor hits men so hard, why your nerves matter in the room, and a 60-second reset for when it hits.
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How Do I Handle Family Who Think Home Birth Is Crazy?
When parents or friends push back, how you respond matters most. How to back your wife without starting a war.
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Should I Go to the Prenatal Appointments?
Yes, and not as a passenger. Why the dads who show up to prenatal visits do better at the birth, and what to ask while you're there.
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How Do I Get Our House Ready for a Home Birth?
A supply list, a test fill of the pool, and one conversation most of us skip. What to get ready before labor starts.
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What Does a Husband Do During a Home Birth?
The midwife runs the birth. Here's what your job actually is: staying close, staying steady, and doing the small useful things.
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Is Home Birth Safe? What Partners Should Know
What the biggest study found, where the medical groups disagree, and the three questions to ask your midwife.
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My Wife Wants a Home Birth and I'm Not Sure. Now What?
Your gut says no. What that fear is really about, and how to have the conversation without losing each other.
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What's the Difference Between a Midwife and a Doula?
One is a medical provider and one is a support specialist. What each does at a home birth, and where you fit in.
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What Happens If We Need to Transfer to the Hospital During a Home Birth?
Most transfers aren't emergencies. What triggers one, how often it happens, and your job when the plan changes.
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What Is the Golden Hour After Birth, and How Do I Protect It?
The first stretch after birth matters more than most dads realize. At home, protecting it is your job.
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