The Tranquility Tribe Podcast

HeHe sits down with M'Kaela Tremaine who shares the story of her firstborn and her experience with Bandl's Ring. A Bandl’s ring is a rare birth complication in which a constricting ring forms from thickened muscle tissue between the upper and lower segments of the uterus. The baby becomes trapped by the ring and cannot descend. It creates a risk of uterine rupture as well as significant trauma to the baby if the ring is not diagnosed and a Cesarean performed to deliver the baby.  Thank you M'Kaela for sharing your story with us!

Britt Pados is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner & Nurse Researcher AND founder of Infant Feeding Care.  Britt is a neonatal nurse practitioner with a clinical background in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). She has a PhD in Nursing focused on feeding in infants and has done research on flow rates from bottle nipples. She owns Infant Feeding Care where she provides breastfeeding and bottle-feeding support to infants in Massachusetts. Follow along with Britt here: www.infantfeedingcare.com

Today HeHe is chatting with Dr. Sarah Leahy, of Birth Uprising.  Sarah is sharing the story of her unassisted birth at home. You DO NOT want to miss this one!  Sarah is the founder of Birth Uprising.  Birth Uprising provides both inspirational birth art & re-education, helping you to take back control of your pregnancy and birth. Follow along:  www.birthuprising.com www.instagram.com/birthuprising

HeHe sits down with Sarah King to discuss navigating pregnancy after an eating disorder.  Sarah and her team of allied health professionals specialize in helping women ditch disordered eating, recover their period from hypothalamic amenorrhea, and improve their body image so they can regain their health and their life.   Follow Sarah: www.sarahlizking.com

Krystle Howald DPT educates and empowers women to take hold of their physical health. She specializes in orthopedic and women's health- treating patients in her clinic Empower Movement Physical Therapy in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. She also owns Expecting and Empowered- a prenatal and postpartum business aimed at helping women navigate both periods with safe and effective workouts. E + E also disseminates as much free information as possible to help every single woman understand the pregnancy and postpartum process better.  Krystle is the co-founder of Expecting and Empowered. After going through our first pregnancies (our first kiddos are 6 months apart) we realized that women were being told, "Just listen to your body and do whatever you were doing before pregnancy." This type of message wasn't going to cut it, and women deserve better. Our DREAM was to use our professional expertise to help women thrive from their pregnancy journey through postpartum. We created a roadmap for each period - one that accounts fo

Mandy Major is on a mission to change how America handles the fourth trimester. After learning first-hand how little we support and inform new parents during postpartum, she left her 10+ year career in digital media to dedicate herself to birth work and closing the gap in postpartum care. Today, she’s a certified postpartum doula PCD(DONA), founder of virtual postpartum care company Major Care, and creator of the My Fourth app, the first daily tracker devoted to postpartum parents. She has been a spokesperson for Philips Avent and currently serves as the postpartum expert for BabyCenter’s medical advisory board. She holds a M.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has written as a perinatal expert for HuffPost, Healthline, Motherly and more. Socials Instagram @DoulaMandy and @MajorCareDoulas Links My Fourth: https://www.majorcaredoulas.com/my-fourth  MomStrong culture article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/postpartum-support-mothers-united-states_n_60f42d83e4b01ba8eed7084b Code f

Kaytee Crawford supports families in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum as a childbirth educator, birth and postpartum doula, and babywearing educator. She uses her training, combined with a wealth of experience parenting four boys, to create personalized care as well as fun, insightful social media content. Kaytee is passionate about sharing her experiences in pregnancy and as a Black woman and a person living in a larger body in order to create safer, trauma-free experiences for others. Kaytee lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and four sons. She owns and operates Doula Kaytee, her birthwork business, as well as Ahava Creative Co, where she creates art and graphic design. Follow along with Kaytee: Www.DoulaKaytee.com Special offer: $5 off a babywearing consult. Sign up on Kaytee's website and put “podcast” in the notes during checkout!

HeHe sits down with Dr. Nidhi Kotak, pediatric dentist to discuss taking your baby in the dentist for the first time. We break down when, where to find a dentist, how to talk to your child about the dentist to get them prepared, etc.  Dr. Nidhi Kotak discusses when to start brushing, how we should be using toothpaste, types of brushing, teething, and so much more! Follow Along with Dr. Nidhi Kotak: @babytoothdentist

HeHe sits down to chat with Tatiana Koontz- Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, monitrice (advanced birth doula), postpartum doula, placenta encapsulator, and childbirth educator. Tatiana owns a home birth practice in San Diego, CA. Tatiana and HeHe have PLENTY in common as birth workers, but today they are connecting on their shared experiences as birth workers without children or personal birth experience.  Tatiana has devoted her life to birth and postpartum work since she trained as a doula in 2006 and has been privileged to walk with hundreds of families on parts of their special journeys. She has a deep love for postpartum support, helping families transition as they integrate their babies and overcome challenges. Tatiana has a passion for birth options, informed consent, improving connections within families, and aiding them in building their community both before and after birth.  Tatiana is a dog lover that is fluent in Spanish after living in South America for several years. She lov

Amanda Janzen is a registered nurse and international board-certified lactation consultant. With 8 years of L&D, postpartum, and special care nursery experience she has worked in a hospital setting, free-standing birth center, and now in private practice as a birth/postpartum doula and lactation consultant. As a mom of two, she knows the realities of postpartum and honors every parents "intuitive knowing" when something "feels off." She strives to bring all options to the table so parents can feel confident in their choices even if they go against the grain. Amanda landed a job as a new graduate in labor and delivery and began to recognize patterns that led to the rarest/scariest birth complications. She questioned the "norm" early in her career and now realizes these experiences have shaped her into the practitioner she is today. These same questions carried over into her postpartum nurse role when educating parents about the "ABCs" of sleep at hospital discharge. She was secretly bed-sharing (safely)

Join in today as HeHe sits down to discuss homebirth with Anne Margolis, CNM, LM, MSN, BSN, RN. Anne Margolis is a Licensed Certified Nurse Midwife, Licensed Femme! Teacher, Certified Clarity Breathwork Practitioner, Yoga Teacher and practitioner. She is a 3rd generation guide to mommas birthing babies in her family. Anne has helped thousands of families in her 25+ year midwifery practice and has personally ushered the births of over 1000 healthy babies into the world. She has also guided countless human beings to heal from emotional pain, inner stress and trauma, tap into their strength and power, live fully and vibrantly, and reclaim their radiance, joyfulness, calm and overall sense of well-being. Through her online childbirth course 'Love Your Birth', her online and in-person midwifery for pregnancy and postpartum support coaching, her birth professional mentoring, holistic gynecology, Clarity Breathwork, Yoga and Femme! experience offerings she infuses wisdom, compassion, inspiration, and joy into the

Today HeHe sits down with Kayla Bitten to discuss Diversity in Lactation Support.  Kayla Bitten is a black, queer medical racism and equity activist, educator, and writer with over ten years in the world of birth work and her work in rooted in tradition, advocacy, and her Southern culture. She is a student midwife in Alabama and working to provide equitable support and options for BIPOC families and educate fellow birth workers on the importance of skills and cultural humility through her business The Southern Midwife. She is also the owner of Alabama’s first black-owned lactation clinic, The Postpartum Clinic, providing accessible lactation and postpartum care that goes beyond the American standard and prioritizes the uninsured and BIPOC postpartum families. Follow along with Kayla here: www.thesouthernmidwife.work

Today, HeHe is sitting down to chat childcare options with Carole Kramer Arsenault, RN, author of the award-winning book Newborn 101 and founder of Boston Baby Nurse & Nanny As a labor and delivery nurse and parent educator working in Boston, Carole interacted with many families and saw that there was a need for top-notch newborn care. She founded Boston Baby Nurse & Nanny over a decade ago to support new and expecting parents. Over the years families have trusted and relied on BBN&N for high-end newborn care. In the last few years they have received many inquires for additional childcare options so they expanded their services to include nanny placements. Given the new demands brought on by Covid-19 and remote learning, they recently added Nanny Educator and Tutor Services so parents can feel confident that their children are getting the education they deserve. BBN&N prides itself in educating and providing in-home consultations to families and on-going trainings to their childcare provider

Rixa Freeze, PhD studied at the U of Iowa and is a researcher, professor, and mother of 4 children. Her current research specialization is vaginal breech birth. She is president of Breech Without Borders, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. She blogs at Stand and Deliver (rixarixa.blogspot.com) and is passionate about all things birth- and breastfeeding-related.    Content Warning: We discuss statistics of infant and maternal mortality.

HeHe is sitting down with Lara and Sarah, co-owners of Dynamic Doulas of London. Together, they are sitting down to share and dish about the secrets they have learned as doulas!  Dynamic Doulas of London work with birthing people and their families to direct them to the best sources for information, support, and health care and encourage them to grow into confident, strong, happy humans. For more about HeHe follow along: @tranquilitybyhehe / @the.birth.lounge For more about Dynamic Doulas of London follow along: @dynamicdoulas

With the return of The Birth Lounge podcast in 2022 - HeHe is SO excited to dive right into things with Dr. Jen Morgan.  Join us as Jen explains all things prolapse! Jen Morgan is a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, who specializes in treating pelvic health conditions. As a pelvic Health physical therapist, Jen specializes in treating all dysfunctions of the pelvis, across the  gender & age spectrums. Diagnoses often are related to the bowel, bladder, sexual health, pelvic pain, or musculoskeletal changes during pregnancy or postpartum; these conditions (like incontinence or pain with intercourse) may be “common” but are not normal & can be addressed! Jen has a continued commitment to patient care that is individualized and person-first. Her goal is to always have her patient’s feeling educated and empowered about their health and healing plans. Her plans of care blend hands-on techniques (including those that are self-taught), movement & breathwork to improve range of motion, gaining streng

Inside the halls of American hospitals, millions of people find comfort, healing, and support. But for many doctors and nurses, this couldn’t be further from the truth.    This podcast will dive into the shadows of American healthcare to investigate and uncover the abuse, control, and political power plays that leave the very people responsible for our nation's health, broken and battered.   We’re sharing stories of professionals in medicine that have experienced horrendous treatment at the hands of a broken system that does nothing to stop the trauma. As the Association of American Medical Colleges states, “Long before the #MeToo movement, women in medicine have instinctively banded together to counter a culture that too often tolerated harassment.”   From systemic trauma to abuse of power to the unspoken rules of cover-ups and corruption, Mandy Irby and HeHe will take you to the darkest corners of healthcare in America so you can have an inside look at bringing humanity back to medicine! Sensitive Co

Eva is a Certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant and is the founder of My Sleeping Baby and the Sleep Bible program.  Today HeHe and Eva cover the best tips for new parents to set their babies up for sleep success in those early months. Expecting? New parent? You don't want to miss these sleep strategies! Eva’s main goal is to help her clients establish healthy sleep habits for their children. After experiencing the debilitating effects of chronic sleep deprivation from her middle child, Eva was inspired to help families overcome their sleep challenges.  Eva is a proud wife and mother of two girls and a boy (who are all great sleepers) and lives with her family in Toronto.  Contact: Email: eva@mysleepingbaby.com Instagram: @mysleepingbaby Eva's Free Sleep Masterclass: Sign Up Here!

 In this episode, HeHe shares what she learned at the Smilo panel and how this information can help change the way we treat pacifiers as parents and caregivers. Dr. Dave Tesini shared some brilliant knowledge and HeHe is relaying it to you! She is also sharing her experience with pacifiers and what she has seen in her experience with hundreds of families, some choosing that pacifier life and some not. No judgement here, folks! 

Kallista is married and is a mom of 3.  She is a registered nurse and finished the lactation counselor training course through The Center for Breastfeeding.  Kallista helps new moms in their journey into motherhood. From pregnancy to welcoming baby in arms and beyond, she offers education, support, as well as her own experience.  In this episode we are diving into your relationship with your partner postpartum!  Email: info@newmomboss.com Website: www.newmomboss.com