The Ordinary Doula Podcast
Welcome to The Ordinary Doula Podcast with Angie Rosier, hosted by Birth Learning. We help folks prepare for labor and birth with expertise coming from 20 years of experience in a busy doula practice, helping thousands of people prepare for labor, providing essential knowledge and tools for positive and empowering birth experiences.
Episodes
124 episodes
E121: Mother’s Day: Childbirth Changes You Even When No One Sees It
Strength doesn’t always look like a highlight reel. Sometimes it looks like breathing through one more contraction, waiting through uncertainty, feeding a newborn on no sleep, or walking into the NICU with a body that’s still healing and a hear...
E120: What If Messy Breastfeeding Is Normal
Breastfeeding can look like a sunlit photo shoot online and feel like a complicated midnight puzzle in real life. We’re naming that gap without shame. If you’ve ever wondered why it isn’t coming “naturally,” why your baby pops on and off, why y...
E119: My Birth Stories Part 2
Water breaks at 7:30 a.m. and you think, “Lunch time baby.” Then the hours crawl by, your house is spotless, everyone is waiting, and you start doing the mental math of a possible transfer. I’m Angie Roger, and I’m finishing my personal birth s...
E118: My Birth Stories Part 1
Birth stories can turn into life stories fast, and I’ve realized mine explain more about my work than any resume ever could. I’m Angie Rosier, and I’m finally sharing the first three births that shaped me, not as perfect highlight reels, but as...
E117: Precipitous Birth
Labor stories go viral when a baby is born in a car or a bathroom, but the real question is what it feels like from the inside, and what you can do to be ready if it happens to you. I’m talking about precipitous birth, also known as precipitous...
E116: Perinatal Mental Health Basics with Sadie Clark
The moment a baby arrives, your brain and body change fast and not always in the ways you expected. I sit down with perinatal mental health therapist Sadie Clark to name what so many parents feel but struggle to say out loud: mood shifts can st...
E115: Essential Oils For Labor
Your birth room has a “vibe,” and sometimes the fastest way to change it is through something you can’t even see: scent. I’m Angie Roger, and I’m sharing a grounded, real-world take on essential oils for labor and birth. No miracle claims, no f...
E114: Pitocin 101
Pitocin gets talked about like a simple switch that “makes contractions stronger,” but the real story is more human and more nuanced. We unpack what Pitocin actually is (synthetic oxytocin), why it’s used so often in hospitals, and how its stea...
E113: Tips to Avoiding a C-Section
One number quietly shapes a lot of birth experiences: the cesarean section rate. When about one in three US babies is born by C-section, it raises a big question for anyone planning a birth: how many of those surgeries are truly necessary, and ...
E112: Low Milk Supply
The first days of feeding can feel like a maze: a sleepy newborn, an empty‑looking pump bottle, and a mind full of what‑ifs. We pull the fog back with clear ways to spot true low milk supply, from weight trends and diaper counts to weighted fee...
E111: Why I Love Being A Doula
We share an unscripted reflection on why doula work still moves us after thousands of births, from client connection to teamwork with nurses and midwives. The talk traces a path from personal beginnings to professional neutrality, and why value...
E110: How Community Milk Sharing Bridges Feeding Gaps
Ever wonder how families bridge the gap when milk supply lags, a baby struggles to transfer, or adoption and prematurity change the feeding plan? We take you inside the world of human milk sharing—what it is, why families choose it, and how to ...
E109: Prepare, Stay Open, Find Power In Any Path
Birth keeps us honest. Patterns suggest what might happen, then a baby turns face-first or a parent breathes through transition so quietly the room barely moves. We walk through three recent stories—a first-time labor that stretched across days...
E108: Why Chiropractic Care Helps Labor Feel Smoother with Dr Kristina Kill
Birth doesn’t have to feel like a sprint against the clock or a battle with your own body. Angie sits down with Dr. Kristina Kill, a family wellness chiropractor with 22 years of experience, to unpack how alignment and nervous system clarity ca...
E107: Building Better Black Maternal Health with Hakima Payne
Birth should feel safe, familiar, and centered on the family—yet too often the system delivers the opposite. We sit down with nurse, doula, educator, and Uzazi Village founder Hakima Payne to trace how personal experience scales into community ...
E106: Morning Sickness, Made Understandable
Nausea that won’t quit can turn early pregnancy into a maze of guesswork, guilt, and survival tactics. We’re pulling that experience into the light with a clear look at what drives “morning” sickness, why it rarely sticks to mornings, and how t...
E105: Complete Childbirth Prep vs Scrolling with Andrea Lythgoe
The internet gives you a million opinions on birth; we give you a map. Angie sits down with veteran childbirth educator and doula Andrea Lythgoe to unpack how a thoughtful class can transform uncertainty into confidence, whether you’re planning...
E104: From Birth Center Plans To NICU Reality
What happens when a carefully planned birth center delivery is suddenly rerouted by preeclampsia, a hospital admission, and a 34-week induction? We sit down with Andrea and Joakim to tell the full story of Magnus’s early arrival: the shock of a...
E103: A Series of 19 Unmedicated Births
Nineteen cousins, all born without medication, and not a single birth story was copy-pasted. Angie opens up about how a simple desire for unmedicated labor grew into a family pattern shaped by childbirth education, midwifery care, and steady pa...
E102: Sacred Birth International with Anna Lundqvist
What if birth is a rite of passage, not a procedure? Angie sits down with Swedish mentor and former midwife Anna Lundqvist to explore how intuition, preparation, and grounded advocacy can transform pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. Anna traces ...
E101: Babies Scheduled My Week
The calendar looks like dropped spaghetti, but every twist tells a story. We walk you through two real weeks of on-call life as a doula and lactation consultant—spontaneous labors that stall and surge, VBAC momentum at 3 a.m., and the quiet, st...
E100: A Conversation with My Four Daughters
A hundred episodes felt like the right moment to gather around the kitchen table and pull back the curtain on what it’s like to grow up with a doula mom. Angie sits down with her four daughters for an honest, funny, and moving conversation abou...
E99: Embrace The Wabi-Sabi Of Birth
Birth rarely reads the script we write for it—and that can be a source of strength rather than stress. We dig into the wabi-sabi mindset, a Japanese aesthetic that celebrates imperfection and impermanence, and translate it into a practical phil...
E98: Fueling A Healthy Pregnancy
Building a baby is the most intense construction project your body will ever take on, and it runs twenty-four seven. Angie shares a practical, judgment-free roadmap for fueling that work with simple foods, steady hydration, and small habits tha...
E97: 23 Lessons From 23 Years Of Birth Work
Birth rarely follows a script, but patterns emerge when you’ve walked alongside thousands of families. Angie marks her 23rd year as a doula by distilling 23 honest lessons about labor, from the mental game that steadies you through transition t...