I was able to finally have the bravery, facts, wisdom, and courage to have a homebirth with my 9th baby. And I am so looking forward to another with my 10th in October! Thank you for your time and wisdom that you share with myself and everyone else every week. I am so forever grateful! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Not one single podcast has ever had such a deep, lasting, and powerful impact on my life as this one. I found this show in early 2024, while expecting my first child. I devoured as many episodes as I could. I am a nurse myself, and through my own experiences and observations, I have long questioned the common over medicalization of birth, the most natural event in the world, and the loss of control so many women experience during their births. Cynthia and Trisha are such wise, compassionate, and strong advocates for women, in any stage of childbearing and rearing. Their wisdom and information helped me hire my own team of midwives for a homebirth. I had a beautiful pregnancy, labor, and postpartum experience, largely thanks to their education. I love how they help you make your own best, informed decisions. I still tune in weekly and joined Patreon for access to more of their content. I cannot recommend this show enough. Thank you ladies for all you do!

Binging the down to birth podcast throughout my pregnancy really gave me the encouragement and education to successfully advocate for myself and search for what I intuitively felt was right for me and my baby. Because of Cynthia and Trisha I was able to understand the ins and outs of the birth world and have a successful vaginal breech birth starting with 32 hours of unmedicated labor. Thank you both for all you do!

So grateful for this podcast. I have learned so much and been giving resources to further research to make informed decisions.

I am so thankful to your guidance through your podcast. I am a first time Momma and felt like I had a wealth of knowledge throughout my pregnancy and entering into birth from all of the education you both provide. I just gave birth on Sunday. I had a gestational diabetes diagnosis that did not disrupt my birth plans because of the education around GD you’ve provided , I had a 3 hour home birth that was surprise breech!  what helpsed me through the fast birth, intense surges, and the surprise breach was the steadfast knowledge and trust I had in the physiology of birth, and that is thanks to the content you all work so diligently to spread. I was able to remain calm and safe throughout which made all the difference. Thank you for all that you do in educating women  and changing the birth paradigm 💕

Eagerly awaiting every Wednesday for each episode! Real talk about pregnancy and birth. These ladies call out the nonsense and spell out the truth. Love it. Love it! LOVE IT!

This podcast is an absolute must listen. I promise once you start you won’t be able to stop. Trisha and Cynthia are a wealth of knowledge and so empowering to women and mothers everywhere.

This podcast will change your life for the better as you educate yourself on the pregnancy and birthing journey. Once I discovered, I simply could not get enough. The information that is shared has left me feeling knowledgeable, confident in my birthing decisions and empowered. I hope every woman listens and has the opportunity to also feel this way. Cannot thank Cynthia and Trisha enough!

This show is one of the most important things a woman can do for her birth into motherhood. For her physical birth, yes, but so much more than that. The many topics covered on this show can serve as a voice that drowns out the loud narrative telling you “birth is horrible, painful, impossible”. Instead you will feel empowered, prepared, excited, even! These women have taught me so much and as a mother of 2, soon to be 3, the loudest voice I hear is my own. And they helped me hear it.

Down to Birth is the holy grail of birth podcasts. Easy to understand, evidence-based information shared in a fun, relatable, and thought provoking way. My absolute favorite podcast of any genre. I have listened to every episode at least once, and often find myself going back to reference past episodes. I started listening long before my pregnancy, and credit Cynthia and Trisha as major factors in my positive birth, despite a 34w induction due to sudden and severe preeclampsia. Like they say, hear everyone and listen to yourself.

The down to birth podcast is one of my favorite podcasts. Cynthia & Trisha are succinct on the topics they cover. They’re empowering to women, speak truthfully, and are a gift to the birth community. We, as an entire culture, need more birth education the way they present it; it would life-changing to many.

The hosts were leading the guest, trying to get him to say that Pediatricians make more money on shots. If you’re going to lead a question like a journalist, at least be sure you’re right. And to be fair, the medical system is a bit corrupt but it seemed unnecessary to keep pressing to make someone say what you wanted. Won’t be listening again.

Everyone—moms, dads, grandparents, midwives, OBs, birth-lovers, birth-doubters…etc: LISTEN to this show! The guests and topics will forever change your perspective about birth and about the mothers in your life. Cynthia and Trisha will open your mind and heart about all things birth. Hear everyone-listen to yourself.

This podcast was the most important resource for my entire pregnancy. Cynthia and Trisha truly present all of your options within birth, and educate you on how to make your own informed decisions. I just had the most beautiful natural birth in the hospital, something I didn’t think was possible, because this podcast gave me the confidence to advocate for myself. Eternally grateful for these women!!

I think this podcast is full of great factual information. I also think it’s a great resource for women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant. However, I’m knocking it down a star because some of the episodes are so difficult to listen to when the hosts are constantly jumping in and interrupting the stories. I listened to one episode where a dad was telling his story and he was constantly interrupted. I understand they want to clarify and add in their two cents but I wish they would wait a little and actually let people get their stories in. They also come off like know it all’s even when it comes to people’s opinions which again is just kind of annoying.

I found this podcast at about 20 weeks with my second and knew I desperately wanted a VBAC but wasn’t sure it would happen. They were talking about how important your provider is to your experience, and it inspired me to leave my OB, hire a midwife and start planning a home birth. I listened to almost every episode and at about 36 weeks stopped taking in any new information on birth, labor, etc. and I tuned into myself and my intuition for making the last decisions in my pregnancy and during labor. After some easy prodromal labor, I was in active labor for about 5.5 hours, 30 minutes pushing, and baby girl was born into my arms at home. There’s no greater feeling. I share this podcast with any pregnant women I know!

Thank you for giving back the power to women to make their own educated decisions around their births. I was told my baby had IUGR with only one ultrasound on my third trimester. Because of this podcast I now t have the tools to defend my case and ask for more time and more data on this diagnosis.

I had an amazing HBAC a few months ago and listened to DTB throughout my whole first and second pregnancy. I wouldn’t have had the confidence or knowledge to do so without this podcast and all that it has to offer!

This is a great tool for women to utilize before, during, and after pregnancy. Cannot recommend enough.

Cynthia and Trisha provide great evidence-based information about birth and women’s choices. They go into the research and discuss ways that women can make decisions to have the births they want. There’s also information that is important to know about navigating the hospital system.

There are no words to express my gratitude for Cynthia and Trisha for teaching me all-things-empowering-birth. Their radical candor and no-nonsense approach is exactly what I needed to take more responsibility for this area of life!

Absolutely love Cynthia and Trisha for their down to Earth, straightforward, evidence based (and a lot of the times really funny) takes on all things pregnancy and birth. Such a variety of amazing guests and topics. Love that they share so many women’s different stories to help parents prepare for their best birth. Highlyyy recommend this podcast!

The Down to Birth podcast is an essential resource for women at every stage of pregnancy – from planning to expecting and beyond. Cynthia and Trisha provide an empowering and refreshingly honest approach to discussing the science of birth, avoiding any hint of patronizing their audience. In a culture where physiological birth is often misunderstood or distrusted, this podcast serves as a much-needed reprogramming of our perceptions. Once you start listening, you'll find it difficult to turn back. It's a powerful reminder to trust in your body and in yourself.

I listened to the Down to Birth podcast throughout my pregnancy and it was such an incredible resource. The information Cynthia and Trisha provide is invaluable, encouraging, and empowering. I would recommend this podcast to all pregnant women!!

Couldn’t have done my intervention free, home birth turned surprise breech without the knowledge and wisdom this podcast brought me throughout my pregnancy!

This is my favorite podcast! Pregnant or not, I listen every week without fail! These women do such a phenomenal job of stating the facts, and helping women understand their rights, and their bodies! I’m having my 3rd soon, and feel so confident and at ease knowing exactly what I want, and how to best advocate for myself. Highly recommend to everyone I know who’s remotely interested in birth.

I listened to this podcast through both of my pregnancies. The information is fact-based, ubiased, and family-centric. I credit my successful VBAC in large part to the information I gleaned from them! Thank you to Tricia, Cynthia, and their AWESOME guests!

Loving this podcast as I get ready to have my 2nd. Love the stories, the interviews, the awesome information provided. I’m inspired, encouraged and left feeling more confident in my birth choices!

Cynthia and Trisha are knowledgeable, calm, and wise voices for any woman to have in their ear! I listened to Down to Birth my whole pregnancy and continue to postpartum. I have truly learned so much from these wonderful women and am beyond thankful for the sensibility and nuance that they bring to the multi-faceted topics surrounding all things birth! They are truly a gift to women, providing excellent research and empowering information to help women advocate for themselves in a system and society that often doesn’t provide true informed consent. I have grown to love and appreciate Cynthia and Trisha for their wisdom, bravery, and excellent taste in podcast guests. I recommend this podcast to all my pregnant mom friends!

This podcast is so amazing. Tricia and Cynthia are extremely knowledgeable and give such sound and accurate advice. Their experience speaks volumes! I’m a Registered Nurse who has worked in a birth center and I’m going to have my 4th baby and 3rd home birth this year and I still learn things from them every episode. Their instagram is also great and they provide even more knowledge and support to their followers. It’s very refreshing in this day and age to also find women who aren’t afraid to stand up for what they believe in and actually support REAL women, REAL mothers and REAL breast feeders! I recommend this podcast to everyone I know that’s pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant! Keep up the good work ladies!

Down To Birth has changed my LIFE -- and the lives of my husband, son, and our new baby on the way! I found Down To Birth when I was pregnant with my first baby in 2022, and I quickly binged every episode because I simply could not get enough of the incredible knowledge that Cynthia and Trisha present through their stories, guests and personal anecdotes to help all women and their babies have safer, more satisfying, and all around better outcomes for their pregnancies, births and postpartum. This show was essential preparation for my body, mind and spirit prior to my son's birth, and has continued to bless me and my family (and everyone who will listen to me talk about birth 🤗) over and over and over again. I recommend this show to EVERYONE -- pregnant or not! Cynthia and Trisha -- to say you are changing lives is an understatement. Thank you for your dedication to women and babies and daddies and partners. Thank you for teaching us mamas how to advocate for ourselves, how to see right through rhetoric, and how to trust our instincts that are ever-present if we could just quiet the noise from the outside world. Thank you for your knowledge, wisdom, tenacity and commitment to truth and helping women have every bit of information they need to make the safest choices for their births. All the love in the world -- Emily Woodward ❤️

Trisha and Cynthia share well-researched information that centers the mother in her own birth experience. They have empowered me to take control of mine!

I seriously cannot recommend this podcast more. Not only are they not canceling women and the hard work it is to be mothers, but they inform you on the statistics of absolutely everything. In a world that doesn’t believe in true informed consent, it’s a breath of fresh air knowing these ladies exist. I wouldn’t have had such an amazing birthing experience without the power and knowledge they gave me.

So much important and life saving information on this podcast. I was so ready for my birth after listening. I have recommended to every person I know to listen. They are sharing so much old and lost knowledge that every women has a right to know.

I absolutely love the Down to Birth show! I found this podcast when I was 5 weeks pregnant and it has helped me so much with preparing for pregnancy, labor, and birth. I appreciate how Trisha and Cynthia walk you through your options from an evidence-based perspective so that you can make informed + empowered decisions for your pregnancy and birth. I’m so grateful for these ladies, and I recommend the show to every pregnant mama I know!

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I just wanted to reach out and thank you both so much for the information you put out into the world. I just gave birth to my first, weighing in at 8lbs 14oz at home after 51 total hours of labor. Headlined by a 10 hour long second stage courtesy of a very stubborn anterior cervical lip, and baby having both nuchal hand and cord. It was the most intense and difficult experience of my life, but I knew if I set my mind to it I could get her here the way I had always envisioned. Listening to your podcast gave me so much confidence to stand firm in my decisions and what I knew was best for me and my baby. I can’t wait to keep learning from you as I grow into my new role as a mom.

To say that Cynthia and Trisha are changing lives with their podcast is an understatement. Their hard work, dedication, and passion for helping women and children is apparent through their discussions, extensive research, and the thoughtful presentation of their content. Trisha and Cynthia have personally changed my life for the better with this podcast and their birth processing session. If you are TTC or pregnant, the DTB podcast is invaluable!

I wanted to thank you for your podcast. It gave me so much affirmation, confidence and just made me feel so heard during this pregnancy. I birthed my second daughter at home with my midwife and husband Wednesday evening - precipitous labour, born March 20th after just three hours start to finish! The most intense, AMAZING experience of my LIFE! 7 lbs 12 oz. My first was a 30 hour, Pitocin induction resulting in a 55 second shoulder dystocia & vacuum delivery + 8 day hospital stay for no reason. I was thoroughly convinced my body was not capable of natural birth, until I started listening to y’all! Thank you for what you do and the way you do it. I was literally listening to an episode hours before labor started! Much love, Cami 🫶

As a birth doula, I am hoping every one of my clients and family members will take my suggestion and listen to Down to Birth. Cynthia and Trisha have helped me prepare for my own home birth, learn about my body, succeed in breastfeeding, laugh on crazy days, prepare and educate myself as a doula, opened many conversations with fellow birth workers, provide be with evidence based research, and empowered me as a woman and mother. I am forever grateful. I found my mind expanded and my confidence stronger with each episode. They are also very entertaining for my daily walks! Thank you for being my walking buddies!

There was so much I gathered from your show and it gave me strength going into my second birth. I can proudly say I just birthed my second baby without one medical intervention at the hospital and it was so empowering and healed some of the trauma from my last experience. I credit this show with helping me feel prepared and empowered for this experience. Thank you, ladies!

I’m currently 23 weeks pregnant and thankfully your podcast has empowered me and taught me to advocate for myself. I had to fire my OB after she told me that she will induce me at 38 weeks due to me being 41 and she never asking what my birth plan was. So after my plans for a midwife transfer fell through I let her know I originally wanted a home birth she stated “ your baby will most likely die with a home birth”. I was appalled and so happy I had facts to back up all my choices to my planned natural home birth mainly due to this podcast and the extra research I’ve done. I fired her and was able to get help to fund my home birth with my midwife team whom make me feel safe and heard. Thank you ladies so much! ~Janine Scanterbury

I really love this podcast. I think I’ve listened to most episodes. I recently listened to episode #235, and it gave me some pause. I normally appreciate the balance of discussion about physiological birth and birth with intervention. In that, whatever way is right way for the mom is best. I didn’t find the same balance in this episode. It felt a little skewed and almost shaming to those who choose to take antidepressants, especially expecting moms and or those in their postpartum stretch. I guess you got to take their advice, “hear everyone and listen to yourself” ; ) Thanks for the many great episodes!

You are not alone! It is not too late! At 28 weeks pregnant with my first child I was going to go with the flow. But now almost 10 weeks later I am Down to Birth and postpartum! With the throughly evidenced based insight Cynthia, Trisha and their guests have shared my husband and I are natural birth warriors. My baby will come at the perfect time and we are ready.

My wife and I will be welcoming our first child soon. As the birthing companion I have felt somewhat detached throughout this process as I am sure many husbands and or companions do. I have also experienced anxiety about the birthing process because it felt abstract and out of our control. My naive self would just think well we will just listen to the doctors and everything will be just fine. Now that I have gone through the class and listened to many episodes of this podcast with my wife, I feel empowered knowing that our perceived lack of control is simply that, a perception and an ill-informed perception at best. The techniques and the knowledge that we have gained is incredibly valuable. I wish we had found this podcast and the Hypnobirthing class sooner because I have gained so much knowledge and discovered things that I can do to support my wife throughout this process. This podcast is amazing and can help spark a desire to learn as much as possible about birth and how to make informed decisions that you and most importantly the mother of your child are happy and at peace with. Learning about birth is not just a mother’s responsibility. This podcast is transformative and truly a blessing so thank you very much Cynthia and Trisha!

I have gleaned so much information from listening to these women and their guests! I went into my home birth feeling very prepared & ready for whatever! I cannot recommend this podcast enough.

It’s not an overstatement to say that this podcast is life changing. Cynthia and Trisha bring important truths and insights about birth and all things related that simply aren’t available on any other platform as well as perspectives from a variety of experts and stories from other women. I cannot recommend this enough to anyone pregnant, raising young ones or even thinking about getting pregnant. It’s not just for women looking to birth outside the hospital (though that perspective is readily available here) it provides critical information about how to advocate for yourself in any birthing setting and understand the different between medical rhetoric and reality. On top of it all, they are entertaining to listen to! This is important information presented in an utterly absorbable format. So grateful for these ladies and this podcast!

So refreshing to get real stats on matters so moms everywhere feel empowered to make informed decisions and follow our intuition and instinct backed by data we’re able to truly measure risk and benefit with. Love listening to each episode!

Cynthia and Trisha are SO articulate and sensical. Everything they say just makes sense. They always know their facts and have the data to support what they say. Their podcast and instagram page are a large reason I was able to have the most wonderful unmedicated birth experience. They are the reason I was able to trust my own body, after years of being told as a society that birth is a medical emergency. I am infinitely grateful for them! Now I can’t wait to be pregnant and give birth again!!!

I listened to this podcast before, during, and after my 1st pregnancy and it has been an incredible resource on my motherhood journey. The host's expertise and passion shine through in every episode, providing a wealth of information and support for those interested in an empowered birth. I love the diverse range of topics covered, from prenatal care to postpartum recovery, making it a comprehensive guide for expectant moms. Whether you're a first-time mom or experienced, this podcast is a must-listen for anyone seeking an empowering and nurturing birth experience. My #1 recommendation for any pregnant mamas ❤️