Did pregnancy make you start reading every ingredient label and questioning things you’d never thought twice about? Girlie, you’re in good company.

In this episode, I’m joined by Courtney Gackstetter, founder of Jane and Thunder Apothecary, to talk about the personal journey that led her to create products for moms and families. Courtney shares how navigating a severe soy allergy shaped her pregnancy decisions, her three unmedicated births, and the business she built when she couldn’t find what she needed.

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Courtney shares her personal experiences and perspectives. This conversation is for informational purposes and isn’t individualized medical advice.

Whether your already thinking about the holiday or not, now is actually the time to start the birth prep routine that will help you avoid an unnecessary holiday induction that you don't want.

Tune in for what the holiday induction phenomenon is and what you can do now to avoid one if your plan is an unmediated birth.

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A little it of 'fake it til you make it' and also 5 tangible things you can do now to control the controllable when it comes to unmedicated birth prep.

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I've officially changed my mind about placenta consumption, plus the traumatic placenta experience with my third.

In this episode, we’re digging into why moms consume their placentas, what the research actually says about the supposed benefits, and why some moms are just keeping their placenta in the freezer for years.

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Human placenta processed for encapsulation contains modest concentrations of 14 trace minerals and elements: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0271531716300227

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Most moms just don’t know enough about birth... and honestly, it’s keeping you scared of things that are completely normal.

In this episode, we’re talking cord around the neck, meconium, long labors, cervical lips, and other things that get treated like problems when they can actually be part of normal birth physiology.

If you want to walk into birth feeling less afraid and more like you actually understand what your body is doing, listen to this one.

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What labor snacks should I have on hand for birth??

Easy to eat and digest foods, and think like a marathoner. Because birth IS a marathon.

We're also going to cover three reasons moms don't eat in labor, how it can cause more interventions, and what to do if you cannot stop throwing up.

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👋 Meet Callie, she's had 2 births at the hospital, 2 at a birth center, and 2 at home. And she's sharing what she has learned from having unmedicated births in every setting.

In this episode, we talk about the differences between birth environments, why education and advocacy matter no matter where you plan to give birth, and how understanding physiology can change your entire birth experience. Plus, Callie shares how faith shapes the way she prepares women for birth.

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Y'all flooded my DMs and comments after the Dani Austin unmedicated hospital birth episode… and some of the responses were wild.

So today we’re unpacking it.

• The excuses women make for not preparing for birth

• Why precipitous birth doesn’t mean you couldn’t have prepared

• What really happens when you arrive at the hospital and go through triage

• The one thing I would never recommend doing during admission