Pregnancy, Parenting & Politics
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#36: Jane Chen - Beyonce Backed Baby Entrepreneur
16 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about Black Lives Matter and chats with Jane Chen, founder of Embrace Innovations and Little Lotus Baby about the miraculous, portable, i...
#35: The First 1000 Days with Roger Thurow
09 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with author, journalist Roger Thurow about how hunger and malnutrition robs mothers and children of their chance to reach their full pote...
#34: Aimee's Emails and Adrienne Martini
02 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne gets more email from Aimee about her 37 week c-section plans and she talks to Adrienne Martini about post partum mental health issues. Learn mo...
#33: Kicking Out The Ceiling for Mothers
27 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Terri McCullough, director of the No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative started by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton ...
#32: Advice From An Old Dad to New Dad
18 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about fatherhood, pregnancy, birth, co-parenting, changing times and changing diapers with her favorite Dad on earth - her husband. Learn...
#30: Talking Shop with a Hospital Midwife
11 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Chris Beard, certified nurse midwife, solo mom to adopted daughters, avid camper and outdoor enthusiast about mothering adolescent g...
#30: Why Maternal Healthcare is Better in Europe - One Mama's Experience
04 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with writer, translator, Olga Mecking in the Netherlands about maternal healthcare in Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
#29: High Risk Pregnancy Q's
28 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly does it mean to be high risk during pregnancy and why are so many women being treated that way? Jeanne answers emails about risk factors,...
#28: Raising Boys In America
21 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Jacqueline Sibanda about issues mothers face all over the world, especially when raising boys to be men. We also talk about the extr...
#27: The Friends You'll Make As Parents
14 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with a nurse/friend in Germany about hyperemesis, finding your tribe, pregnancy #4 and how parenting differs in Europe. Learn more about ...
#26: Mother's Day With My Kids
07 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with her own kids about growing up in a big family, with a labor nurse for a mom and about gender, reproductive health,and what feminism,...
#25: Both Sides of the Adoption Story
30 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with a brand new mom of an adopted baby girl about her journey to motherhood, the bond she's created with her baby and about being adopte...
#24: More From Labor Nurses
23 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with fellow-labor nurse, Amie, about the long hours, working weekends and holidays and taking care of patients when you're missing your o...
#23: Sending Mama To Jail
16 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
No parent is perfect, but in some states, like Tennessee, pregnant women who need and want treatment for addiction are being prosecuted instead of rec...
#22: Zika Virus
09 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Harvard public health researcher, Gillian SteelFisher about what people do know and what they need to know about the virus that's be...
#21: Dream Jobs
02 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Kristen Kirkland of Every Mother Counts about their dream jobs, how to make working motherhood possible and how Kristen took her pas...
#20: Mother of Invention
26 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about the creative force that drives pregnancy, motherhood and parenting and how that sometimes turns into truly creative career, busines...
#19: Q&A Grab Bag
19 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne answers reader emails about inductions, gestational diabetes, bacterial vaginosis and one grandmother's concern about her daughter's healing c-...
#18: Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Mothers
12 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with co-author and co-founder of Our Bodies, OurSelves, Judy Norsigian about her role in changing women's health and her thoughts on the ...
#17: Which is Safer? Home or Hospital?
05 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with researchers, a midwife and an epidemiologist at Oregon Health and Sciences University, about a new study on the safety of home birt...
#16: Words That Matter
27 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with doula, poet, feminist and freelance writer, Carrie Murphy, about why the words we use when we talk about birth and motherhood matter...
#11: Foster Care, "Bad Moms" and Community Health - A Love Story
23 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Kathy, a community health nurse, talks with Jeanne about both sides of the foster care equation - what it's like for the biological and foster parents...
#15: Laughing Gas and Labor Pains
20 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne answers reader emails about pain management during labor and talks with Wendy Berger, CNM who works at Legacy Emanuel Hospital - one of a growi...
#14: Politics and Motherhood
13 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about government's role in our parenthood and the power of active citizenry. She also talks with Karleen Basch about why her second pregn...
#12: Khadijah Queen Talks About Single Motherhood
30 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne answers listeners emails and author and poet Khadijah Queen shares her insights about single motherhood, raising a black son in America and her...
#10: Nan Strauss Talks About Doulas
16 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Nan Strauss, Choices in Childbirth's director of policy and research about doulas, insurance and the research-proven benefits doulas...
#9: Frank Talk with The Labor Nurses
09 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks shop with two labor nurses who've spent decades working with mothers from all walks of life. What makes them even more special is they're...
#8: Avital Norman Nathman on Feminism and Motherhood
02 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with The Good Mother Myth author, Avital Norman Nathman about the ways gender inequity and feminism impact all aspects of motherhood from...
#7: Karen Parker, Certified Nurse Midwife, Explains Polyhydramnios
19 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne gets emails from people all around the world who have questions about a worrisome, late-pregnancy condition: polyhydramnios, AKA "too much amni...
#6: Jennifer Pastiloff on Pregnancy, Ambivalence & Joy
12 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Pregnancy is among the most emotionally tumultuous times in any woman’s life and it’s normal for your feelings to run wild. Nobody knows better a...
#5: Jessica Shortall on Workplace Breastfeeding Policies
05 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with author and TED speaker, Jessica Shortall about her new book, Work, Pump, Repeat and about why maternity leave policies in the U.S. a...
#4: Michelle Vick and the Baby Box Tradition
28 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about the latest stats on maternal health, about what you really need in terms of stuff and about what it takes to fully support mothers ...
#3: Sarah Lynch on CARE, Second Pregnanies, and Twins
22 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about second pregnancies, twins and global maternal health with Sarah Lynch, Senior Director of Global Policy Initiatives for CARE’s po...
#2: Peg Moline on Pregnancy & Media
14 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks about birth industry history and chats with Peg Moline, founding editor-in-chief of Fit Pregnancy Magazine, Natural Health and Shape maga...
#1: Sarah Bowen Shea on Exercise
06 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Jeanne talks with Sarah Bowen Shea, author of the three books about running and motherhood and founder of the online running community - Another Mothe...
Introducing Common Sense Pregnancy & Parenting, the Podcast
05 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
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