The Birth Hour - A Birth Story Podcast - Podcast Rankings and reviews

I have been listening since 2018 while in nursing school, as I wanted to be an L&D nurse and also a mother one day. I’m such a birth nerd and listen several times a week for the past few years. I wanted to hear women’s perspectives, not just what is taught medically, to better serve my patients. I just recently was pregnant and had a baby in Jan 2023 and continued to find the podcast so high quality and wonderful, and focused more on positive stories. It was so comforting to hear stories especially during that time. It inspires me to be the best possible nurse for my labor patients and try to give them their ideal experience as much as possible, with as many choices as possible. I truly cannot thank Bryn enough. My favorite podcast by far.

Many of the stories I hear from my friends and family involve multiple hospital interventions and/or pain medication. For someone who has wanted the courage to go pain med-free and be as intervention-free as possible, I have found that courage with this podcast’s help! I so appreciate that I can find unmedicated stories via the episode titles. I love hearing birthing mother’s unique descriptions of what the stages of labor feel like to them, and also hear the random tricks they and their partners used throughout the laboring process to make it through. Thanks to all the contributors for tracking so many useful details!

Have been listening to Brynn’s interviews for years now. I come from a medical background and have had lots of medical interventions for my own births with positive results, and I am fascinated by all the different experiences of the women on this show!! I love how even though Brynn loved her own home birth experiences, she welcomes all birth stories and experiences with a calm, supportive hosting style. Hearing about alllll the different stories has been so helpful for me in understanding others better, understanding how different/unexpected/unpredictable birth can be, feeling acknowledged/heard about my own experiences around birth, and having better insight for the “why” behind why people have different preferences than I do! Thank you so much for all you do, Brynn!!

I love love love hearing the mothers and their stories on this podcast! The host has also made changes in the new year to her role in the stories and is more interactive which I think has been a really great change!

I wanted to love this podcast because I am expecting my first child and I’ve gotten really into birth stories. Unfortunately the host ruined it for me. She sounds bored and almost annoyed by every guest she has on the show, and she expresses zero curiosity toward them. It’s bizarre and difficult to listen to.

I recommend All About Pregnancy and Birth instead.

I’m a nurse and planning to have an unmedicated birth at a birth center in a few weeks, and I wanted to listen to the birth stories of other women who had done the same. I listened to three episodes of this podcast so far and have been pretty turned off by the ads for the patreon and $395 online birth prep class during the first 5 minutes, then the wealthy mom guests who have all these support people that most pregnant women won’t be able to afford unless it’s covered by their insurance (multiple doulas, massage therapists, pelvic floor PT, craniosacral therapists to name a few), then the five minute ad for some unnecessary pregnancy or postpartum business at the end. Listen to The Great Birth Rebellion or watch Pregnancy and Postpartum TV’s content on YouTube instead, at least they don’t make you feel as if you’re missing out by not buying tons of supplements and hiring multiple different support personnel, while still providing educational information about unmedicated/natural birth.