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Hi! My name is Brandy Breth. I'm the founder of Delivery Diaries, a multi-platform content company dedicated to sharing our prenatal, birth, and postpartum experiences whether through IVF, surrogacy adoption, home birth or cesarean. So, if you're thinking of having a baby, already have children or just want to be the most supportive auntie ever - join the conversation! Together with my dear friend and co-host, Flo Speakman, we're here at Delivery Diaries: The Podcast to be curious, connect, and inform while also providing a sense of community through storytelling, so that no one feels alone on this family-making journey. Here are our Delivery Diaries.
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Hi everyone! Welcome to our Mother’s Day special edition episodes. Where Flo and I interview our very own mothers. What better way to celebrate and honor the essence of motherhood than to listen to their own birth stories and the advice and wisdom they have to pass down. In this episode we hear from Brandy's mom, Liberty Galloway. She’s shares her no frills pregnancy and parenting style. And later this week we’ll be hearing from Flo’s mom, Carolyn Speakman and boy does she pass...
This month of April is a special one. April is Cesarean Awareness Month and Black Maternal Health Week, spanning from April 11th through April 17th. Given the alarming rise in black maternal mortality rates in our nation, there's an urgent need to emphasize celebration, awareness-raising, activism, and the voices of Black Mamas and birthing people. It seemed fitting to continue Season 2 episodes featuring Shardae Webb. Shardae, who has experienced two successful cesarean deliveries with her d...
Welcome to Episode 8.If we could describe an episode in one word, then the word for this episode would be ‘Resilience.’ That’s who our next guest is, Shannon Totino is resilient. Brandy and Shannon met at their gym, shout out to Oak Park, in the women’s class. They both had their baby girls in tow, strapped in their car seats, watching their mamas go up and down doing squats and burpees. Shannon shares about her infertility journey to motherhood. How she faced unsucces...
We're excited, this is our first full episode in Season 2 and our first expert guest. Dr. Smita is a pediatrician in the Los Angeles area and the author of "The Newborn Handbook: Your Guide to Bringing Home Baby"She shares about her difficult journey to becoming pregnant and how exploring mindfulness through medication, acupuncture and yoga helped her fertility. Since then she changed her practice to empower children and families through mindfulness practices and transform the persp...
Join Flo and Brandy as they kick off Season 2 with an re-introductory episode.As they take the time to catch up a little bit on mom life with their kids they share about their personal journey with setting goals, intentions, lessons in failure and how it can relate to planning your birth, your adoption adventure or however you make your family. They remind us and themselves that perhaps we need to have a little more self-compassion for ourselves and empathy for what others are going through i...
It's November, and we're celebrating National Adoption Month. Delivery Diaries is about telling the stories of how your child came into your life. Whether by vaginal, cesarean, IVF, surrogacy, or adoption, it's all a part of the fantastic family-making-journey. In this episode we hear from Flo's dear friend, Stephanie Schroeder.Stephanie shares her inspirational journey to single motherhood and adopting her baby daughter, Grace, from Ethiopia 15 years ago.What is even more inspiring is she di...
Mabuhuy! Greetings!We are closing out Filipino American History Month with a special guest, a Filipino American mother who I grew up with in Tampa Bay, FL., Ate Abby or should we say Dr. Abby Loreto Hamilton. Dr. Abby is an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and a Speaker on Unconscious Bias, Assertiveness & Emotional Intelligence. She’s a mom of three kids, all grown up now, yet she makes sure they are not seeking ‘mommy points’ from her and are living happy and empowered lives...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we are recognizing all the mamas out there who are currently beating cancer, have survived it and to those who have lost the battle. In this episode we honor Elizabeth Anderson. She’s a painter and is currently an arbitration coordinator and family services administrative assistant at the Clark County Superior Court in Washington State. Most importantly she’s a 20-year-breast-cancer-survivor. Flo introduces us to her friend, this am...
We have a special episode for you all. Our one and only co-host, Flo Speakman, is sharing her Delivery Diary with us. She has gained a wealth of knowledge during her own family making journey and would like others to see what’s possible for themselves. My friend, is a bad-ass, she's the COO, Chief Operations Officer, for an IT company and CRM consultancy, in another life she would have be a doula or mid-wife, but we decided that it's never too late to be her calling. So for now in...
Creating a family doesn’t look a certain way. Which is why in today’s episode we have Mark and Jeff Angeles share their unique journey of creating their family especially being in a same sex marriage. Mark is an HIR Director and Jeff is a doctor, board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. They spent over $160,000 in making their family, in other words, creating their daughter, Margo.Their story is with filled endless possibilities, pride o...
In our first full episode we are celebrating the NICU warriors during September: NICU Awareness Month. Our first guest is Adrianna Ebron who shares her incredible journey of surprisingly being pregnant, while undergoing dialysis and successfully giving birth to her one-pound preemie boy, Astin who was in the NICU for over 100 days. There's so much to her story. Listen in to hear how she advocated for herself when she was not receiving the proper quality of care during both her prenatal and po...
Meet moms, film producers, businesswomen - and now podcasters - Brandy Breth and Flo Speakman. Each week they'll be having conversations with guests open to sharing their prenatal, birth, and postpartum experiences. From surrogacy, IVF, home births, cesareans, and miscarriages to even those big mesh hospital underwear, you'll be hearing touching and amazing stories that not everyone talks about. We're excited to listen, learn and be open and curious. New episodes available every Thu...
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