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, ...
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Mother's Day Special Edition Episodes
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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 …
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Two Cesarean Births, Screw The Breastfeeding Hierarchy & Meet Xavier The Xigua Melon
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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.…
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Resilience & ‘The Little Embryo That Could': Infertility, Endometriosis, IUI, IVF & Surrogacy During Pandemic
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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…
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A Pediatrician's Journey To Motherhood: Fertility Challenges, Mindfulness Practices & That Hospital Bag List
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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…
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Season 2 Is Here: Let's Catch Up With Hosts Brandy Breth & Flo Speakman
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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. Th…
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Celebrating National Adoption Month: Single Motherhood, an International Adoption Rollercoaster, and the Bathtub Epiphany
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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 he…
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Closing Out Filipino American History Month: Ask Dr. Abby, Fil-Am Mom, 3 Kids, Breaking Generational Patterns, Spicy BBQ, a Cuban Sandwich & Olive Garden Bread Sticks
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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…
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Honoring Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Overcoming Grief, Surviving a Postpartum Cancer Diagnosis & Miracle Milo
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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 Su…
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A Not-So Geriatric Pregnancy: From Miscarriage, Movies to Miracles and a Cameo From A Stay-At-Home-Dad
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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 consu…
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Born Out of Love: Same-Sex Marriage, Two Filipinos Dads, an Egg Donor, a Surrogate, a NICU Baby & $200,000
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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…
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Honoring NICU Awareness Month: A Micro-preemie Mama & Survivor of Kidney Failure While Pregnant
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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 …
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Introducing Delivery Diaries: The Podcast With Hosts Brandy Breth & Flo Speakman
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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 an…
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