{"podcast":{"title":"Pain Free Birth","slug":"pain-free-birth-6691170","podcast_index_feed_id":6691170,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2507812.rss","website_url":"https://painfreebirth.com/","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/h0kkamwct3gjfcy8vhsyy8exgodd?.jpg","author":"Karen Welton","episode_count":108,"summary":"In the Pain Free Birth Podcast, your host, Karen Welton, invites you to discover the truth about how God brilliantly designed the female body for birth. Karen is a certified doula, childbirth educator, and coach who teaches women all around the world how to give birth without pain and fear through her online courses and content.In this show, we geek out about the hormonal physiology of birth, supernatural childbirth, bliss and ecstasy in labor, pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood, and everything in between! Karen interviews women around the world who share their *jaw-dropping* stories of birth at home, in the hospital, and even in the car! She interviews midwives, doctors, and experts in pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum to share their unique perspectives. We’ve been taught to view birth as scary and traumatic or an “emergency waiting to happen.” In this show, you will discover a whole new perspective of what’s possible in birth.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-09T18:17:41.050828+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170"},"episode":{"title":"#91 | Oxytocin, Epidurals, and the Truth About Physiological Birth with Dr. Sarah Buckley","slug":"91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley","published_at":"2026-03-03T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170/91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18775597-91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18775597-91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley.mp3","summary":"What if labor wasn’t random? What if bonding isn’t luck? What if your brain is biologically designed to change in birth? In this profound and science-rich conversation, Karen sits down with Dr. Sarah Buckley, family physician, researcher, and pioneer in physiological birth, to unpack the true hormonal science of labor and postpartum. Dr. Buckley has spent decades studying oxytocin, the primary hormone of labor, bonding, and breastfeeding. In this episode, she explains how birth activates the ...","meta_description":"What if labor wasn’t random? What if bonding isn’t luck? What if your brain is biologically designed to change in birth? In this profound and science-rich…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4314,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pain-free-birth-6691170/episodes/91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170/91-oxytocin-epidurals-and-the-truth-about-physiological-birth-with-dr-sarah-buckley.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}