{"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":"#93 | You're Not Underprepared- You're Overstimulated: Why Your Nervous System is The Key to a Pain Free Birth","slug":"93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth","published_at":"2026-03-17T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170/93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pain-free-birth-6691170","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18854273-93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2507812/episodes/18854273-93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth.mp3","summary":"Are you preparing for birth by gathering more information… but still feeling anxious and overwhelmed? In this episode of the Pain Free Birth Podcast, Karen dives into one of the most common mistakes first-time moms make when preparing for childbirth: focusing almost entirely on gathering information instead of regulating the nervous system. While education is valuable, Karen explains how consuming too much information (especially when it’s filtered through fear or anxiety) can actually dysreg...","meta_description":"Are you preparing for birth by gathering more information… but still feeling anxious and overwhelmed? In this episode of the Pain Free Birth Podcast, Kare…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2552,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pain-free-birth-6691170/episodes/93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth/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-6691170/93-you-re-not-underprepared-you-re-overstimulated-why-your-nervous-system-is-the-key-to-a-pain-free-birth.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}