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These are the interventions I’m going to discuss today. IV fluids Pharmaceuticals Handling/overtouching Directing Cesareans Episiotomies Where did this list come from (since there are 5 episodes in this series)? They came from a question I asked to groups of New...

That ONE word  (Intervention) has brought havoc to the childbirth conversation. Where did it come from? What does it mean? How do you fit your coming birth into this one word? This is a 5 Part Series within an ongoing Bigger Series about You and Childbirth. Why is it...

I’m doing this series in the middle of the COVID-19 issue and there is a similarity in how we feel about risks in childbirth and COVID. 1) We can be terrified that we’ll catch COVID or have a ‘risk’ in pregnancy/birth and that death will ensue. 2) We poo-poo this...

First, let’s just get clear who birth professionals are: 1) Obstetricians 2) General Practice doctors 3) Midwives 4) Labor and Delivery Nurses Then there are heaps and heaps of auxiliary folks: 1) Childbirth Educators 2) Doulas 3) Other practitioners who work with...

Childbirth Trends have changed throughout Time. For most of our human history, birth just happened to women because ‘There’s no way to know what your birth will be like’. Then modernity started to happen especially after World War 2 when electricity, indoor plumbing,...

We can only re-envision something when we know what we have now and why that isn’t working. Where are we now in the Childbirth Conversation? We have a Choice-Based Childbirth Trend in most developed countries You make a Birth Plan Was there an earlier Childbirth...

Everything begins with a story or more. So let’s tell some stories. STORY #1: Throughout Time and across the global until the 20th Century, there were no Obstetricians. 100% of pregnant women gave birth one way or another. Every culture accept the good and the bad....

The birth of a concept that leads to a trial The initial inspiration for the concept for this 2-year trial ... to grow a skilled birthing population for ALL births ... originated during a historical childbirth trend that ran from 1950s-mid1970s led in New Zealand by...

How To Prevent Tearing During Childbirth (Hint: This Works No Matter Where You’re Giving Birth) Are you worried about tearing when you push your baby out? [I would make this a second subhead for this landing page – slightly smaller than the main headline) You know...

Dear Father-to-be supporting a VBAC Are you thinking to yourself, ‘WTF does she want from me and we have our doctor/midwife to take care of her. What exactly am I supposed do?  Or maybe you feel pretty confident that you can be a good VBAC birth-coach at least for a...