#206 | March Q&A: Choosing a Midwife, HELLP, Cold Sores, Drying the Baby, Lindsay Clancy, Covid & Aspirin, IUGR, Bottles, Parent Resources

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We are back with the March Q&A, and it is packed with your awesome questions! How do I go about choosing a midwife? Are there red flags?I had pre-eclampsia and HELLP syndrome. Can I still have a home birth?Is it safe to take Valtrex in pregnancy for cold sores or is there an alternative?Is it necessary to rub and dry the baby after birth or can baby just be handed to me?Can we talk about the Lindsay Clancy situation and how do we know if we are suffering postpartum psychosis?Does Co...

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0:00.0	There's so much more I could say all of this.
0:05.5	I mean, my heart is broken.
0:07.7	I cried so much over the last week thinking about this case and trying not to obsess
0:13.2	about it, but how do we deal with this fear of it happening to us?
0:17.9	The first thing I wanted to say about this case is we have to be careful as a society not to call this postpartum depression because it is postpartum psychosis.
0:25.3	The second thing is here we go with the IUGR again. This is like the next big baby now.
0:30.8	This is the next thing. Yeah, the next big baby is the little baby. Exactly. Clearly my energy
0:36.1	level changed talking about this, but that's because, that's because
0:40.2	this aspirin advice is now coming from the same community, the same medical community that
0:45.0	was significantly harming women and babies and families for the past few years.
0:48.9	And we have the statistics to show for it.
0:51.5	Birth outcomes were much worse.
0:54.1	So they lost some credibility. What are the
0:57.3	alternatives to the vitamin K shot? How did this get in the quakees? I'm Cynthia Overgard,
1:03.8	owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.
1:09.1	And I'm Trescia Ludwig,
1:14.6	certified nurse midwife and international board-certified lactation consultant.
1:17.2	And this is the Down to Birth podcast.
1:21.8	Childbirth is something we're made to do,
1:26.3	but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:29.0	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:33.3	It's that favorite time of the month. Yes, it is. Q&A nights. To be followed by dinner.
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