And they said, well, we need to do the heel prick. And I said, nothing is going to happen to this

child tonight. I said, she's staying with me. And they literally had one hand on her pulling her away from me.

And I had one hand on her holding her toward me. And I said, anywhere she goes, I go. So if you're literally going to force her

out of this bed, you're forcing me out of the bed. And they said, you're going to, you're going to

hemorrh, you're going to bleed to death. And I said, and that will be on your hands. And that's when

the paperwork came that I was on, that they had to put me, they had to let me know that they put me

on a government watch list

and on a list with child protective services because I had refused the life-saving

interventions of the vitamin K shot, the erythromycin, the heel prick, and that I was leaving

before she had urinated.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international

board certified lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Podcast.

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying

experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Hi, ladies. Hi ladies, my name is Erica Hullwile. I was born and raised in Manhattan.

I began exploring the practices of yoga when I was a teenager.

This has been my only vocation sharing this ancient wisdom

to reconnect us to our true essential nature. It has been a guiding force in my life through my

higher education, through one marriage and one child, through another marriage and another child. I'm still

in that second marriage. And through this ever-changing, complicated landscape in which we all find

ourselves living daily. So I am inspired by the work that you do and the information you try to share in the

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