#208 | Achieving a Pain-Free Birth with Karen Welton @painfreebirth

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

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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If you are pregnant for the first time or even the second or third, we all want to know the secret ingredient to experiencing a "pain-free" birth experience. Today, we brought on a leading voice in the pain-free birth world, Karen Welton, to go deep on what it takes. Do you know the most important step in accessing a "pain free" birth? Hint: It's not about what you do in labor. It's not about position. It's not even about your birth location or provider. It's about your brain. It ...

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0:00.0	And I asked them, like, were you so comfortable that you could have sex in that in your birthing room?
0:07.6	And if you're not like that level of relaxed where you could get turned on and you could just take a nice warm bath and have your partner massage you, like that's the level of relaxation and embrace and surrender required to really experience a birth without pain or an
0:25.7	ecstatic birth or birth with like surges of oxytocin.
0:28.7	It's really this interplay between are we going to partner with our bodies and releasing
0:33.0	surges of oxytocin that floods our body and blocks pain receptors, or are we going to partner
0:38.2	with the fear and anxiety all around us in the culture, in the hospital, even in our providers,
0:44.7	our friends, and our family. And those are really the two paths. You're going down that mountain
0:48.5	and you get to choose in your heart, mama. Am I going to follow the path of fear and anxiety
0:53.1	and doubt, or am I going to follow the path of fear and anxiety and doubt, or am I going to
0:54.5	follow the path of surrender and openness and trust?
1:00.0	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum
1:05.2	support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.
1:13.0	And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
1:17.6	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:24.7	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:34.2	Okay. medical culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, my name's Karen Welton. I'm the owner of Pain Free Birth. I'm a mom of three girls and the
1:41.8	owner of Painfree Birth. You can find me in Pain Free Birth at Instagram or
1:45.7	Painfreebirth.com. And I love sharing about physiological birth and how women can actually
1:53.1	have a pain free birth experience. So Karen, when we asked our audience about who we might want to bring on the show in
2:02.1	2023, you got quite a few votes.
2:05.5	So we know our audience is very aligned with your thinking and very interested in what
2:11.1	you have to say.
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