#216 | The Mystery of Functional Birthing Explained with Author Sarah Thompson

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

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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With the right knowledge and education about the intricacies of our own health, we have the potential to influence how our body gives birth. Did you know that by twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy your body is already making physiological and functional shifts to prepare for labor? Or that your baby's adrenal glands are the biggest factor in the initiation of labor? Have you ever heard that sub-clincal hypothyroidism is associated with a significantly higher rate of postpartum hemorrhage or that...

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0:00.0	How do we prevent complications? Well, we don't prevent them in the moment, just like preeclantia.
0:07.4	So we got to go backwards. We got to go back to when these processes first start. If you can't make
0:12.7	oxytocin receptors, you're not going to be able to attach oxytocin to the uterus. And that happens
0:18.5	weeks before we actually go into labor. If we can't build our oxytocin
0:22.3	receptors because we are vitamin A deficient or we are subclinically hypothyroid, well, again, we can
0:27.9	give them potocin all day long. It's not going to do anything. There's no receptors for them to grab
0:31.1	onto. Functional birth experience to me, the physiological birth experience to me, is that
0:36.4	the steps happened.
0:38.4	Is the body functioning?
0:40.8	Are the processes happening?
0:43.4	Is the mother able to gently go through that experience without having trauma?
0:51.3	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthingthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum
0:56.6	support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board
1:02.5	certified lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Podcast. Childbirth is something
1:10.2	we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying
1:13.8	experience in today's medical culture?
1:16.0	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:26.7	Hi there.
1:45.9	I'm Sarah Thompson. I'm a certified functional medicine practitioner who specializes in maternity care. And I'm also the author of the book, Functional Maternity. And today we're going to talk about preparing for the functional childbirth experience. What is the functional childbirth experience? So that's kind of a new term. Can you tell us a little bit about what a functional birth experience is? We talk a lot on our podcast about physiologic birth,
1:52.8	but I get the sense that they're a little bit different. Yeah, the terms can be interchangeable.
1:57.1	Absolutely. We're talking about what is the natural physiology of childbirth and how does that physiological
2:02.8	response expand outside of just hormones that go into causing contractions. How does it affect
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