#219 | June Q&A: Assault in Labor, Home Birth Risk, a Swollen Cervix, Parental Conflicts, Laboring in Water, Nuchal Hands, Being Dropped as a Patient

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

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We are back answering your questions in the June Q&A episode. We kick it off with a woman's story of multiple non-consented vaginal exams in labor, her complaint to the hospital, and the hospital leadership's response. Next, we jump into our questions including: I really want a home birth, but I am afraid that hospital birth is safer and that home birth is dangerous. How do I determine this risk? My mom had a c-section for a cervix that swelled shut. Is that possible?I am strug...

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0:00.0	I think that we need to get away from this obsession.
0:05.7	And, you know, I'm one to talk because I love numbers.
0:08.4	But I think we do need to get away from the temptation to turn everything into statistics.
0:12.3	I'm wondering if I should have waited to get in the water.
0:14.6	If that maybe, like, slow things down for me.
0:17.8	What I tell women is get in whenever you feel like you need relief.
0:24.7	If your home bathtub is not 18 inches of depth for the water, it's not going to be the same.
0:32.5	While I was still in the hospital, I received a letter that I was being dropped as a patient
0:37.0	because it did not feel
0:39.0	safe or trust my providers and would be better served elsewhere. Well, it seems like the
0:45.2	response to women becoming more empowered and taking more authority over their choices,
0:50.8	the reaction is, well, we're just going to kick you out of our practice then.
0:57.3	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing of Connecticut, Childbirth Advocate, and Postpartum Support
1:02.9	Specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified
1:08.9	lactation consultant. And this is the down-to-birth podcast.
1:15.0	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying
1:19.7	experience in today's medical culture?
1:22.0	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:33.2	Welcome, welcome.
1:35.7	Hello, it's June.
1:37.1	It is June.
1:39.7	And it's hot and I love it.
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