If you have a license to prescribe medicine, it is your ethical duty to be able to understand the totality of the research.

I'm a reasonable person.

And so I ask reasonable questions.

If an SSRI, we don't have really strong evidence that it can outperform a placebo.

If it's a pregnancy risk category C, if it impacts the developing fetus or is passed through

through breast milk, how do you, in a paper, come to the conclusion that the benefits may

outweigh the risks? If emotional numbing exists that can create

distance and a detachment from the needs of your own baby, how in any way can a scientist say

the benefits may outweigh the risk? What are the benefits? My issue with this is your issue. They've taken liberty to say things

that are not true. I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate,

and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresha 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.

Okay. medical culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, I'm an honor to be on the program. My name is Dr. Roger McPhil and I'm a clinical

psychologist board certified in behavioral and cognitive psychology, executive director of the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Cognitive Psychology, Executive Director of the Center for

Integrated Behavioral Health in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and host of the radically genuine podcast.

So a lot of my work clinically is overseeing a large group practice and doing individual work

in cognitive and dialectical behavior therapy. I work with parents,

adolescents, and adults who are struggling with mood, depression, anxiety, eating disorders,

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