all three of the babies has sounded really great during the whole labor whenever we listened so there was

never a concern one of the other midwives said to me at one point do you think she's dilated

and i said oh yeah she's i'm she's probably complete we should check her and i'm like i'm i'm not doing

that i'm not checking her um And I said, I'm not going to stick my hands. She hasn't asked. And she wanted her mother to receive the babies. Her husband didn't want to. And her mother had been at all of her births. And she's like, I want my mom. And she told me this prenatally. I said, oh, that's fine. That's great. Because I don't like to receive the babies. I like the mom to do it or the dad or somebody of their choosing. I don't want to be the first person to touch somebody else's baby. I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoborthing 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, I'm Christine Lauria, and I've been a midwife for 35 years.

I was community-based for a very long time.

And now I work for Doctors Without Borders doing humanitarian aid in very low-resource settings,

including refugee camps and conflict zones, disasters, and so forth. And so I work with a very high-risk

population with very little resources, as the name would imply. And so because of that, I've seen a

wide variety of things beyond what one might see in a home birth and things that

we would ordinarily, of course, risk out in a place like the U.S. where we have good resources

and are able to get more succinct medical care for mothers and babies. And so in light of that, I have a nice collection of wonderful stories.

I've attended a lot of breaches, over 500 multiples, including triplets.

And this is what I'm here to talk about today, a most recent triplet home birth here in the U.S.

I love this because when you remove the institution of birth, when you remove the medical influence

and especially the liability piece of it, when you go to these countries where they're just

happy to have somebody there to attend their

birth, who knows what they're doing. This is how we can build so much more trust and confidence

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