#268 Against All Odds: A Birth Worker’s Journey with Lindsey Meehleis

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Parenting, Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Acclaimed birth worker, Lindsey Meehleis, joins Dr. Stu and Blyss for a passionate conversation about their profession. Lindsey is a mom and traditional spiritual midwife who has been serving childbearing women through birth, lactation and emotionally through trauma release work since 2004. She works in Southern California and has had the pure honor of witnessing over 1300 births. She believes that “great grandma wisdom” is one of the most essential rememberings to tap back into during each rite of passage that we weave through as women in our lifetimes. Today on the show, Dr. Stu, Blyss and Lindsey talk about their shared mission of creating a space and culture where birth workers can talk about their profession without fear of prosecution, and their desire to aid mothers in welcoming babies into the world in the most peaceful way they know possible—at home.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Dr. Stewart Fish Fine, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.
0:10.0	And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.
0:13.0	Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.
0:17.0	Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go.
0:22.6	This is a Soul Fire production.
0:27.2	This is the earliest ever we've ever done a podcast.
0:31.8	I know.
0:33.0	Thank you so much for adjusting.
0:35.4	I have to take my sweet grant to go on a job interview today.
0:40.3	He's been without a job for two months.
0:41.9	So Mama is in town and I'm buckling things down.
0:45.8	And I completely spaced that we have an amazing show today.
0:50.3	So let me just say something to everybody listening.
0:53.2	I want to say good early morning,
0:55.3	good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night.
1:00.1	Good middle of the night. Right. All right. So wherever you are, we listening, we're glad you're
1:04.5	here. It's just after 8 o'clock in the morning, which is early for us.
1:11.5	It is. It us. It is.
1:13.0	It is.
1:14.4	Bliss's hair is wet and I've still got crusty stuff in my eyes.
1:17.7	So let's get to it.
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