#280 The Truth About Non-Experts Who Criticize Home Birth

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Fellow travelers ask Dr. Stu to comment on a popular Social Media influencer's video. Dumb Doctor Dogma is everywhere, and Blyss and Dr. Stu are here to break down the fallacies in arguments made by non-experts on home birth. They also talk about the lack of acknowledgment of midwives’ credentials, how birth is not inherently a dangerous experience for low-risk moms, and why we should not equate the level of training with quality of care.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.
0:05.0	I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, 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.
0:26.3	You have headphones on.
0:27.9	Good morning.
0:28.8	Good morning.
0:30.1	So I look like a total dork in the dark, but I think my audio is much better.
0:36.2	Yeah, because you're using your?
0:41.3	My big mic and my big ears.
0:43.2	And your big ears and your big mic.
0:44.4	You look great.
0:48.7	You need headphones now so that I don't look like a jerk all by myself.
0:50.5	Yeah, I tried that.
0:52.8	That combination doesn't work for me either.
0:54.3	So I'm not sure how you figured it out. We'll talk about it some other time, not taking a podcast time for that. That combination doesn't work for me either. So I'm not sure how you figured it out.
0:58.1	We'll talk about it some other time, not taking up podcast time for that.
1:02.8	You know, we just spent an hour together with a quick meeting with a couple of brilliant legal minds.
1:04.6	Brilliant legal minds.
1:07.0	Total opposite on the spectrum.
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