#297 The Light & Dark Sides of Ultrasound

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

After returning from a great #reteachbreech seminar in Indiana, Wise Goddess Blyss and Dr. Stu address listeners' inquiries about sleeping positions during pregnancy, pregnancy insurance, artificial rupture of membranes, and optimal intervals for pregnancy planning. They then delve into the topic of ultrasound technology, highlighting both its well-known benefits and downplayed risks. The discussion includes understanding radiation exposure and temperature during ultrasound and tips for minimizing ultrasound exposure for clinical information. Dr. Stu and Blyss review essential vs. optional ultrasound exams during pregnancy and Blyss shares her personal experience with ultrasound in childbirth.

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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. This is a Soul Fire production.
0:26.4	Happy February. Hello. Happy February. Good morning. You're back home.
0:32.4	Good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night. Yes, I am back home. I had flight
0:37.1	delays because of snowing and icing conditions of the night. Yes, I am back home. I had flight delays because of snowing and
0:40.0	icing conditions and the planes were getting in late. And I ended up the 24-hour layover and missed my
0:44.9	plane by seven minutes, a connection in Phoenix. So I ended up spending a day in Phoenix and had dinner
0:50.1	with three lovely local midwives. My friend Cassie put out a feeler on Facebook and three people
0:57.1	said yes and they came over to the hotel and we all had dinner. It was great. That's lovely.
1:01.1	Lemon made out of lemons. Good job. Yeah. And the workshop, I assume, how many people attended?
1:09.6	I think there were 23. Lovely. And it was great. I want to
1:13.3	thank April in Fortville, Indiana, for hosting at her lovely office building was great. It was a
1:19.9	really great venue. And just another great time. I'm so lucky that I get to meet all these people and we get to share stories.
1:29.6	And as I say to them and as I say, you know, our listeners on the podcast, storytelling is
1:33.8	a great way to learn. And they're sharing stories with me. I pick up things every time I go to one
1:39.5	of these seminars. Sometimes I even incorporate it into the teaching. but it was, it was great. And yeah,
1:46.6	you know, sometimes you don't get enough stroking in life. Right now I'm getting a lot.
1:52.4	Oh, good. You deserve it. People are fanboying on me. And it's kind of fun, actually.
1:58.7	Yeah, of course. You deserve it. You've been working hard, advocating, and standing up for what's right for a long time.
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