#308 Posterior Babies & Fist Bumps

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Every intervention has a ripple effect, and today Blyss & Dr. Stu discuss how culture changes can lead to unintended consequences. They delve into the topic of posterior babies, including what they are, why moms experience more discomfort and longer labors, and different methods to help get a baby to turn. They also explore the impact of our lifestyles on the positions of our babies, optimal fetal positioning, and trusting the wisdom of the baby's side.

In this episode of Birthing Instincts:

Understanding and navigating posterior babies
Methods for supporting optimal fetal positioning
Blyss' successful technique for birthing a posterior baby
Surrendering to your baby's wisdom
The impact of our lifestyles on the positions of our babies
ACOG's guidelines on laboring down with an epidural
Postpartum hemorrhage
Financial concerns & limiting midwife units

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This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Transcript

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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.
0:22.7	This is a Soul Fire production.
0:25.9	Good morning.
0:27.1	Good afternoon.
0:28.2	Good evening.
0:29.6	And?
0:30.4	Good middle of the night.
0:31.7	Good middle of the night.
0:32.7	Yeah.
0:33.3	You're centered today on your video.
0:35.6	It looks great.
0:36.7	Oh, good.
0:37.4	Thank you. Yeah, I realized the last
0:39.4	reels, I'm like, can't even see me. It's so dark. One of these days, I'm going to have a
0:45.6	professional office for this kind of stuff, but not yet. Yeah, I was thinking about moving my desk
0:51.4	to a direction where you wouldn't be looking at closet doors.
0:59.1	Yeah. You know, I don't really know. It's not designed for any other option unless I do something really weird. So I have to figure because I have some great paintings and stuff that I could put up.
1:03.5	And I, you know, my old daughter's drawing that was famous when I was in my old office and back in Studio City.
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