313: Birth Plans and Advocacy with Doula, Suzzie Vehrs
The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy
Elizabeth Presta
4.2 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The doulas are birth-nerding out this episode! Suzzie Vehrs is sharing her experience as a doula supporting over 200 births. She shares her perspective on birth plans, advocacy and setting yourself up with a good birthing team.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Elizabeth Joy, a birth dula, a prenatal coach and birth advocate passionate about all things from pregnancy to parenting. |
| 0:14.0 | In this podcast we will be hearing from amazing experts and moms just like you |
| 0:19.4 | as we continue to grow in this fun, chaotic, and beautiful season of life. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome to the pregnancy to parenting show. |
| 0:28.5 | Welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm excited about this week's episode. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm interviewing another Dula named Susie and I |
| 0:36.0 | loved getting to do Dula chat. |
| 0:39.2 | As you know I've been sharing just like a lot more birth and pregnancy information on here this year. |
| 0:45.0 | It's really my goal to spread the information that I'm passionate about and |
| 0:50.0 | that I use educating my clients and the information that's going to be offered in the birthing |
| 0:55.3 | course just because it is so vitally important to have. |
| 1:00.3 | I want you to have the best experiences when it comes to birth |
| 1:03.7 | build the best supportive birthing team that you can and that's what I have been |
| 1:09.2 | doing for over a decade as a dula helping mamas just feel supported throughout their |
| 1:18.0 | journey. So I was so excited that I got to bring on another dula today to just talk with or talk about how to really set yourself up |
| 1:25.0 | how to really set yourself up for birth, what to look for when finding support, how to deal with maybe |
| 1:39.4 | being in a setting that isn't supporting you, but you know how to advocate for yourself. |
| 1:46.1 | So we're going to talk about some advocacy and things that we see in the bursts that we show up to. |
| 1:53.5 | So I'm really excited for you guys to hear from Susie. |
| 1:56.3 | If you didn't listen to last week's episode, |
| 1:58.1 | make sure you go back and listen to Dr. Schifani Gupta |
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