#341 Overcoming Obstacles: A Twin Birth Story

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

With Blyss away, Dr. Stu has the good fortune to talk with twin parents, Anna & Jorge, and Midwife Nancy Pol about their journey with mono-di twins. Navigating the fear-filled medical system and traveling across state lines led them on another path to the birth they desired for their identical baby girls.

Twin pregnancies often come with a cloud of uncertainty and fear, but this episode sheds light on their beautiful potential. We unveil enlightening insights from a study revealing positive twin home birth outcomes, pushing back against the stigma of high-risk labels. Hear firsthand from Anna and Jorge, whose story of facing the unknown with courage and navigating the healthcare system with tenacity, underscores the value of training in vaginal twin and breech delivery.

Your stories, your feedback, and your dedication to exploring these vital issues fuel our continued commitment to bring these discussions to the forefront.

Key highlights:

Navigating Fear in Twin Pregnancy
Monitoring Twins and Financial Incentives
Inductions and Obstetric Care
Twin Birth Options and Alternative Care
Positive Twin Home Birth with a Midwife

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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 longtime 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.
0:25.2	Hello, everybody.
0:26.1	Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night.
0:29.3	It's Dr. Stu in another episode of the Burthing Instincts podcast.
0:34.2	Bliss is not with us today.
0:36.0	She's got some other business that she's taken
0:37.7	care of. She misses everyone terribly, and I, of course, miss her. But today's podcast is a
0:44.6	sport of a special podcast. We have a couple and a midwife on who are going to be telling us
0:50.4	about their twin birth story and overcoming some of the hurdles that they had to
0:54.6	overcome for a set of monodyte twins that had this wonderful birth. But of course, before we get
1:00.7	there, there's some updates of things that I have to talk about. First of all, just to get off
1:07.3	my chest, a couple of things about, one thing about ACOG.
1:11.8	We recently put out, by the way, did you guys all know it?
1:14.4	It was National Influenza Vaccination Week.
1:17.6	Sort of mock these things sometimes because it seems like every week there's like six
1:21.6	different or more national week of this or, you know, honorary week of this or whatever.
1:27.4	But I can't believe we now
1:28.8	have a national influenza vaccination week. And of course, ACOG on their interim account put out,
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