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Birthing Instincts

#342 Dr. Stu's End of the Year Leftovers

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

While Blyss is away, Dr Stu goes solo and shares some holiday leftovers from his mind attic. Twins, breech, artificial intelligence, and more interventions. What can we hope for and what can we avoid in 2024.

Dr. Stu discusses the vital role of personal touch in childbirth and ponders the pushback received when challenging conventional medical narratives. He delves into the importance of hands-on expertise in birth settings, the challenges faced by aspiring home birth midwives, and the sometimes misplaced focus on potential problems in pregnancy.

In a world where women's choices in childbirth are paramount, this episode underscores the pressing need for skilled providers to support vaginal breech births, a choice often denied in conventional hospital settings. The episode concludes with a focus on the significance of respecting patient preferences and the empowerment that comes from having genuine birth options. Tune in for a thought-provoking session that champions the human element in medicine and the birthing experience.


Key highlights:

  • Birthing Choices and Online Outrage
  • Restrictions on Midwives and Home Births
  • Concerns About Vaccines During Pregnancy
  • Vaccines for Infants
  • Men's Fertility 
  • Vaginal Breech Birth


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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 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.

0:24.2

Hello, everybody. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night, you fellow

0:29.6

travelers. It's me, Dr. Stu, today, solo again. Bliss has been dealing with some other issues,

0:37.2

and she will be back with us next week.

0:39.4

I wanted to wish you all a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I'm hopeful that

0:46.2

2024 will bring some good changes. I know that 2023 was not necessarily a great year for a lot of

0:53.5

people, although all of you had children during this year, it was... I know that 2023 was not necessarily a great year for a lot of people.

0:59.8

Although all of you had children during this year, it was probably a very good year for you.

1:06.0

So today I'm going to do what I would call my leftovers.

1:11.8

Sort of like after Christmas or after Thanksgiving the next day, you're eating leftovers out of the fridge. These are things that have been in my mind addict for a while, and I want to get some of them out.

1:19.4

Some of them are newer and some of them are old. But since it's just me today and I really don't like

1:26.8

being without bliss, I'm going to share things that are just in my head today.

1:35.3

I'm going to start by just talking about my daughter's Uber story.

1:40.9

My daughter was coming for Christmas to Los Angeles. We all met there. And she lives in New York now.

1:48.4

And she got in the wrong Uber. And she got out real quickly and got in a different Uber. And she left her backpack in the Uber with her two computers in it and a whole bunch of other important stuff.

2:01.5

Fortunately, she had her wallet and her phone with her, but she left it in an Uber.

2:06.3

And she tried really hard to reach a human being.

2:10.9

And because of either privacy concerns or the automated system, there was nobody that she could speak to that would help her.

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