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Birthing Instincts

#349 Home Birth with Type 1 Diabetes

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Thinking out of the box and individualizing care should not be rare. Join our conversation as Blyss & Dr. Stu host midwife Lindsey Meehleis & Home Birth x 2, Diabetic Mom and Naturopathic Physician, Gina Cummins.

We unfold the layers of managing diabetes during pregnancy, where technology and personal determination intersect to create successful birth stories at home. Hear firsthand from Gina about her experiences with blood sugar control during the intensity of childbirth and the crucial role of cortisol in this process. Lindsey provides a professional backdrop, highlighting the evolution of diabetes management tools and the power of informed collaboration between healthcare providers and mothers-to-be.

Diabetes care and options have evolved much over the last 40 years. Have hospitals and doctors kept up?

Key highlights:

  • Diabetes, Pregnancy, and Ultrasounds
  • Home Birth for Type 1 Diabetic
  • Naturopathic Medicine and Diabetes Pregnancy
  • Blood Sugar Levels During Labor and Birth
  • Heavy Metals and Health Impact
  • Gestational Diabetes and Pregnancy Surveillance
  • Empowering Women's Autonomy in Medical Decisions

Episode resources:

This show is supported by:

  • LMNT | Go to drinklmnt.com/birthinginstincts to get a free sample pack with every order
  • Needed | Use code BIRTHINGINSTINCTS for 20% off your first month at thisisneeded.com
  • BIRTHFIT | Go to birthfit.com and use the code INSTINCTS1 for a discount on the Basics Prenatal program, or INSTINCTS2 for a discount on the Basics Postpartum program.

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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.

0:25.3

Hello, everybody.

0:27.9

Good morning. I'm going to say good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of

0:30.8

night because I got home at 2 o'clock in the morning. Ah, you got your coffee cup.

0:37.8

I got to home 2 o'clock in the morning. Ah, you got your coffee cup. Mm-hmm.

0:38.3

I got two o'clock in the morning from visiting my son and his, my granddaughter and his

0:48.7

girlfriend, Haley, and their family.

0:52.1

I went with my ex-wife and I, and we met, and we played grandparent for four days.

0:58.0

And it was delicious.

1:00.7

It was totally delicious.

1:02.1

She's so cute.

1:04.1

And everybody says that, but she almost never cries.

1:08.9

And she's always, like, she's at the point now. She's seven and a half months, and she's always like she's at the point now she's seven and a half months and

1:13.2

she's smiling and you know she sort of she loves her sabah that's my name for grandpa and she loves

1:22.0

my beard so she's like she's grabbed we had to clip her nails because she was she was cutting my face

1:27.1

but she's so cute i've just had i clip her nails because she was, she was cutting my face. But she's so cute. I've just said, I miss her. I'm, I've been home now for about eight hours and I'm just missing her already. So I, yeah. But that was, that was great. So it was, I got home in the middle of the night. And it was cold here because I had the heat shut down or down to 64 and and it was snowing

1:47.5

when I got so I had to drive home and with one eye in the snow in the dark but I'm here I made it

1:57.5

so that's that's my week.

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