#353 Is There An Ideal Interpregnancy Interval?
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Trying to clarify the questions about child spacing, Blyss & Dr. Stu discover nature is pretty wise. What are the medical recommendations and how do they compare? We review some of the guidelines and share our opinions. We discuss the rhythm of natural child spacing through ecological breastfeeding and contrast it with the rigidity of medical guidelines, advocating for a healthcare model that respects the unique journey of each mother.
We challenge the cultural obsession with the speed of labor and dissect the impact of our discussions by sharing the courageous decision of a labor and delivery nurse to switch to a home birth midwife.
As we address the realities of postpartum depression, we stress the vital roles of healthcare providers in supporting new mothers. We question the effectiveness of the current medical model in addressing nutritional needs and mental health issues during the postpartum and interpregnancy periods, advocating for a healthcare model that ensures thorough diagnosis, effective treatment, and diligent follow-up. This episode is a call to action for a more compassionate and tailored approach to reproductive health. Blyss shares about a birth with low platelets and Dr. Stu has some daughter time.
Key highlights:
- Interpregnancy Interval and Natural Birth
- Debating Emergency Cesarean for Fetus' Heart
- Challenging Medical Practices and Recommendations
- Breastfeeding and Interpregnancy Intervals
- Women's Health and Postpartum Depression
Episode resources:
- Join our Patreon! patreon.com/birthinginstinctspodcast
- ACOG article: Interpregnancy Care
- PubMed article: Re-evaluation of link between interpregnancy interval and adverse birth outcomes
- PubMed article: Interpregnancy Interval and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
- PubMed article: Effects of birth spacing on maternal, perinatal, infant, and child health
- PubMed article: Short interpregnancy interval: risk of uterine rupture and complications of vaginal birth after cesarean delivery
- PubMed article: Ecological breastfeeding and child spacing
- Book: Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing
- Article: Ecological Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing
- Ask Dr. Sears: Breastfeeding and Natural Childspacing
- Find a breech provider: breechwithoutborders.org/directory
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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. |
| 0:23.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:25.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:28.2 | Let's go. |
| 0:29.7 | You got me a little close up there. |
| 0:32.7 | You're welcome. |
| 0:33.8 | Good morning. |
| 0:34.7 | Good morning, good morning, good morning. |
| 0:36.3 | Good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night. |
| 0:38.7 | Depending on when you're listening to this podcast. So how are you? |
| 0:46.2 | I am feeling a little bit better, which is great. It's been almost four weeks. No, over four weeks since those two births that |
| 0:57.6 | I've been talking about. And yeah, I'm starting to feel a little bit better. And I had a |
| 1:04.8 | birth and I prayed and prayed and prayed that it would be a butter birth, as we like to call them. |
| 1:10.6 | It was a multi, |
| 1:12.4 | but she was another one that had some, some, uh, you know, I was, uh, in the gray area, |
| 1:22.2 | let's say. Um, so this is a mom who did a consult with Dr. Stu in regards to low platelets. Um, she had, uh, |
| 1:32.3 | she has low platelets in general. What do you call that thrombocytopinia? Correct. Thank you. |
| 1:39.9 | I'm impressed that I remembered that name. Um, and if you guys notice, notice, I usually talk in just normal people terms because I find that it's easier for people to understand just in general. |
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