But what we need to understand is that it needs to become a core principle of healthy birth

that we protect the mother and baby remaining together.

Instead of seeing it as a bonus or a special little golden hour,

we have to see it as actually harmful to separate them.

I picture these providers providers and I keep thinking

you shouldn't be in the business of working with babies. You don't belong working with babies.

You don't understand babies. And I often have the thought about women. You don't belong in the

business of tending to women. Even female providers I have said that about. You don't belong in the business

of tending to women. If you don't understand women and their bodies and their needs and their emotions

and what they need from you as a provider, there's probably another line of work that's better for you.

This is why birth doesn't belong in the institution of medicine.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent, and postpartum support

specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified

lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Show. Childbirth is something we're made to do.

But how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

Back to basics.

Six years in, I think it's time that we revisit some of the most basic core principles

of a good, safe, satisfying birth.

So way back when, when we first started the podcast, episode number nine in 2020, we did

birth planning 101, the most evidence-based methods for your safest, most satisfying birth.

I actually listened to that episode this morning, and I was delighted by how excellent it was.

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