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Birthing Instincts

#381 Triumphant Birthing with Twin Mom, Jamie Raisleger

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

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

4.5 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Jamie’s journey is nothing short of miraculous. After being told by doctors that she might never have children due to her extensive medical history, she found hope and healing at a holistic retreat in Michigan. This pivotal experience not only alleviated her chronic pain but also transformed her outlook on health and shifted her career path from medical school to holistic health. As Jamie shares her story, we learn about the profound impact these experiences had on her life choices, particularly in her journey to motherhood.

Jamie’s personal narrative underscores the importance of self-advocacy. From preparing for a second child with spiritual intention to managing a twin pregnancy with meticulous care, her insights offer valuable lessons for expectant mothers. We discuss the complexities of labor, the emotional highs and lows, and the significance of creating a supportive birthing environment. Jamie's candid reflections remind us of the balance between medical interventions and personal instincts during pregnancy and childbirth.

Join us as we explore the profound, spiritual, and sometimes unexpected journey of childbirth through Jamie’s eyes, celebrating the resilience and strength of motherhood.

About Jamie Raisleger:

Jamie Raisleger is a wife and mother to three children including a five-year-old and twin babies. She is a birth doula and childbirth educator with a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and caught the birth bug when she attended her first birth in 2009.

Jamie's extensive experience as a patient within the medical system at an early age taught her to dig deeper when given boilerplate answers, navigate research articles, demand adequate and thoughtful care, and pursue solutions outside of the mainstream recommendations.

In her childbearing years, she has become a huge advocate for bodily autonomy, access to birth options, and nervous system resilience work for her clients and herself. She chose a home birth for her first baby and continued to use her experiences, background, and Holy Spirit guidance to navigate her twin pregnancy and out-of-hospital birth in March of this year.

Her days are now spent mothering her children, holding space for birthing families, and hosting The Triumphant Birth Podcast, a new show focusing on expert interviews, inspiring stories, and creating legacies of wholeness and healing through pregnancy and birth for our children's children's children.

Connect with Jamie Raisleger

In this episode of the Birthing Instincts Podcast:

  • Navigating the Journey to Motherhood
  • Preparing for Twin Pregnancy and Birth
  • Labor Signs and Arrival at Birth
  • Managing Postpartum Hemorrhage in Twins
  • Empowering Women in Birth Choices
  • Home Birth Advocacy and Childbirth Experience

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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.

0:24.9

Oh my God. It's you. Yeah. It's me. I'm in, I'm in Canada right now. Can you believe that four days ago,

0:33.9

four days ago, I was in Melbourne, Australia. And somewhere along the line, I left my new kangaroo hat in Tokyo, and I left my noise-canceling

0:46.2

headphones in Chicago. And so, but between then, between four days, I went to, I went to Bozeman, Montana, and I did a two-day

0:56.9

reteach breach seminar thanks to the international date line. I got a, I got a whole day back.

1:02.4

So that was kind of cool. And, uh, yeah. So people say, how are you doing it? How are you doing it?

1:08.4

I am, I am sort of totally physically wiped out.

1:12.6

I haven't slept well, but I am so jazzed. And I think this is a perfect conference to end with here,

1:20.6

the reclaiming birth conference with a really, it's a really nice group of people. It's a little

1:27.1

smaller than the than the

1:28.4

convergence of rebellious midwives conference in in sydney uh but we have some really interesting

1:34.5

speakers here as we have gloria le may we have billy harrigan and then other people i listened to

1:39.8

somebody named corin brown today was very very impressed her. And I'm going to talk to her

1:45.5

about maybe having her on as a guest down the road. Right. I'd love all of them on. Right.

1:49.6

Yeah. I mean, we could, I'm sure we could get Gloria on if we wanted to get Gloria on. But then we

1:54.6

wouldn't be able to get a word in. That's okay. That's okay.

2:02.8

She's one I would love to meet.

2:08.1

So I am feeling great.

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