429: Bringing Birth Back to Basics: The Power of Drug-Free Delivery & Plant-Powered Pregnancy
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Gone are the scenes from movies with agonizing screams and bustling hospital rooms. Instead, in today's throwback episode of Food Heals, we discover the power of Hypnobirthing, where women can experience a connective and intensely powerful birthing journey.
Join us as we explore a birthing technique that involves self-hypnosis to alleviate fear and pain during labor, eliminating the need for medication.
In this episode you'll hear from:
- Katherine Maslen, a clinical naturopath, nutritionist, author, and host of the Shift podcast, who shares her own incredible natural birth story.
- Laura Petersen, a best-selling author and self-publishing coach, who is opting for a natural hospital birth using the Mongan Method.
- Melissa Tucker, a podcast host and marketing expert who opted for a home Hypnobirthing experience, embracing self-hypnosis to maintain a calm, focused, and centered state throughout her delivery.
- Dr. Stephen Cabral, a functional medicine practitioner, about achieving a happy and healthy vegan pregnancy.
We delve into topics such as the power of affirmations, understanding the difference between pain and childbirth, techniques to breathe your baby out, the drawbacks of epidurals, ways to boost your microbiome and your baby's, the inhibiting effects of inducing drugs on the natural birthing process, the potential damage c-sections can cause to a baby's immune system, strategies to distract your brain from pain, optimal birthing positions, the benefits of water birthing, choosing the right people for your birthing circle, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Food Heels podcast. |
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| 0:28.2 | All right, welcome Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Allison Melody. This one's for all the pregnant ladies. It's a throwback to episode 277 on hypno birthing with |
| 0:40.5 | Catherine Maslin, Melissa Tucker, and Laura Peterson. Then another throwback to 374, where I asked |
| 0:48.0 | Dr. Stephen Cabral about how to have a healthy vegan pregnancy. Hypno birthing is a way of giving birth naturally without pain medication that teaches |
| 0:57.0 | self-hypnosis techniques to combat fear and pain during labor. |
| 1:02.0 | So this involves doing visualization, relaxation, deep breathing techniques, and really what |
| 1:08.0 | fascinates me about it the most is the amount of women having pain-free |
| 1:11.6 | pregnancies and deliveries using this method. So, of course, I just had to learn more. |
| 1:17.0 | So first up, I'm talking to Catherine Maslin. She is a mother, a clinical naturopath, a nutritionist, |
| 1:22.8 | an author, a speaker, and host of the Shift podcast, go check that out. |
| 1:27.7 | Then I'll be chatting with Melissa Tucker and Laura Peterson. |
| 1:30.8 | Melissa is a marketing expert by day whose last pregnancy was so magical that it made her want |
| 1:36.7 | to give birth again and again just to have the experience of it. |
| 1:41.2 | And my co-host is Laura Powers. |
| 1:43.4 | You know from Copy That Pops. She is currently pregnant, |
| 1:46.4 | but by the time this air, she may have popped a baby out. But Laura was inspired by Melissa to |
| 1:52.5 | begin her hypno-birthing journey. So she's currently taking classes to prepare for her own |
| 1:57.4 | natural birth. All right. Next up, my interview with Catherine. |
| 2:01.0 | The Food Hills podcast starts now. |
| 2:05.1 | She is a clinical naturopath, the founder of the international company Shift, a podcaster, |
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