#442: Allegations Are Not Evidence With Paul Golden: A Man For All Seasons
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, Blyss and Stu introduce Paul Golden, a maternal and neonatal medical and legal specialist, midwife, and international advocate. Together they discuss the intricacies and challenges of midwifery practice around the world. Paul highlights his experiences working in various countries, combating legal threats to midwives, and advocating for birthing rights, while emphasizing the need for legal awareness, protective documentation, and proactive measures to support midwives and promote safer childbirth practices globally.
About Paul Golden
Paul Golden, is a maternal–neonatal medical and legal specialist whose career spans clinical care, worldwide childbirth, and advocacy. Paul is a midwife and international legal advocate, a skilled tongue-tie release practitioner, and a dedicated naturopath. He also brings expertise as a mediator, lecturer, and author, weaving together science, tradition, and legal insight to protect and elevate the practice of midwifery worldwide.
Website: LinkedIn.com/in/goldenpaul
Instagram: @Active.birth
Discussed in This Episode
Paul Golden: Midwifery and Advocacy
Legal Aspects and Advocacy in Midwifery
Challenges in Maternal Healthcare Systems
The Abuse of Peer Review Systems
Gunny Sacking: Silencing Whistleblowers
Lisa Barra's Legal Struggles
Ricardo Jones: A Targeted Midwife
The Double Standards in Home Births
Legal and Spiritual Advice for Midwives
Mentioned in this Episode
Human Rights and Birth Choices In the Balkans
Book: Protect Your Practice: And Keep Your Clients Safe
Books on Gumroad: https://midwifemediator.gumroad.com/
Article: Criminalizing Natural Birth: An Interview with Ricardo Jones
Podcast Produced by: Raquel Hernandez, Pride and Joy Doula Care
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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. |
| 0:23.1 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night to you. |
| 0:28.0 | I don't know why Stu wanted me to do that today, but there you go. |
| 0:32.5 | Because today I just want to start out with a tribute to you, just real briefly. |
| 0:38.3 | But before I do that, I just want to say our guest today is Paul Golden, and some of you may |
| 0:43.6 | know of him, and some of you may not. |
| 0:45.3 | We'll introduce him formally in a little bit, but he's a midwife and a maternal neonatal |
| 0:50.4 | medical and legal specialist, and he lectures on midwifery law, human rights, childbirth |
| 0:55.7 | globally. So we will be talking to him in just a bit. But I wanted to start out today with a |
| 1:02.5 | letter that I received from somebody named Dory just a couple of days ago. I don't know if you saw |
| 1:07.2 | at Bliss, because it was addressed to both of us, but some of those, they come through |
| 1:11.0 | my email, and I just want to read it to you. You both have been so helpful to me in my pregnancies. |
| 1:16.0 | I just had my seventh baby about nine weeks ago, my fourth home birth and count myself so blessed |
| 1:21.5 | to have found you. More people are turning to home birth. I think that's thanks to COVID |
| 1:26.7 | and the stupid bureaucrats in charge of hospitals, |
| 1:30.0 | which we'll cover more today. |
| 1:32.4 | But when I did in 2020, I had to really search for information and try to re-educate myself on everything birth, |
| 1:40.0 | even though I already had three children. |
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