#464: A Confused Mixture Of Topics: Clearing The Desk
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast Blyss and Stu come to you with no guest and no single topic, just a “hodgepodge” of what’s been piling up in Dr. Stu’s mind attic.
From collapsing birth options and disappearing breech skills…to food, fear, and the quiet coercion baked into modern maternity care.
It may seem random, but there is a common thread here: Systems replacing skills, policy replacing autonomy, and women left navigating the fallout
References:
Fringe Red Light Therapy: Code BirthingInstincts10 for 10% off
Coalition for Breech Birth Coalition Facebook Group
CPT Maternity Care Services Codes and Guidelines | AMA
Leaked Kaiser email on Facebook
Reclaiming Birth Conference - https://www.reclaimingbirthconference.com/
Discussed in This Episode
Oregon moms left without hospital breech providers
The dying art of vaginal breech delivery
The System That Forces You to Lie
Coercion Disguised as Care
Ultra-Processed Food & Pregnancy Outcomes
EMFs, Fertility & What No One’s Talking About
New AMA Obstetric Codes
Risks of VBAC with a T-Inscision
Risk of repeat uterine rupture
Podcast Produced by: Raquel Hernandez, Pride and Joy Doula Care
This show is supported by
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- Join our Patreon! patreon.com/birthinginstinctspodcast
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- Website: birthinginstincts.com/birthingblyss.com
- Email: birthinginstinctspodcast@gmail.com
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Burthing Instincts podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, a hospital and home birth obstetrician for over 40 years, and a long-time advocate for birth choices. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Bliss Young, a traditional midwife. |
| 0:15.0 | Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything births. |
| 0:20.0 | Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. |
| 0:23.8 | So here we go. |
| 0:26.5 | Hello. |
| 0:28.8 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night, fellow travelers. |
| 0:33.6 | It's actually afternoon. |
| 0:35.5 | It's afternoon for us today. |
| 0:37.0 | Yep. |
| 0:37.5 | And we're recording a couple days late because I was under the weather. It's actually afternoon. It's afternoon for us today. Yep. Yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | And we're recording a couple days late because I was under the weather from my lovely |
| 0:42.5 | trip to Idaho where I taught for two days and had a really great time up there. |
| 0:47.0 | I want to thank Megan for hosting the seminar and for Agnetta for sharing her house with me. |
| 0:53.7 | But I came back with a lovely gift of a cold. |
| 1:00.1 | Summer. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.8 | But I'm good. |
| 1:02.7 | But I'm doing my best. |
| 1:04.5 | The show must go on. |
| 1:05.8 | You're so much a professional. |
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