563: Placenta, Moon Parties, and Childbirth Your Way With Eyla Cuenca
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Eating placenta is a postpartum tradition in many cultures around the world. A young woman's first period is celebrated with ritual. Postpartum healing is supported by the community. What time-tested traditions related to all of the above are we overlooking in our modern age? How can we embrace them once again?
Eyla Cuenca is a childbirth educator and doula with over a decade of experience supporting women through the transformational threshold of birth and postpartum. Today, she sheds light on how women were supported traditionally through childbirth and postpartum. She gets specific about how to avoid interventions during labor, how to celebrate our daughters' maturation process, and how to approach a vaginal birth after a cesarean. She brings us back to the body's innate intelligence, our personal sovereignty, and deepest inner knowing.
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| 0:00.0 | We have time-tested traditions that have supported women for so long, and we can find our own |
| 0:07.3 | version of that. |
| 0:08.2 | I mean, we don't have to start, like, walking barefoot everywhere, climbing trees and having |
| 0:12.4 | moon parties. |
| 0:13.1 | But it's really, like, how do I bring these traditions into my space so that I feel connected |
| 0:20.1 | to it? |
| 0:20.7 | Because a big problem, |
| 0:22.1 | and say like there's this epidemic of disconnection. |
| 0:25.1 | So it doesn't have to look exactly how I illustrated it, |
| 0:28.1 | but at least knowing that it's available, |
| 0:30.7 | you can make a different choice that feels more connected. |
| 0:34.1 | And why is that important? |
| 0:35.3 | Because we want to be connected to our children. |
| 0:37.6 | We want healthily attached children. |
| 0:39.6 | And when we're disconnected from our own body, disconnected from our experiences, |
| 0:43.5 | we're just modeling disconnect to our children. |
| 0:47.2 | And, you know, we can go on like that. |
| 0:50.5 | However, I would wager that we have a more fulfilling experience when we're connected. |
| 1:00.4 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 1:08.9 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 1:17.8 | And now here is our host and producer Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 1:23.6 | Hey, Hilda here! |
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