Craft the birth that you want | Melissa Schultz

The Lindsey Elmore Show

Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Schultz is a postpartum and birth doula. She’s DONA-certified and a CLC. As a mother of two children herself, she believes that birth is truly a transformative experience and that all women deserve and can benefit from the presence of a trained female birth companion. She’s cohost of The LC & Doula Diaries podcast. Topics covered in this episode: •How doulas guide people and families through the entire process of welcoming a new human being into the world. •How people that are giving birth and their families can really see the entire journey and optimize their experience. •How to prep before birth and the comfort measures. •Is Zoom doulaing a thing? •How to prepare yourself internally to be ready for the childbirth moment, while challenging oneself to be as powerful as one can. •Postpartum preparation. Melissa Schultz is offering a free download, ‘5 Steps to Prepare for the Birth that You Want,’ for all of Lindsey Elmore’s listeners. Head to https://view.flodesk.com/pages/607f745dd4884b088febe4d0 Thinx, the period-proof panties that will change your period for the better. Thinx will give you the confidence to tackle anything life throws at you while you have your period. To save $10 on your new favorite pair of period-proof panties, go to www.shethinx.com/lindseyelmore Lindsey Elmore, alongside some of her favorite functional medicine pharmacists, will be teaching a stress solution summit on May 15, 2021. This is a course to help you reduce stress and heal your hormones. Sign up at www.lindseyelmore.com/stresssolution We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome one, welcome all to today's episode of the Lindsay Elmore show. Today's episode is a
0:06.0	continuation of our episode earlier this week where I interviewed Lisa Drews, all about how to
0:14.1	eat to optimize our fertility. Now I'm going to interview Melissa Schultz, a birth dula who helps to prepare couples
0:25.2	and families to bring a child into the world with confidence and without having fear of the
0:36.3	unknown. This week is all about how we can optimize our fertility and feel good
0:44.7	going into childbirth. I hope that you will listen to both of the shows. Let's get to it.
0:52.3	Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore show, a podcast for people who
0:56.4	deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors,
1:02.2	thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible
1:08.9	tips and tricks that allow you to live your healthiest life so you can
1:14.3	pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark.
1:20.0	Melissa Schultz is a certified birth dula and has been serving as a dola in Augusta, Georgia
1:27.1	for six years.
1:29.4	As the mother of two children herself, Melissa believes that birth is one of the most transformative
1:36.7	processes that women go through and that all women can benefit from the presence of a trained female birth companion.
1:49.8	It is her hope that all people can come to see birth as something to be anticipated with
1:57.6	confidence instead of something to be feared. In addition to her work as a doula,
2:06.2	she is also a certified lactation counselor and a member of Augusta's Breastfeeding Coalition.
2:13.6	She also co-hosts the LC&Dula Diaries podcast.
2:22.3	Melissa Schultz, welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show.
2:26.3	Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here with you today.
2:28.3	I am excited to talk to you because I think that it is a special job for someone to have where they
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