Welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast.

Join us each week as I tackle the evidence on another hot topic about childbirth.

As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See

Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. Hi everyone and welcome to the very first episode of the

evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm going to be

your host for this podcast.

So for this first episode I'm going to explain to you about how evidence-based birth began

and then after that we will dive into some hot topics in the field of evidence-based maternity care.

So I wanted to kick off this podcast by telling you the story of how evidence-based birth was born and where this movement came from. I think it's really

important for you to know what my story is and I've realized a lot of people

don't actually know my story,

so I'm excited to share it with you today.

So as I already said, my name's Rebecca Decker,

and I'm a nurse with my master's and PhD in nursing.

And I live in Lexington, Kentucky where I work full-time at Evidence-based Birth,

publishing research and making it available to the public.

Before that, I was an assistant professor of nursing

at a university, and I spent my work time teaching nursing students,

pathophysiology, and pharmacology and also doing clinical research.

So I designed and led randomized trials and other types of studies and I was really immersed in the world of research.

But today I'm happy to tell you that I work at evidence-based birth full-time

along with about seven other team members.

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