EBB 1: Intro to Evidence Based Birth®
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a nurse finishing up her PhD in evidence-based practice becomes a parent and realizes her own birth care was anything but evidence-based? In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Dekker take us back to the very beginning and shares how her first birth experience set her on a mission to change maternity care. She reflects on her two contrasting birth stories: one marked by unnecessary interventions and separation from her newborn, the other defined by empowerment, autonomy, and midwifery care. Opening up about how these experiences shaped her purpose, Rebecca shares how these experiences led her to launch Evidence Based Birth
in 2012. Since then, the platform has grown from a simple blog into a platform for sharing evidence based info that is trusted by families and professionals around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. On this episode, I'd like to reintroduce you to evidence-based birth. |
| 0:09.1 | Welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. |
| 0:17.4 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families |
| 0:23.0 | and professionals around the world. As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:29.1 | See eBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to a re-recording of the very first episode of the Evidence-based Birth |
| 0:40.5 | podcast where I'm going to introduce everyone to Evidence-Basebirth. |
| 0:44.9 | If I haven't met you before, my name is Rebecca Decker and I'm your host for the EBV podcast. |
| 0:50.7 | This episode that I'm re-recording, episode number one, was originally published in January 2018, |
| 0:58.0 | and now I'm re-recording an updated version in 2025. |
| 1:02.2 | A lot has changed between 2018 and 2025, and I thought it was time to publish a new version of our introductory episode. |
| 1:10.6 | So today I'm going to explain to you about |
| 1:12.7 | how evidence-based birth began. And then in later episodes, I'm going to re-record episodes |
| 1:18.4 | two and three, also from the year 2018, to teach you even more about evidence-based care. |
| 1:24.7 | So I wanted to kick off this podcast by telling you the story of how |
| 1:28.5 | evidence-based birth was born and where this movement even came from. And I think it's really |
| 1:34.6 | important for you to know what my story is. And I've realized over the years that a lot of people |
| 1:39.7 | don't actually know anything about my story or how EBV began. So I'm excited to share that with you |
| 1:46.3 | today. So as I already said, my name is Rebecca, and I'm a nurse with my master's and my PhD in |
| 1:52.1 | nursing. And I live in Lexington, Kentucky, where I work full time at Evan in Space Birth, |
| 1:57.5 | publishing research on childbirth, and making it available to the public. |
| 2:02.0 | Before that, I was nursing faculty at the University of Kentucky, and I spent my working hours |
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