EBB 115 - Self-Advocacy in Birth, and Tongue and Lip Tie with Michelle Odoerfer

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I am joined by Michelle Odoerfer, a mother of two young girls living in Clinton Township, Michigan with her husband Andrew. Michelle experienced two very different births - her first, in a hospital, was tense as she had to endure verbal and physical aggression from an attending OB. Her second was a peaceful, unattended home birth, with just herself and her husband (baby came so fast the midwife didn’t make it).

Hear Michelle share how she learned some tough lessons about self advocacy - not only during her first birth, but also through her newborn’s undiagnosed tongue and lip tie. Many health care providers missed the ties, and Michelle had to figure out on her own why her baby wasn’t gaining weight. She also committed to a journey of sourcing donated breast milk, and crafting her own supplemental nursing system.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Michelle Oderfer about her two very different birth
0:06.3	experiences.
0:11.3	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my
0:16.3	PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together
0:21.8	to get evidence-based information into the hands of families
0:25.4	and professionals around the world.
0:27.9	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:31.3	See EB-B-Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone today I'm so excited to welcome Michelle Oderfer to the
0:41.0	Evidence-based Birth Podcast.
0:43.0	Michelle is a full-time stay-at-home mom to two little girls age two and five,
0:48.0	and she also works outside the home with the goal of educating people on making their homes healthier.
0:54.0	Michelle lives in Clinton Township, Michigan, and she says that she used evidence-based birth
0:59.3	resources throughout her pregnancy.
1:02.0	And Michelle's here to talk about her two very different birth experiences and also how she used information at evidence-based birth to help inform her decision-making.
1:11.0	Welcome Michelle to the Evidence Space Birth podcast. Thank you Rebecca. I'm
1:15.3	so I'm so honored to be here. It's such a blessing to talk about this. So I believe
1:20.1	you've been following the work at Evidence-based birth for a while do you
1:23.5	recall how you found our resources? Actually yes so my aunt is a Bradley
1:32.0	instructor and so I took her Bradley classes and she said you know what we need to
1:40.8	partner together with these EBB resources because there is so much
1:44.5	information that you need to have so you can make those informed decisions and
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