EBB 123 - COVID-19 update & Advocating for yourself during labor with Heather McCullough

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I am joined by Heather McCullough, an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, Certified Hypnobabies Instructor®, and Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner. Heather is also CAPPA faculty, and is certified to train labor doulas, postpartum doulas, and lactation educators. She has also been a childbirth educator and a certified professional midwife for over 25 years.

Heather reveals some of the ways providers may interact with birthing people to steer them into situations that are best for them and for the hospital - not necessarily the birth plan. She also shares some success stories she’s experienced using EBB advocacy techniques.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's episode we're going to talk with Heather McCullough
0:03.6	about advocating for yourself during labor.
0:09.4	Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast.
0:12.3	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD
0:15.7	and the founder of Evidence Space Birth.
0:18.3	Join me each week as we work together
0:20.4	to get evidence-based information
0:22.4	into the hands of families and professionals
0:24.8	around the world.
0:26.3	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:29.7	See Evibirth.com Disclaimer for more details.
0:36.0	Hi everyone, before we get started with this week's interview with Heather McCullough,
0:40.0	I wanted to share with you little information from our weekly research update on COVID-19 and pregnancy.
0:45.8	We send a free research update to our newsletter subscribers every Monday,
0:50.9	and in this week's update we talked about new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics
0:56.1	as well as the research evidence on homemade masks. I also wanted to let you know that I've been
1:00.4	corresponding with quite a few people around the world about the practice in the United States of separating newborns from parents with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.
1:09.4	Because of some of the guidelines in the US, which I'll talk about in the minute.
1:13.0	It's possible that a birthing parent with symptoms such as a fever or cough may be separated
1:17.6	from their newborn even if the parent tests negative for COVID-19.
1:22.3	This can be problematic when you consider the fact that
1:24.8	fever and labor can also occur due to something called corio amnitis, which is
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