EBB 132 - Teen Pregnancy Support, and a Surrogacy Story with Ambrosia Meikle

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I interview Ambrosia Meikle, a Los Angles-based Evidence Based Birth

Instructor, CAPPA-certified birth and postpartum doula, and a full-spectrum doula. She is also a lactation educator specialist and childbirth educator, Ambrosia also volunteers to teach childbirth classes and provide doula services at a high school for pregnant teens. She is a mother of two. This show has a trigger warning for pregnancy termination related to a fatal birth defect.

Before entering birth work, Ambrosia was a surrogate for a family from overseas. In her practice, Ambrosia serves an extremely diverse community, and she is passionate about ensuring that everyone has access to the type of support that is best for them.

We talk about Ambrosia’s surrogacy - including some very difficult decisions she had to make during that pregnancy, and the moment she felt empowered in her labor to birth the baby when she felt the time was right. We also talk about the importance of childbirth education and support for pregnant teens.

For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) and our Instructor program. Find an EBB Instructor here, and click here to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Ambrosia Mikkel about
0:05.2	surrogacy and also about teaching pregnant teens.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my
0:17.7	PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families
0:26.8	and professionals around the world.
0:29.3	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See EB Birth.com
0:34.4	slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone today I'm so excited to welcome Ambrosia Meekle to the
0:42.0	Evidence-based birth podcast.
0:44.0	Ambrosia is going to share with us her experience about
0:47.2	surrogacy as well as teaching adolescents in the South Bay area.
0:51.4	I do want to let you know of a brief trigger warning.
0:55.0	Ambrosia will talk about her experience with pregnancy termination related to a fatal
1:00.3	birth defect. Ambrosia is an evidence-based birth instructor and has served
1:04.8	more than 100 families in the South Bay of Los Angeles area as a Kappa
1:09.2	certified birth and postpartum dula. As a lactation educator, specialist, and childbirth educator, and Child Birth
1:13.8	Birth Educator.
1:14.8	Ambrosia also volunteers to teach childbirth classes and provide Dula services at
1:19.3	a high school for pregnant teens.
1:21.2	Ambrosia has been married for 15 years and she and her husband
1:24.2	are raising two school-age children. Before she entered birth work, Ambrosia was a
1:29.0	surrogate for a family from overseas. In her practice, Ambrosia serves an extremely diverse community and she's
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