EBB 211 - Supporting Expectant Families Through Birth and Lactation with Birth Doula and EBB Program Team Assistant, Rikki Jenkins

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast, we're going to talk with birth doula and EBB's program team assistant, Rikki Jenkins about empowering expectant families through birth and lactation support. Rikki Jenkins, pronouns (she/her) is a certified birth doula and lactation counselor. Rikki holds a bachelor's of science degree in maternal child health with an emphasis in human lactation and social justice. Rikki is the co-creator of Heart and Sol Collective, an inclusive pregnancy support center, where she hosts support groups and teaches childbirth education and lactation classes to expectant parents. Rikki also serves as a board member for the Southern Nevada Breastfeeding Coalition and provides all-inclusive services to expectant families and birth professionals virtually in the greater Las Vegas Valley and surrounding areas.

We talk about how Rikki got started in birth work and how she transitioned into being an empowering support to the families in her community. We also talk about Rikki’s passion to help her community wearing many “birth working hats” such as being an EBB instructor as well as pushing herself to further her goals in the professional world of lactation.

Content Warning: We mention COVID and birth trauma.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Birth Dula and EB's
0:05.7	programs team assistant Ricky Jenkins about empowering
0:10.4	in expected families through birth and lactation support.
0:15.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:18.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:22.3	Base Bird.
0:23.0	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information
0:27.0	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:31.0	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. the Hi everyone my name is i'm mystique file du Goon pronouns they she and I will be your
0:45.8	host for today's episode today we are so excited to welcome ebb's own
0:51.1	program's team assistant ricky assistant Ricky Jenkins to talk about empowering expected
0:56.4	families through birth and lactation support. Before we begin to
1:00.9	interview Ricky I want to let you know that there are some detail or maybe some
1:05.6	detailed content or trigger warnings, and if so, we'll post them in the description or in our
1:11.2	show notes that go along with this episode. So now I would like to introduce
1:15.9	you to our honored guests. Ricky Jenkins pronouns she her is a certified birth
1:21.1	doula and certified lactation counselor.
1:24.0	Ricky holds a bachelor's of science degree in maternal child health
1:28.8	with an emphasis in human lactation and Social Justice.
1:33.0	Ricky is the co-creator of Heart and Soul Collective
1:37.4	an Inclusive Pregnancy Support Center
1:39.8	where she hosts support groups, teaches child birth education, and lactation classes to
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