EBB 223 - An Empowering Hospital Water Birth Story with Samantha Parker and Justin Fontaine

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast, we're going to talk with EBB Childbirth Class graduates, Samantha Parker and Justin Fontaine, about their exciting hospital water birth story.

Samantha Parker (she/her) is an environmental scientist with the State of California and an avid runner. Samantha’s husband, Justin Fontaine (he/him) is a principal systems engineer and a CrossFit: Level 2 trainer. Samantha and Justin live in Rockland, California with their almost 10-year-old son, and now their happy baby girl, Kira. Samantha and Justin are graduates of the EBB Childbirth Class with EBB Instructor, Laurie Suggs.

We will talk about Samantha and Justin’s experience taking the EBB Childbirth Class. We also talk about Samantha and Justin’s hospital water birth story and the feeling of empowerment during the labor and birth experience.

Content warning: We mention labor, fear, gendered language, COVID testing, contractions, and cervical checks during labor.

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Learn more about EBB Instructor, Laurie Suggs, here.

Learn more about EBB Childbirth Class here.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with EBB
0:03.3	childbirth class graduates Samantha Parker and Justin Fontaine about their
0:08.0	exciting hospital water birth story.
0:10.4	Welcome to the evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:13.4	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:17.9	Baseball.
0:18.9	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals
0:25.2	around the world.
0:26.9	As a reminder this information is not medical advice.
0:30.4	See Evibirth.com. Disclaimer for more details.
0:34.0	Hi everyone, my name is Dr. Rebecca Decker,
0:38.0	pronouns she-her and I will be your host for today's episode.
0:41.0	Today we are so excited to welcome EBB Child Birth
0:44.8	Class graduate Samantha and Justin. Before we interview Samantha and Justin I want to
0:49.8	let you know that if there are any detailed content or trigger
0:52.3	warnings we always post them in the
0:53.8	description or show notes that go along with this episode.
0:56.8	And now I'd like to introduce our honored guests.
0:59.5	Samantha Parker, pronouns she-her, is an environmental scientist with the state of California and an avid runner.
1:05.8	And her husband Justin Fontaine, pronouns he him, is a principal systems engineer and a cross-fit
1:10.9	level two trainer.
1:12.4	They live in Rockland, California
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