EBB 247 - Transition from Hospital Midwifery to a Home Birth Practice with Aiyana Davison, CNM, WHNP and Founder of The Vagina Chronicles.

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On today’s podcast, we’re going to talk with Certified Nurse Midwife and Founder of The Vagina Chronicles, Aiyana Davison (She/Her), about her transition from hospital midwifery to a home birth practice.

Aiyana is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner currently practicing in Southern California. While she has worked for the past six years at a large hospital-based teaching facility, she recently started her own home birth practice and has plans to open a birth center. Aiyana has been featured on a wide variety of platforms including ESSENCE, Peanut, Elvie, Ovia Health, and Mama Glow.

Aiyana uses her social media platforms and website, The Vagina Chronicles, to help bridge the knowledge gap in people understanding their bodies as well as taking charge of their health care. Aiyana focuses her work on healing long-standing historical trauma within the Black community by sharing and vocalizing stories and supporting Black people as they traverse the healthcare system.

In this episode, we talk about the midwifery model of care in the United States and Aiyana's experiences working in a hospital-based setting, her home birth practice and her associations with a free standing birth center. Additionally, we talk about the excitement of new Black midwives entering the field, and, conversely, the associated apprehensions of Black midwives due to professional burnout and lack of interprofessional collaboration and community support.

Content Warning: Poor birth outcomes, professional burnout, miscarriage, abortion, trauma, home birth, Black birth, birth work

Resources:
The Vagina Chronicles
Aiyana's Pregnancy Prep Course can be accessed here. All sales through 12/3/22 are at a discounted rate in honor of The Vagina Chronicles 5 Year Anniversary.

Find The Vagina Chronicles on Social Media:
· Instagram
· Twitter

You can learn more about Aiyana’s home birth practice, Village House Wellness, here and follow Village House Wellness on Instagram.

Learn more about Kindred Space Birth Center here.

Go to our YouTube channel to see video versions of the episode listed above!!

For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com.

Find us on:

Ready to get involved?

Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) here
Find an EBB Instructor here
Click here to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Ianna Davison certified
0:04.6	nurse midwife and women's health nurse practitioner founder of the vagina
0:08.3	chronicles about transitioning from the hospital setting to practicing in the community.
0:13.3	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:16.4	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:21.0	Baseball.
0:22.0	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information
0:26.0	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:30.0	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:33.4	See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:39.4	Hi everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker,
0:41.9	pronouns she her and I'll be your host for today's episode.
0:44.8	Today we are so excited to welcome Ianna Davison, pronouns she her.
0:49.0	Ianna is a certified nurse midwife and women's health nurse practitioner currently practicing in
0:54.1	Southern California. While she has worked for the past six years at a large hospital-based teaching
0:59.5	facility, she recently started her own home birth practice and has plans to open a
1:04.0	birth center.
1:04.7	Ianna's passion on advocacy focuses on addressing the maternal health crisis
1:09.6	that black women and birthing people face in the US, the provision of quality care for all
1:14.4	individuals and families, and the preservation of the legacy of black midwives and birthwork.
1:19.1	Her work has been featured in Essence, Peanut, Alvee, Ovia Health, and Mama glow.
1:25.0	Ianna is known as the founder of the Vagina Chronicles.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rebecca Dekker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Rebecca Dekker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.