EBB 255 - Teaching Girls What They Need to Know About Their Bodies with Laurisa Paul, RN, EBB Pro Member and Founder of Girls Who Know.

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

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

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In today's podcast, we talk with Laurisa Paul, a Registered Nurse, EBB Pro Member and founder of Girls Who Know® about her journey towards teaching girls what they need to know and respect about their bodies.

Laurisa was the winner of our EBB Pro Member September Circle Community challenge, where she won the opportunity to have her work featured on the podcast. I am excited to share my conversation with Laurisa where she talks about her passion for helping others love themselves fully and feel their inherent worth and power.

Laurisa resides in Texas where she is a mother of five and an outdoor adventurer. Medically trained, Laurisa stumbled across home birth when she was actively seeking to improve her own birth experiences and since then she has worked as a midwife assistant.

Laurisa is a mother of five, a writer, a Registered Nurse, home-birther and midwife advocate. She has a deep passion for diversity and a profound respect for people and their story. She is a lover of outdoor adventure and dreams of being a world traveler and story catcher.

In this episode, she discusses her own journey to motherhood and the experiences from her five births, ranging from high intervention births in a hospital to unmedicated and low intervention homebirths. Each experience shaped who she has become as a mother and as a nurse catapulting Laurisa into her passion of working with the next generation and educating high school students about the physiology of birth, not just how to prevent pregnancy. Laurisa is the founder of the organization Girls Who Know, which inspires girls to love who they are and to know and respect their bodies. Girls Who Know prepares girls with what they need to know to make courageous, informed decisions for their lives.

Content Warning: use of forceps & vacuum, episiotomy, forced to push on back, obstetric violence, trauma, suffering, postpartum hemorrhage, gendered language, discussion of a fatal motor vehicle crash

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with
0:02.8	Larissa Paul registered nurse EBB pro member and founder of girls who know
0:08.2	about her journey towards teaching girls what they need to know and respect
0:11.8	about their bodies.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast.
0:16.0	My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence
0:20.6	Birth.
0:21.6	Join me each week as we work together to get Evidence Based Birth. Join me each week as we work together
0:23.6	to get evidence-based information
0:25.6	into the hands of families and professionals
0:28.1	around the world.
0:29.5	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:33.0	See EvieBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.0	Hi everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker,
0:41.0	pronouns she her, and I'll be your host for today's episode.
0:44.0	If there are any detailed content or trigger warnings, we always post them in the
0:47.9	description or show notes that go along with this episode. And now I'd like to
0:51.6	introduce our honored guest.
0:53.0	Today I'm so excited to welcome Larissa Paul,
0:56.0	pronouns she her, a registered nurse, advocate for home birth
1:00.0	and midwives, and the founder of Girls Who Know,
1:02.0	an organization that inspires girls
	...

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