EBB 365 - Battling a Birth Injury with Leah Van Dale, Former WWE Wrestler and EBB Childbirth Class Graduate
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
, joins Dr. Rebecca Dekker to share her deeply personal story of postpartum recovery after a traumatic birth injury. Leah opens up about her journey through multiple pregnancy losses, the decision to hire a doula, and how the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class helped her prepare for her first birth. She shares the emotional and physical challenges of a long labor, including an undiagnosed nerve injury that left her unable to walk properly for months postpartum. Now pregnant again, Leah reflects on what she’s learned, how it shaped her career path, and why she’s passionate about building an honest, empowering community for women.Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. On today's podcast, we're going to talk with Leah Van Dale about navigating a postpartum recovery when it's complicated by a birth injury. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. Join me each week as we |
| 0:22.9 | work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around |
| 0:28.4 | the world. As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See eBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more |
| 0:36.3 | details. |
| 0:44.6 | Hi everyone and welcome to today's episode of the EBB podcast. I am so excited for you to learn from our guests today who is a very important story to share with you about overcoming |
| 0:49.3 | a birth injury. Before we jump into today's episode, I want to remind you that if you'd like to take a |
| 0:54.7 | summer class with me, while the EBB Summer Lecture Series is currently happening, and there's |
| 0:59.6 | still time to join us. We started the first class with a foundational session on what is |
| 1:05.0 | evidence-based maternity care, followed by last week's session, the evidence on maternity care |
| 1:10.4 | providers where we discussed |
| 1:11.6 | provider roles, models of care, and practical ways to strengthen teamwork and collaboration. |
| 1:17.3 | There are four more live summer sessions coming up with me covering everything from the |
| 1:21.4 | research on birth settings and labor support to childbirth education, birth planning, |
| 1:26.6 | and informed consent. So if you join the EBB |
| 1:29.1 | Pro membership now, you'll gain access to the recordings of any of the summer series sessions |
| 1:33.7 | that you've missed and the sessions that happen during your 30-day membership period for the |
| 1:38.5 | introductory fee of only $19. Plus, when you complete all six summer sessions, you'll have the |
| 1:44.0 | opportunity to earn up to |
| 1:45.4 | eight nursing contact hours and contact hours that can be used by physicians and nurse midwives. |
| 1:50.6 | For this $19 introductory fee, you'll also unlock access to our pro-membership continuing |
| 1:56.6 | education library, live monthly calls for midwives and doulas, a library of |
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