EBB 368 - Redemptive Cesarean after Planning a Home VBAC with Rikki and Nova Jenkins
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Instructor Coordinator, doula, and IBCLC, reflects on the trauma of her first Cesarean birth and the deep healing she found through midwifery care, doula support, and intentional preparation. Nova, a Grammy-nominated music producer and proud girl dad, shares his emotional journey from feeling powerless in their first birth to becoming a protective presence throughout this redemptive experience. Together, they offer a vulnerable, moving conversation about reclaiming birth after trauma, processing grief, and creating a peaceful bubble of support for their family, even when things don’t go as planned.(08:46) Dual Care with a Midwife and OB
(11:22) Processing the First Cesarean—Seven Years Later
(19:09) Prepping for a Home Birth and VBAC
(21:40) Including Their Daughter in Prenatal Care
(24:10) Amora’s Labor and When Things Stalled
(30:12) Making the Empowered Decision to Transfer
(34:11) A Healing, Respectful Cesarean Experience
(45:02) When Language Hurts: “Failed Home Birth”
(51:04) Planning for Postpartum and Accepting Support
(52:49) Advice for Those Planning a VBAC or Home Birth
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone. On today's podcast, we're going to talk with Ricky and Nova Jenkins about their |
| 0:05.4 | decision to plan a home V-back and the journey that led to a hospital transfer and ultimately |
| 0:10.8 | a redemptive caesarian. Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, |
| 0:20.2 | and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. |
| 0:24.7 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:32.6 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:36.2 | See eBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:41.9 | Hi everyone and welcome back to the evidence-based birth podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | I hope you've been enjoying our August episodes featuring Team EBB as much as I've enjoyed |
| 0:50.4 | sharing them with you. |
| 0:51.8 | If you've missed any of our podcast this month, |
| 0:54.2 | I encourage you to go back and give them a listen. |
| 0:56.8 | Each episode this month is a chance to get to know |
| 0:59.8 | some of the real people behind evidence-based birth |
| 1:02.7 | and the heart that they put into our work. |
| 1:05.4 | So last week you got a chance to learn from Jen Anderson |
| 1:08.2 | about recent trends in labor induction. Today you're going to hear from |
| 1:12.5 | EBB instructor coordinator Ricky Jenkins and her husband Nova about their powerful cesarean birth story. |
| 1:18.8 | And next week you'll hear from Dr. Morgan Richardson Kayama, a research team member at EBB, |
| 1:23.8 | who has a brand new handle on respectful maternity care that she'll be sharing with you |
| 1:28.6 | and you can download next week for free. Another exciting thing that's happening next week is we |
| 1:34.1 | will be opening up the EBB shop for a fantastic Labor Day sale to celebrate all things |
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