EBB 41 - Interview with Juliet Swedlund
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Juliet Swedlund is the director of the Topeka Doula Project, a nonprofit offering evidence based doula support to teen mothers, incarcerated and reintegrating mothers, and low-income mothers and their families. Juliet has worked as a birth doula for four years, and has 16 years experience working in health and wellness. She achieved her DONA Birth Doula certification in 2016, and became an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor in 2018.
Juliet discusses her organization's beginnings and her inspirations, as well as the unique challenges of the underserved populations she works with. "Some of the women I work with who are incarcerated… so much is out of their control, and they do feel like the system gets to decide what it looks like," she said. "So part of our job as doulas for those women is to help them understand that they can take an active role in what they do have control over - in what they can find autonomy in in that birth setting." She and Rebecca also discuss funding strategies for non-profits.
Learn more about Juliet and her work at her website. You can also follow Topeka Doula Project on Facebook and Instagram. Contact Juliet at julietswedlund@topekadoula.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to talk with Juliet |
| 0:04.3 | Sweden an evidence-based birth instructor living in Kansas about her journey |
| 0:09.8 | creating a Dula nonprofit organization. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Birth. |
| 0:25.0 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families |
| 0:31.0 | and professionals across the world. |
| 0:33.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:36.0 | See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi everyone and welcome back to the Evidence Base Birth |
| 0:45.6 | Podcast. I'm excited to have Juliet |
| 0:47.9 | Sweden with us here today. Julia is the director of and Dula |
| 0:52.1 | with the Topeka Dula project, a local 501c3 nonprofit that offers |
| 0:57.8 | volunteer evidence-based Dula support to teen mothers, incarcerated and reintegrating mothers, and low-income mothers |
| 1:05.1 | and their families. At the Topeka Dula Project, they serve expectant families |
| 1:09.1 | through prenatal classes, continuous labor support, and postpart of community building. |
| 1:15.0 | Their goals are to provide pregnancy and childbirth classes that entrust the mothers to make |
| 1:19.7 | informed decisions about their care, to empower them to make healthy decisions for their own well-being and that of their children, |
| 1:26.0 | and to improve their birth experiences. |
| 1:29.0 | Juliet has worked as a birth douler four years and has 16 years experience working in health and wellness with |
| 1:34.6 | training and expertise in health behavior change, chronic disease management, |
| 1:38.8 | mind-body medicine, active listening, and motivational interviewing. |
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