EBB 43 - Interview April Oglesby
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
April Oglesby is a nurse and monitrice in Amarilo, Texas. She has been a nurse for 13 years, specializing in all types of care for mothers and babies. Recently, she left hospital work to start her own business, Welcome Baby! Throughout her hospital nursing career, she began to see huge deficits in the knowledge, education, empowerment and support for expecting families. She was frustrated watching patients receive care that was not evidence-based, and was often unnecessary. From that, Welcome Baby! was born, offering evidence based childbirth classes, doula and monitrice care, home visits for breastfeeding support and newborn care, as well as placental encapsulation.
April shares her journey of providing education and empowerment to birthing families in her community. She also asks Rebecca her advice on building bridges and personal relationships with local providers.
Connect with April on the Welcome Baby! Facebook page, Instagram account, and website.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's podcast we're going to be talking with April |
| 0:03.4 | Oglesby an evidence-based birth professional member who is a labor and |
| 0:07.1 | delivery nurse and a monotrice living in Texas. |
| 0:18.6 | Welcome to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together |
| 0:24.5 | to get evidence-based information |
| 0:26.7 | into the hands of families and professionals |
| 0:29.4 | across the world. |
| 0:30.5 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. See EB Birth.com |
| 0:35.4 | slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi everyone and welcome back to the evidence-based birth podcast. I'm super excited today to have a guest again. This is April Oglesby. She is from Amarillo, Texas and she has been a nurse for 13 years in all things mother and baby. |
| 0:55.0 | She said throughout her hospital nursing career she began to see huge deficits in the |
| 0:59.7 | knowledge education, empowerment, and support for expecting families. |
| 1:04.0 | April was frustrated watching patients receive care that was not evidence-based and often unnecessary interventions. |
| 1:11.0 | Between her nursing experience, as well as her own birth experiences, |
| 1:15.0 | it became very clear that her community needed education |
| 1:18.0 | and support. And from that, Welcome Baby was born. |
| 1:21.0 | At Welcome Baby, they offer childbirth classes, Dula and Monetrice |
| 1:25.8 | care, home visits for breastfeeding support, and newborn care as well as placental |
| 1:30.3 | encapsulation. However, they can support and educate expectant families that |
| 1:35.1 | is their mission and their passion. Welcome April to the Evidence Space Birth |
| 1:39.2 | podcast. Thank you. I am so excited to be here visiting with you today. This is great. |
| 1:45.0 | Awesome. So tell us April a little bit about how you got into being a nurse or getting into more involved in the birth world aside from just |
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