EBB 45 - How do peanut balls support labor?
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this week's podcast I interview Cheri Grant RN, ICCE, CLC, ICD, CLD, CD BDT(DONA), known in the birth world as "the peanut ball lady." She is the founder, chief contributor and inspiration for Premier Birth Tools. For over 42 years, she has served women as a labor and delivery nurse, childbirth educator, lactation consultant, national speaker, author, doula, and doula trainer. She has helped with well over 2,700 deliveries in the span of her career. Cheri is also the founder of Tulsa Doulas, a community group that has helped train and support doulas for over 20 years.
Cheri's interest in peanut balls began when she first saw their use in labor in 1985. At that time, they were just straddled. In the 2000's, the usage of peanut balls was refined to the side-lying position, and interest in them began to grow among birth professionals. They are used with and without an epidural, and can be effective in shortening labor. Premier Birth Tools promotes education via its website, as well as Peanut Ball Ambassadors and Authorized Peanut Ball Trainers. Cheri discusses peanut ball positions and other new information on this tool.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone in today's episode we're going to talk with |
| 0:02.8 | Sherry Grant the peanut ball lady about using peanut balls for labor. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to the Evidence Space Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:16.7 | PhD and the founder of Evidence Based Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get |
| 0:22.4 | evidence-based information into the hands of families |
| 0:25.9 | and professionals across the world. |
| 0:28.2 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:31.2 | See Eviebirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi everyone, before we get started with today's podcast, I just wanted to share some |
| 0:41.1 | exciting news with you. Today is the day that you can get on the wait |
| 0:45.4 | list for the 2019 Evidence-based Birth Conference. We have our plans in full swing for the |
| 0:51.9 | Evidence-based Birth bringing evidence to life |
| 0:54.4 | conference that we're hosting September 25th through 27th in 2019 and there has been |
| 1:00.6 | so much excitement about this event our email inbox at EBB has been so much excitement about this event. |
| 1:02.7 | Our email inbox at EBB has been flooded |
| 1:05.5 | with people who are telling us they want to come |
| 1:07.5 | to this event and bring their friends. |
| 1:09.9 | We are still finalizing the keynote speakers |
| 1:11.9 | and I hope to announce their name soon. |
| 1:14.1 | But in the meantime you can get on the wait list today, so people who are on the wait list |
| 1:18.6 | will be able to claim their conference spot at the best possible rate before tickets open to the public. |
| 1:25.0 | Now there's only going to be 150 seats available at the conference, |
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