EBB 47 - Creating a Listening Birth Circle with Jenn D'Jamoos
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Jenn D'Jamoos is a CAPPA-certified childbirth educator and Evidence Based Birth Instructor, human rights activist and mom of four who lives in Michigan. She founded the Livingston County Birth Circle in 2013 to serve the needs of families in her area. While the stated goal of the LCBC is to provide non-judgmental support to expectant and new families, the organization also works to elevate conversation surrounding the birth experience. Jenn recently enrolled in White Woman School through Mothering Justice to explore opportunities for anti-racism work in the context of perinatal education.
Jenn and I discuss the importance of birth settings and putting care provider relationships into proper perspective, as well as the use of motivational interviewing to help guide people through changes without telling them what to do. We also brainstorm ways to help people birth experiences with supportive dialogue, without reigniting feelings of trauma or stress.
Connect with Jenn at EarthMamaBirth.com, on Facebook, and Twitter.
Other resources:
Ladder of Empowerment - "From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: the Life-Long Journey" by Tema Okun
Mothering Justice
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Jen de Jamis about her work |
| 0:05.2 | creating a listening birthing circle for her community. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my |
| 0:17.7 | PhD and the founder of Evidence Based Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:25.0 | into the hands of families and professionals across the world. |
| 0:29.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:32.0 | See Evie Birth.com |
| 0:34.4 | slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Evidence Based |
| 0:40.7 | Birth Podcast. I have a special announcement before we begin talking |
| 0:45.0 | with our guest speaker. |
| 0:46.3 | This Monday, we released tickets |
| 0:49.7 | to the 2019 Evidence Space Birth Conference |
| 0:52.3 | to our wait list only and I'm |
| 0:54.1 | recording this on Tuesday morning and I am thrilled to announce that in less than |
| 1:00.4 | 24 hours in about 18 hours to be exact we actually sold out of all 150 |
| 1:06.8 | tickets for the 2019 EBB conference. This was like a really thrilling day |
| 1:12.0 | because never in my wildest dreams did I expect this kind of response. |
| 1:16.0 | However, as the day went on and the ticket sales were rolling in on Monday, |
| 1:21.0 | I started getting really anxious about all the people who were going to be |
| 1:24.0 | contacting us later this week really upset that they couldn't come because tickets were |
| 1:28.4 | sold out. So I was communicating back and forth with my event planner and the good news is that |
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