EBB 66 - Empowering Birth in Underserved Populations with CNM Olivia Favela-Gary
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I interview certified nurse midwife Olivia Favela-Gary. Olivia has been a CNM for over five years, and has been a registered nurse for 10 years. She currently practices in Los Angeles and Southern California in a Federally Qualified Health Center, and attends births in a hospital setting working mostly with underserved and high risk populations. She also frequently works as a first assistant for cesarean births. Olivia hosts the podcast This American Midwife, and is mom to a daughter and a son.
Olivia reveals what it's like to give care in the L.A. area, and the special needs required by people in vulnerable populations - such as immigrants, women who are trafficked and abused, or those who are homeless or drug addicted.
We also discuss how to teach doctors about the midwifery model of care, and we cover the evidence on induction of labor.
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RESOURCES:
Contact Olivia via email (olivia@thisamericanmidwife.com) or Instagram.
Check out Olivia's podcast, This American Midwife, on iTunes and at messy.fm.
For more information on inductions, visit the Evidence Based Birth® blog article on The ARRIVE Trial, as well as our Natural Labor Induction Series.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Olivia Favella |
| 0:04.2 | Gary about how she works as a certified nurse midwife with families to help them |
| 0:08.8 | become empowered and know that they have the ability to bring their babies into |
| 0:12.4 | the world. |
| 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 |
| 0:24.2 | Space Birth. Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based |
| 0:28.7 | information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:33.5 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:36.9 | See EBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:48.0 | Everyone on today's podcast I'm super excited to welcome Olivia Favella Gary. Olivia has been a certified nurse midwife for the past five years and she's been a registered |
| 0:52.3 | nurse for almost 10 years now. |
| 0:54.0 | Olivia is a graduate of Philadelphia University's Nurse Midwifrey program. |
| 0:58.0 | She currently practices in Los Angeles and Southern California in a federally qualified health center or |
| 1:04.4 | FQHC and attends births in the hospital setting mostly serving underserved |
| 1:09.8 | Medi-Cal Medicaid populations and high-risk populations. She also gets to do a lot of first |
| 1:16.0 | assists at Cesarion births. Olivia is the host of the podcast This American Midwife |
| 1:22.0 | coming out in January of 2019 and she's the |
| 1:25.8 | mom of a four-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. Welcome Olivia to the |
| 1:29.9 | evidence-based birth podcast. |
| 1:31.6 | Hi. |
| 1:34.0 | So I met Olivia through the evidence-based birth |
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