EBB 69 - Facing a difficult birth with knowledge and empowerment
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I interview Noel and Joel Smothers, missionaries who gave birth to their first child last fall. They currently live in North Carolina but will be heading back to Brazil soon. Noel felt it was really important to have a vaginal birth if at all possible, so that she could continue to have future vaginal births when she's living in countries with less developed health systems. They took the Evidence Based Birth Childbirth Class with Instructor Mary Kury.
I was so impressed by this couple. They had a very challenging birth. Noel managed a vaginal delivery of a large baby who was presenting face first - a very rare presentation that usually triggers a c-section. Noel also had a difficult pregnancy and intense back labor. We talk about how the EBB Childibrth Class prepared both Noel and Joel to face these challenges successfully. We also discuss postpartum and newborn care.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Noel and Joel Smothers |
| 0:05.0 | about their unexpectedly challenging birth story. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a |
| 0:16.7 | nurse with my PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. Join me each week as we |
| 0:22.2 | work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:28.0 | As a reminder this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:32.0 | See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.0 | Noel and Joel Smothers are a missionary family currently located in North Carolina. They've been married for a year |
| 0:45.1 | and a half and they met on the mission field. Noel grew up in the mission field in Brazil and |
| 0:50.6 | they're heading back to Brazil together in 2019. |
| 0:54.1 | Noel and Joel had their first baby in September of 2018. |
| 0:58.2 | She gave birth to a little boy named Gabriel and together they had taken that the |
| 1:02.2 | evidence-based birth childbirth class with Mary Curry. |
| 1:05.0 | Noel and Joel welcome to the Evidence-Based-Birth podcast and Gabriel welcome to. |
| 1:10.0 | Hi. We're happy to be here today and excited to share our story. |
| 1:17.0 | So tell me, how did you find out about the evidence-based birth childbirth class? |
| 1:22.0 | My midwives recommended marriage. about the evidence-based birth childbirth class. |
| 1:22.6 | My midwives recommended Mary Curry to us |
| 1:27.2 | as an optional birthing class instructor. |
| 1:31.4 | And she had been doing a different class for a while and as far as I know was the first time that she was doing your class and she offered the class in such a way that with our schedule we travel a lot. |
| 1:45.7 | We're never in the same place much at all and so it's very difficult for me to commit to |
| 1:51.8 | a birthing class that wasn't flexible. So with Mary Currie, she |
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