Elaine Welteroth on Her Powerful Home-Birth Experience and Birthfund
Naked Beauty
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In our follow-up conversation Elaine and our mothers discuss the many lessons that motherhood teaches us about ourselves before and after giving birth. Elaine talked about the Birth Fund, and what spurred her to provide midwifery care to families across the U.S. She explained some of the differences between the traditional medical model and midwifery, which can provide lifesaving care that mends our maternal health crisis. This conversation illuminates how birth choice is critical for expecting mothers.
Tune in as we discuss:
- What inspired Elaine Welteroth to start BirthFund
- Why the midwifery care provided by Birth Fund is urgent
- Elaine’s powerful home-birth story
- How Elaine learned that giving birth could be transformative and empowering if one is supported effectively
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| 0:00.0 | I'm every woman who gets all in the need. |
| 0:06.1 | Hello, it's Brooke Devard |
| 0:07.7 | and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm joining you from Los Angeles. It's an overcast day and I am in my newly relocated |
| 0:16.7 | office recording this because I've had to make way for the nursery because my baby is going to be here in six weeks. I can hardly believe it, but I'm also very excited. I feel like the first pregnancy, you have no idea what to expect for labor and delivery you have no idea |
| 0:35.5 | what it's like taking care of a newborn there are still some fears and trepidation |
| 0:39.5 | which we get into in today's episode and you all are in for a special treat because we have more |
| 0:45.2 | with Elaine Welts Roth. Now the episode with Elaine and her incredible mother Deborah and my mother, that |
| 0:51.7 | episode was so special to me and it resonated with so many of you. |
| 0:55.2 | But in that conversation we were able to really go deep on Elaine's work with |
| 0:58.8 | Birth Fund and her experience doing a home birth, which I haven't talked about yet on this |
| 1:04.2 | podcast with anyone, so I wanted to make sure that we had ample time to really |
| 1:08.1 | discuss it and I was like this needs its own dedicated episode. Born in California, Elaine Welteroth is an undeniable force in the media industry. |
| 1:17.0 | An award-winning journalist, TV host, and the author of New York Times Best Seller, |
| 1:21.0 | More than enough, Elaine made history when at 29 New York Times Best Seller More Than Enough. |
| 1:22.6 | Elaine made history when at 29 she was named the youngest editor-in-chief in Conde Nass history. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm sure you all remember if you were into magazines like I am her tenure at Teen Vogue they |
| 1:34.4 | were doing such radical work. Elaine believes that your life is a series of dreams |
| 1:38.6 | realized and is gracefully pivoted from one chapter to the next, realizing that if you're not learning, you can't grow. |
| 1:46.0 | Earlier this year, Elaine launched Birth Fund, a movement committed to expanding access to birth care nationwide, and challenging how the country approaches maternal |
| 1:55.9 | health care and she launched this with some incredible founding families |
| 1:59.0 | Serena Williams, Kelly Roland, Carly Closs, they've raised over $1.5 million for families seeking |
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