I'm Elizabeth Joy, a birth dula, a prenatal coach and birth advocate passionate about all things from pregnancy to parenting.

In this podcast we will be hearing from amazing experts and moms just like you

as we continue to grow in this fun, chaotic, and beautiful season of life.

Welcome to the pregnancy to parenting show.

I am pumped for today's episode.

I have on my midwife Sarah, who was actually my midwife for all three of my

births and she's just somebody that I admire in the birthing world and just

really embodies I guess the type of care that I wish every single person

could have she's just so supportive and very big on informed consent and would never just make decisions or tell you

that like you can or can't do something It's always a collaborative conversation and just is awesome. Like I said, I just really want this type of care for every single person. And so I'm really excited that she's on the

podcast today because we are going to talk about risk. When you are pregnant you are

put into a category of high risk or low risk and that kind of defines the care that you're getting but we're gonna bust those

myths today because just because you are quote-on-quote considered high risk does

not mean that you have to have this high risk highly monitored

induction birth that you're being told that you need to have. So we're going to

talk about what risk actually is and kind of like what puts you into some of those categories and how midwifery versus

obstetric care changes those outcomes. So there's people put in a high risk category and research has

shown that with midwifery care they have better birthing outcomes than with

obstetric care because in obstetrics they're like oh you're high risk so we

have to do all these medical interventions when not necessarily when things if things are

managed and and you're still being monitored and considering, you know, different options that

Midwifery care can provide way different outcomes for you.

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