Ep54: What We Can Do About Obstetric Violence and Birth Trauma with Cristen Pascucci
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Today's topic is an incredibly important one: obstetric violence. I know it sounds a bit heavy, but it's something that all of us - expecting families, doctors, midwives, doulas, and people in society - should know more about.
I'm excited to be joined on this episode by Cristen Pascucci, an incredibly dedicated advocate and activist for human rights during childbirth. She has a number of projects, including Birth Monopoly and Mother May I (a documentary about obstetric violence), that are working to reduce the amount of birth trauma that mothers are currently experiencing around the world.
Cristen and I cover a lot of ground in this episode - we talk about what exactly obstetric violence is, whether it's different from birth trauma, and why it's so common.
We also talk about what you can do if you have experienced obstetric violence and what we need to do in the health care system and beyond to move to a more patient-centered care model for expecting moms.
In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:
- What obstetric violence is and how it relates to birth trauma
- How medical providers and other birth professionals can put patients through obstetric violence
- Why you shouldn't be afraid to change your birth professional if you aren't getting the care you want
- Why we have to examine not only individual instances of obstetric violence, but our systems as well
- What you can do if you have suffered birth trauma as a result of obstetric violence
- Why you should know that you can absolutely heal from birth trauma
- What Cristen likes to tell expecting families so they get to have the birth experience that they want
Links Mentioned In The Episode
- How To Make A Birth Plan That Works - Free Online Class!
- The Birth Preparation Course
- Cristen Pascucci | The Birth Monopoly | | Facebook | Instagram
- Ep #3: How to Be Sure You Have the Right Doctor
- Ep #4: Choosing the Right Hospital to Give Birth
- Birth Allowed Podcast
- Exposing the Silence Project
- ImprovingBirth
- Mother May I
- There Is a Hidden Epidemic of Doctors Abusing Women in Labor, Doulas Say from VICE
- Join my email list here!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | In this week's episode of the podcast, we discuss the important topics of obstetric violence and birth trauma. |
| 0:08.5 | You do not want to miss this episode. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
| 0:19.7 | I'm your host, Dr. Nicole Callaway Rankins, |
| 0:22.4 | a board certified OBGY and physician, certified integrative health coach, and creator of the |
| 0:27.7 | birth preparation course, an online childbirth education class that will leave you feeling |
| 0:33.3 | knowledgeable, prepared, confident, and empowered going into your birth. |
| 0:38.4 | Quick note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and it's not a substitute for |
| 0:42.7 | medical advice. See the full disclaimer at ncr coaching.com for its slash disclaimer. |
| 0:48.4 | Pregnancy can be overwhelming, but your inbox doesn't have to be. |
| 0:53.1 | The Birth with Power Brief is my free |
| 0:56.1 | weekly newsletter with expert tips, real talk, and support you can actually use. No pressure, |
| 1:04.6 | no preachy advice, just a breath of fresh air in your inbox every Thursday. Come join me at Dr. Nicole Rankins.com forward |
| 1:14.1 | slash email. Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 54. |
| 1:21.8 | Thank you for spending a bit of your time with me today. Today's episode of the podcast is a really outstanding one. |
| 1:29.3 | My guest today is Kristen Pascoochie. She is the founder of Birth Monopoly. They're an |
| 1:35.3 | organization with over 18,000 followers on Facebook, another 5,000 on Instagram. She's also the host |
| 1:41.6 | of the Birth Allowed radio podcast and co-creator of the exposing the silence project, a documentary photography project about birth trauma and obstetric violence. |
| 1:53.1 | Kristen got into this work after the birth of her son in 2011. |
| 1:57.4 | At that time, she left a career in public affairs and she joined the consumer advocacy organization |
| 2:03.8 | improving birth as a vice president as vice president she spearheaded multi-year grassroots media |
| 2:11.6 | strategy campaigns to get maternity care crisis information into the national news. She created a legal advocacy hotline |
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