Ep66: How Your Partner Can Feel Prepared, Confident and Supportive During Labor with Alice Turner
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm joined by Alice Turner, the creator of SupportingHer - a childbirth education class for whomever is going to be supporting you during labor.
We talk about why it's so important for your support partner to be knowledgable and prepared going into your birth. Alice shares tips about what the supporting partner should and shouldn't do, along with her favorite advice for providing physical and emotional assistance both during and after birth.
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| 0:00.0 | I am so excited for this episode about how your partner can best support you during labor and birth. |
| 0:14.4 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins, a practicing board certified |
| 0:22.7 | OBGYN who's had the privilege of helping hundreds of moms bring their babies into this world. |
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| 1:20.5 | Well, hello, welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 66. And as always, I'm so grateful that |
| 1:30.3 | you're here with me today. So I'm really excited about this episode. Over the course of the last |
| 1:36.3 | year, you know, since I started doing this podcast, I've had lots of people ask me about this topic |
| 1:42.6 | of how can partners best support the birthing person? So I'm |
| 1:49.3 | super excited to have Alice Turner on. Alice has more than 15 years of experience as a doula |
| 1:56.6 | and as a Lamas certified childbirth educator. |
| 2:00.9 | She has supported more than 300 births, |
| 2:04.6 | and she knows the power of a prepared partner. |
| 2:08.9 | So during the course of her work, |
| 2:10.6 | as she's talked to doctors, midwives, other doulas, |
| 2:15.2 | she identified the need for a convenient way to prep partners for their support |
| 2:22.9 | role during labor and birth. So she developed this tailored curriculum. She filmed it with dads |
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