Episode 468: The 6G Push, Paraquat Threat, and the Modern Maternity Crisis
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
The Highwire with Del Bigtree
4.9 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Host Del Bigtree sits down with Dr. Stuart Fischbein for an in-studio conversation on natural birth, home birth, VBACs, and the medicalization of childbirth, exploring how families can think differently about pregnancy, birth, and informed decision-making.
March 19, 2026
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| 0:37.3 | All right everyone, we ready? |
| 0:39.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:40.3 | Let's do this. |
| 0:41.3 | Action. |
| 0:42.3 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are out there in the world. |
| 0:59.7 | It's time to step out into the high wire. |
| 1:03.2 | You know, I'm really excited about this show today. |
| 1:06.5 | One of the reasons being, you know, there's a lot we talk about, whether it's vaccines or, you know, |
| 1:11.4 | medical decisions. A lot of it can be very difficult on a relationship. You know, I say to people, |
| 1:17.6 | if you are in a relationship and you plan on having kids somewhere in the future, you should |
| 1:21.9 | probably have that vaccine discussion. And I did. I did when I met my wife Lee when we were dating. We had that |
| 1:28.6 | conversation. But you know the conversation we didn't have was childbirth. And so when we were |
| 1:33.3 | pregnant and finally we were, you know, looking forward to, you know, giving birth to our first |
| 1:38.1 | child, you know, I was all about like being healthy, but my mom had natural, my mom had done |
| 1:43.6 | natural childbirth. I've told many of you my mom was like a hippie mom, 1960s, March in the 60s, but when she gave birth to me, she still did it in a hospital. And I'll never forget when my wife said, you know, I think I want to do a home birth. I was shocked at that decision. I was like, wow, cool. I mean, that sounds amazing. |
| 2:03.3 | And then we started looking together, got a midwife and the rest, as they say, in many ways, |
| 2:08.4 | is history. Such a beautiful way to bring a child in the world, which is why I'm really stoked |
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