Pregnancy, Birth & The Power of Informed Consent with Traci Weafer

Cate & Ty Break It Down

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Cate & Ty are joined by Traci Weafer, known as TraciDoula on social media, to discuss everything about birth and pregnancy. Traci opens up about her own adoption story, the impact it had on her identity and how these experiences shaped her path to becoming a doula. She shares her insights on homeschooling, the evolving landscape of childbirth, and the crucial role of doulas and midwives in navigating the medical system. Traci's passion is for educating parents on their rights and choices, and emphasizes the importance of self-advocacy to ensure a respectful birth experience.

To learn about her services, visit her website at tracidoula.com

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0:00.0	Okay, hello. Welcome back to another episode of Kate and Tie Break It Down. We have a very special
0:14.0	guest with us today, Tracy Dula. You may know we're on Instagram. And we are just really excited
0:20.6	to kind of talk everything, birth and pregnancy.
0:24.3	She's also an adoptee.
0:26.5	So we have a lot of ground to come.
0:29.8	Yeah.
0:30.1	Thanks for coming on and joining us today.
0:32.7	Yeah, absolutely.
0:34.2	And I homeschooled my kids. Tyler.
0:38.1	Oh, see? Oh, we're hitting all of a little. Okay.
0:41.5	We have lots of things we could talk about then.
0:44.3	No, but I actually did. I saw your comment on, uh, my post. And I was like, this is great
0:49.4	because I think it, I think, uh, yeah, I think it got, I guess the, the takeaway from it was people were very upset with me and, um, you know, I understand. Yeah, you ruffled some feathers. I guess I, I didn't know. I, I didn't know there's any feathers to ruffle, I guess. Right. Um, but, uh, your comment was obvious, it was just, it was very nice and sweet, way, way nicer than a lot of the other ones. I'm assuming you saw it. So I wanted to just say, I appreciated it. And yeah, and I actually really enjoyed reading it and just, you know, I mean, my thing is I'm just trying to learn more about everything. So, you know, so I like to have these kind of conversations. Yeah. Well, I knew where you were coming from.
1:28.8	I did.
1:29.5	Okay.
1:29.7	I was like, oh, he's opening a can of worms and I knew you didn't know that you were.
1:36.9	And I think people twisted it.
1:39.7	Like our perspective is like people that do homeschool, I give you a lot of credit because I'm telling
1:44.9	you right now, it would be very hard for us to do that, like to be a teacher and a mom and a wife.
1:51.4	Like, you know, all the things that it takes to do all that. And it was just like, we're not saying
1:54.6	anything negative. We're just saying like we as a family wouldn't be able to do it. Right. And
1:59.7	there's a lot that goes along with that,
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