Reclaim Your Birth: Sovereignty, Intuition & the Dad's Surprising Role with Midwife, Catalina Clark

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🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What if the most powerful voice in your birth room isn't the doctor's — it's your husband's? In this episode, I sit down with Catalina Clark, a licensed home birth midwife in Sonoma, California, who has spent 11 years at the crossroads of spiritual midwifery, birth sovereignty, and the sacred side of birth that nobody in the hospital is talking about. From the father's role in the birth room to why Pitocin may be affecting us on a cultural level, we talk about it all — and I think you're goin...

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0:00.0	People might not agree with this, but I think the father's voice is the most important in the room because whatever he says goes.
0:05.7	If a mom is like, I don't want a vaginal exam, you know, no thank you.
0:09.5	And the nurse is like, well, the doctor says, you know, we need to do a vaginal exam or you can't start pushing until we confirm that you're 10 centimeters.
0:15.3	The father's saying, she said no, there's nothing anybody can do to override the father's voice in that moment.
0:25.8	We talk a lot in Doolo work of like, you cannot speak for the mother, you cannot make
0:29.1	decisions for the mother, you cannot speak to the hospital staff for the mother. But the father can.
0:34.2	The father can speak for the mother. And he should and he has to. He is in charge of that
0:40.0	child. Nobody else is going to go home and feed and house and pay for and take care of that child
0:46.7	other than the father and the mother. And so the father's voice is going to be listened to.
0:53.2	Nobody is going to mess with a man who is clear
0:57.5	and confident and grounded and saying, she said no. Getting pregnant and giving birth are two
1:08.7	of the most exciting things you can ever hope to experience in this life.
1:12.6	The moment you think you could be pregnant, you're frantically searching for all the best information.
1:17.6	Which is why you're here today.
1:19.6	I'm Stephanie King and with my many years of experience as a professional childbirth educator,
1:24.6	doula and lover of all things, pregnancy, birth birth and postpartum. I'm here to make
1:29.4	preparing for your birth enjoyable, empowering, and totally easy. Each week, I'll cover different
1:35.6	topics, interview professionals, and get into the nitty gritty birth stories from mamas just like you.
1:41.6	And when you're ready for more, you can join me in the My Essential
1:44.9	Birth course at MyEessentialbirth.com, where I take you step by step through exactly how to
1:50.4	prepare your mind, body, spirit, and partner for a birth you love. So let's get started.
2:07.5	Welcome, you guys. This week I have with me, Catalina Clark. I know that you guys are going to love this episode. She is a midwife in Sonoma, California. I'm actually going to give her a chance
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