Episode: 72
An essential guide for expectant parents, empowering them to approach their birthing experience with knowledge, confidence, and a sense of advocacy.
Join Alec and Emily as they navigate through a myriad of topics, providing an in-depth exploration of hospital births. From the personal journey of becoming a Doula to awakening to the challenges associated with hospital births, Emily shares her perspectives, experiences, and a wealth of knowledge that every expectant parent should know.
In this episode, the discussion goes beyond the medical aspects of childbirth. Emily sheds light on the historical evolution of birthing practices in America, offering listeners a comprehensive understanding of how we’ve arrived at the current state of hospital births. The conversation touches on critical subjects such as epidurals, antibiotics, non-emergency C-sections, circumcision, and the impact of hospital protocols on the birthing experience.
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Show Minutes
0:00 – Hospital Births: What You Need to Know
4:45 – Where it started
9:30 – Holistic community that is pro allopathic medicine
11:55 – Hospital births
18:40 – Inflated Risks to push you to allopathic medicine
27:30 – Naturally waking up to the problems of birth in hospital setting
33:00 – 1st birth experience at home with 1st child
45:35 – Gut, brain, and antibiotic connection
48:40 – When perspective changed on vaccines
55:25 – Quitting medicine from early childhood
1:02:59 – What is the purpose of the Hepatitis B vaccine?
1:13:29 – Circumcision and its trauma
1:26:30 – Fake your GBS test
1:29:40 – C-section rate in America
1:42:13 – Induction and how doctors groom you for it
1:45:01 – Epidural rate in America
1:54:14 – Birth is not a medical procedure
