Hehe owns Tranquility by Hehe, a concierge birth support company that focuses on preparing birthing people and their partners for the challenging, exciting, and joyful experience of childbirth. She does a great deal of educating through her hilarious - but on-the-money - Instagram and Tiktok accounts. She's also the host of 'The Birth Lounge Podcast', which might become required listening for anybody at any stage of their conception or pregnancy journey. We get into birth plans, setting boundaries, 'no means no', and we find common ground way outside the confines of the 'wu' closet. It's a great pleasure to have Hehe on the show!

[5:30] - Radical responsibility and birth plans

[11:30] - It’s never too late to start Birth planning

[16:15] - How would Hehe ideally like to give birth

[20:50] - The importance of setting and respecting boundaries

[26:00] - Every hospital has a ‘Patient Bill of Rights’

[29:00] - The moment you coerce a decision from a person, you are inflicting trauma

[35:20] - Safe passage through childbirth is never guaranteed

[42:45] - Support for and from the partner of a birthing person

[49:00] - The role of the divine masculine in holding space in birth and parenting



References and links:



Tranquility By Hehe (Website, Instagram, Tiktok)

Hehe's Podcast "The Birth Lounge" (she even interviewed little ol' me!)

Hermine Hayes-Klein

Tracey Vogel, MD

Indie Birth Midwifery School



Find Dr. Riley on Instagram at @nathanrileyobgyn and his practice at www.BelovedHolistics.com



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Music by: Labrinth, Chancha Via Circuito, and Joaquín Cornejo

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