Healing Birth

Dr. Beebe Dericks is a Naturopathic Doctor, Acupuncturist, Holistic Pelvic Care© Practitioner, Birth Healing Provider, and Chinese Herbal Medicine Specialist.

She's obviously brilliant, but I wanted her on the show not merely to share her vast body of knowledge about healing, but her passion for serving women. We go DEEP into the science of why trauma, of any kind, is literally stored in our tissues, and how to heal it. Beebe also shares the powerful story of her own births, the first of which was made difficult due to an IUD injury, and the second, a triumphant VBAC.

My guest this week shares the story of the births of all three of her babies, with an emphasis on the birth of her twins one year ago. Her story is of the clearest examples of coercive, abusive, obstetric violence I have ever heard.

We also talk about the importance of telling your story, as many times as you can, the importance of sisterhood, and how we can begin to hold physicians and hospitals accountable for experiences like hers.

Please note that this episode contains a description of a traumatic birth, skip it if you are pregnant, or needing to protect your space.

I took a poll on instagram and you have spoken! Tune in to hear me speaking about what it's like to parent a child with special needs during this very interesting year. I speak about why it's taken me so long to talk about parenting an autistic child, major compromises I have had to make, masks, surprises, and most of all, solidarity with all of you who are going through the same thing.

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Birth work is also death work.

Meet Wild Luna Raven, a radical birth keeper, and death keeper, who does not shy away from the death work.

She offers beautiful support for women who experience an early birth (a term we use intentionally, and you'll learn why). We talk about her own experiences of early births, and the different ways that early births can unfold. We also talk about the birth of her son within the medical system, which (as so often happens!) led her on a path to offer women an alternative way.

If you've ever had an early birth, or want to lean into supporting other sisters in this aspect of birth work, this episode is for you!

Follow Wild @wild.womb.witch

www.laniraven.com

What does it mean to take responsibility for our birth experiences? How do we learn from it, digest it, and, in the case of a traumatic birth, heal from it, without staying in a place of victimhood or self blame?

This is extremely tricky work! Join us this week as explore this topic with sensitivity and loads of compassion, for all of us.

If we can get to the point of owning our stories, we can be the ones to heal it.

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You know I love a VBAC story! Tessa shares her victorious, home birth, VBAC story, after having experienced a coerced cesarean due to breech positioning with her first child.

Her story is such powerful testament to listening to your own instincts, self-education, and the importance of leaving behind a system that consistently fails birthing women.

Join me for our August Group Call - Healing Your Birth Story in Community

8/12 1pm HST / 4pm PST / 6pm CST. Book online at www.healingbirth.net

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Natalie shares her story of giving birth via a cesarean that she could feel.

We talk about her healing process, and the total lack of accountability from anyone at the hospital where her birth occurred.

Please be advised, this episode contains a graphic description of a traumatic surgical birth. Skip this one of you are pregnant, and need to protect your space.

Follow Natalie @mermaidnat1

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Why is the practice of inducing labor so ubiquitous?

What does it mean to have someone else decide when your baby should be born?

What are the long term ramifications of giving a synthetic form of oxytocin, the bonding and love hormone, to so many women during birth?

Join Lynnea Laessig (@mamatukibirth) and I for a philosophical discussion about labor induction. Please note, nothing we say in this episode should be considered medical advice.

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Most people probably wish for a fast labor. But the experience can hold a different type of trauma than you might imagine.

Join Olivia and I as we discuss her experience with miscarrying her first pregnancy, laboring so fast with her second that she describes it as an out of body experience, and how she went from delegating all decision making, to taking her power back in subsequent deliveries.

Be sure to stick around for the end, when we get into the woo stuff - manifesting a longer labor for her fourth, healing ancestral trauma, and spirit babies!

Follow Olivia - @discovermother

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Join Jonea and I this week as we talk about the massive maternal healthcare crisis facing black women and their babies in America today. The information contained in this conversation is absolutely vital for us all to grasp in order to, quite literally, help saves lives.

Anti-Racist Resources:

So You Want to Talk about Race

White Fragility

Rachel Cargle

Discussed in this episode:

History of the African American Midwife

Dr. J. Marion Sims Experimented On Black Women & His New York Statue Has People Outraged

Amber Isaac Story

Please support the woman in AZ we discuss who was separated from her baby. Venmo @desertwombsinbloom

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@wild.pregnancy_free.birth

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