Mindful Birth Peaceful Earth Podcast

In this episode, Karen Strange shares insight into the transition all humans make when they are born. She takes us through the baby’s journey during labor and birth and describes how each baby shares their story, once mom and baby are back together. Karen gives practical tips to slow ourselves to match the baby’s pace and tools to communicate with newborns. Sometimes births don’t go as planned. That’s part of life. Luckily, integration is embedded in the sequence of birth (or we wouldn’t have survived for millenia). Karen explains how to facilitate integration and repair, especially when things don’t go as planned.

Resources: 

Link for preview of my Teachable course  resuscitation-of-the-newborn.teachable.com/p/irn-peek

https://karenstrange.com

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Being one of the longest practicing American Academy of Pediatrics/Neonatal Resuscitation Program instructors, Karen Strange is truly a neonatal resuscitation guru.  Karen Strange became a midwife in 1988 in Texas and a Certified Professional Midwife in 1996. She teaches what birth professionals need to know to help, assist, and respond to a baby who isn’t breathing or breathing well, regardless of equipment and location of birth, while providing care in the least traumatic way. 

Having taught over 10,000 learners, worldwide, Karen has been featured at global conferences, courses, lectures and podcasts. She is the creator and instructor of the workshop, and now online course, Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn. Karen specializes in debriefing with birth professionals after complications, like a resuscitation, giving her a bird’s eye view of what tends to go well and what gets missed when it comes to responding during an emergency. 

Karen has a deep passion for sharing the baby’s experience of birth and teaching practical tools to birth professionals and parents that support bonding and connection, before, during and after birth. Karen’s unique ‘baby’s experience lens’ gives practitioners a brand new perspective, and enables them to make quick decisions and take appropriate actions, while providing trauma-free care.

In this episode, Teddy will be talking with us about  being a Full Spectrum Doula and how he came to be one. He will be discussing his journey so far as a Doula and also any unique challenges he has faced. 

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Timothy Gant, also known as Teddy, is a Full Spectrum Doula and Advocate. He recently started his path as a doula but is constantly growing every day. He first found his passion for birth work when his mother told him her birth story. Hearing her experience gave him a different outlook on life. It showed him how complex, yet beautiful pregnancy and birth can be. Every person on earth starts life this way, and he wants to be able to help as many birthers as he can have a safe and successful birth. After hearing everything about his mother’s experience, he felt a calling to dedicate his life to helping birthers have better experiences.

Teddy’s passion for helping Birthing People has been there since he can remember.  Birthers bring new life into this world and deserve to be supported throughout the full journey. He can’t personally birth a child, but the next best thing is to help those who can. Birthing people hold a very special place in his heart,and he considers his duty to help each one have a safe, beautiful, and memorable birth experience.

 In this episode Staci discusses the importance of prenatal newborn care education. She describes her Newborn Care class and offers some helpful tips for caring for infants. Listeners will learn about creating a safe environment for growing children, and how and why to respect their baby from the very beginning. 

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Staci Knox is a certified Childbirth and Lactation Educator who teaches prenatal education in the Treasure Valley. In addition to teaching classes, which include childbirth and postpartum preparation, breastfeeding, newborn care, and more, she also creates placenta prints, provides postpartum visits, and jars herbal products for moms and babies, which she organically grows at home. Staci has a degree in Child Development with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education, and she is a certified Preschool Teacher. She has been working with children and families for 10 years in multiple settings. Staci’s passion for breastfeeding advocacy has led her to the Idaho Breastfeeding Coalition, which she is an active member of. She strives to normalize breastfeeding, home birth, and gentle attachment parenting.

In this episode, Holly Lammer, co-host of the podcast, talks about the hormones of birth, how do we define physiologic birth, how do the hormones work from a reproductive physiologic standpoint, and
how we can support the hormones no matter what happens during the birth process.

References:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4720867/
http://www.childbirthconnection.org/
http://www.childbirthconnection.org/maternity-care/role-of-hormones/

 In this episode, Jolene will discuss her experience with infertility, the toll it can take on your mental/physical health and relationships, and what its like to beat it.  Infertility affects 1 in 8 couples in the United States and is still considered taboo.  By sharing her story, Jolene hopes to bring light where there can be so much darkness.  Her experience led her down a lonely, confusing path for many years.  Feeling helpless, not knowing where to turn, left her mentally and physically unwell.  Now experiencing motherhood, she wants to share it all.  The good, the bad, the ugly, the beautiful parts of infertility and what it’s like to be a mom.

Resources: 

Nancy’s Nook Endometriosis Education:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/NancysNookEndoEd/

Mental Health Hotline:  https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help

Prenatal Class:  https://www.embryoga.com

EnVie Fitness:  https://enviefitnessidaho.com

Idaho Stork:  https://www.idahostork.com

Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine:  https://idahoreproductive.com

BIOS: Jolene Grizzle is married to her high school sweetheart, a photographer of people, a lover of animals, and a homebody.  After years of pain, frustration, misdiagnosis, and infertility; she is overjoyed to be a new mom to a beautiful baby girl.

Today Soraya will be talking to us about the options for postpartum support in your neighborhood. As a society, we have lost our "villages" where we would receive the care and guidance from the matriarchs who were there to help us heal after birth. Postpartum doulas have grown in popularity as the emphasis has started to encompass not only birth, but that transformative period after birth as the family grows and strives to find their new normal. Postpartum doulas serve families in so many ways and provide the individualized care and attention that is so critical in the days, weeks and months following birth.

Resources:

First Forty Days: 

https://www.amazon.com/First-Forty-Days-Essential-Nourishing/dp/1617691836/ref=sr_1_1?crid=30FK3419POL87&keywords=first+forty+days&qid=1583095007&sprefix=first+forty%2Caps%2C225&sr=8-1

The Wonder Weeks:

https://www.amazon.com/Wonder-Weeks-Stress-Free-Guide-Behavior/dp/168268427X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+wonder+weeks&qid=1583095151&sr=8-1

The Happiest Baby on the Block: 

https://www.amazon.com/Happiest-Block-Revised-Updated-Second/dp/0553393235/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+happiest+baby+on+the+block&qid=1583095196&sr=8-1

Soraya Mazloomi is a certified labor and postpartum doula, placenta encapsulator and childbirth and postpartum educator. She is the owner of Boise Birth Services, a full spectrum doula agency that serves the Treasure Valley and surrounding areas. She is the Director of Education for Idaho Doula Associates and has been involved in and around the birth community for 8 years. She believes deeply that families deserve unconditional, unbiased support and works in her community both professionally and legislatively to protect and promote the rights of ALL families.

In this episode we talk to Dr. Sayida Pepra. She discusses  how studies have identified implicit bias and lack of culturally appropriate care as a contributor to maternal health disparities as well as share how to  construct support strategies and interventions for pregnant, birthing and postpartum individuals with a history of transgenerational trauma.  We also spend quite a bit of time sharing about how you can identify and assess personal implicit biases. 

Resources:

Sayida's Website: www.DrSayidaPeprah.com (http://sayidapeprah.synthasite.com) 

 Diversity Uplifts Website: www.DiversityUplifts.org (https://diversityuplifts.yolasite.com) 

 Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrSayida 

 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drsayida/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drsayida.uplifts.3

Dr. Sayida Peprah is a licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula, with over 10 years of experience in both fields. She specializes in multicultural psychology, trauma, suicide prevention and maternal mental health. Dr. Sayida has a multi-faced career as a psychologist, diversity and cross-cultural educator, and community-based doula program director. Dr. Sayida is also the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Diversity Uplifts, Inc., who's mission is “fostering diversity and supporting communities and the providers who serve them.” 

An advocate for human rights in childbirth, Dr. Sayida is a member of the Black Women Birthing Justice Collective and a Collaborator with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, promoting research, education and community-based services to positively transform the birthing experiences of black families. Dr. Sayida has served and continues to serve on advisory committees to improve maternal health including Perinatal Equity Initiative Committees, and formerly the California Maternal Suicide Review Committee and others aimed at identifying key risks and opportunities for quality improvement and prevention around disparities. 

In this episode, Tamara Rolan, a CNM discusses how she became interested in birthwork, the journey that brought her to Idaho, her philosophy and way of practicing with birthing families, and her experiences as a person of color in a predominantly white community. 

Resources: https://www.stlukesonline.org/communities-and-locations/facilities/clinics/st-lukes-clinic-obstetrics-and-gynecology-meridian

BIO: Tamara Rolan, CNM began her journey to midwifery as a volunteer doula at UNC hospitals in Chapel Hill, NC. Up until that point, she had no idea that midwives existed in the hospital setting. After a beautiful birth with a nurse-midwife, Tamara decided to pursue a career in midwifery. She attended nursing school at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina, and then midwifery school at Frontier Nursing University in Kentucky. A lifelong East Coast native, Tamara fell in love with Idaho and moved shortly afterwards to begin her midwifery career.  She currently attends births at a local hospital. Tamara believes that women should always be at the center of their own care, making informed decisions about their birth experiences.

In this episode, Dr. Jay Warren talks with us about  the vital role that dads play in pregnancy, the birth experience, and in parenting and postpartum support.  He gives practical advice and  tools on how they can bond with baby starting in pregnancy and continuing on through the early newborn period. He also discusses the importance of self care for dad during this time, and how differences in parenting styles between partners can enhance the family experience and how to deal with the changes that come with the transformative journey to fatherhood.

Resources: 

Website: www.DrJayWarren.com

Podcasts:

Healthy Births, Happy Babies

The Dadhood Journey

Free pdf eBook "40 Ways to Connect to Your Baby During Pregnancy": www.drjaywarren.com/40ways

Online course for Pregnant women, "Connecting with Baby": www.drjaywarren.com/cwb

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Dr. Jay Warren has been a prenatal and pediatric chiropractor for 19 years. He is also the Wellness Care Coordinator at the CAP Wellness Center in San Diego, CA where 90% of his practice is pregnant or postpartum women and babies under one year old. Dr. Jay now serves as an instructor for the ICPA teaching an online course called “Prenatal Care: Baby Centered Birth”.

Dr. Jay is the host of 2 popular podcasts “Healthy Births, Happy Babies”, interviewing experts on perinatal care issues and “The Dadhood Journey”, where he shares real-life lessons and practical tools to support new dads in navigating their parenthood experience. 

Dr. Jay has also created an online program, “Connecting with Baby” which guides pregnant women through processes to strengthen maternal bonding in-utero so that she is more confident as a parent and better able to soothe and connect with baby when they arrive.

In this episode, Amy Haderer, founder of [M]otherboard Birth talks to us about how we can use technology to streamline childbirth education and informed choice, and how it can help families and providers build relationships.  She will be discussing the importance of autonomy, agency, support, and education during birth and how to avoid trauma by treating families with dignity and respect.  We will also be chatting about the pros and cons of building birth plans, new ways to look at communication and collaboration, and how to use birthplans as a framework for education and communication.

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Amy Haderer is a childbirth assistant (doula), artist, birth activist, mother of six, and founder of Motherboard Birth. Ever since the birth of her first daughter, Amy has been passionate about guiding families through the challenging landscape of their birth experience.For over a decade, Amy has provided hands-on support to hundreds of families during the childbearing year. Amy saw a need for better education and better communication between parents and their care team. She is passionate about helping parents understand their options and make decisions based on the best available information.

Amy is passionate about creating environments where families feel respected and heard, and providers understand what’s most important to the families they serve.

www.motherboardbirth.com