Whose Body Is It

Recovering Our Instincts & Free Birth in the Age of Undue Influence(s) | Mary Lou Singleton


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Covered in this episode:


  • Mary Lou Singleton’s call to serve women in birth and her experience watching midwifery turn into a standardized profession 


  • Critiquing medicalized midwifery and those who adhere to Science™


  • Unassisted Childbirth v. Free Birth Dogma


  • What happens when transferring to the hospital unnecessarily becomes the worst thing that could happen in your birth? 


  • The virtue of heroism in midwifery 


  • Why Mary Lou supports the voluntary licensure model 


  • Factors of homebirth death including breech and twins (highlighting two important studies) 


  • The commodification of free birth “cool girl culture” what happens when you follow a trend instead of your intuition 


  • What happens when women don’t get empowering risk assessment from either side of the birth pendulum? 


  • Recommendations for women to tap into their intuition: To free birth or not to free birth?


  • The role of responsibility for birth attendants 


  • What in the world should an aspiring birth attendant do? Where can she learn? Who can she learn from?


  • The value of having a woman at your birth who is willing to climb Everest with you  


Access Bonus Content


Follow Mary Lou Singleton on Substack


Check out Mary Lou's upcoming Herbalism course


Mary Lou's Website


Birthing From Within by Pam England


Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin


Unassisted Childbirth by Laura Shanley


Physician- and midwife-attended home births Effects of breech, twin, and post-dates outcome data on mortality rates by Dr. Lewis Mehl


Perinatal death associated with planned home birth in Australia: population based study


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