S2:Ep9 Advocacy in Birth with Cáitlin Heavey
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What is advocacy in birth?
Why would anyone need an advocate for their birth and during their birth experience?
In this episode Suzanne speaks with Cáitlin Heavey, a birth doula and mentor, active birth and yoga teacher, birth educator and woman's health physio.
Our discussion includes:
how you might figure out what you'd like and not like for your birth experience
why you might want a birth worker to support you during the birth of your baby
how informed consent is dependent on where you get the information from
working out your negotiables and non-negotiables in your birth plans
partners and working out their needs during birth
how advocacy changes between a home birth and a hospital birth
thinking birth as an event that includes more than just a baby coming out of a vagina
what are considered outcomes of birth, and the long lasting effects that are not audited as outcomes
Music by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora
https://www.shooglenifty.com/
The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier
