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*Rebroadcast* Doula Rachael shares the framework that can help guide you along your unique path to giving birth. The Lamaze 6 Healthy Birth Practices are foundational, practical, and effective in helping to ensure you have the best chance at having a safer, healthier, and more satisfying childbirth.  

Use these birth practices to help increase your knowledge and confidence and to have conversations with your care provider about how they support these healthy birth practices.  

You can also use these practices to begin filling your tool bag with resources, tips, and information to help you navigate the unpredictable events that can often lead to additional and oftentimes unnecessary or unwanted consequences later in labor or birth. 

In this episode, Rachael shares the Lamaze 6 Healthy Birth Practices:

1.Let labor begin on its own

2.Continuous Support

3.Move around, change positions during labor

4.Avoid unnecessary interventions

5.Avoid pushing on your back

6.Keep mom and baby together

If you can root in these guiding principles, you will be able to achieve the safe, healthy, and empowering birth experience you deserve!

Your Birth Your Way Online Childbirth Education Course (by Doula Rachael)

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Music: "Freedom” by Roa

Disclaimer: The information shared, obtained, and discussed in this podcast is not intended as medical advice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional consultation with a qualified healthcare provider familiar with your individual medical needs. By listening to this podcast you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This disclaimer includes all guests or contributors to the podcast.

In this episode of Awakened Love, Angel is joined by Lindsey Meehleis: Spiritual Midwife. For the past 20 years, Lindsey Meehlies has worked in healthcare, helping women discover their own strength through psychedelic, transcendent experiences while they birth their babies in power at home. As well as serving in the shadows of death as a Midwife who helps people cross the rainbow bridge. She serves families from womb to tomb, like many medicine women have done throughout time, with a deep remembering that many of these witches were burned at the stake for their threat to the standard industrialized complex. 

Is the Medical Industrialized Complex still burning Midwives as Witches? A question answered in depth in this profound conversation.

They also deep dive into : 

• The Sacredness of Homebirth 
• The persecution of midwives during witch trials: “Were midwives the Original Witches?”
• Recognizing Fear vs Intuition when giving Birth
• How Sexual Trauma can Resurface during Labor

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Pregnancy can bring about a lot of physical bodily changes, but it can also introduce a whole new vocabulary as well.  In today’s episode, Doula Rachael and Dr. Shannon highlight terms that can help you navigate your prenatal journey. with more ease and confidence.  

From basic anatomy definitions of common organs, organ systems, and tissues that are ever-changing during pregnancy to common terms you might be hearing at your prenatal exams.  This list is not all-encompassing, but they hope to bring about more knowledge a nd awareness to help you navigate pregnancy with more ease.  

From amazing facts about your placenta and uterus to understanding more about cervical exams and group B strep, this episode is a good start for increasing your prenatal vocab.  And stay tuned next week for part 2 which is all about common birth termanology.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

Preventing GBS - at home with Tiffany and Kelly podcast 

Group B strep from Evidence Based Birth 

Failure to Progress from Evidence Based Birth 

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Editing: Godfrey Sound
Music: "Freedom” by Roa

Disclaimer: The information shared, obtained, and discussed in this podcast is not intended as medical advice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional consultation with a qualified healthcare provider familiar with your individual medical needs. By listening to this podcast you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This disclaimer includes all guests or contributors to the podcast.

Bringing home a baby can be a big transition, not just for mom and the new baby, but for the rest of the family as well.  In this episode, Doula Rachael and Dr. Shannon share their own experiences with welcoming a new addition to the family.  They each have two boys who are three years apart, but they bring lots of different birth experiences to the table.  Doula Rachael shares how she navigated her home birth with her second child and her approach for introducing their new baby to his new big brother. Dr. Shannon shares her hospital birth experience and how she introduced their 2nd son to his big brother. They also share their professional experience with helping new parents navigate introducing new siblings.

Resources:

• Dr. Laura Markham - Aha! Parenting - https://www.ahaparenting.com/
• Dr. Siggie Cohen - https://drsiggie.com/ 
• Ashley Lingerfelt - Play Time Therapy - https://playtimetherapy.org/ 
• Postpartum Doulas - https://www.northatlantabirth.com/postpartum-doula-services 
• Postpartum Planning Class - https://www.northatlantabirth.com/postpartum-planning
• Episode 6: Non-monetary essentials for the postpartum
• Episode 7: Building your village for the postpartum
• Episode 8: Our favorite things to purchase for the postpartum

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Don't miss new episodes: Join the Aligned Birth Community

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Email: alignedbirthpodcast@gmail.com

Find us online:
Sunrise Chiropractic and Wellness
North Atlanta Birth Services

Editing: Godfrey Sound
Music: "Freedom” by Roa

Disclaimer: The information shared, obtained, and discussed in this podcast is not intended as medical advice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional consultation with a qualified healthcare provider familiar with your individual medical needs. By listening to this podcast you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This disclaimer includes all guests or contributors to the podcast.