Michelle Aristizabal on Natural Birth and Choosing Your Birthing Experience
Episode Highlights With Michelle
- The resistance she runs into as a doctor trying to support natural birth
- Why doctors and patients often have trouble having a low intervention birth in some settings
- The reason the c-section rate has risen so drastically in the last few decades
- Some factors to consider when approaching birth
- The real data about if low intervention birth is more dangerous
- Ways women can advocate for themselves in labor
- Interventions you actually have a choice about in labor and can refuse
- The factors women can do to increase their chances of a natural birth
- Stats on the real safety of home birth vs hospital birth and why home birth isn’t as safe in the US as it can be in other places
Resources We Mention
- Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan by Michelle Aristizabal
- Facebook page - Wombkeepers Scottsdale
- Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care by Jennifer Block
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