The Mother Podcast
Information and discussion on holistic health for mothers. There are so many ways we can take charge of our and our families' health and wellbeing - especially when medical options are limited. Join us for conversations on fertility and pregnancy, birth and postpartum, uterine and breast health, hormones and mental health and all aspects of the lifelong experience of motherhood. Includes interviews with experts and practitioners, as well as information from podcast host Suzanne Maier, midwife and mother of 4 interesting children.
The Mother Podcast
Advocacy in Birth with Cáitlin Heavey
What is advocacy in birth?
Why would anyone need an advocate for their birth and during their birth experience?
This episode includes a discussion 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 longlasting effects that are not audited as outcomes
Cáitlin can be found at https://caitlinheavey.co.uk/
Cáitlin is on Instagram at caitlinheavey_yogabirth
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music by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora
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The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier