Taking Back Birth Maryn Green
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- Gesundheit und Fitness
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Join host Maryn Green, autonomous midwife of many years, for all things radical birth, midwifery and mothering related. For more info, go to indiebirth.org. To listen to past episodes visit https://indiebirth.org/podcastarchive/
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Embodiment and Birth Work
What is embodiment? Listen in on some musings around what this is and isn’t; I also share some personal stories around learning to feel in my body, honoring where I am at and following what my body is feeling. I definitely see this as (one of) the missing links in abundant and joyful birth work; […]
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The First Blood
I share more about my witchy experiences in Spain first; and then move onto how it feels to hold space as a mother for a daughter’s first moon cycle. I love this initiation and am so proud and happy with how my girls have embraced themselves and their new womanhood. It brings me back to […]
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The Anniversary of Sable’s Birth/Death and Readings From My Journal (Re-Issue)
This past week marked 8 years since my son Sable died in my womb and was born 4 months later. I share how I am feeling now, and how this experience has shaped me and changed me in the last bit of time. Then, I share an older podcast with readings from my journal during […]
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Why Health Insurance Shouldn’t Factor Into Your Birth Plan (Re-Issue)
I know, I Know…what?! I am hoping for some huge cultural shifts (and maybe some email responses) around this podcast. I can’t keep quiet any longer that I am TIRED of women/people abdicating responsibility for their birth in a myriad of ways…one of which is the entire paradigm of someone ELSE paying for your birth […]
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Pregnancy In Isolation
This is an expansion on an email I wrote recently about going through pregnancy and birth alone, SPECIFICALLY from the lens of trauma and safety. This isn’t a commentary on why all women choose “wild pregnancy” or freebirth but is a perspective on choices being made from the bodily sensations of lack of safety. This […]
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When Doulas Become Cogs in the Wheel of Medicalized Birth
After an update, I talk about the feelings I have around “doulas” and what our passion is when creating new doulas in the world. The way I see it, there is still the vanilla/mainstream doula stuff going on and then also the opposite extreme of doulas being trained to attend births outright on their own […]
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A true disservice to women
Calling a the desire to birth freely a product of patriarchy, or reducing it to a trend, disqualifies this podcast from being considered a support for women who seek a birth outside of the medical space. Therein lies a lack of understanding about the risks of medical births (including the presence of a midwife), a massive distrust in women as the true authority oder their bodies, and a shocking indifference about what dangers women of color face when entering a hospital for birth. This is not “taking back birth” the way I see it: Back into the hands of the birthing women. Instead, it is taking back birth into the hands of outside experts to feel relevant. What a betrayal.