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Rewilding birth and empowering women | Amanda Alappat, coach and advocate Early Care for Every Kid
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- Parenting
In this episode, Amanda Alappat, a homebirth mama, certified doula, coach, seasoned yoga teacher, joins me to discuss:
(04:30) how birthing is a pivotal experience that could color motherhood(06:50) the importance of knowing our options (07:40) considerations+support needed for optimal conditions preconception, during pregnancy, postpartum(19:20) Amanda's home birth story(28:00) physiologic birth (31:40) Amanda's surprising and empowering first home birth (38:00) RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) parenting(44:00) how we could help empower women by reclaiming birth, knowing all our options
and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Amanda Alappat https://www.amandaalappat.com/Amanda Alappat https://www.instagram.com/amanda_alappat/RIE Parenting https://www.rie.org/about/ries-basic-principles/
Join the conversation:
follow earlycareforeverykid.orgconnect instagram.com/earlycareforeverykidsubscribe earlycareforeverykid.captivate.fm/listentranscript https://share.descript.com/view/VoOs1pT07lw
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Transcript
AI-generated transcript below. Please excuse any typos or errors.
Danielle An
Wherever you are, however, your day or night's been going. I hope you feel as inspired as I am after this episode with Amanda Alappat, to take a moment, to see how we feel in our bodies and take charge of how we mother, our children and ourselves.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone. I'm your host, Danielle An each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone.
Amanda Alappat is on a mission to support and elevate women. She is a home birth mama seasoned yoga teacher and a veteran personal trainer who was once a competitive champion boxer. Amanda has two small children and an artist husband. She splits her time between New York city, their retreat, home and art gallery in the Poconos in Pennsylvania and Costa Rica.
The destination of their upcoming family retreats. Amanda believes strongly in both physiologic birth and mothering, and is the practitioner of RIE a respectful approach to parenting. She loves growing her own food. Unschooling her daughter breastfeeding her son, hosting women's circles and retreats all while cultivating sisterhood and community.
Welcome to our conversation with Amanda Alappat. I'm so grateful to have you today because you are on a mission. You are a woman, a force on a mission to support and elevate women and womanhood and motherhood, sisterhood, community rewilding. Could you please tell me how you came into this space of birthing and rewilding motherhood?
What does that mean?
Amanda Alappat
Okay, so I'll give you the summary. I got into the fitness industry 20 years ago, and that is before Instagram and before social media. And so I was one of the only women in the industry and as such, I...
In this episode, Amanda Alappat, a homebirth mama, certified doula, coach, seasoned yoga teacher, joins me to discuss:
(04:30) how birthing is a pivotal experience that could color motherhood(06:50) the importance of knowing our options (07:40) considerations+support needed for optimal conditions preconception, during pregnancy, postpartum(19:20) Amanda's home birth story(28:00) physiologic birth (31:40) Amanda's surprising and empowering first home birth (38:00) RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) parenting(44:00) how we could help empower women by reclaiming birth, knowing all our options
and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Amanda Alappat https://www.amandaalappat.com/Amanda Alappat https://www.instagram.com/amanda_alappat/RIE Parenting https://www.rie.org/about/ries-basic-principles/
Join the conversation:
follow earlycareforeverykid.orgconnect instagram.com/earlycareforeverykidsubscribe earlycareforeverykid.captivate.fm/listentranscript https://share.descript.com/view/VoOs1pT07lw
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Transcript
AI-generated transcript below. Please excuse any typos or errors.
Danielle An
Wherever you are, however, your day or night's been going. I hope you feel as inspired as I am after this episode with Amanda Alappat, to take a moment, to see how we feel in our bodies and take charge of how we mother, our children and ourselves.
This is early care for every kid, a podcast for people who want to make learning, living, and loving more harmonious for everyone. I'm your host, Danielle An each week, I interview fellow parents, educators, advocates, and community leaders who care for and work with young children and families. I share their experiences, insights, and specific, actionable tips on how you could help make the world work better for everyone.
Amanda Alappat is on a mission to support and elevate women. She is a home birth mama seasoned yoga teacher and a veteran personal trainer who was once a competitive champion boxer. Amanda has two small children and an artist husband. She splits her time between New York city, their retreat, home and art gallery in the Poconos in Pennsylvania and Costa Rica.
The destination of their upcoming family retreats. Amanda believes strongly in both physiologic birth and mothering, and is the practitioner of RIE a respectful approach to parenting. She loves growing her own food. Unschooling her daughter breastfeeding her son, hosting women's circles and retreats all while cultivating sisterhood and community.
Welcome to our conversation with Amanda Alappat. I'm so grateful to have you today because you are on a mission. You are a woman, a force on a mission to support and elevate women and womanhood and motherhood, sisterhood, community rewilding. Could you please tell me how you came into this space of birthing and rewilding motherhood?
What does that mean?
Amanda Alappat
Okay, so I'll give you the summary. I got into the fitness industry 20 years ago, and that is before Instagram and before social media. And so I was one of the only women in the industry and as such, I...
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