Midwife Partners Birth Truth

Midwife Partners
  • 5.0 (17)
  • ALTERNATIVE HEALTH

Listen to Kara and Julie, two seasoned nurse-midwives, discuss their journey from hospital to home birth attended deliveries, and hear why this matters to the future of maternal and child health in America. They share their experiences of how and why they have been drawn to home as the optimal place for most births and interview families who have chosen to birth at home. Midwifery care, health insurance, medical training, hospital care, and other birth-related topics will also addressed.

Episodes

  1. 11/11/2020

    Episode 9 - From Birth Center to Homebirth

    In this episode, Julie sits down with Jennifer and her son, Rowan, to discuss Jennifer's home birth experience with Midwife Partners.  Jennifer's first son was born at a birth center where she had a good experience, but decided that homebirth was a better option the second time around.

    36 min

  2. 04/26/2020

    Episode 8 - Transitioning To Home Birth

    In this episode, Julie and Kara continue discussing their discussion of securing collaboration and how they then transitioned to attending home birth.

    35 min

  3. 04/20/2020

    Episode 7 - Kayla's Birth Story

    In this episode, Julie interviews Kayla, a client of Midwife Partners about her birth experience with her son Jordan (who makes an appearance!).

    28 min

  4. 03/15/2020

    Episode 6 - Our Practice Part 2

    In this episode, Julie and Kara continue to provide information on their journey to provide evidence-based care in the hospital setting.  Listen to their experiences with unsupportive physicians and colleagues and begin to understand why they ultimately will leave that environment in order to provide the care to women and families that they deserve.

    38 min

  5. 03/08/2020

    Episode 5 - Our Practice Pt. 1

    In this episode, Kara and Julie discuss their practice in more detail, giving insight in what it was like to start an independent practice, the difficulties and barriers to practice, and then in attempting to practice evidence-based care first in a supportive hospital environment and then in an unsupportive one.

    31 min

  6. 02/17/2020

    Episode 4 - New Mom Special Guest

    In this episode, Julie and Kara sit down with one of their very own clients, a new mom of 5 months, Jordan. They discuss her experience with the Midwife Partners from basic women's health care to her pregnancy and home birth. Jordan shares her experience of suffering a miscarriage with a physician that lead her to the more compassionate and attentive midwifery care with Julie and Kara.

    37 min

  7. 01/17/2020

    Episode 3 - What is Nurse-Midwifery

    In this episode, Julie and Kara discuss nurse-midwifery in more detail. They also discuss the requirement of a collaboration agreement in order to practice their chosen profession and how this unfairly and negatively affects access to care.

    32 min

  8. 12/09/2019

    Episode 2 - Why We Started Our Own Practice

    Julie and Kara describe why they moved from one practice to another, and then again to another, and how these moves led them to ultimately open their own independent midwifery practice. Stay tuned for the next episode about the beginnings of our own practice.

    30 min

  9. 11/26/2019

    Episode 1 - Why We Became Midwives

    Julie and Kara explore and discuss what led them to pursuing their careers in midwifery. Along the way, both worked in various careers before ultimately leading them to their destined profession. On the next episode, they will discuss their early midwife experiences and how working for others motivated them to start their own practice.

    25 min
  • 9 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
17 Ratings

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Listen to Kara and Julie, two seasoned nurse-midwives, discuss their journey from hospital to home birth attended deliveries, and hear why this matters to the future of maternal and child health in America. They share their experiences of how and why they have been drawn to home as the optimal place for most births and interview families who have chosen to birth at home. Midwifery care, health insurance, medical training, hospital care, and other birth-related topics will also addressed.

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