Trusting Your Intuition + Creating Safety for your Healing Birth Environment | Dr. Nathan Riley
Nathan is a doctor who specializes in home births and women's health in Louisville, Kentucky. He combines different medical approaches, including traditional medicine, functional medicine, nutrition, exercise, and midwifery, to provide the best care for his clients. His personal experience during the birth of his second daughter made him realize the need for more supportive maternal care. In this episode, he discusses the circulating myths and risks women face during pregnancy and how they can build the support village they want for their birth experience. Let this episode be an encouragement against the common narrative of fear women hear from adolescence, and aid in your discernment for preparing for your ideal birth experience.
Episode Highlights:
Getting to know Dr. Riley
Simple joys of connection with clients
Transformation in Dr. Riley’s practitioner story
17:30
Is current maternal care truly what’s best for mothers?
Transformation of fear in the birth story from early adolesence
25:50
No wonder we can’t “stick it to the man” in a hospital room
Being responsible with consuming information online
Equipping your spouse as birth support
You have permission to be healthy without the influencer “stuff”
31:36 if you don’t feel safe going into childbirth than none of this stuff matters
34:10 your body can have a baby
“Your intuition is authoritative knowledge”
Power of fear in stalling your birth
The “scarier the environment the less likely we will be decreasing our csection rates”
Starting with “no thank you” for building body autonomy
Cultivating intimacy beyond intercourse
Men holding space for the change in the “dance” that birth brings
Are “big babies” a big enough reason to avoid vaginal birth?
Is a cord around the neck something to fear?
What are the risks of breech babies?
Red flags we’re missing
1:08 overwmphasizing how “safe” csection births
As long as we’re only focusing on living mom and living baby, we’re missing the opportunity to really care for birthing families
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