Born Wild Podcast Sophia Henderson and Lea Ritter

PODCAST EPISODE - Kristine Laurie - #107

Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kristine Laurie once again. First interview linked below. They discuss Doctors without Boarders, preterm birth in the USA, steriods, antibiotics, jaundice, kangaroo care, IVF, IUI, infection, UTI, PROM, cord prolapse, triplets and twins, fetal demise, BPP, and placenta previa.

Kristine has been practicing for 33 years as a CPM and LM and has worked internationally for over 20 years. She currently works with MSF (Doctors Without Borders) providing humanitarian aid in developing countries. She specializes in high risk obstetrics in low resource settings. When Kristine is home, she teaches virtual AP midwifery classes through Midwifery Wisdom Collective and she also facilitates master classes with Breech Without Borders. She provides expert witness testimony in court cases involving breech birth.
Kristine has attended over 5,000 births, the majority out of hospital and has attended 516 breeches, 387 sets of twins and 7 sets of triplets to date. She is a staunch advocate for autonomy in women's health and for physiologic birth.

Connect with Kristine:
•IG: @globalmidwife64
•Website: https:/midwifewithoutboundaries.wordpress.com/

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/107--Kristine-Laurie---Preterm-Birth-and-Babies-e2him99

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PODCAST EPISODE - Caley’s Birth Story - #106

Join your host Sophia as she interviews Caley on her last birth story. Caley shared her first two births in link below. They discuss free-birth verse home-birth, relationship turmoil with her husband, traveling during pregnancy, wild pregnancy, hypnobirthing, nutritional depletion, placenta previa, pregnancy bleeding, fear of hemorrhage, velamentous cords, and bed sharing.

Caley is a UX designer and musician living in the Sierra foothills on a little piece of mountain paradise with her Australian husband and their two young toddler boys and now daughter. She is extremely passionate about empowering women in the birth process, and teaching women how to play music!

Caley recommends:
•Stardust period + pregnancy tracker: https://stardust.app

Connect with Caley:
•IG: @ckevlin

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/106--Caleys-Birth-Story-e2hujkk

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SABIA WADE - LUXURY EXPERT - #105

Please join your host Lea as she interviews Sabia Wade. They discuss voluteering in prison, health disparities, equality, helping pregnant people of color, doula training and business, and preventing burnout.

Sabia Wade (she/they) is a Black, Queer, CEO, Investor, Author, Educator, Full Spectrum Doula, and expander of Black Luxury. Her novel, Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free, is now out and available for purchase! She’s dedicated to building bridges for a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable world through reproductive justice, distribution of financial wealth to BIPOC communities, and investing in emergent and innovative businesses.

Sabia recommends:
•Birth doula training: https://www.badoulatrainings.org/
•For the Village: https://forthevillage.org/

Connect with Sabia:
•IG: @sabiawade

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/105--Sabia-Wade---Luxury-Expert-e2h8qb3

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PODCAST EPISODE - KIM’S BIRTH STORIES - INSTANT BABY, JUST ADD WATER - #104

Please join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kim on her three home water birth stories. They discuss conception journey's, medical providers who choose home birth, postpartum baby blues, covid, en veil verse en caul births, post term, hemorrhoids.

Kim was born and raised in Napa, CA, and still lives there today with her husband Aaron, her two sons Noah (5) and Teo (2), and their most recent addition to the family, daughter Isla (3 months). Kim became a bit of a “birth junkie” about a year before her first pregnancy and gained most of her knowledge about birth from listening to birth story podcasts. This shaped her ideas for what she wanted her births to look like, and she went on to have home births with all three kids. Kim is a high school World Languages teacher in the Napa Valley and enjoys spending time with friends, taking weekend adventures with her family and of course, listening to birth stories!

Kim recommends:
•Why Not Home: https://www.whynothome.com/
•Business of Being Born: https://www.thebusinessof.life/the-business-of-being-born

Connect with Kim:
•IG: @kbh_hurtado

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bornwild/episodes/104--Kims-Birth-Stories---Instant-Baby--Just-Add-Water-e2gaibh

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PODCAST EPISODE - KELSEY’S BIRTH STORY - PLACENTAL ABRUPTION - RETURN TO TRUSTING - #103

Join your hosts Lea and Sophia as they interview Kelsey on her birth story. They discuss topics such as obstetric violence, fetal heart arrhythmia, post term pregnancy, placental abruption, and cesarean.

Kelsey is an herbalist living and working on a farm in Petaluma. Her and her husband, Roberto welcomed their baby boy, Julio, in November 2023. They are finding their groove as a family of 4 (including their sweet and sassy shiba inu, The Maki Dog!) and they love going for walks around the farm and watching the Warriors together. Kelseys favorite hobby is aerial silks- she can’t wait to get back into it once Julio is old enough!

Kelsey recommends:
•Free Birth Society: @freebirthsociety
•Birthing Instincts: @birthinginstincts
•Hard truths about placental abruption episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/birthing-instincts/id1552816683?i=1000642767921

Connect with Kelsey:
•IG: @kesocandisco

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/103--Kelseys-Birth-Story---Placental-Abruption---Return-to-Trusting-e2fmsq4

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Join your hosts Sophia and Carissa (our newest student midwife) as they interview Rhona Berens, a perinatal relationship coach and co-author of the book "Fight Right for Your Baby: The How to Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection". They discuss babies and relationships, conflict styles and impact, useful tools, and red flags for birth workers to look out for to refer out.

Rhona Berens, PhD, PCC is a seasoned Relationship Coach who helps new and expecting parents capably navigate the momentous shifts that occur with a baby’s arrival. For more than a dozen years, Rhona has assisted perinatal professionals in their efforts to better support their clients; she has delivered in-service talks, conference keynotes (e.g., CAPPA), webinars (e.g., InJoy), and in-person workshops in the US and Canada. In her new coauthored book—Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-To Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection—Rhona offers birth professionals and their clients a research-based, easy-to-use resource with more than 40 “bite-size” tools for quick intervention in negative conflict, effective repair, and reconnection. Fight Right for Your Baby helps parents move from common yet potentially destructive ways of disagreeing to Fighting Right, an approach to conflict that supports children’s developmental health, and parents’ individual and relationship satisfaction.

Rhona’s recommends:
•And Baby Makes Three: https://www.gottman.com/product/and-baby-makes-three/

Connect with Rhona:
•IG: @fightrightbooks
•Website: http://www.rhonaberens.com/
•Book: http://www.fightrightbooks.com/

Listen here:
IG: linktree in bio
FB: https://anchor.fm/bornwild/episodes/102--Rhona-Berens---Perinatal-Relationship-Coach-e2egad6

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