Birth Words: Language For a Better Birth Podcast
1) Rebroadcast of Spring: Reconceptualizing Due Dates
This episode is a rebroadcast of Season 1, Episode 71. In this episode, Sara talks about linguistic relativity, her favorite season shift (from winter to spring) and how the term "due date" can be all...Show More
2) Advocacy: Reframing a Hot Button Birth Issue as Educating, Empowering, and Amplifying
Advocacy is one of those topics that can get birth workers taking sides and sharing strong opinions. In this episode, I argue that advocacy is the heart and soul of all client-centered birth work, and...Show More
3) Amazing: A Pandemic Birth Story with Ella Mink
In this episode, Ella Mink shares her story of giving birth to her first daughter during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ella was 17 years old at the time and had an amazing water birth at a birth center that ...Show More
4) Stories: Powerful Tools for Social Change
In this episode, Sara considers the power of telling your birth story--or your pregnancy or postpartum story. Stories remind us that we are each unique, whole individuals with immeasurable worth and d...Show More
5) Unethical: How Ethics Fade from View in the Birth Space
In this episode, Sara confronts the topic of ethics in the birth space. Unfortunately, ethically objectionable things happen frequently in the birth space. Even more unfortunately, they are often not ...Show More
6) Rebirth: Birth Words is Back for Season 2... With a Twist!
After a two-year hibernation, Birth Words is being reborn! Season 2 of Birth Words will offer monthly episodes, plus a new twist... listen to this episode to find out more!
7) Narratives: What to Do When Someone Starts Telling a Birth "Horror Story"
In this episode, Sara discusses what to do when family, friends, or others start telling birth "horror stories" at baby showers or in birthing spaces. She uses the framework of narrative analysis to o...Show More
8) Necessary: Talking About Pelvic Floor Health with Dr. Betty DeLass, DPT
In this episode, Sara interviews pelvic floor PT Betty DeLass. Betty discusses the importance of normalizing pelvic health through talking about it! She also makes an exciting announcement about how s...Show More
9) Bonding: The Benefits of Talking to Your Baby in Utero!
Sara summarizes fetal hearing development, then describes the benefits of talking to your baby during pregnancy--for both you and baby! REFERENCES: Nelson, Lauren J., and Anthony F. Fazio. "Emotion...Show More
10) Magical: A Conversation with Women's Health Coach Meredith Ashton Cohen About the Menstrual Cycle
In this episode, guest Meredith Ashton Cohen uses the metaphor of the changing seasons to describe the menstrual cycle and how to live your best life by better understanding each season of the menstru...Show More
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