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The Conversation about Pregnancy, Childbirth and Early Motherhood.
We will focus on Maternal Mortality, the high rates and who it affects. Cover art photo provided by Carl Raw on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@carltraw
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Maternal Health Innovation
Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center
We are the Maternal Health Learning and Innovation Center, a network of maternal health equity experts and organizations working to make real change for women and birthing people in the U.S. Our podcast is a series of episodes connecting around culture, lifting voices and stories, exploring innovations in maternal care and discussing ways we can center equity in the way we approach our health and wellness. Learn more about us, explore our resource center and find support for all maternal hea ...
Full time mom, full time wife, Bachelors in Journalism. A podcast focused on mothers and the amazing women they are. What's your story?
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HELP for Mothers : Solutions to the maternal health care crisis in America
Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS & Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC
A Maternal/Child Health Investigator and an Obstetric Violence Lawyer report on the political, legal, and financial realities of childbirth in the United States.
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The Maternal Monologues: Community support and action through storytelling, with AIM CCI's Dr. Valerie Newsome Garcia
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AIM CCI is encouraging communities to come together using their Maternal Monologues Toolkit, whereby birthing people and their support systems can share their experiences related to the maternal health journey, illuminate what the national maternal health crisis looks like in their own community, and strategize about what they can do to address it.…
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Dr. Shalon's Maternal Action Project: Inspiring a bright future for Black mothers, with Dr. Rahmatu Kassimu
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In 2017, Dr. Shalon Irving passed away after complications from giving birth to her daughter. A passionate trailblazer for community health, her legacy inspired the Dr. Shalon's Maternal Action Project, which works to address inequities and disparities for the Black women and women of color in maternal health. In this episode, learn more about Dr. …
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Colorado Birth Equity Bill Package and The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP)
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In this special episode, Maternal Health Innovation is teaming up with AMCHP's MCH Bridges podcast to bring you this episode on maternal health policy successes, challenges and opportunities while discussing Colorado's recent passing of the Birth Equity Bill Package. A series of three bills designed to increase access to decrease inequities in and …
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Structuring Maternal Care to Support Spanish-speaking Communities
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Language matters. Body language matters. Accessibility matters. Inclusivity and equity should be at the heart of all maternal healthcare touchpoints. In this episode, Fernanda Ochoa Toro, research coordinator at UNC Chapel Hill and a patient navigator for Spanish speaking patients at UNC Health sits down with Dr. Kristin Tully, research assistant p…
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Medicaid Coverage for Doula Services: A conversation with Averjill Rookwood and Amy Chen
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While several states are in the process of implementing Medicaid coverage for doula services, only a handful of states are actively providing that coverage. In this episode, host Deitre Epps, founder and CEO of Race for Equity, is joined by Averjill Rookwood, founder of The Corporate Doula, and Amy Chen, senior attorney at the National Health Law P…
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Examining maternal health in Indigenous communities, with Amy Stiffarm and Dr. Donald Warne
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Indigenous communities have unique respect and traditions for bringing life into the world, but Indigenous women are three to four times more likely to die of complications related to pregnancy or childbirth than white women. A trained physician and member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Dr. Donald Warne is working to addr…
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Doulas' need for support in clinical settings, with MOMCares' Ana Rodney
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After a difficult pregnancy and postpartum journey of her own, Ana Rodney founded MOMCares, a postpartum doula program designed to help support Black mothers in the NICU that are under-supported and facing financial stress. Ana is also chair of Baltimore's Maternal Mortality Review Board and a member of the Infant Mortality Review Board, and she's …
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Avoiding burnout and rediscovering your love for your work, with Dr. Kira Schabram
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Dr. Kira Schabram studies burnout as it relates to employees who view their work as a calling, as many healthcare workers do. So, how can you remind yourself that you're in the right place when you feel drained? In this episode, learn the signs of burnout to look out for and how to bounce-back from feelings of tiredness and cynicism in your work. L…
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Strengthening public health’s capacity to improve maternal health, with ASTHO’s Ellen Pliska and Britta Cedergren
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From the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Ellen Pliska and Britta Cedergren know that preventing maternal mortality and morbidity is crucial to promoting health across lifespan. Hosted by UNC Gillings School of Public Health’s Dr. Sarah Verbiest, this episode discusses the ways in which public health is succeeding, lacking and…
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Maternal health and sexuality, with Dr. Tanya Bass
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In this episode, Erin McClain, assistant director at the UNC Collaborative of Infant and Maternal Health, is diving deep into the disparities Black birthing people face in care and education. Joined by Dr. Tanya Bass, an award-winning educator on sexual health and health inequities, the two discuss the challenges and—most importantly—what we can do…
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Maternal Health Innovation is back with season two!
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Season two episodes of Maternal Health Innovation episodes will be released weekly. This season, we're including topics about provider burnout, public health, and sharing experiences and creating policies that are helping propel maternal health toward a better future in the U.S. Episode one is out now, so be sure to tune in! Learn more about us, ex…
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9. Facing maternal mortality rates, mental health in pregnancy, and more
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RMOMS is a federally funded grant program that seeks to improve maternal health in rural communities. The Texas and Missouri RMOMS representatives with us today that you'll hear from our awardees of the initial pilot between the federal Office of Rural Health Policy and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Today, we discuss innovative solutions th…
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8. What tribal nations' ancestral knowledge teaches us about maternal health
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For true innovation in maternal health to occur, we need to take a look at what works (and what needs improving) with maternal health in various cultures. On this episode, we discuss learning from tribal and indigenous cultures, and the programs and trainings involved. Today's guests are Heidi Christensen and Lynn Lane, Maternal Health Innovation P…
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7. Is Midwifery a Right or a Privilege?
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Vanessa Caldari founded Mujeres Ayudando Madres because she I realized that midwifery care, especially in Puerto Rico, was really for people with access to the finances and the education to have that care. She didn't want midwifery care to be a privilege, so she did something about it. Vanessa Caldari is the founder of Mujeres Ayudando Madres, a no…
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6. How a hotline is transforming breastfeeding culture and access to care in Appalachia
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In the Appalachian region, poverty is a huge concern. Too often, pregnant women miss appointments because they don't have the money for gas. Or they'll have a baby on Thursday and return to work on Monday because they need the paycheck. And breastfeeding can be seen as for "hillbillies" or "rednecks." For our guests today, they saw the problem and …
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5. The Stress of Being Black and Pregnant, with Karen Sheffield-Abdullah
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Black women have twice the rate of preterm birth compared to white women, and that has persisted despite decades of research, despite differences in socioeconomic status, maternal education, access to prenatal care. When you pair or look at a Black woman and a white woman who are pregnant, the Black woman will have their baby early at twice the rat…
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4. The fight for lactation rights, with Stevie Merino and To-wen Tseng
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Eight years ago, when To-wen Tseng returned to work after giving birth to her first child, her right to pump at work was denied and the company refused to provide either a space or a break time to pump (lawsuit). Stevie Merino (Birthworkers of Color Collective) is a doula and lactation professional whose graduate school research focuses on Pacific …
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3. Advocating for Moms Who Don't Have Resources, with Shaunette Howard
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The sad reality is that people in rural communities don't have as many resources to healthcare, and that includes adequate prenatal and maternity care. For Shaunette Howard, her biggest role is advocating for birthing people and their families so that they can get as many of the necessary resources as possible. Today's episode is hosted by Dr. Kris…
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2. Spotlighting Inequities and Disparities in Maternal Health, with Dr. Rachel Caskey
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According to today's guest, Dr. Rachel Caskey, "stark disparities exist whereby Black women are nearly three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related condition compared to white women. In addition, it is estimated that the majority of deaths are actually preventable." Today, we talk about what can be done to fix these inequities and dispar…
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1. Doulas are Magic, with LaToshia Rouse (Birth Sisters Doula Services)
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For Birth Sisters Doula Services' LaToshia Rouse, becoming a doula changed her entire life because she gets to give people exactly what she wishes she had while delivering her 4 children (including triplets). According to LaToshia, "the reward is instant. It's addictive and you get to do it again and again, and you keep hearing the stories." But un…
Join us as we speak with experts about ways we can better serve women and birthing people and advance maternal health equity. From what is going well to what needs to be done to improve our health outcomes, we will share innovative work, new strategies, and impactful stories from people who are changing birthing care for families in our country. Le…
"What can parents do to make a smooth return to work after having a baby?" Returning to work after having a baby can be a daunting jump to make. In this episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinelli talk with Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, the author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave. They di…
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Psychology, Astrology, Lineage, And Motherhood
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"How can astrology help me take control of my own life?" In the middles ages, the only two people present at a birth, aside from the mother, were a midwife and an astrologer. In this episode, midwife Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS, and astrologer Michelle Scarrott discuss how astrology is a blueprint for what you have to work with in this life, as we…
How does fluoride consumption during pregnancy and early infancy impact a child's IQ? More than 70% of drinking water in the United States is fluoridated, while 97% of western European countries have rejected fluoridation. Over 60 studies have now linked fluoride with reduced IQ in children. In this episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinel…
How do early traumatic experiences affect children? In this episode, Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS is joined by Ilse DeKoeyer-Laros, Ph.D., who shares her 20+ years of research and experience in infant mental health and treatment. They discuss how early traumatic experiences have a lasting effect on children, systemic problems, solutions, and what s…
How do you prevent trauma in your kids, when you are suffering from trauma yourself? Basically everyone who survives childhood has little ‘t’ traumas, but exactly how much those traumas effect you determines where you have memories or whether you have complex ptsd. In this in-depth episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinelli speak with Lice…
What part do you want government to play in regulating birth choice? With 15 states left to create a licensure process for CPM’s, 42 states left to create a licensure Process for CM’s, And 29 states still to create a licensure process for ND-Midwives, well as fully half the states not offering autonomous practice for CNM’s, the legal and autonomous…
What if obstetrics had no competition? Hear from Hermine Hayes-Kline, JD human rights attorney in Oregon, fighting the medical monopoly that seeks to eliminate midwifery. She joins hosts Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS & Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC along with Becca Meek, RN, CNM FNP, a midwife in Oregon who once was the owner of a successful birth c…
“What three toxic substances should I avoid in pregnancy and parenting.” Award-winning, investigative journalist, Jennifer Margulis, PhD joins hosts, Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS & Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC to share her decades worth of research on avoiding toxic exposure for mom and baby, physically, mentally, and emotionally. References and L…
“Do I have to use a reproductive endocrinologist to achieve pregnancy?” Join Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS and her special guest, Brittany Thornton, CPM, LM a midwife, mother and traditional surrogate x6 as they discuss alternatives to the high medicalized assisted reproductive process. Some people who want to be pregnant do indeed need all the tech…
Hello! This is my episode about maternal mortality. We go into the high rates of maternal mortality and who it is affecting the most. Thank you for listening :)
‘What if my baby is breech?’ Join Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS, a midwife & maternal child health investigator, Dr. Caitlin Clarke, DC a Webster-certified chiropractor & doula-advocate and Dr. Anne Lundquist, DC, FICPA, SaBAP a prenatal chiropractic & parent educator as they discuss discuss steps for pregnant people who discover their baby is breec…
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Public Health vs Personal Autonomy
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“Where is the societally acceptable line between public health and personal autonomy in life and in labor?” Autonomy, defined as being free from outside intervention is a very important notion in Western culture. And yet, as social distancing and self quarantine sweep the globe, people are voluntarily giving up personal liberty in favor of the ‘gre…
“What should I do if I am a victim of sexual assault or obstetric violence by my doctor?’ Women routinely report being denied food and drink, being forced to lie in one position during labor, being denied the choice of VBAC, receiving frequent, rough vaginal examinations, having their waters ruptured without consent, being denied the desired number…
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Lack of Media Coverage towards Women of Color
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Second episode with special guest :)
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Stereotypes of Women of Color in the Media
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Hello, welcome to my first podcast AND episode :)
This mom explains the difference between being pregnant at 40 vs 20. How she almost lost her life in an emergency C-section, how it was a miracle she even got pregnant as she was postmenopausal and advice to all women who weren't planning on having a baby.Autor: Maternal Monitor
An incredible mom shares her story of postpartum depression and how it was the darkest time of her life. She explains the warning signs, what she wish she would have done differently and how she overcame it.Autor: Maternal Monitor
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Episode 5: How to parent different personalities
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A mother of 4 tells us how she loves and parents her children's different personalities. She gives advice on how to parent with your spouse and remain on the same page, while also giving advice to all the stay at home moms.Autor: Maternal Monitor
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Episode 2: Enduring through the sickness of pregnancy
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This episode takes us through the life of a mom who has severe Morning Sickness while she is pregnant. She gives tips on how to help you feel like you are not alone through this journey and that the end is worth it.Autor: Maternal Monitor
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Episode 1: Infertility and Ectopic Pregnancy
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This episode is about a couple who went through infertility for over 4 years before having their daughter. They believe that in order to start your family, money should not be the issue. They constantly put their trust in the Lord and relied on each other to get endure this trial.Autor: Maternal Monitor
Join the conversation as we talk about postpartum depression and birth trauma from dad's viewpoint. Although often overlooked, fathers and partners also have an important story to tell and healing to gain from sharing and seeking support.
Join the conversation as we discuss secondary infertility with Barbara Collura, president of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and hear the personal tale of struggle (and triumph) from mom blogger Amy Wruble of Carriage Before Marriage.
Join the Conversation as Ryan eases back into the Maternally Yours fold with a grab bag of topics and guests. She and Dana will wade through a pile of recent birthy headlines and discuss several maternal health related happenings.
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Episode 186: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally
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Dana and Ryan welcomed Dr. Washington Hill to the show. Prior to his work in Rwanda teaching obstetric and nursing students, Dr. Hill served as President and Chief of the Medical Staff at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, as well as Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Medical Director of Labor and Delivery. He was also an active m…
Join the Conversation as we talk about how to encourage your children to connect with nature and spark the interest in conservation. Our guests are Dr. Reed Noss, conservation biologist and ecologist and Dr. Scott D. Sampson, paleontologist and passionate science communicator.
Correspondent Farah Diaz-Tello joined us to talk about two important court cases in the news: Purvi Patel's feticide conviction and Young v. UPS.For tonight's episode "Hot Mamas," Abby and Dana were joined by two mamas from Black Diamond Burlesque, Laura Daniel Gale and performer Cherry Von Topp. Laura Daniel Gale is owner and producer of this trou…
Join the conversation Tuesday, March 24th at 6:00 p.m. ET as former Maternally Yours host Cheryl Kindred of Maiden to Mother headed back into the studio with Dana Myrl King for a special episode. We interviewed the author of Homebirth Cesarean and Healing from a Homebirth Cesarean Workbook! These BRAND NEW books filled a big gap in modern maternity…
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Episode 177: Transformed by Postpartum Depression
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Join The Conversation on March 10th as we discussed the new book, Transformed by Postpartum Depression, authored by guest Walker Karraa, PhD. The book details the experiences of 20 women and their journeys through postpartum depression and highlights the growth and changes each encountered. We were also joined by guest co-host Sarah Workman Checcon…
