Seeing Birth Clearly: Birth Photography & Fighting for Women's Choices with Eva Rose
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In this episode, host Augustine talks with Eva Rose about birth photography, women's choices, and the state of midwifery care globally.
In this beautiful and powerful episode, host Augustine sits down with Eva Rose — Norwegian birth photographer, doula, advocate, documentarian, and creator of Birth Mood — for a conversation that spans birth rooms, operating theatres, Ethiopian hospitals, and the fragile future of midwifery-led care across the globe. Eva has been attending births for nearly 30 years, building one of the most extraordinary visual archives of physiological birth in the world — and along the way becoming an unstoppable voice for women's birth rights and informed consent. In this episode we cover: How witnessing her baby sister's home birth at age seven — and growing up in a family of photographers — set Eva on her path How a midwife told Eva "you are a doula" — and what happened next The closure of ABC, Norway's most beloved midwifery-led unit, and how Norway went from 70 such units to just four Why Norwegian hospitals profit from over-medicalizing birth even within a free public healthcare system The fetal scalp electrode post that went viral globally — and why Norwegian midwives were furious How Eva's role as a doula shifted from loving birth companion to consent advocate The mother-assisted…
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