About this episode

This episode discusses the evolution of maternity care and empowers women to feel confident and informed about their birth experience.

Over the years, birth has slowly shifted from a natural, woman-centered experience to something much more medicalized — and most pregnant moms have no idea why. In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on how modern maternity care evolved, why so many women are left feeling like their bodies are broken (or are told something along those lines), and what you can do right now to walk into birth feeling confident, informed, and supported. Because the truth is… your body isn’t broken. When y...

People in this episode

Host: My Essential Birth

Topics covered

• hospital birth
• maternity care
• natural birth
• women's health
• confidence in birth

Keywords

• hospital birth
• maternity care
• women's health
• natural birth
• confidence
• support
• medicalization

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