About this episode

This episode discusses the impact of peaceful birth on humanity with midwife Fadwah, exploring hospital birth culture and the needs of families during childbirth.

→ ⁠Get Dr. Cindys Top Homeopathic Remedies⁠ →⁠ ⁠Get Dr. Cindys Free Birth Meditation⁠ ⁠ 📲 Connect on Instagram:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@drcindytahhan⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠@rewireforbirth⁠ What if the way we welcome babies into the world is directly shaping the future of humanity? In this week’s podcast episode, I sit down with Fadwah, veteran midwife and founder of Midwife 360 and Birth Equity Resource, for a powerful, wide-ranging conversation about hospital birth culture, long labors, maternal exhaustion, intuition, and why peaceful birth is deeply connected to creating peace on earth. With decades of experience, Fadwah speaks candidly about what she’s witnessing in modern maternity care—and what families truly need in order to birth with trust, safety, and dignity.Fadwa shares openly about:The pressure-driven culture of hospital birth and its impact on labor, exhaustion, and transfer rates. Why long labors are often treated as problems instead of physiological processesRising rates of breech babies, delayed childbearing, and ambivalence around bringing children into today’s world. Grief, lineage, and how fear in the collective can show up in pregnancy and birthThe deep link between peaceful births…

People in this episode

Host: Cindy Tahhan

Guest: Fadwah

Topics covered

• hospital birth culture
• maternal exhaustion
• peaceful birth
• nervous system regulation
• education and consultation

Keywords

• peaceful birth
• hospital birth culture
• maternal care
• long labors
• childbirth education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Midwife 360, Birth Equity Resource

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