After a 6 month haitus from this podcast, I'm excited to be back to offer this interview with Allison Winston aka the Cesarean Doula.

In this episode we talk about:

-Allison's experience of having an undesired cesarean birth experience after planning for an unmedicated home-birth and how this led to the development of her work with the Cesarean Doula.

-The type of support women need when they have an unplanned and undesired cesarean birth experience (hint, its not just physical support!)

-What surprised Allison the most as she dove deep into the research about cesarean births.

-What do c-section Mama's need to know to help with their psychoemotional healing process and how to help themselves integrate the story into their body's and lives.

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Allison Winston, The Cesarean Doula, is a birth educator, trauma-informed space holder, and birth processing coach. Her unplanned, traumatic c-section inspired her to create a global education and coaching service designed to help birthing people heal from cesarean-related grief and birth trauma. In addition to being a certified postpartum doula, she is a qualifying Integrative Somatic Trauma practitioner and Advanced VBAC Doula (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean).

Allison offers support groups, workshops, courses, and Birth Story Healing Sessions for individuals and couples. All of her offerings are available online.

Her highly-rated Cesarean Mothers Circle, a facilitated support group for mothers healing from unwanted, unexpected, or emotionally difficult c-sections, is now enrolling and begins Oct. 8, 2024.

Website: cesareandoula.com

Instagram: @the_cesarean_doula

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In this episode I interview Adelaide Meadow to discuss how the biomechanics of our body can inform our labor experience, birth outcome, and overall experience in our female body.

This interview is a perfect segue following the sharing of my birth story in the last episode, as if offer insight and potential 'answers' as to why my (and many others) birth experience unfolded in the way that it did.

In this conversation we explore:

-What is biomechanics?

-How does biomechanics inform the birth process?

-Fetal positioning vs fetal movement, and why fetal positioning is not a pathology

-Body structure and how some women are physically more able to give birth

-What Adelaide says to women who 'did all the right things' but their birth didn't unfold and end in the way that they wanted.

Bio: Adelaide is a female physiology academic, movement teacher, bodyworker, and home birth attendant. She has been studying birth and female biomechanics for over ten years. She approaches women’s health, birth, movement, and women's culture from a physiological perspective, and believes in the genius of the body and the brilliance of women. Her professional contributions are at the intersection of birth, movement, and biomechanics, and how physiological birth requires physiological womanhood. She is a sought-after teacher, leader, and speaker on women's health and women's culture.

Learn more about her course, Born Through Movement here.

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In this episode I dive into my 3.5 year preconception -> conception -> pregnancy -> post-partum prep journey, and how the concept of FORETHOUGHT was the under-current through all the phases.

In an age of instant gratification and diminished ability to focus, our innate cognitive ability of forethought is like a superpower.

Forethought is what I mean when I say 'setting ourselves up for success'.

It's thinking about and planning for the future (knowing we cannot control the future or how it unfolds) but knowing we CAN influence it with our actions TODAY.

Forethought for our pelvic well-being and the willingness to include it in our daily mental load is something I cannot recommend enough.

We can even set forth and do bulk-thinking/planning all at once for an extended period of time (ie. Planning out to-do's, actions, shopping lists, what needs to be prepped for a week/month/season period of time).

While doing this may feel like a chore in the process (so...much...thinking...), it actually provides more spaciousness and peace for ourselves in the future when we're undergoing a new phase of our journey.

This what makes when I say 'just do one thing a day on behalf of your cervix' to my clients do-able: using our precious life-commodity of TIME and FOCUS in thought to plan and prepare ourselves to be able to make it happen.

Where we don't actually need to think about it every day if we've already taken the time to think about and prep/plan for it in the past, and are able to benefit from it in the NOW.

Forethought is a superpower that we can tap into to set ourselves up for success no matter where we're at on the cervical healing journey or pelvic well-being journey.

This is when we can truly embody the phrase 'Your future self will thank you'.

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