What happens when a doctor who laughs at her patients and cuts them without their consent is in charge of the whole department? Find out what happened when one of her former patients sought more respectful care with a new provider.
Dr. Jesanna Cooper found that once her clinic implemented a feminist care model–putting women in charge of their own healthcare decisions–Cesarean rates, NICU admissions, breastfeeding, and other outcomes began to improve.
Cristen speaks with an anonymous doula in Alabama who describes the cultural shift that is happening there slowly, but where maternity care is still largely disempowering and even, at times, physically and emotionally violating.
Cristen talks with Susan Jenkins, probably the most experienced midwifery law lawyer in the U.S., about the decades-long struggle of midwives and consumers vs. “Organized Medicine.”
How are women “allowed” and “not allowed” to give birth on their own terms? In our first three episodes,
we discuss the Kentucky birth monopoly, home birth, obstetric violence, bans on vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC), and the tricky business of being a doula in an abusive system.
