11 Having an Empowered Hospital Birth Experience with Nurse Midwife Beth Conors
This episode features a conversation with Certified Nurse Midwife Beth Conors. Beth is passionate about educating and empowering women and their partners to have the hospital birth of their dreams. After two very different hospital birth experiences herself, and her clinical experience, she decided to create an online childbirth education class to help families become their own best advocates.
This episode is full of wisdom and is a great listen for expectant parents and providers alike.
Episode Highlights:
- How Beth's first birth changed her perspective on the hospital birth experience
- What Beth saw in her clinical practice that made her want to better prepare women for birth
- What lead's to traumatic birth experiences in the hospital
- 99% of births are happening in the hospital so how can we improve these experiences?
- What Beth teaches her clients versus what is being taught in hospital-based childbirth education classes
- How interventions start well before delivery and how to make informed choices for yourself
- Why Beth decided to become an educator and "virtual midwife" and step away from clinical practice
- The reality of working in the conventional medicine system and how it conflicts with the way many nurses want to practice
- How educating and empowering yourself is the key to having the birth you desire
- Some tools providers can use to work through the emotions that come up from doing birth work
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