Birth is beyond beautiful. It is messy, powerfully intense, and all-encompassing. Our Beyond Beautiful Birth podcast, hosted by Natalie Tregaskiss and Dr. Dori Skye Engel, will help you take control of your birth by helping you increase your confidence and explore your options.
Natalie is a registered midwife, labour & delivery nurse, and board certified lactation consultant. Dr. Dori is a naturopathic doctor and birth doula. With 6 children and 25 years of clinical experience between them, they’re uniquely positioned to facilitate open, honest, engaging dialogue around pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. They invite you to be intentional about the birth that you want, reducing fear and increasing trust in your body and the birth process, to feel empowered throughout any potential birth outcome.
No aspect is off limits. Our hosts respectfully dig into topics like birth politics, consent, bias and trauma. They engage with fascinating guests and partake in interesting discussions from their realistic, educated, evidence-based and non-judgmental perspective. If you are looking for inclusive, down to earth, no bull, humorous discussions about physiological birth without scare tactics or condescension, look no further. Surrender to the flow and get ready to do that incredible, magical and mind blowing thing - bringing life into the world!
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Birth is beyond beautiful. It is messy, powerfully intense, and all-encompassing. Our Beyond Beautiful Birth podcast, hosted by Natalie Tregaskiss and Dr. Dori Skye Engel, will help you take control of your birth by helping you increase your confidence and explore your options.
Natalie is a registered midwife, labour & delivery nurse, and board certified lactation consultant. Dr. Dori is a naturopathic doctor and birth doula. With 6 children and 25 years of clinical experience between them, they’re uniquely positioned to facilitate open, honest, engaging dialogue around pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. They invite you to be intentional about the birth that you want, reducing fear and increasing trust in your body and the birth process, to feel empowered throughout any potential birth outcome.
No aspect is off limits. Our hosts respectfully dig into topics like birth politics, consent, bias and trauma. They engage with fascinating guests and partake in interesting discussions from their realistic, educated, evidence-based and non-judgmental perspective. If you are looking for inclusive, down to earth, no bull, humorous discussions about physiological birth without scare tactics or condescension, look no further. Surrender to the flow and get ready to do that incredible, magical and mind blowing thing - bringing life into the world!
Join us as we talk to the incredible Kimberly Seals Allers about American exceptionalism - the only industrialized nation in the world that doesn’t have parental leave?? What’s up with that!? Why are mothers both priceless and valueless in our capitalist world? We discuss the idea that HOW we birth matters - the healthy mother, healthy baby mantra can be a disservice to processing our birth experiences. Kimberly tells us how she discovered through her own journey to parenthood how impactful racism and ingrained social structures are on the Black experience of birth and breastfeeding. We delve into the shady big business of infant formula companies, the issues with the Breast is Best movement and the illusion of choice. Kimberly tells us how connecting with her son helped her create the groundbreaking Irth app and we talk about what we’re looking forward to in the birthing space and beyond.
Guest Bio & Links:
Kimberly Seals Allers is a powerhouse with a vision, on a mission to transform the experience of motherhood for all and to eradicate racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding. Kimberly is an award winning journalist, a writer of 5 books, including The Mocha Manual Series, an award winning pregnancy and parenting guide for African Americans. Her fifth book, The Big Let Down — How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding is working to shift the narrative of maternal and child health issues by activating our collective power as women and reframing breastfeeding as a biological right, as opposed to a choice.
Kimberly is an internationally renowned speaker, a strategist and a fierce advocate for maternal and infant health. She is a leading commentator on birth, breastfeeding and motherhood and the intersection of race, policy, and culture. She is a femtech founder of the Irth App - spelled like Birth, but dropping the B for Bias - a Yelp-like app developed to address racism & bias in maternity & infant care. Kimberly is an advocate, a mama of 2 on a mission to question, challenge, disrupt and reimagine how we talk about birth and breastfeeding and then breaking down the many structural barriers women face in these areas.
Dr Dori Skye Engel is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Birth Doula practicing family medicine in Toronto with a special interest in Pregnancy, Pediatrics and Perimenopause. Mama to three wonderful, intense and dramatically different boys, she believes strongly in the innate wisdom of the human body and our powerful ability to heal. She can be found at http://www.familynaturopathy.ca http://www.instagram.com/mamadoll http://www.facebook.com/DrDoriND
Natalie Tregaskiss is a Registered Midwife, a Labour and Delivery Nurse and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant who has been supporting families for over 17 years. She has three amazing children whom she is constantly learning from. Through her unique breadth of experience she helps parents birth with autonomy and transition to authentic parenthood. She can be found at http://www.instagram.com/tregaskiss1
Beyond Beautiful Birth
Birth is beyond beautiful. It is messy, powerfully intense, and all-encompassing. Our Beyond Beautiful Birth podcast, hosted by Natalie Tregaskiss and Dr. Dori Skye Engel, will help you take control of your birth by helping you increase your confidence and explore your options.
Natalie is a registered midwife, labour & delivery nurse, and board certified lactation consultant. Dr. Dori is a naturopathic doctor and birth doula. With 6 children and 25 years of clinical experience between them, they’re uniquely positioned to facilitate open, honest, engaging dialogue around pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period. They invite you to be intentional about the birth that you want, reducing fear and increasing trust in your body and the birth process, to feel empowered throughout any potential birth outcome.
No aspect is off limits. Our hosts respectfully dig into topics like birth politics, consent, bias and trauma. They engage with fascinating guests and partake in interesting discussions from their realistic, educated, evidence-based and non-judgmental perspective. If you are looking for inclusive, down to earth, no bull, humorous discussions about physiological birth without scare tactics or condescension, look no further. Surrender to the flow and get ready to do that incredible, magical and mind blowing thing - bringing life into the world!
