Masculine-Identified Birthworkers #030
Your BIRTH Partners
English - March 22, 2021 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Alternative Health birth birth worker community obstetrician midwife nurse doula labor roundtable pregnancy Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jessie Ray Spivey of The Doudad joined Pansay & Maggie to explore some of the myriad reasons that masculine-identifying birthworkers continue to face issues with acceptance in the greater birth community.
We discussed necessity of trauma-informed care by all birthworkers to increase client comfort.
We address how awareness of the racism-driven disparities in perinatal morbidity and mortality is motivating more Black people to enter birthwork.
Jessie speaks to his work dissolving "gender norms" and welcoming loved ones of all genders into support so that the expectant parent is supported by their whole village.
More conversation around this topic will be happening over in our facebook group!!
Check out this episode's full transcript & shownotes!