What is advocacy in birth?
Why would anyone need an advocate for their birth and during their birth experience?
This episode includes a discussion with Cáitlin Heavey, a birth doula and mentor, active birth and yoga teacher, birth educator and woman's health physio.


Our discussion includes

• how you might figure out what you'd like and not like for your birth experience
• why you might want a birth worker to support you during the birth of your baby
• how informed consent is dependent on where you get the information from
• working out your negotiables and non-negotiables in your birth plans
• partners and working out their needs during birth
• how advocacy changes between a home birth and a hospital birth
• thinking birth as an event that includes more than just a baby coming out of a vagina
• what are considered outcomes of birth, and the longlasting effects that are not audited as outcomes

Cáitlin can be found at https://caitlinheavey.co.uk/

Cáitlin is on Instagram at caitlinheavey_yogabirth

Suzanne's website - podcast, blog, booking and resources:
www.motherheal.com

Suzanne is mother.heal on Instagram

Suzanne is at Suzanne.mother.heal on Facebook

music by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora
https://www.shooglenifty.com/

The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier