EP#05: Breech Baby Delivery Options and Coping with Pelvic Girdle Pain with Dr. Ashley Girard, ND

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Beyond Beautiful Birth

EcoParent Inc.

13 episodes

9 months ago

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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EP#05: Breech Baby Delivery Options and Coping with Pelvic Girdle Pain with Dr. Ashley Girard, ND

Beyond Beautiful Birth

1 hour 10 minutes

3 years ago

EP#05: Breech Baby Delivery Options and Coping with Pelvic Girdle Pain with Dr. Ashley Girard, ND

Beyond Beautiful Birth is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: https://www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

This episode is generously sponsored by Ferritin+ by Flora Health: https://ca-en.florahealth.com/pages/ferritin

About the Episode:
In this episode Dr Ashley Girard, ND shares with us her intense, empowering, remarkable birth stories. Natalie and Dr Dori join in sharing all of our experiences with Pelvic Girdle Pain and Symphysis Pubis Discomfort, including practical tips on how to cope with the debilitating pain that can accompany these diagnoses. We delve into the difference between pain and suffering, how trauma can deeply affect the birth process and how to thrive through it. How to know when to pivot from the plan and really surrender to the birth process. We discuss the BRAIN decision making tool and how to apply it to all kinds of situations.

Then we go deep into the topic of Breech Babies - you may be shocked to learn that if your baby is not head down by the end of your pregnancy it doesn’t necessarily mean an automatic planned Caesarean section delivery. How one randomized control trial managed to obliterate the essential practice of delivering breech babies vaginally, a practice that was very successful for eons and is now a lost art. Finally, we reflect on the stress response, closure and completion when it comes to birth traumas and experiences. The one thing we all really want you to take away from this episode is the question that you should never stop asking - Is there another option? We hope you gain something from this episode, please let us know your thoughts.

Guest Bio & Links:
Dr. Ashley Girard is a registered Naturopathic Doctor and an associate member of the Canadian Urological Association. Dr. Girard's clinical focus is on female urinary conditions such as interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome, chronic and recurrent urinary tract infections, and other pelvic pain conditions. Her clinic Holistic Bladder Care provides telemedicine to patients throughout Ontario and focuses on getting to the root causes of these conditions. Dr. Girard lives in the country north of Barrie, Ontario and is working on becoming a homesteader with her loving husband Paul, 4 year old daughter Josephine and 15 month old son Archer.

Web: www.bladdercare.ca www.girardnd.com

Host Bio & Links:
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

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