Episode Highlights:
- We swapped our birth stories of our 8 babies which are each so unique beautiful, and often hilarious.
- Jackie dives into what birthing and birth support for women in our area looks like. In FSJ we birth an average of 600 babies per year with a town with 20k population. The only option for women is hospital or unassisted births.
- Some of our visions for the future of birth women and babies in our community.
- The inner warrior-midwife that is born after a women witnesses her own free birth or another woman’s free birth.
- The deep wisdom you tap into and can’t ignore.
- Our understanding of how women took care of each other in birth and mothering, before the age of patriarchy.
- Do women need the hospitals to birth safely? We don’t believe so and here’s why.
- The ways the medical system isn’t working for birthing women.
- We could heal the planet with peaceful birth!
- All the ways birth parallels to everything else in life!
- Birth-Death-rebirth cycles helping us makes sense of and navigate life.
- Using our menstrual cycles to anchors us into flowing with life.
- Jackie actually puts her menstrual cycle on her families schedule so they all can live around her cycles and the ways that creates peace in household. She’s the nucleus of her family!
- Why menstrual cycles should respected at minimum and revered at best.
- Why we believe peaceful birth can heal the world.
- Healing our matrilineal trauma.
- What used to look like witchcraft and magic at one point in time, turns out to be scientifically proven to be “a thing” in the future.
- Jackie breaks down some of the different midwifery terms for the newbies to this conversations.
- Being a doula/support person and the PTSD that come accompany that role.
- Where The Wild Women Grow Festival website https://www.wherewildwomengrow.com/
- **Use promo code MOMMALOVE to receive 30% 0ff tickets purchased May 8th 2022 only!!**
- My Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/wtwwg?fan_landing=true
- Jackies email jackiesoule@me.com
- The BBC Documentaries Jackie mentioned:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzrlkv?fbclid=IwAR3LymXzYki3qNB5ZVvEcTzeBLeIUwKiFIzRMYBQT8DBP30ZwDfdzhPI-bc
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzs4tj?fbclid=IwAR00JERKM7RE0QPKkESuM_YU9Non05DZWQFDJwXCEZcZd8GCTTh57q3LFkc
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzrjcf?fbclid=IwAR1D8ybVnp134crDwLzfs1dfzQbl0ETYYJQ02MTKlBxrs8etkteuvJqV2Mw