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The Radiant Mission Podcast | Episode 26
Host: Rebecca Twomey @theradiantmission
Co-Host: Rachel Smith  @rachelsmithsmith
Guest: Dr. Stu @birthinginstincts

Thank you for listening to The Radiant Mission podcast! We are on a mission to encourage and inspire you on your walk with Christ and as you journey through life. 

In Episode 26 we have a very special guest: Stuart Fischbein MD, also known as Dr. Stu, and he is a community-based practicing obstetrician and an associate of the American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, published author of the book “Fearless Pregnancy, Wisdom & Reassurance from a Doctor, A Midwife and A Mom” and peer-reviewed papers Homebirth with an Obstetrician, A Series of 135 Out of Hospital Births and Breech birth at home: outcomes of 60 breech and 109 cephalic planned home and birth center births. Dr. Stu spent 24 years assisting women with hospital birthing and, for the last 12 years, has been a homebirth obstetrician who works directly with midwives. His website is www.birthinginstincts.com. 

Dr. Stu travels around the world as a lecturer and advocate for reteaching breech &
twin birth, respect for the normalcy of birth and honoring informed consent.
Follow him on Instagram @birthinginstincts and at The Birthing Instincts
Podcast with midwife Blyss Young as he offers hope,
reassurance and safe, evidence supported choices for those women who understand
pregnancy is a normal bodily function not to be feared, simply desire common
sense and who cannot find supportive practitioners for VBAC, twin and breech
deliveries.

In This Episode:

• Dr. Stu’s transition from attending in-hospital births to his shift to home birth and working with midwives.
  • It was a process of being curious and questioning things. “Why are we doing that?”
  • In residency and medical school, you get beat down and stop asking questions. He thought the obstetrics model was the only way to do things. He did all the things that he looks back on now and says “why did I do these things?” Like immediate cord clamping, taking the baby to the warmer away from the mother, wearing a hazmat suit to catch a baby, a woman birthing on her back, administering Pitocin or c-sectioning. He was trained with these things, but started to see how wrong these things were over time.
  • He started working with home birth women and midwives and started to see that these women were well-informed and educated. They simply chose a different path.
  • Midwives are better at taking care of women than doctors are because they’re trained to take care of women.
• Women considering home birth often ask “what if there’s an emergency?”
  • There is so much fear in birth. The reason women fear birth is because the medical model has projected their fear onto women.  

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