Brendon Marotta

Yolande Norris-Clark on Family Birth Outside the System

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Yolande Norris-Clark, freebirth educator and coach talks about family birth outside the system. Yolande shares her 20 years of wisdom and experience in natural home births.

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We discuss the importance of freebirth, the common misconceptions and how we can best provide a safe, natural environment for our newborns.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • [2:43] Yolande’s Journey to freebirthing
  • [3:19] How to prepare for having a natural home birth
  • [5:52] What does a healthy natural birth look like?
  • [14:53] How to handle cultural stress as a free birther
  • [20:57] Natural home births and how to best prepare
  • [33:43] How we can let go and enjoy the full experience of natural child birth
  • [43:26] Pre-birth steps within industrial hospital systems and the misconceptions of home birthing
  • [48:47] Parenting and birthing in fear and the double standard between home birth vs. the industrial system
  • [55:37] Working through psychological and social pressures against natural home births
  • [1:02:30] Cutting the cord of the placenta
  • [1:06:20] Anticipating home births and dealing with being in the moment
  • [1:08:56] Handling placenta post-birth and using placenta as supplement capsules
  • [1:21:52] Misconceptions of new born baby mucus

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