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EPISODE · May 26, 2026 · 44 MIN

151. MyMaine Birth: How we Birth Matters, Angela's story

from MyMaine Birth · host Angela Laferriere

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss: Trigger warning for discussion of traumatic birth and maternal death childhood medical experiences that train compliance and silence intuition prenatal care without real informed consent fear based hospital child birth education classes a first hospital birth shaped by interventions, coercion, and postpartum separation postpartum struggles, sleep training pressure, and a threat from a pediatrician that changed everything home birth in Maine during reports of maternal deaths at a local hospital why undisturbed labor and birth matters and how coached pushing can derail the process My positive experience inside the Birthworker.com community and The Beauty in Birth, birth photography online community and courses. My experience in the freebirth society's MMI program what I learned from Whapio about understanding everything Additional Resources: MyMaineBirth.com Closing song by Kate Sutherland. Kate's community songs and deep nature connection work can be found here at KateSutherland.ca Matt Nichols shares his wife's Heather's story from August 2013 Remembering Heather Ann Nichols ❤️ The Guardian Article #1 regarding Free Birth Society titled "Influencers made millions pushing 'wild' births - now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world The Guardian Podcast - The BirthKeepers Addelaide Meadow - YouTube Video, Woman's Care: How good care paves the way for bad care

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Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss: Trigger warning for discussion of traumatic birth and maternal deathchildhood medical experiences that train compliance and silence intuitionprenatal care without real informed consentfear based hospital child birth education classesa first hospital birth shaped by interventions, coercion, and postpartum separationpostpartum struggles, sleep training pressure, and a threat from a pediatrician that changed everythinghome birth in Maine during ...

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