Advocacy in Birth with Cáitlin Heavey

What is advocacy in birth?Why would anyone need an advocate for their birth and during their birth experience?This episode includes a discussion with Cáitlin Heavey, a birth doula and mentor, active birth and yoga teacher, birth educator and woman's health physio.Our discussion includeshow you might figure out what you'd like and not like for your birth experiencewhy you might want a birth worker to support you during the birth of your babyhow informed consent is dependent on where you get the information fromworking out your negotiables and non-negotiables in your birth planspartners and working out their needs during birthhow advocacy changes between a home birth and a hospital birththinking birth as an event that includes more than just a baby coming out of a vaginawhat are considered outcomes of birth, and the longlasting effects that are not audited as outcomes Cáitlin can be found at https://caitlinheavey.co.uk/Cáitlin is on Instagram at caitlinheavey_yogabirthSend us Fan MailYou can support this podcast here:https://buymeacoffee.com/motherhealSuzanne's website - podcast, blog, booking and resources:www.motherheal.comSuzanne is mother.heal on InstagramSuzanne is at Suzanne.mother.heal on Facebookmusic by Shooglenifty with Dhun Dhora https://www.shooglenifty.com/The Mother Podcast is produced by Garry Finlayson and Suzanne Maier