Ep. 10: What is Scientific Motherhood?

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In this episode, Jenny talks about Scientific Motherhood, which is the belief that women need the scientific advice of experts and physicians to birth and parent their children, instead of using their intuition and generational knowledge passed down over time. That Scientific Motherhood is just another form of Scientism, a belief system that purports that science should be applied to everyday aspects of our lives. In our pursuit of knowledge in the science of our bodies, we left our faith behind, when in fact the two are inseparable. Science and faith should go together, not separately. Instead, we have broken our bodies down into its parts; and that over time, we have reached a point where we are hurting mothers and babies rather than helping them. Statistics show our outcomes are worse, and almost half of all women report having some sort of trauma from their birthing experiences. We are at a crossroads in health care, where we need to fully bring in the sacred and add it to the safety of providing health care to women in the birthing process. Make birth both safe and sacred again! In the next episode, Jenny will be speaking to resources we can all use to discuss our birth preferences (some call it a birth plan) with our care providers.

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