Episode 11: Khye Tyson

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO READ ALONG WITH THE SHOW, YOU CAN ACCESS THIS EPISODES TRANSCRIPTION BY CLICKING THIS LINK: . . https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qpbjV0SH7iqpXElyw9A9o3L2BcgXDI8VASx6G2BFP0/edit . . Our prayer at Sessions With Symba is that we are honoring the ancestral birthworkers that have come before us, and the paths they've laid out for each and everyone of us individually and collectively. . . Sista Midwife Productions in New Orleans, Louisiana www.sistamidwife.com . . Schlossberg Transition Theory is an adult development theory focused on the transitions that adults experience throughout life and the means by which they cope and adjust. . . Keep Birth Sacred by Khye Tyson . . A sitz bath is a warm, soothing soak for your perineal or bottom area (area between your legs including your anus, vagina, or scrotums). The herbs in a sitz bath are safe and helpful for tissue healing and pain reduction in the postpartum period. . . "From Mothers to Mothers: A Collection of Traditional Asian Postpartum Recipes" by the Asian American Pacific Islander Health Research Group at UC Berkeley . . Feminist Women's Health Center, Atlanta, GA . . Reporductive justice is "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities," according to SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the first organization founded to build a reproductive justice movement. www.sistersong.net . . Romper's Doula Diaries on Facebook . . Ask your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins of your generation and before, "do you know your birth story?" "Do you know anyone that came before me, their birth story?" Record, write down, and keep for the future generations. . . Gentle parenting is a parenting approach that encourages a partnership between you and you to make choices based on an internal willingness instead of external pressures. . . Lewis County General Hospital in upstate New York closed their maternity ward temporarily after 6 staff members quit due to Covid-19 vaccine mandates. . . The Weathering Hypothesis was proposed to account for early healthy deterioration as a result of cumulative exposure to experiences of social, economic, and political adversity. It is well documented that minority groups and marginalized communities suffer from poorer health outcomes. This may be due to a multitude of stressors including prejudice, social alienation, institutional bias, political oppression, economic exclusion, and racial discrimination. The weathering hypothesis proposes that the cumulative burden of these stressors as individuals age is "weathering" and the increased weathering experienced by minority groups compared to others can account for differences in health outcomes. . . your heart works anywhere from 5% to 80% harder during pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum. . . Birth Justice Bill of Rights by the Southern Birth Justice Network, the National Black Midwives Alliance, & the National Association to Advance Black Birth; www.southernbirthjustice.org; www.blackmidwivesalliance.org; www.thenaabb.org; . . SacredBirthDoula on Instagram, DM them for Rights Over My Birth Package . . 4Kira4 Moms on Instagram; www.4kira4moms.com . . A maternal fetal medicine specialist or a perinatologist is a doctor who helps take care of birthing people having complicated or high risk pregnancies. These doctors are obstetricians who completed 3 extra years of training in high risk pregnancies. . . You can find more of Khye on Instagram @kulunturjc; Facebook facebook.com/kulunturjc; website www.kuluntu.center and digital resources at www.learn.kuluntu.center; Intro to Reproductive Justice course; Queer and Trans Trying to Conceive quartlery discussion group . . Original Podcast Beat Produced Mixed & Engineered By: Info Black Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/infoblack_ Twitter: https://twitter.com/infoblack_​ . . DONATIONS: . Patreon.com/symbaluna Paypal: [email protected] Cashapp: $symbaluna Venmo: @symbaluna . Instagram: journeyspa_