Your Call 051409 What do you need for your best birth?

On the next Your Call we talk about giving birth -- at home, in a hospital, wherever works best for you -- and the systems in place to help your family plan the birth you want, where you want. What social supports do women and their partners need to make informed decisions about how to bring their babies into the world? How can doctors and midwives come together to transform the way of American birth? We'll be joined by Abby Apstein, co-author of Your Best Birth, and local mid-wife Maria Lorillo. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or call 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255, and join us live at 11 am. What do you need for your best birth? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Abby Epstein, director of the film The Business of Being Born and co-author of Your Best Birth

Maria Lorillo, licensed midwife and founder of Wise Woman Childbirth Traditions

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Your Call 011508 Born in the USA

How do medical fads and insurance companies change the way America gives birth? On the next Your Call we talk with the makers of the Business of Being Born, a documentary about how unnatural birth has become. Cesarean section deliveries are up 50% in the last decade. Are women’s bodies so different since Bill Clinton was president that surgery is necessary? How did you have your children and how do you hope they will have theirs? It’s your call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Maria Lorillo
Licensed midwife
 
Teresa McClean Doula
Studying to be a midwife. 

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