Doing It At Home: Normalizing Home Birth | Sarah & Matthew Bivens

04/12/2021

Doing It At Home: Normalizing Home Birth
Sarah & Matthew Bivens

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Today we talk to Sarah and Matthew Bivens, hosts of Doing it at Home, a home birth podcast sharing powerful stories and conversations to normalize home birth and support families in being as prepared and supported in their journeys. They realized the important of sharing and normalizing home birth stories after their own home birth experience, and they continue to work to make choosing home birth a normal and well understood option for any new parents who may be considering it.

We talk about Sarah and Matthew's decision to have their baby at home, and the process they went through in making that decision, as well as the opposition that they faced along the way. We talk about the discussions they had as a couple to be comfortable with the decision and the research they did to get there. We also talk about approaching conversations about birth decisions with doctors or relatives that have concerns.

We then talk about Sarah's labor and birth; what they were surprised by and what was expected. We talk about support for the birth partner and how Matthew was supported during the labor as well. We talk about how the home birth experience impacted their relationship and how making birth choices and honoring the experience together can strengthen a couple.

Finally we talk about the questions that new parents can ask if they are on the fence about having a home birth. We talk about the importance of birth stories and how they can help other parents know more about the sort of birth they would like to have.

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In a lot of places, particularly in the United States, newly pregnant couples are often led to believe that birthing in a hospital with an epidural is the only choice for their birth. This results in a lot of people who come out of their birth experience feeling that they were unable to connect with their birth in the way they might have wanted. For this reason, sharing positive birth stories from a broader spectrum of experiences is vitally important in helping more new parents to know that they have a lot more choices than they originally thought and that they are not being irresponsible if they choose a birth that doesn't fit the societal mold.

Sarah talks with Sarah and Matthew about how they came to the decision to have a home birth even though it was unusual for their area and there were a lot of uncertainties to work through. They also discuss the ways home birth couples can assert their choice with friends and family, how to research in order to feel comfortable with their choice, and the ways that the birth space can be crafted to support both the birthing person and the birth partner.

Sarah and Matthew Bivens are the hosts of Doing It At Home, a home birth podcast sharing powerful stories and conversations to normalize home birth and support families in being as prepared and supported in their journeys.

This episode was sponsored by:

Please donate HERE

We are a 501 3c Non-Profit. Our aim is to prevent and heal birth trauma through education. Women need to understand their options and rights in childbirth so that they can have a safe and healthy birth.