#260 | Triplets at Home! With Traditional Midwife Kristine Lauria @globalmidwife64

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You won't find an obstetrician anywhere in the United States who will birth triplets vaginally in the hospital, but today you'll hear the story of traditional midwife Kristine Lauria who welcomed them at home with the respect and reverence for birth every woman deserves. Kristine witnesses some of the most "high risk" births around the world in her midwifery work for Doctors Without Borders. She has attended over 500 breech, twin, and triplets births!
In this episode, you will hear the story of a mother in her 7th pregnancy birthing three babies at home as told by Kristine. We discuss what it means to be a traditional midwife, what happens in a triplet homebirth, the dying art of midwifery skills, and how to manually extract a baby at home. You'll hear how the mother's own mother received the first baby and how this mother avoided preterm birth by leaving the hospital AMA after an episode of bleeding and went on to naturally birth her babies at 38 weeks with perfect APGAR scores! This story is a beautiful example of the true midwifery model of care, a fiercely dedicated mother, and a birth team who deeply trust the innate process of physiologic birth regardless of the number of babies or their positions.

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Chapters

1. What is a traditional midwife (00:14:29)

2. Cephalic, breech, and transverse position of triplets (00:26:01)

3. The difference between the midwifery model of care and the medical model (00:36:24)

4. The birth of baby B (00:41:37)

5. The birth of baby C with a manual extraction (00:44:27)

6. The cesarean epidemic (00:56:49)