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51. Maternal Mammalian Ecstasy: The Ancient Hormonal Blueprint for Optimal Birth and Bonding - Sarah Buckley
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Through untold eons mammals have evolved a beautiful birth-giving physiology based around a complex cascade of hormones that are released during labor. We give both mother and baby the best chance at a peaceful, ecstatic birth and postpartum period when we remember and respect this ancient dance.
IN THE INTRO:
- Complex parenting topics: sleep, immunity, birth
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- Sarah’s mainstream doctor grandfather and how she got interested in natural birth
- The exquisitely designed ancestral/mammalian hormonal blueprint of labor
- The impact of (unnatural, external) stress on a laboring woman and how it disrupts the optimal hormonal flow
- Creating optimal conditions for birthing and for bonding
- The hormonal consequences of bypassing the natural physiological onset of labor (such as by induction or scheduled C-section)
- How feeling unsafe (at a subconscious, limbic system level) disrupts the flow of birth
- The irony of how we treat animals in labor v how we treat human women in labor
- The ecstatic, altered state of mind we enter into during labor
- What first time mothers need to know but are often not told
- Fear and mystery in birth
- The body is designed to transcend the (natural, intrinsic) stress and pain of labor and they play a critical role in bonding
- The role of vocalization in labor
- Newborns need placental blood: cord clamping and how our cultural beliefs around that have changed over time
- What “No hatting, no patting, no chatting” means for the postpartum period
- Ancestral family sleep and motherbaby biological regulation: the many reasons that co-sleeping is best for babies and the science that backs it up
- The fascinating phenomenon of some birth attendants being able to smell the moment before the baby is born
LINKS
- Dr. Buckley’s website
- Dr. Buckley on Facebook
- Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering book
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report
- Medicine Stories Podcast Episode 30: The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System with Cilla Whatcott
- Medicine Stories Podcast Episode 48: Matriarchy in Action & Ancestor Assisted Birth with Emilee Saldaya
- Jeanine Parvati Baker
- CO-SLEEPING RESEARCH- James McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre-Dame
- Sara Wichkam’s website
- Midwifery Today’s website
- Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
111 episodes
Manage episode 237672129 series 2483934
Through untold eons mammals have evolved a beautiful birth-giving physiology based around a complex cascade of hormones that are released during labor. We give both mother and baby the best chance at a peaceful, ecstatic birth and postpartum period when we remember and respect this ancient dance.
IN THE INTRO:
- Complex parenting topics: sleep, immunity, birth
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- Sarah’s mainstream doctor grandfather and how she got interested in natural birth
- The exquisitely designed ancestral/mammalian hormonal blueprint of labor
- The impact of (unnatural, external) stress on a laboring woman and how it disrupts the optimal hormonal flow
- Creating optimal conditions for birthing and for bonding
- The hormonal consequences of bypassing the natural physiological onset of labor (such as by induction or scheduled C-section)
- How feeling unsafe (at a subconscious, limbic system level) disrupts the flow of birth
- The irony of how we treat animals in labor v how we treat human women in labor
- The ecstatic, altered state of mind we enter into during labor
- What first time mothers need to know but are often not told
- Fear and mystery in birth
- The body is designed to transcend the (natural, intrinsic) stress and pain of labor and they play a critical role in bonding
- The role of vocalization in labor
- Newborns need placental blood: cord clamping and how our cultural beliefs around that have changed over time
- What “No hatting, no patting, no chatting” means for the postpartum period
- Ancestral family sleep and motherbaby biological regulation: the many reasons that co-sleeping is best for babies and the science that backs it up
- The fascinating phenomenon of some birth attendants being able to smell the moment before the baby is born
LINKS
- Dr. Buckley’s website
- Dr. Buckley on Facebook
- Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering book
- Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing report
- Medicine Stories Podcast Episode 30: The Innate Intelligence of the Immune System with Cilla Whatcott
- Medicine Stories Podcast Episode 48: Matriarchy in Action & Ancestor Assisted Birth with Emilee Saldaya
- Jeanine Parvati Baker
- CO-SLEEPING RESEARCH- James McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre-Dame
- Sara Wichkam’s website
- Midwifery Today’s website
- Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagram
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
111 episodes
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