Episode 10: How to Listen to Birth Stories

Episode Summary

Listening is a skill we have to keep sharpening as childbirth professionals, and hearing birth stories on repeat is harder than people realize. In this episode we talk about what makes listening difficult, what we have each learned to do about it, and what good listening actually looks like in our work.

We also cover the practical part most training programs skip: how to stay grounded and how to fix your face when somebody at a party launches into a misinformed horror story and you have nowhere to hide. There is a little assignment at the end for the true geeks.

Quick listen, useful skills, and one of the early episodes that set the tone for what this show is about.

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Active listening for childbirth professionals

Strategies for staying grounded during difficult stories