Episode 15: Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski on Working with Adolescents

Episode Summary

Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski joins us to talk about what birth workers actually need to know about working with adolescents. Mary Jo has spent decades with teen and young adult families, and she does not waste time on the doom and gloom statistics most of us heard first.

We dig into how to turn the teen pregnancy conversation from a fear pitch into something proactive, what teen families need from us that they often do not get, and how to be useful in a room where most of the dynamics were not built with them in mind. Robin also breaks down the recent article on predicting failed induction in pregnant people diagnosed as obese, and what the framing of that research should make us pause on.

Useful for doulas, childbirth educators, and anyone serving younger families, and a great primer if you have not heard Mary Jo before.

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Research on predicted failed induction in pregnant people diagnosed as obese