by Hillary Melchiors | Jul 24, 2020 | Birth Doula, Business, Cesarean Section, Childbirth Education, Communication, leadership, Midwife, Podcast, Postpartum Doulas, Research
This episode was so much fun because we got to talk about helping to create change in our local hospitals! As doulas, we see all kinds of different ways that different locations take care of business. We definitely have some ideas both at the policy and practical...
by Hillary Melchiors | Jul 1, 2020 | Podcast, Research, Uncategorized
In the 33rd episode of The Birth Geeks Podcast Robin interviews Barbara Hotelling about her fascinating work at Duke as a clinical nurse educator and around the world training doulas and childbirth educators. They talk about how training nursing students to be doulas...
by Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D. | Nov 27, 2019 | birth stories, Business, Podcast, Research
Hillary and Robin have a conversation about the basics of bias in research. You’ll hear what some of the most basic forms of bias are and how you can guard against them in your practice. You’ll also get to hear Hillary’s birth story – trust us,...
by Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D. | Sep 18, 2019 | Childbirth Education, Podcast, Research
Come listen in as Dr. Vanessa Hildebrand and Hillary geek out about birth anthropology. They talk about a wide range of things from Dr. Hildebrand’s research on birthing in an Indonesian Village to what anthropology has to say about childbirth education. You even get...
by Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D. | Sep 4, 2019 | Childbirth Education, Podcast, Research
You’re unlikely to ever meet anyone else like Dr. Mary Jo Podgurski. Some people call her the Sex Lady, probably because she’s presented sexuality education to over 230,000 young people, trained 10,000 peer educators and 7,000 young parents in her career....
by Robin Elise Weiss, Ph.D. | Aug 14, 2019 | Research
If you love birth and you’re fascinated by the research and the history of all things families, birth, and babies, you might be a birth geek! One of the classic signs is that you have a near insatiable desire for more knowledge to put into practice in your classes or...
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