How to Have a Better Hospital Birth | Heidi Snyderburn-Campbell

In today’s episode, we talk with Heidi Snyderburn-Campbell, birth doula and author of Birth Story, a pregnancy guidebook and journal (https://www.birthstory.com/the-workbook-landing-page). She is also the host of the Birth Story Podcast (https://www.birthstory.com/the-podcast). We begin with Heidi recounting her first experiences assisting in birth and how she became a doula. We then talk about birth law in North Carolina, from Heidi’s understanding, and how births with doulas have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic there. We break down virtual doula services when hospitals don’t admit doulas into the birth space. Heidi shares her processes for adapting to virtual doula services. We discuss different hospital policies for admitting doulas into the birth space during a pandemic. We then talk about how to rock your hospital birth once doulas are again allowed into the birth space, which we think will happen soon. Heidi talks more abut her book, Birth Story, whose purpose is to inform and educate parents on the entire pregnancy process. Included in the book is a step-by-step guide to all of the standard hospital policies and procedures, as well as an explanation of the reasons, pros, and cons for each. We talk about how birth plans, if properly filed and if the mom and the baby are healthy, can be used as legally binding documents to oppose anything that detours from your wishes. We then finish by summarizing everything that should go into your prenatal preparation.

• 1:04 Heidi’s Story
• 7:42 Birth Laws in NC; Tips for Virtual Doulas; Hospital Policy During Pandemic
• 30:55 How to Rock Your Hospital Birth
• 53:46 Prenatal Preparation

"There was a lot of preparation with the partners — making sure the partners understood how to use a rebozo, how to do a double hip squeeze, how to put pressure on the sacrum, how to do some abdominal lifts or some belly sifting, so that when I’m then directing or coaching from the other side of the camera, they know what I’m talking about, because we already went over it in the pre-natal appointments.” 21:00

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