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Awakening Birth

Awakening Birth

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Your guide to pregnancy and gentle birth. Host Deborah Flowers is both a Registered Nurse and a Certified Professional Midwife at The Farm Community, internationally known as the home of Spiritual Midwifery. Co-host Ibu Robin Lim was recognized as the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year for her work as the founder of the Bumi Sehat Clinic Birth Center and Clinic in Bali, Indonesia. Topics for Season 1 include Choosing a Care Provider, the Safety of Home Birth, Prenatal Care Not Prenatal Scare, and Birth as the Power to Heal. Listen as Deborah and Robin share personal stories, insights, and guidance to help you achieve the birth you desire.

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In this podcast, a mother describes her first birth at a hospital in New Zealand, followed by her second birth nearly 10 years later at the Bumi Sehat Clinic in Bali, Indonesia with midwife Ibu Robin Lim. In this story we learn that when a woman... more
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Up to 1/3 of the baby's blood is still present in the cord immediately after birth, a vital fluid that has been converted into a commodity and commercial product. Are their vampires in the hospital? In this podcast, hosts and midwives Deborah... more
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So often, at some point during a woman's pregnancy, a health-care professional or well meaning friend, will provide information that puts unnecessary fear into the heart and mind of a mother-to-be. ?A woman may be told she is: Too Old - Too... more
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Our podcast "Is Home Birth Safe?" is in celebration of International Day of the Midwife, and in response to a recent opinion piece published by the New York Times questioning the safety of home birth and the training of Certified... more
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Deborah Flowers, RN CPM, is the co-founder of the Awakening Birth podcast and its corresponding web site, www.awakeningbirth.org In this podcast, Deborah is interviewed by midwife Ibu Robin Lim. Deborah describes her first experience... more
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Before you make a decision about where to give birth, it is important to look at all your options, and think about which one is best suited to help you achieve the experience you desire and the safest outcome for you and your baby. More at... more
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Ibu Robin Lim, CPM, is the founder of Bumi Sehat, a free clinic and birth center in Bali, Indonesia. In 2011 she was recognized as the CNN Hero of the Year, and has received many other honors and awards. She is the author of several... more
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