Taking Back Birth

By Maryn Green

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Join host Maryn Green, autonomous midwife of many years, for all things radical birth, midwifery and mothering related. For more info, go to indiebirth.org. To listen to past episodes visit https://indiebirth.org/podcastarchive/

Episode Date
How Do I Know I Want to Become a Midwife?
May 12, 2024
A Twin Story With a Twist
May 06, 2024
Imagining the Virtual Apprenticeship as a Real Option
Apr 23, 2024
Stories of Homebirth Mamas in Hawai’i with Dr. Alexandra Kisitu 
Apr 13, 2024
Miscarriage as an Embodied Experience with Alyssa Rafidi
Apr 07, 2024
An Impromptu Womb Ritual
Apr 01, 2024
Embodiment and Birth Work
Mar 25, 2024
The First Blood
Mar 18, 2024
The Anniversary of Sable’s Birth/Death and Readings From My Journal (Re-Issue)
Mar 11, 2024
Why Health Insurance Shouldn’t Factor Into Your Birth Plan (Re-Issue)
Mar 03, 2024
Pregnancy In Isolation
Feb 26, 2024
When Doulas Become Cogs in the Wheel of Medicalized Birth
Feb 19, 2024
10 Principles that Guide Sacred Postpartum Care
Feb 12, 2024
The Weaving Between Somatics and Birth Work
Feb 03, 2024
The Power of Birth: The Initiation of the Human Soul and Divine Feminine
Jan 29, 2024
My Communication With Spirit Babies
Jan 23, 2024
The Deeper Experience of an Early Pregnancy Loss
Jan 15, 2024
Moving Away from the Word “Midwife”
Jan 07, 2024
When Your Birth (Video) Goes Viral and Also Throws You Into Birthwork – A Chat with Kendra Johnson
Jan 01, 2024
Mothering #12: Our Winter Solstice Traditions
Dec 26, 2023
Taking the Slow Route to Birth Attending
Dec 18, 2023
“What’s in the Birth Bag?” With Midwifery Student Sam
Dec 10, 2023
3 Principles of Pregnancy Care from My Perspective
Dec 04, 2023
Accessing Power as a First Time Mama: My Chat With Kirstin
Nov 26, 2023
My Freebirth at the Hospital (a Remix) and Other Thoughts on the Feelings of Authenticity
Nov 18, 2023
Birth Trauma Can Happen In Anyone
Nov 13, 2023
Ways Midwives Overuse Technology
Nov 06, 2023
Birth is a Calling of the Divine
Oct 28, 2023
Midwifery and Gossip: the “Sister Wound”
Oct 09, 2023
When the Midwife is Blamed
Oct 01, 2023
Meditation for Mamas Who Have Birthed Recently
Sep 19, 2023
Shoulder Dystocia and “Stuck” Babies!
Aug 10, 2023
A Smorgasbord Blab about Postpartum Hemorrhage
Jul 20, 2023
“You’re Not Allowed” to Not Allow Me
Jul 09, 2023
The Magical Mama Circle and a Webinar Replay
Jul 03, 2023
A Homebirth After 3 C-Sections with Erny Jett
Jun 20, 2023
Why Dopplers are Dumb (Or, the Overreliance on Technology)
Jun 12, 2023
Birth is Not Like Cabinets
May 21, 2023
Mothering #11: Continued Breastfeeding Through the Toddler Years 
Apr 10, 2023
Meditation for Connecting with Your Baby In the Womb
Apr 02, 2023
What if Midwifery Apprenticeship Looked More Like This?
Mar 28, 2023
Midwifery Is Broken
Mar 13, 2023
From Long Time Veganism to Ancestral Foods with Bridget Nielsen
Feb 27, 2023
Weird Things Midwives Are Taught
Feb 13, 2023
Mothering #10: Kids and Money
Jan 29, 2023
Honoring Our Yes or No in Birthwork
Jan 03, 2023
Winter Solstice and My Year in Review
Dec 18, 2022
The Transformation that IS Postpartum
Dec 12, 2022
What’s In Maryn’s Birth Bag?
Dec 05, 2022
How I’ve Changed as a Midwife
Nov 28, 2022
My 5 Beliefs About Birth
Nov 21, 2022
Bringing Nothing to Birth
Nov 13, 2022
The Deeper Shadow Side of Pregnancy and Birth and How We Support That as Midwives
Oct 28, 2022
Womb Medicine Stories with Qiddist Ashe
Oct 02, 2022
Saying YES to Cervix with Denell Barbara Randall
Sep 23, 2022
Why You’ve Gotta Regulate Your Nervous System For Birth (and Life) with Lindsey Lockett
Sep 03, 2022
Connection with the Sacred Land and the Ceremony of Aurora’s Birth with Sacha Louise
Aug 28, 2022
Birth and Our Sexuality with Stacey Ramsower
Aug 21, 2022
5 Things That Interrupt the Sacred Ceremony of Birth
Aug 07, 2022
Creating the New Midwifery with Blyss Young
Jul 31, 2022
Blessing and Meditation for Conscious Conception
Jul 24, 2022
The Time Has Come For Women to Stand and Speak
Jul 14, 2022
The Tongue Tie Episode
Jul 03, 2022
When I Cancelled NARM (and the CPM Credential)
Jun 27, 2022
The Indie Birth SANCTUARY
Jun 19, 2022
Behind the Scenes Chat about Creating Our Kick Ass Midwifery School
Jun 13, 2022
How Your Husband Can Help At Your Birth
Jun 05, 2022
A Chat About Twins
May 19, 2022
The “You Don’t Need Anything to Birth” Line
May 09, 2022
The Vision of an (Indie Birth) Birth Retreat Center
Apr 28, 2022
Being in the Bubble As the Midwife
Apr 17, 2022
Do Midwives Make Birth Safer?
Mar 27, 2022
Are You the Right Match for Me?
Mar 13, 2022
Mothering #9: Raising Magical Children
Mar 07, 2022
My Call Into Midwifery
Feb 20, 2022
Sharing Our Brilliance at Indie Birth
Feb 06, 2022
The Bar is So Low for Pregnant Women
Jan 24, 2022
The Sexisode
Jan 09, 2022
Self-Care is Not a Bubble Bath
Jan 02, 2022
Virtual Visits with Maryn
Dec 27, 2021
Am I Done Having Babies?
Dec 20, 2021
What Is “Midwitchery?”
Dec 12, 2021
All the Things That Create Optimal Breastfeeding
Nov 30, 2021
Whether It’s Birth or Life, Be Authentic!
Nov 21, 2021
An Interview With My 19 Year Old Daughter, Amelia
Nov 14, 2021
Reflections on the One Year Anniversary of Rumi’s Birth
Nov 07, 2021
The Experience of Death in Birth
Oct 31, 2021
The Physicality of Birth (and Life)
Oct 24, 2021
Taking Back (Kentucky) Birth
Oct 17, 2021
What I Hate About Births
Oct 12, 2021
5 Birth Lessons from the Field
Sep 10, 2021
More On Gifting Midwifery Care
Aug 16, 2021
Work With a Midwife and Pass on the Freebirth If…
Aug 02, 2021
Apprenticeship #1: What are the Stepping Stones on this Path?
Jul 18, 2021
Welcome to Kentucky!
Jul 11, 2021
Rumi’s Cave
Jul 05, 2021
Burying My Placenta with My Soul Sister
Jun 20, 2021
Is the Community Midwife Dead or is the Community Dead?
Jun 12, 2021
The Mother Wound
May 23, 2021
A Trip Down (Birthy) Memory Lane – and Our Location Revealed!
May 16, 2021
Witchery 101 – and Thoughts About the World
May 09, 2021
Redefining Midwifery – Part 1
May 02, 2021
Mothering # 9: Holding Space for Our Kids on the Topic of Death
Apr 16, 2021
Calling in My Ancestors
Apr 05, 2021
A Rant About Being a Good Little Girl (AKA Midwifery Licensing)
Mar 28, 2021
My-So Called Life…With Book Recommendations!
Mar 21, 2021
Mothering #8: Sleep
Mar 15, 2021
Midwifery as a Spiritual Practice
Mar 07, 2021
February 2021 Q&A and Claiming Your Power!
Mar 01, 2021
Following Your Truth by Using a PMA (Private Membership Association)
Feb 19, 2021
Mothering #7 – My Breastfeeding Journey
Feb 14, 2021
We Need More Midwives!
Feb 05, 2021
January 2021 Q & A
Jan 29, 2021
Why I Love Placenta Birth
Jan 24, 2021
A Shoulder Dystocia and Resuscitation: The Indie Birth of Veda Rose
Jan 16, 2021
Mothering #6 – My Kids’ Health and Wellness
Jan 10, 2021
From the Midwife Perspective: The Year’s Birth Experiences (a Review)
Jan 03, 2021
Behind the Scenes: The Magical Tale of Rumi Sol
Dec 20, 2020
The Time I Had a Freebirth in the Hospital: Maryn and Margo Chat About Rumi’s Birth Story
Nov 13, 2020
The Spiritual Side of the End of Pregnancy
Oct 29, 2020
Should I Have a Freebirth With My First Baby?
Oct 04, 2020
Mothering Q&A
Sep 10, 2020
10 Questions to Ask Your Higher (Pregnant) Self
Jul 22, 2020
Mothering #4: Food, Eating and our Family
Jul 12, 2020
The Spiritual Experience of Early Pregnancy (And Yes, I’m Pregnant Again)
Jun 07, 2020
First Babies Can Fall Out But Often They Don’t
May 31, 2020
The Initiation of Man: Two Nine-Time Fathers Talk About the Magic of Birth
May 19, 2020
The Birth Nerd Series: The Basics of Fundal Measurement
May 12, 2020
How We Named Our Babies
Apr 16, 2020
Body Scan Guided Meditation to Raise Your Vibration
Mar 24, 2020
Mothering #3: Rites of Passage
Mar 11, 2020
I Can’t Afford a Homebirth and Other Money Issues
Feb 11, 2020
Waterbirth? Yay or Nay?
Feb 05, 2020
Birth: the Greatest Opportunity For a Guy to Be a Man
Jan 24, 2020
Mothering #2: “Schooling” and Our Kids
Jan 21, 2020
A Birth At the Ashram
Jan 08, 2020
Ask the Midwife: From Gloves to Cameras and Back Again
Dec 29, 2019
Mothering #1
Dec 22, 2019
Recipe for a Perfect Birth
Dec 15, 2019
The Honest Truth About Freebirth
Dec 06, 2019
Chatting With Madeline of Believe in Midwifery
Dec 01, 2019
The Fantastic First Hour After Birth
Nov 08, 2019
Wisdom About a Baby’s Transition Earthside
Oct 30, 2019
ANOTHER chat with the Badass OB, Nathan Riley
Oct 11, 2019
Why Health Insurance Shouldn’t Factor Into Your Birth Plan
Oct 03, 2019
Unpopular Thoughts About Labor Pain
Aug 29, 2019
A Chat With Midwife Kerrie Adams
Aug 15, 2019
Spiritual Midwifery with RainMa
Jul 29, 2019
Brittany and Conor Share Their Autonomous Birth Experience
Jun 27, 2019
More On Pregnancy Loss
Jun 16, 2019