Episode 46: Home Birth

Trigger Warning: There is a discussion of “birth rape” 42 minutes into this episode.

In this episode of Life, the Universe & Everything Else, Richelle McCullough, Laura Creek Newman, and Dr. Laura Targownik talk about home birth, “natural” childbirth, and other pregnancy-related topics from a science-based perspective.

Life, the Universe & Everything Else is a program promoting secular humanism and scientific skepticism presented by the Winnipeg Skeptics and the Humanists, Atheists & Agnostics of Manitoba.

Links: Home Births Rise Despite Higher Neonatal Mortality Rate | Orgasmic Childbirth | Benefits of Natural Childbirth (SheKnows Parenting, JustMommies, Attachment Parenting Advice, allParenting) | Natural Childbirth, Pain, and Shame | In Passionate Support of Caesarean Births | A Plan For Natural Birth: Hold The Drugs, Please | Yes, There Was Pitocin: A Birth That Didn’t Quite Stick to the Script | Home Birth with Midwife Safe as Hospital | What is “Birth Rape”? | Women’s Health Clinic Principles of Service for the Birth Centre

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About Gem Newman

Medical student and former software developer. Host of the Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast. Past organizer of the Winnipeg Skeptics. Former board chair at Bad Science Watch. Writer of things. Grower of beards. He/him.

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