Latest / Birthright: Physiological Birth Stories / Laying the Foundation
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- Taylor: Welcome to the first episode of the Birthright Podcast. I'm your host, Taylor Gibson, and I am so excited to have you here. This is something I've been wanting to do for literal years now, so I'm happy to finally be doing it. So for the first episode I just wanted to lay the foundation and let you know who I am and really what to expect from the show. First off, I am a daughter of Yahuwah, the most high God of the Bible. I believe he has called me to this work and this is important work. Throughout the show you may hear me say all praise to the most high or all praise or praise y'all. Whenever you hear that, just know I am referring to the one true God as I believe Yahuwa is his name. With that being said, I am not religious at all, but I one thousand percent believe in the Bible. I choose to focus on my relationship with the Father and reading my Bible is what strengthens my relationship with him. As all I want is to do his will for his glory. This is all for him. I believe in his design for birth and I trust it as I trust him. I want to help other women trust him and his design, no matter what your beliefs may be. Birth is something that brings us closer to him through trust and surrender, and I think it's incredible. Anyways, with all that being said, my faith is my strongest conviction, so it is important for me to be the foundation of the show. However, I will never not allow someone of a different faith to share on my show. Even if I don't agree with something they say, I still want to respect a woman and her choices. So basically that's why I'm laying the foundation now so that everyone knows where I personally stand and who my work is for. that is the foundation of everything I do, and it's very important for me to let it be known as I go through this journey, on this podcast and my work as being a doula. so yeah, he he's above everything. He is the reason for everything. So anyways, I now that I've said what needed to be said, let's move on. Now a little bit about me. My name is Taylor, I'm a wife to my husband Thomas, and together we have four babies. We have two girl or two boys and two girls. We have been we've known each other for ten years, been together for nine and married for eight of those years. My husband played professional basketball for ten years, and I was with him overseas for eight of those years. So all of our marriage has been spent traveling from country to country for his basketball career. The reason I'm telling you all this is because living in different countries for prenatal birth and postpartum care has been an extremely eye opening experience for me. just experiencing and witnessing different cultures has shaped my motherhood and life in general. And it has even shaped the village piece of my work as a birth worker. The next four episodes will be my four birth stories. I want to share the care I I've received in other countries and go a little deeper into each pregnancy and labor. I think it will be fun for my listeners to see my progression of understanding as each birth has unfolded. I am also a doula and I would love for my clients to hear my own personal stories and also hear the stories of other women. I think that stories are very powerful. I personally have that was part of each of my birth, except for my first one. Part of preparing for birth was listening to other women's birth stories and listening to physiological ones where things when they are left undisturbed really unfold. pretty beautifully. I think it helps build trust and just shows how much I deeply care about birth and women and babies and families, especially. Like it's not just one piece, it's a whole unit of of what it means to be a family that I want to share. Aside from all of the birth stuff, I really enjoy spending time with my family, of course, who doesn't. I am a homeschool mom. There's just something about a child's aha moment that makes it so special for me. I also love being in the kitchen cooking from scratch. it's kind of my thing. So I'm in the kitchen a lot. I also have a micro bakery that I do, a sourdough micro bakery. I love baking bread and other baked goods. I sometimes wish it wasn't a hobby. Then I also I I wish it wasn't a hobby because sometimes like when you can bake, you have to you eat it. And so it's it's kind of it's hard, especially when you love it so much. Anyways. I also really enjoy gardening. I think it's kind of interesting because gardening and birth and like pregnancy and like just kinda go hand in hand in my eyes and like the way I experience it. You know, it starts from like such a small, little seed and then it grows into this beautiful thing. I think that's why I really enjoy it so much, but also just being in the dirt and, you know, kind of being distracted away from how cra this crazy world. anyways, my husband and I enjoy gardening a lot together. We are working towards a homestead if and when I have the time. I like to sew as well. mainly in the winter when it's too cold to spend a lot of time outside. we love spending outside as much as we can as a family together when it's possible. Okay, that was a lot, but I just wanted you to have an idea of who I am if you're going to be listening. Now I want to get into what is physiological birth. Well, the definition is a natural labor and delivery that relies on the body's own hormones and the baby's innate process without routine medical interventions. So by definition, that is correct, but I feel like it doesn't do it justice. It doesn't explain the benefits and the significance it plays on the mom and baby. It doesn't touch on how well birth works when it's allowed to happen as it was designed. And that's basically why I'm starting this podcast. is because I want more women to be able to share these experiences because stories are very powerful and the more we can reshape how we view birth as a society, the better. You know, most people believe that the system has gone corrupt because of money and greed, and while I can agree with that, it's not the bigger picture. I think it stems from Satan himself. Literally, I believe that he has done his best with destroying humanity from the very start. I mean, he literally hates us. and that also starts with how we are introduced to the world. I mean, I'm not going to go too far, but I'm but even giving a a woman an upper duro and exposing her baby to fit and all is wicked and that's just one intervention. Anyways, I just want to highlight how when birth is left alone and a mother can listen to her body, Her baby and intuition, birth, actually happens very well. And when we can let go of the fear piece, we can have really successful outcomes. One of the ways we can do this is by sharing our stories. I also want to touch on the fact that as a society, we have turned the cascade of interventions into victimhood, and I really want to change that narrative. We as women have lost accountability for our own births. I don't want this to come off as insensitive, but it's true. when we can get ourselves out of the victim mindset, it sets us up for autonomy and allow also allows us to decide how things in our life will go. Now I'm not saying we have full control because I don't believe that either. But when it comes to our birth choices, we definitely can say no to things and yes to things we know are. Right for us. I think it's so important to educate ourselves on these things to keep something so sacred as birth protected. You may or may not fully understand this now, depending on where you are at in your walk, but I hope you continue to be here with us and learn more through the stories that will be shared here. Like I said, next four episodes will be for my four birth stories. I've had a typical hospital birth, a home birth, water birth with a midwife, another home birth with a midwife, and then I free birthed or had an unassisted birth with my fourth. I've had a wide variety just with my own birth, so I get it. And a reason I'm so passionate after my stories I will be having guests share their stories. So if you know anyone or if it's yourself who would like to share your story You can go to my website, the village birthcoat.com. And I'll also leave that in the show notes, but go ahead and submit your info and I will get with you and set up a time to tell your physiological birth story. Before we wrap up, I want to talk about what it means to have a village. I think sometimes that our society is unfortunately severely lacking in it. For me personally, I have never had help. I'm with my kids twenty five eight, literally since I became a mom seven years ago. And it's hard, I won't even lie. A lot of it has been because we've been overseas for the majority of my motherhood, so I've been really isolated. But it's also a blessing to see how women in other countries do have villages and it looked slightly different in each country. I will say out of all those countries. Mexico stands out the most on this topic. It's so crazy to me how we're so close to Mexico. Yet we lack such wonderful values. Just the way it's so multi generational. Is so inspiring to me. Anyways, I'm rambling, but one of my goals with the work that I'm doing is to help create a village for moms, a place they feel supported, whether it's by hearing stories, to not feel so alone, or the resources I have on my side and supporting women through education. Sometimes your family isn't the best village. Building it can sometimes be better. Maybe one day both worlds can collide. So with that being said, you are officially a part of the village. Thank you for being here and I'm so happy to be a part of your journey, no matter where you are at in life. So now I also want to get into the meaning of this show. I titled it Birthright and not the Village Birth Co because the Village Birth Co is my do la side of things and like Instagram and stuff, but I really wanted the show to be titled Birthright because we are talking about physiological birth and I really feel like it is a mother's birthright. And by definition, a birthright is any right, privilege, or property that is that a person is entitled to have by the fact of their birth or basic human freedom. I believe it's a mother's birthright to give birth in the way her body was designed, and I also believe it's the baby's birthright to be welcomed into the world in the way Yahoo intended. So that's why I decided to name the show Birthright. Pretty plain and simple, but it's so important. And another thing I wanted to talk about, why like another reason I wanted to do a show talking about birth and birth stories is I also will s from time to time I will visit a group let's like a group home. for elderly women and I go I just go in and like talk to the ladies and one of the craziest things to me is these women are in their late sixties, seventies, eighties, and some nineties. And I have asked all of them about their birth stories. And it blows my mind that they literally still talk about their births like it was yesterday. And I think that as a woman It's something that is imprinted on us and it's something that like we will quite literally carry with us forever and you know, whether that story is something like obviously it's always amazing. Like you brought your baby into the world, no matter what. Like that's an amazing thing, it's just interesting to me how no matter how old you are, like that that story stays with you. And you're s literally still so excited to tell it at those ages. And I just I think it's important for women to you know, be educated on how birth was intended to be and be educated on the simple process of birth. It really is pretty simple. but we as humans like love a drama story and like love to make it, you know, a big thing that it really doesn't need to be. and yeah, I mean, our birth stays in our minds and it's just not something that should ever be downplayed. like I feel like society tries to to do, you know. But yeah, that's just kind of something that's interesting to me is like hearing those older women talk about their experiences. And it's actually like heartbreaking because they are so heartbroken about how their births unfolded. just like two examples. One of them was from like the twilight, whenever the twilight sleep, like they literally were not conscious when their babies were born and that they just they don't even know how to like like talk about it but also they don't even understand what really happened to them and it really still bothers them to this day. And so yeah, that's why this work is so important to me. I don't know. There's so many other stories I could share. Maybe I'll have on the podcast one day. Yeah, so go ahead and follow the show and share to let people know about us. And until next time, we will see you soon.