Episode 9: Choosing Your Birth Environment
Becoming Mom
In 1957, my mother gave birth for the first time in a US army Hospital in Frankfurt Germany, she was all alone in a foreign country. Oddly they allowed her to smoke all through her labor but she was not allowed to drink or eat! She was not allowed to get up and move or to change her position as she felt she wanted to. She had a hard time and so did I, her baby. Contrast this with the fact that my mother herself was born in 1923 at home in the bed she was conceived in, as was my father in 1916. Human beings have only been giving birth in hospitals for about 100 years or less. This means that...
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Episode 8: How BIRTH works
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In 2015 I had an interesting experience; that showed me many obstetricians do not really care about how birth works. In the 90’s I retired from Primary Homebirth Midwifery to pursue my long-term love of Interior Design. I went back to school and got my degree and opened a residential interior design firm with a specialty in birth centers. In 2015, I had an opportunity to have a booth at the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting, in San Francisco. I was offering my services to hospitals wanting to remodel their birthing rooms to enhance...
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Episode 7: Creating Your Own Birth Philosophy
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In 1977 when I started working as a yoga teacher & childbirth educator, I had no idea that what I was creating was my own “Birth Philosophy”. I remember, easily saying, “85% of all births will occur spontaneously and naturally, in a healthy female body”, and it was very true! I had a fundamental belief based on my education and personal experience that birth was normal. Statistics showed that if a woman was left alone and allowed to give birth naturally, she would be fine. At that time the c-section rate in the USA was low compared to today. Nationally, c-sections comprised just 5.5...
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Episode 6: Learning to Listen to Your Body
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I want to share a story about how I learned to listen to my own body and its wisdom. One year after I gave birth to my second child by c-section due to a miss diagnosis of herpes, I found myself pregnant again with my third child. The trauma I had experience with my second pregnancy was still raw. You see, I gave birth on February 13, 1979 to my second son…and the next day, Valentine’s Day February 14th still in the hospital recovering from major abdominal surgery, the nurse came into my room smiling and happy… she had a beautiful bouquet of roses from my mother and she was grinning from...
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Episode 5: Educate Yourself about Your Birth Options
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Your journey to becoming a mother will teach you many things. Not the least of which, will be to develop your ability to learn new things and make decisions fast. At the end of my second pregnancy, I developed a condition that demanded that I take immediate action. I had to learn and make decisions that tested my ability to be a mother to my core. I was just days away from my due date and I had an upper respiratory infection that was so severe that I was coughing all the time. I really questioned if I could labor safely with this illness. So, I contacted my midwife and told...
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Episode 2: The Most Important Secret to a Great BIRTH
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If you’re thinking of having a baby, this episode has important information for you. It starts with a warning: being pregnant and having babies is the easy part -- but raising them is not! When you have a child, your whole life changes. Tune in and learn the #1 - Episode 1 most important tool you will need as a mother. PLEASE head over to my website and download my FREE worksheet and video instructions to help you find your absolute “WHY” for BECOMING A MOM here For more Becoming Mom podcasting tips, subscribe to Becoming Mom on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to...
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Episode 1: You're pregnant! Congratulations ...NOW is the perfect time to change your life.
Becoming Mom
Today on Becoming Mom, Deb Puterbaugh, LPM Licensed, Professional Midwife and champion of First Time Moms (FTMs) everywhere, will show you how to USE your pregnancy and birth to become stronger, smarter, and more empowered as a woman. You have the next nine months to get ready to become a mother. Today on Becoming Mom, Deb Puterbaugh, LPM Licensed, Professional Midwife and champion of First Time Moms (FTMs) everywhere, will show you how to USE your pregnancy and birth to become stronger, smarter, and more empowered as a woman. You have the next nine months to get ready to become a mother.
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Episode 4: YOU ARE CREATING THE FUTURE
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Today we will look at three recent discoveries made by science regarding human development and HUMANITIES dependency on mothers for our very health and survival. Becoming a mother means that you join the long line of mothers who have literally created our human species, all the way back to our first mother. Becoming a mother means that you are nothing less than the creatrix of the human race. Today we will look at three recent discoveries made by science regarding human development and HUMANITIES dependency on mothers for our very health and survival. Becoming a mother means that you join the...
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Episode 3: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BECOME A MOM?
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On today’s podcast of Becoming Mom, I would like to devote our time together to more fully understanding the importance of what it means to become something, and specifically what it means to become a mother? I hope this episode will inspire you to realize your importance and claim the respect motherhood deserves. I hope you will understand and claim the power you possess. On today’s podcast of Becoming Mom, I would like to devote our time together to more fully understanding the importance of what it means to become something, and specifically what it means to become a mother? I hope this...
info_outlineIn 2015 I had an interesting experience; that showed me many obstetricians do not really care about how birth works. In the 90’s I retired from Primary Homebirth Midwifery to pursue my long-term love of Interior Design. I went back to school and got my degree and opened a residential interior design firm with a specialty in birth centers. In 2015, I had an opportunity to have a booth at the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) Annual Clinical & Scientific Meeting, in San Francisco. I was offering my services to hospitals wanting to remodel their birthing rooms to enhance oxytocin and physiological birth. I received a contrast of rave support and a completely dismissive attitude regarding the importance of environment on a woman’s ability to give birth. I remember a group of older white-haired men who said, “why would we be concerned with a woman’s natural oxytocin levels or feeling of safety, when we have Pitocin and surgery!”