All Births are Created Equal — 066

About this Episode

Today’s guest, Marlene Ehrler, is a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine and comes from a long line of holistic healers. She founded Motherhood Medicine, a health and wellness resource designed to assist women on their journey to motherhood. And, she hopes to reawaken a woman’s inherent, natural healing abilities by providing lifestyle information without the bias of traditional marketing tactics through her Land and Spirit Project.

Marlene’s first pregnancy was labeled as high-risk due to her Type 1 diabetes. Her insurance insisted she see a traditional OB/GYN and required her to give birth in the high-risk ward of the hospital, not at home with a midwife like she wanted. Bucking the system, she and her husband prepared for a home birth in spite of what they were told.

Marlene learned the hard way that birth is the ultimate initiation into the lack of control that typifies motherhood - and when things didn’t go according to plan, she had to learn to integrate and heal from the trauma she experienced during a very difficult birth and postpartum period.

During our conversation, she shares the powerful ways that she experienced healing, what it is like to raise a Spirited Child, and how this all integrates into her practice.

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In This Episode:

• What motivated her to study Naturopathic Medicine
• How Type 1 Diabetes played a role in her delivery
• Her plan to have an unassisted home birth
• How doctors diagnosed her false ailments
• The pain of the knife when two epidurals failed
  
• Having a Cesarean after her baby was already crowning
• Having an absent birth
• The power of a rebirth ceremony
• Raising a Spirited Child
• How the power of language helped her heal
• Her goal to empower women with basic, foundational health and lifestyle information through her new project (link)
• The influence of Dr. Weston Price
• How to get a free one-month trial of guided meditations through Expectful

Show Notes:

Motherhood Medicine
@MotherhoodMedicine on Instagram
The Land and Spirit Project
Expectful — One Month Free Trial for MotherBirth Community Members