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How the Healthcare System can fuel the Crunchy Mom Movement: Distrust, Trauma, and the Future of Maternal and Pediatric Care
Today I sat down to talk about something I think about a lot…the crunchy mom movement. Why are so many families walking away from traditional healthcare unheard? Caitlyn Shollmeier, a certified nurse midwife and founder of Lila Maternity, joins me to dig into why this is not really about essential oils or cloth diapers. When women do not feel like a person in the room any more they lose trust and feel like just another number on a chart. Caitlyn shared her own birth story with twins that stuck with me. She felt dismissed by almost he...
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Working as a certified nurse midwife in every setting, you know, hospital, birth center, home birth setting. And so you see, you know, the medical side and you see sort of the other side of the spectrum, you know, the more like crunchy, you know, holistic sort of communities. And what I've noticed is
that I think a lot of families really want agency and they want safety in their birth experience, especially in the United States, where, you know, And there's a lot of scary stories out there. Welcome back to the show.
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