Returning to work after having a baby can be a daunting jump to make. In this episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinelli talk with Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD, the author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave. They discuss everything from the transition back into working life after having a baby to finding a balance between working and parenting. In Lori's words, "The transition to work is not an event. It's a process."

Show Resources
-Mindfulreturn.com
-Mindful Return - Facebook
-Mindful Return - Instagram

In the middles ages, the only two people present at a birth, aside from the mother, were a midwife and an astrologer. In this episode, midwife Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS, and astrologer Michelle Scarrott discuss how astrology is a blueprint for what you have to work with in this life, as well as how you can use the knowledge of your astrological chart to discover who you are as a person, your "truth", and how to "get out of your own way".

Show Resources
-Michelle's website

More than 70% of drinking water in the United States is fluoridated, while 97% of western European countries have rejected fluoridation. Over 60 studies have now linked fluoride with reduced IQ in children. In this episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinelli are joined by Paul Connett, Ph.D., and Chris Neurath of the Fluoride Action Network to discuss the impact of fluoridation in water and other sources on children's IQ. They share several important studies on the matter as well as tips for expecting mothers on how to reduce their fluoride consumption during pregnancy.

 Show Resources
-Fluoridealert.org
-2017 Bashash Study
-2019 Green Study
-JAMAPediatrics Commentary on Fluoride

In this episode, Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS is joined by Ilse DeKoeyer-Laros, Ph.D., who shares her 20+ years of research and experience in infant mental health and treatment. They discuss how early traumatic experiences have a lasting effect on children, systemic problems, solutions, and what sources mothers can seek to better care for themselves and thus their children.

Resources
- Help Me Grow Utah: www.helpmegrowutah.org
- PSI Utah: https://www.psiutah.org
- Utah Association for Infant Mental health: www.uaimh.org and https://www.facebook.com/UtahIMH

Basically everyone who survives childhood has little ‘t’ traumas, but exactly how much those traumas effect you determines where you have memories or whether you have complex ptsd.  In this in-depth episode, Augustine Colebrook and Kesha Chiappinelli speak with Licensed Professional Councelor and psychotherapist specializing in treating trauma to arm parents who have themselves experienced trauma with tools to know how to decrease the likelyhood of passing on the trauma.

 Show Resources
-Dr. Bruce Perry
-ACEs study
-Resilience study in regards to ACEs
-John & Julie Gottman
-Stephen Porges polyvagal response
-Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
-EMDRIA.org
-Richard Grannon
-The Crappy Childhood Trauma

With 15 states left to create a licensure process for CPM’s, 42 states left to create a licensure Process for CM’s, And 29 states still to create a licensure process for ND-Midwives, well as fully half the states not offering autonomous practice for CNM’s, the legal and autonomous practice of midwives in the United States is a huge barrier to increasing the numbers of the profession.  Midwives are trained to provide the gold-standard in maternity care for low-risk women, however they still account for less than 9% of births nationwide. Join our midwife and advocate panelists, Joyce Kimball, CPM, Sarah Davis, MA & Sarah Foster, CPM, MA along with hosts, midwife, Augustine Colebrook, MA & attorney Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC as they discuss the laws across the country, especially in CA, OK, AR, MA.

Links
https://www.votesarahdavis.com/

Award-winning, investigative journalist, Jennifer Margulis, PhD joins hosts, Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS & Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC to share her decades worth of research on avoiding toxic exposure for mom and baby, physically, mentally, and emotionally.

References and Links
Jennifer Margulis’ Blog and books
Listen to Dr. Nathan Riley, Dr. Brad Bootstaylor and Lawyer, Hermine Hayes-Klein, JD on OBGYNO WINO Podcast
Midwife Mark Harris’s book
Michel Odent’s books 

Join Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS and her special guest, Brittany Thornton, CPM, LM a midwife, mother and traditional surrogate x6 as they discuss alternatives to the high medicalized assisted reproductive process.  Some people who want to be pregnant do indeed need all the technology, but as Brittany shares, many especially in the LGBTQIA community do not need high-tech reproductive technologies, they need education, time, space and respectful care.  And many are seeking midwives to help achieve pregnancy as well as give birth.

Resources and Links
Visit Brittany Thornton, CPM, LM
For resources on surrogacy
For a look into the legality of surrogacy in the US 

Join Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS, a midwife & maternal child health investigator, Dr. Caitlin Clarke, DC a Webster-certified chiropractor & doula-advocate and Dr. Anne Lundquist, DC, FICPA, SaBAP a prenatal chiropractic & parent educator as they discuss discuss steps for pregnant people who discover their baby is breech.  These birth biomechanics offer home techniques to help prevent and change a breech presentation, as well as resources to help make informed decisions.

References and Links
Birth Monopoly “know your rights” e-course
Coalition for Breech Birth Facebook Group
Spinning Babies ‘how to turn your baby’ booklet
ICPA trained Chiropactor search function
Evidence Based Birth - External Cephalic Version fact sheet
VBAC Facts info 

Autonomy, defined as being free from outside intervention is a very important notion in Western culture. And yet, as social distancing and self quarantine sweep the globe, people are voluntarily giving up personal liberty in favor of the ‘greater good’. Over the last several centuries, health and disease changed from curse / chance to something that could be controlled. This lead to state coordinated interventions such as irrigation and sewerage systems all the way to public health clinics, policy and even the passage of laws. With industrialization, the population appeared as a ‘problem’, an object of monitoring, regulation, analysis and intervention. Public health policy has reached a new zenith as millions of people in America and millions more around the globe are told to ‘stay home’ to protect their neighbors from an 'invisible enemy’.  In maternity care, because of ‘State Emergency Orders’ previous inalienable rights to self-determination in medical decision-making, choice in support people, and sovereignty of parental rights have all been eliminated.  Industrialized birth is being coming the norm across the US and Canada, even as many opt out of the system entirely.  Join human rights lawyer, Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC and maternal/child health investigator Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS as they dissect one segment of the maternity crisis in the United States every week.

Links & References
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD Interviewed by Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution on 3/27/20
Sam Vaknin, PhD in Philosophy, Physics & Phycology recorded on 4/13/20

Women routinely report being denied food and drink, being forced to lie in one position during labor, being denied the choice of VBAC,  receiving frequent, rough vaginal examinations, having their waters ruptured without consent, being denied the desired number of support people, and being given episiotomies after explicitly refusing during care provided by an Obstetrician in the United States. But some women experience far worse at the hands of legally protected and societally protected obstetricians - they suffer sexual assault. 

Join human rights lawyer, Kesha Chiappinelli, JD, IBCLC and maternal/child health investigator Augustine Colebrook, MA-MCHS as they dissect one segment of the maternity crisis in the United States every week.