EP: 59 - Birth Time - The Revolution

Welcome back beautiful mamas and partners today on the podcast we chat with 2 of the creators of the Birth Time Documentary. Jo Hunter & Jerusha Sutton. These women have embarked on a mission to find out why an increasing number of women are emerging from their births physically and emotionally traumatised. Their discoveries have led them to join the birth revolution and forge a movement that hopes to change the face of birth here in Australia Jo Hunter is a mother of four and an endorsed Medicare-eligible midwife in private practice. She has worked with birthing families since 1998, first as a doula and childbirth educator and since 2009 as a privately practising midwife. Jo now works across the full scope of midwifery practice offering continuity of midwifery care primarily to women who are planning to birth at home. Jerusha is a doula, and birth photographer & videographer based in Northern NSW. She trained as a doula in 2006 through Childbirth International and has since worked extensively as a birth and postnatal doula in both London and Sydney. Jerusha found the beauty of birth so captivating that she soon trained in photography so she could capture the magic of what she was seeing with her doula clients, to provide lifelong visual memories of their birthing experience. Reading their mission statement on their website they say… It was clear from the research They conducted that our maternity system is broken. We have a postnatal depression epidemic, with suicide being the leading cause of maternal death in the developed world. Birth trauma is rampant. We have incredibly high intervention rates in birth, yet research shows that this is not leading to better outcomes for mothers and babies. Globally, we are losing connection and trust in one of the most transformative, powerful, primal and pivotal rites of passage we will ever undertake in our lives. We live in a time where it has become normal to disregard the importance of a woman’s/persons experience of birth. It is not widely known that our birth and birthing experiences deeply impact the way we navigate the world. Nicola & I both saw the documentary and we want to be a part of this movement and help them spread this awareness so if you have an opportunity to watch the documentary please do yourself a favour and do it. To see the documentary CLICK HERE To follow Birth Time on Instagram CLICK HERE To work with Shari in one of her Hypnobirthing Courses CLICK HERE To work with Nicola in the breath through pregnancy CLICK HERE