Mindful Midwifery Presents: The Labor Behind Labor
From an outsider's perspective, midwifery sounds like a fascinating profession. But what does it feel like to juggle life's demands in a career that doesn't allow you to have a bad day? This is an insider's view of the labor behind labor.
Join Katie O'Brien, Certified Nurse Midwife, for frank conversations with frontline midwives about the joys, challenges, and politics surrounding the work of midwifery while trying to maintain a quality life away from the job.
Episodes
11 episodes
Cori
In this episode, Katie sits down with Cori — nurse-midwife, gestational carrier, and quite possibly the most interesting person you'll meet this week. Cori has spent her career advocating for better birth experiences after her own traumatic del...
Holly
Holly never set out to have a career. She wanted to be a wife and a mom — and for a long time, that's exactly what she was. But somewhere between homeschooling three kids, working night shifts as an L&D nurse, and her husband's quiet encour...
Kathy
Before water births were trendy, before fathers were allowed in delivery rooms, before midwives could legally do a pelvic exam in Maryland — there was Kathy. the midwife who wouldn't be managed. In this episode, host Katie O'B...
Beverly
Taking a step back in your career isn't always a bad thing or an indicator of lack of commitment or drive. Sometimes it's just plain common sense and self-love. In this episode, Katie sits down with her self-described "introverted" ...
Bayla
Being a homebirth midwife is an all-encompassing, 24/7 career choice. Most homebirth services are offered by Certified Professional Midwives, but why don't more Certified Nurse Midwives offer homebirth services? In this episode, hos...
Jenna
What happens when the midwife becomes the patient?Katie O'Brien sits down with Jenna — a newly minted midwife and an even newer mom — to find out. With 10-week-old Celeste in tow (and occasionally on the breast), Jenna unpacks w...
Hadja
Not all midwives feel they were called to be a midwife! In this episode, Hadja traces her path from a double major in international studies and nursing to the delivery room, driven not by a "calling" but by a conviction: that midwifery is one o...
Lindsay
It's hard to be vulnerable, especially in the medical field, but if you can't show vulnerability at work are you in the right place for you to thrive?Katie and Lindsay explore the invisible weight midwives carry: constantly explaining wh...
Carrie
What if the best thing about being a midwife was that it wasn't the most important thing about you? That's the philosophy Carrie lives by — and in this episode, she unpacks what it really means to be present at birth without losing you...