BIRTH LIKE A MAMMAL™
Birth Like a Mammal™ is a community created for both parents and doulas. Lindsay has over a decade of professional doula experience supporting families during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Combined with her B.S. in Animal Science, Lindsay is an expert on mammalian birth. Most of what is taking place in hospital L&D units is not in alignment with mammalian biology, and the complications that arise during and from giving birth can be prevented or avoided altogether by simply giving birth like a mammal.
Episodes
22 episodes
Episode 21: Birth Affects Us All with Bill Nation
In episode 21 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, host Lindsay engages in a deep and personal conversation with her former elementary school teacher, Bill Nation, now a licensed professional counselor in Texas. Bill is 70 years ol...
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56:32
Episode 20: Dads and Doulas and Birth with Keturah Pawlik
In episode 20 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Keturah Pawlik. Keturah is a doula and Mother of six. Originally from New York, she now lives in West Palm Beach with her family. Keturah believes in the power of storyte...
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1:08:52
Episode 19: The Power of Birth Stories with Diana Forsell
In episode 19 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay interviews Diana Forsell. Diana is a Mother to two boys, with two very different birth stories. She is the host of the Healing Birth podcast where she shares an incredible variety of bi...
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59:40
Episdoe 18: Intentional Embodiment with Jessica Olson, Pregnancy and Birth Coach
In episode 18 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Jessica Olson of Wildly Awakened Motherhood. Jessica is an embodied birth coach, focused on supporting women find healing and safety within their bodies, and home, before...
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1:01:19
Episode 17: The Body Keeps the Score with Joanna Cook, LMSW
In episode 17 of The Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay welcomes Joanna Cook, a Texas-based therapist and Mother, to discuss the profound impact of therapy on women struggling with birth trauma. Joanna shares her journey from experie...
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48:18
Episode 16: Birth Trauma Affects Everyone with Carla Sargent, Healer and Educator
On this 16th episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay is joined by Carla Sargent, a former midwife now birth trauma healer and educator. Carla is a true GEM in the birth trauma healing world. Her experience as a midwife and many yea...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:11:30
Episode 15: A Doula's Role with Brittney from The Wombsisterhood®
On episode 15 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay chats with Brittney, the founder of The Wombsisterhood®'s Positive Pregnancy Journey. Brittney is an educator, a doula, and a Mother. She is the creator of Driven by Faith Doula Trainin...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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49:17
Episode 14: Lactation & Obstetrics with Lauren Reza, RN, BSN, CLE
In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay is joined by Lauren Reza, a lactation consultant and natural Motherhood coach as well as the woman behind Lactation and Lullabies on Instagram. Lauren shares her journey from wo...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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54:21
Episode 13: The Joy in Birth with Audrey Ross, Birthkeeper
In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay shares a fantastic discussion with Audrey Ross of @ajoyfulbirth where Audrey discusses the differences in her three births: birth center, home with licensed midwives, and home unassis...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:03:00
Episode 12: Catching Triplets with Kristine Lauria, Midwife
In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Kristine Lauria, an international midwife who currently works for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). She specializes in high-risk maternity care in low...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:13:50
Episode 11: The Components of a Healthy Birth
In episode 11 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, host Lindsay Askins - a Mother of three and seasoned doula-turned birth coach, discusses the main components of a healthy and instinctive birth that is aligned with mammalian biology. She emphas...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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32:35
Episode 10: Oxytocin and Adrenaline are Not Friends
In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay Askins - a seasoned doula, birth coach, and Mother of three - discusses the important role of oxytocin during labor and birth. She reiterates that oxytocin is not the same...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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32:54
Episode 9: Why I Stopped Attending Hospital Births as a Doula
In episode 9 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay Askins - a seasoned doula, birth coach, and Mother of three - shares her transformative journey from supporting hospital births to exclusively attending home and birth center births. Lind...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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29:29
Episode 8: Placental Calcification - What is it and why do we care?
In episode 8 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, we explore the topic of placental calcification. This is a topic posed by the community for discussion as there is often many questions and confusion regarding how concerned we should be ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:03
Episode 7: Your Baby Does Not Want to be Alone
In episode 7 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, host Lindsay Askins, an experienced doula, birth coach, and Mother, discusses why babies are evolutionarily programmed to NOT be left alone. She emphasizes the normal mammalian dependency o...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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46:32
Episode 6: Natural Birth and Hospitals Don't Mix
In episode 6 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay dives into why natural birth does not - and cannot - take place in a hospital. Lindsay reiterates the true definition of "natural" as it's very often misused and generally mi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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47:48
Episode 5: Handling Newborns
In this episode, Lindsay discusses the importance of handling newborns with care and gentleness. She shares her concern about a viral video circling social media where a nurse was handling a baby roughly, causing the baby to show signs of stres...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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29:25
Episode 4: Hospital vs. Home Birth
In this episode, Lindsay discusses the age-old debate of hospital birth versus home birth. She emphasizes that this debate is unnecessary and unproductive, as the two options are fundamentally different and cannot be compared. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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36:09
Episode 3: Why Nursing Fails
In this episode, Lindsay discusses why nursing and lactation often fail in modern society. She explains that the high rate of complications in birth and low nursing rates can be attributed to the disruption of the natural mammalian biology of b...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:34
Episode 2: Personal Responsibility
In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay discusses the responsibility of Mothers during birth, specifically focusing on the choice between home birth and hospital birth. She emphasizes that the debate between the two options ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:22
Episode 1: Birth and Pitocin
We are kicking off this first episode discussing Pitocin and how that affects Mothers and babies during labor, birth, and even afterwards. Often when Pitocin is administered to induce or augment labor, women are not fully informed on the risks ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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30:57