1KHO 867: Every Baby Makes You a New Mother | Beth Barbeau, Who Delivers Your Baby?

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My name is Ginny Yurich, and I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I'm honored and thrilled and delighted that my friend and midwife, Beth Barbeau, has returned to be with us today. Beth, thank you.

**Beth Barbeau** (1:13)
You're welcome. Thanks for having me. I love coming in, being with all of your cool people.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:18)
We've had some eclectic conversations, which I think is really special. Everything from things that we want to pass on to our kids. We have a podcast called 50 Things I Hope You Know, which is the lessons in thinking through the lessons, the intentionality of what we want to pass down. And we've talked about air quality. We've talked about birth and babies. We've talked about first aid. We've talked about a lot of things.

**Beth Barbeau** (1:39)
It's really been fun. And almost all of it is tied exactly. We had Ask the Midwife, and there was a lot there that tied in too. We talked about 1000 Hours.

**Ginny Yurich** (1:48)
Yeah, getting outside and trusting yourself and trusting your kids. So as promised today, I was going to share my home birth story. So we've kind of skirted around it a little bit, kind of dabbled with it here and there in other podcast episodes. But I had an experience the other day with a friend who has a five-year-old, and there was someone in their family, a cousin that just had a baby. And so they had the baby at a birthing center, and there was the tubs and all those types of things there. And the little girl asked her mom, she says, how much time do I have to decide if I'm going to do birthing center, or hospital, or home birth?
Isn't that wonderful, though? Isn't that wonderful to have exposure as a young child to the different options that are out there?

**Beth Barbeau** (2:37)
It sounds to me like that mom and that family is doing a great job. That child already knows more than a lot of people having, more than you knew the day you started to be pregnant, right? Like she already understands that she has choices.
There will be advantages and disadvantages of different locations and that she will be making a choice for her and her baby and her family. I think that's amazing. And that really shows just some normalizing of healthy births and healthy lives.

**Ginny Yurich** (3:02)
Yeah. Yes.
And then, of course, in our daughter, she was part of the conversation. So she started asking me the same thing. What is a birthing center? And it has been, you know, that's a side benefit of having home births is that it has put me in a position to be I think a better question answerer about even and a better question asker, but and just to be able to talk about the normalization of it. You know, so, you know, kids always ask like, does birth hurt? That's a it's a common question. You know, and I'm able to say birth is a normal biological process. You know, it's different for every person, that type of thing. So I do think that the home births have given me, I don't know, confidence or just because of the experiences of them, a better, it's put me in a better spot to talk more about birth with our own kids.

**Beth Barbeau** (3:53)