This week is the last episode of series 1, and I’m thrilled to be speaking to Patricia Cordeiro.  Patricia is a mother of two boys, a journalist, a writer, and a doula. She has been an activist for the birth movement in Brazil since 2013,  and participated in the group that stood up for Adelir Carmen in 2014, when Adelir was forced to have a c-section for the birth of one of her daughters. It was at this time that myself and Patricia connected, when she translated Adelir’s first hand account of her court ordered caesarean for me, so that I could write about it in the British press. Nowadays, Patricia works in international communication, promoting gender equality and human rights among other topics.

Article about Adelir in the UK press: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10767161/Kidnapped-by-the-authorities-meet-the-woman-forced-to-have-a-caesarean.html

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Give Birth like a Feminist is available from Amazon and all good bookshops:

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Birth-Like-Feminist-choices/dp/000831313X/⁠

The Positive Birth Book:

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Birth-Book-Bestselling-Pregnancy/dp/1780667655/⁠

My Period (for preteen girls):

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Period-Find-period-positive/dp/1526363372/⁠

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On this episode I speak to Cynthia Overgard for a one hour special about birth in the USA. Cynthia is founder of HypnoBirthing of Connecticut, LLC and host/producer of the Down To Birth® podcast @downtobirthshow.

She has authored numerous articles in award-winning international publications and has personally worked with thousands of women and couples through pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum since 2007. She is certified in HypnoBirthing and is trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders through Postpartum Support International. Cynthia has an undergraduate degree in Sociology and an MBA in Finance. After experiencing her own beautiful and empowered waterbirths to her son and daughter, she resigned from a fulfilling corporate career in risk management and completed a ten-year term at University of Connecticut as a Professor of Finance in order to transition into the field of women’s heath as an educator and advocate for informed birthing. 

Cynthia can be reached at HypnoBirthingCT.com or DownToBirthShow.com.

You can get a copy of the USA edition of Give Birth like a Feminist from a variety of bookshops, here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/give-birth-like-a-feminist-your-body-your-baby-your-choices-milli-hill?variant=32258579333154

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Give Birth like a Feminist UK edition is available from Amazon and all good bookshops:

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Birth-Like-Feminist-choices/dp/000831313X/⁠

The Positive Birth Book:

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Birth-Book-Bestselling-Pregnancy/dp/1780667655/⁠

My Period (for preteen girls):

⁠https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Period-Find-period-positive/dp/1526363372/⁠

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This week I’m talking to Dr Alice Keely, a specialist midwife with 15 years of experience who is passionate about supporting plus size pregnant women. Between 25 and 50% of women fall into the category of having a ‘high BMI’, putting them on the back foot in a system that already focuses excessively and unnecessarily on risk, causing, she says, even more rules and restrictions, anxiety and stigma.

You can find Alice via www.theheavyweightmidwife.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/theheavyweightmidwife

TikTok: www.tiktok.com/theheavyweightmidwife

And she is on LinkedIn as Dr Alice Keely

More about Milli

www.millihill.co.uk

Give Birth like a Feminist is available from Amazon and all good bookshops:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Give-Birth-Like-Feminist-choices/dp/000831313X/

The Positive Birth Book:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Birth-Book-Bestselling-Pregnancy/dp/1780667655/

My Period (for preteen girls):

https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Period-Find-period-positive/dp/1526363372/

Substack:

https://millihill.substack.com/

Buy me a coffee:

https://ko-fi.com/millihill