As we close the final episode of Season 1 (and the completion of our intentional nine-month journey together), we turn our attention toward the futures already taking shape in maternal and child health.

What if postpartum care is no longer viewed as an afterthought, but as one of the most essential public health interventions of our time?

In this episode, Danielle Lyles Barton shares her predictions for where maternal and child health is headed and why birthworkers, healthcare professionals, advocates, and families must prepare now.

The future is already being born.

We began this podcast and this season talking about the futures our ancestors prayed for. Today, we talk about the future being birthed in and through us.

As Season 1 comes to a close, Danielle also enters her own season of postpartum with a three-month pause for rest, integration, and renewal before returning for Season 2 at the autumn equinox. Thank you for walking through these three trimesters; May these conversations continue to ripple through your homes, your communities, and your care.

Until we meet again: stay rooted, stay rested, and stay free.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

If you've spent any time on postpartum TikTok, you've probably seen the frozen padsicles.

What if one of the most popular postpartum "hacks" is actually working against the very healing you're hoping for?

In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, Danielle invites us to rethink one of social media's favorite postpartum trends through the lens of ancestral wisdom, physiology, and true postpartum care.

You'll learn why warmth (not cold) has been honored across cultures for generations, when cold can actually be appropriate, and how heat supports tissue repair, circulation, pain relief, and womb healing long after birth.

Together we'll explore:

• Why padsicles became so popular, and where they fall short
• The science behind heat and tissue healing
• What traditional postpartum cultures prioritize
• When cold can be helpful (and when it isn't)
• Which gentle alternatives can be useful
• How birthworkers can confidently educate families beyond social media trends

This episode is about expanding our understanding of postpartum healing so we can make informed choices rooted in wisdom rather than algorithms.

Postpartum care isn't built on hacks. But is built on ceremony.

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Most postpartum doulas were taught what support looks like, while few were taught how to actually structure it. That gap matters more than most people realize because when your visits feel scattered, rushed, or unclear, it's harder to build trust, provide transformational care, and leave families feeling deeply held.

In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, Danielle is pulling back the curtain and walking you through exactly how she structures her postpartum doula appointments: from the moment I arrive to the moment I walk back out the door (and more).

You'll learn:

• The framework she uses to create appointments that feel both flexible and grounded
• How to assess what a family truly needs without turning the visit into a checklist
• The balance between practical support, emotional support, and education
• How to avoid common mistakes that leave doulas feeling overwhelmed or ineffective
• Why structure creates more freedom, confidence, and deeper care, rather than less

Whether you're a new doula wondering what to do during visits or an experienced birthworker ready to strengthen your postpartum practice, this episode will help you create appointments that are intentional, impactful, and rooted in the needs of the family in front of you.

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If you're a postpartum doula, chances are you've made at least one of these mistakes.

In this episode, Danielle Lyles Barton pulls back the curtain on some of the most common mistakes postpartum doulas make, and how to avoid them. We're talking about the patterns that can quietly undermine your confidence, effectiveness, and sustainability as a birthworker.

This conversation is an invitation to deepen your postpartum skills, strengthen your practice, and better support families during one of the most vulnerable and transformative seasons of life. Whether you're newly trained, considering becoming a postpartum doula, or have been supporting families for years, you'll walk away with practical insights and a fresh perspective on what excellent postpartum care really requires.

Inside this episode, we'll explore:

• Common postpartum doula mistakes and how to avoid them
• Boundaries, burnout, and the hidden costs of overgiving
• Why relationship-building matters more than checking tasks off a list
• Essential postpartum support skills many doulas overlook
• How to provide more effective, family-centered postpartum care
• The difference between being helpful and being impactful

Postpartum support is about knowing how to see what a family needs, respond with skill, and help create the conditions for healing, rest, and thriving.

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What do babies know that birth workers too often forget?

In this episode, we explore a truth that lives beneath technique, protocols, and performance: babies already know how they want to be born—and birth work is not about control, but listening.

This conversation dives deep into the spiritual, emotional, and embodied dimensions of birth, womb wisdom, and transitional care. We talk about intuition as a skill, the womb as a living archive that keeps count of trauma and tenderness, and why not every doula is meant to practice the same way... or even practice in every season.

You’ll hear reflections on:

• Why birth is fundamentally spirit work, whether we name it or not
• How trauma, surrender, and intuition shape labor and birth outcomes
• The responsibility birth workers hold in protecting energetic thresholds
• Why rest is not a luxury, but a requirement for sustainability
• How birth work extends far beyond the delivery room into grief, menopause, rebirth, and life transitions

This episode is for doulas, midwives, birth workers, healers, and families who are ready to move beyond surface-level care and into deeper listening—of the body, the womb, and Spirit.

If you’re navigating burnout, transition, or the in-between spaces of life and work, this conversation is an invitation to pause, rest, and remember what you already know.

Because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do…

is listen.

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In this episode, we flip the belief most of us have been unconsciously trained into: that postpartum healing happens because we know “what to do.”

No.

Healing is not about information.

Healing is about regulation.

And regulation is created through ceremony.

Inside this episode, we walk into the deeper truth of postpartum care — not as task, not as checklist, not as performance — but as the blueprint of nervous system safety, identity reintegration, and embodied skill.

We will explore:

• Why the nervous system doesn’t heal through thinking
• Why repetition, slowness, and containment are the real technologies of recovery
• How every traditional postpartum culture used ceremony as the primary intervention
• Why your hands, your presence, and your pacing are the actual medicine
• How Skill as Ceremony transforms technique into transmission

This is the moment where we return to the rituals that heal us; not because they are poetic, but because they are physiologically necessary.

You will leave this episode understanding why ceremony was always the answer… and why without it, postpartum care collapses into depletion, burnout, and chaos.

📬 Get on the waitlist for the next Postpartum Skill Drill: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/waitlistskilldrill

📬 Get on the waitlist for my 9-month postpartum residency, Where the Roots Gather: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/wtrg-waitlist

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Postpartum is one of the most powerful laboratories of rupture and repair in a human life. In this episode, we explore why moments of misattunement, overwhelm, emotional tension, and nervous system spirals are not signs of failure, but invitations into deeper healing, connection, and transformation.

We break down what rupture really is, why it happens so often in the early weeks after birth, and how repair becomes one of the most important postpartum skills a family can learn.

You’ll learn how postpartum rupture shows up in partnerships, identity, lineages, nervous systems, and everyday life... and why repair has the power to interrupt generational patterns that have lived in a family for decades.

This conversation blends Spirit, Science, and Storytelling to help birthworkers, doulas, midwives, and new families understand:

• Why postpartum emotions feel so intense
• How the vagus nerve and nervous system react to overwhelm
• What unrepaired rupture does to the brain and body
• Why micro-repair rituals build secure attachment
• How lineage trauma resurfaces in postpartum
• How to guide families back into safety, softness, and connection

If you’ve ever wondered why postpartum feels so raw, or how to support families through the toughest emotional moments, this episode will give you the language, the science, and the spiritual grounding to meet rupture with tenderness and turn it into repair.

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The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What holds you while you hold everyone else?

In this short solo episode, Danielle Lyles Barton speaks directly to doulas, birthworkers, healers, and parents who are carrying a lot — and quietly feeling the weight of it.

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, overextended, emotionally full, or like your nervous system is still “on” even after the work is done, this episode is a gentle but honest invitation to pause and ask a deeper question: What is holding you?

Danielle explores the difference between being needed and being nourished, and shares why support is not a luxury for birthworkers. It is actually sacred infrastructure. This conversation names the hidden signs of depletion, offers a meaningful reflection practice, and reminds listeners that sustainable care must include the caregiver, too.

This episode is especially for:

• doulas
• midwives
• birthworkers
• maternal health practitioners
• healers and space holders
• conscious parents navigating burnout and overgiving

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What if postpartum care has been shaped by standards that were never built to hold the truth of real bodies, real needs, and real lives?

In this two part conversation series of Postpartum Liberation, we begin a powerful conversation on the intersection of disability justice and postpartum care. We talk about what it means to support people after birth in a way that moves beyond checklists, assumptions, and one-size-fits-all care.

Together, we explore the quiet violence of ableism in postpartum spaces: the pressure to “bounce back,” the masking of needs, the myth that healing means returning to who you were before. We name how postpartum bodies are changing, vulnerable, and worthy of care that is responsive, flexible, and deeply human.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down. To listen better. To meet people where they are instead of where systems expect them to be.

📬 Learn more about Ziah McKinney: https://www.ziahmckinney.com

📬 Get on the waitlist for the next Postpartum Skill Drill: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/waitlistskilldrill

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The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What if postpartum care has been shaped by standards that were never built to hold the truth of real bodies, real needs, and real lives?

In this two part conversation series of Postpartum Liberation, we begin a powerful conversation on the intersection of disability justice and postpartum care. We talk about what it means to support people after birth in a way that moves beyond checklists, assumptions, and one-size-fits-all care.

Together, we explore the quiet violence of ableism in postpartum spaces: the pressure to “bounce back,” the masking of needs, the myth that healing means returning to who you were before. We name how postpartum bodies are changing, vulnerable, and worthy of care that is responsive, flexible, and deeply human.

This conversation is an invitation to slow down. To listen better. To meet people where they are instead of where systems expect them to be.

📬 Learn more about Ziah McKinney: https://www.ziahmckinney.com

📬 Get on the waitlist for the next Postpartum Skill Drill: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/waitlistskilldrill

📬 Want to be receive weekly doses of postpartum wisdom and care? Join my newsletter, Rooted: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/rooted

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What does Postpartum Liberation mean to the community?

This weekend, at Motherhood Healing Festival, Danielle Lyles Barton asked a simple but profound question: What is Postpartum Liberation to you?

The answers that came back were layered, tender, honest, and deeply revealing.

In this episode, you’ll hear a tapestry of voices reflecting on what it means to be supported, to be seen, to reclaim rest, and to redefine care after birth. These are not polished theories, but lived truths spoken from the heart of mothers, birthworkers, and community members imagining something different.

Together, these reflections invite us to expand beyond survival-based postpartum care and move toward something more whole, more human, and more liberatory.

This episode is a chorus of insight, a mirror, and perhaps a remembering of what has always been possible.

A special thank you to:

• Light
• Fri
• Kiyana
• Tegest
• Gorgeous
• Tabatha
• McKenzie
• Halle
• Kelli
• Bethany
• Evonna
• Dasia
• Lauren
• Katherine

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What is one of the greatest things missing from modern postpartum care?

In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Mama Sarahn Henderson, Grand Midwife, wisdom keeper, and a living bridge to the traditions so many of us are being called to remember. Together, we explore the sacred role of heat, warmth, and intentional care in postpartum healing, and why these practices matter more than ever.

This episode is a return to the body. And a return to what our ancestors knew.

Mama Sarahn shares deep wisdom on traditional postpartum care, the importance of keeping mothers warm, and the ways birthworkers can begin restoring reverence, ritual, and integrity to the postpartum period.

If you have been longing for a conversation that feels like sitting at the feet of a wise elder, this is that.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

In this episode of Postpartum Liberation, we talk about the real cost of sacred work: money, burnout, business, sustainability, and the beliefs that keep birthworkers undercharging and overextending themselves. This conversation explores what it means to build a business that can truly hold you — not just spiritually, but financially, emotionally, and practically. Because liberation is not only about the work you offer others. It is also about what you are willing to build for yourself.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

Danielle sits down with Asha Edouard for a powerful conversation about the liminal spaces so many healers, birthworkers, and families are asked to move through with little language, little ritual, and even less support. Together, they explore the tender terrain between birth and death, care and grief, crossing over and coming back, and the kind of aftercare our communities have always needed but were rarely taught to offer.

This is a conversation about what it means to live and serve between worlds. About the invisible labor of tending people through profound transition. About the spiritual, emotional, and embodied care required when someone is becoming, unraveling, grieving, or returning to themselves. And it is an invitation to expand how we understand postpartum, healing, and the sacred work of accompaniment.

If you are a doula, birthworker, healer, therapist, or conscious mother who has felt the weight of holding people through thresholds that medicine alone cannot explain, this episode will meet you there. It will help you name what is often left unnamed: that some seasons require more than information. They require witness. They require ritual. They require aftercare.

This episode is for the ones learning how to stay present in the mystery without abandoning themselves. For the ones called to hold what is holy, what is painful, and what is transforming all at once.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What if the most advanced postpartum healing technology isn't new at all, but ancient, ancestral, and already living in your bloodline?

In Part 2 of this landmark four-part series, host Danielle Lyles Barton sits with Asha Edouard (Womb Priestess, Full Spectrum Doula, Reiki Master, and founder of In Grace Yoga Therapy) for a conversation that will permanently change how you think about the postpartum body, womb healing, and the sacred traditions our grandmothers carried.

Asha walks us through the Haitian 3 Bain: a postpartum herbal bathing tradition passed down from her family in Haiti. We go deep.

This episode will leave you with a deeper reverence for the body you serve and the traditions that were always trying to find their way back to you. Whether you're a postpartum doula, midwife, womb practitioner, birthworker, childbirth educator, or a conscious mother reconnecting with your own healing lineage, this conversation is the missing chapter.

Connect with Asha Edouard:

@ingraceyoga

www.ingraceyogatherapy.com

Connect with Danielle Lyles Barton:

@bloomingallover

www.bloomingallover.co

Subscribe to Postpartum Liberation wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Tuesday at 5:00am EST.

This is more than a podcast. It's a movement, a teaching circle, and a love letter to the village.

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What happens when the medicine you were raised with was the very thing you've been hiding?

In this episode, Danielle Lyles Barton sits down with Asha Edouard — Haitian American spiritual social worker, doula, womb healer, Reiki master, and traditional birthkeeper (famaj) — for a deeply grounding conversation about where healers really come from.

Asha grew up living between two worlds: the American experience at school and the traditional Haitian culture practiced at home — the herbal remedies, the spiritual rituals, the prayers. For years, she kept that world hidden. But what she once tried to bury became the foundation of everything she was meant to do.

This episode traces Asha's journey of coming back to herself — deconstructing academic and societal conditioning, reclaiming her Haitian roots in her home, her relationships, and her business, and ultimately answering a spiritual calling to traditional birth work after a life-changing trip to Haiti where a divination revealed she was only partially fulfilling her soul's purpose.

Together, Danielle and Asha explore what it means to live between cultures and hide your ancestral practices out of fear, the painful and necessary process of deconstructing your professional identity to reclaim your humanity, how liberation is an ongoing daily practice — not a destination, birth work as a spiritual assignment that requires ancestral authority and accountability, the power of renaming yourself as an act of rebirth and lineage, and why "going back home" to reclaim your ancestral medicine can change your life and your work.

This conversation is a love letter to every healer who was shaped long before they ever got certified.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

Birth is not the end of the work.

It’s the beginning.

In this culminating conversation with Janisa Camille of Doula of the Divine, we name the part of birthwork that’s been overlooked, under-taught, and quietly costing mothers and birthworkers everything.

Postpartum.

The fourth trimester.

The longest season.

The threshold that determines whether a mother is held... or forgotten.

In this episode, we unpack why:

• Every mother experiences postpartum, whether or not she’s diagnosed with anything
• Most doula trainings prepare you for labor, but leave you unprepared for what comes after
• “Holding babies” is not the same as holding a mother
• Community, ritual, and tradition were never optional.
• Healing doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen alone

Janisa shares her own lived postpartum journey (through depression, anxiety, rage, single motherhood, and survival) and how becoming what she needed changed the way she now shows up for others.

We talk about what needs to be released in birthwork.

What must be kept.

And what it would mean for mothers, babies, and the future if postpartum was tended with reverence.

This is a conversation about rest as liberation. About allowing yourself to be cared for. About remembering that the mother comes first.

If you’re a birthworker who’s felt the gap...

If you’re a mother who was never held...

If you’ve sensed that the real work starts after the baby arrives...

This episode is for you.

Because postpartum is not the afterthought.

It’s the work that changes everything.

📬 Learn more about Janisa Camille and Doula of the Divine here: https://www.doulaofthedivine.com/

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The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What holds you while you hold everyone else?

In this short solo episode, Danielle Lyles Barton speaks directly to doulas, birthworkers, healers, and parents who are carrying a lot — and quietly feeling the weight of it.

If you’ve been feeling exhausted, overextended, emotionally full, or like your nervous system is still “on” even after the work is done, this episode is a gentle but honest invitation to pause and ask a deeper question: What is holding you?

Danielle explores the difference between being needed and being nourished, and shares why support is not a luxury for birthworkers. It is actually sacred infrastructure. This conversation names the hidden signs of depletion, offers a meaningful reflection practice, and reminds listeners that sustainable care must include the caregiver, too.

This episode is especially for:

• doulas
• midwives
• birthworkers
• maternal health practitioners
• healers and space holders
• conscious parents navigating burnout and overgiving

And if you’re ready to build a practice that protects your body, your business and your energy, Danielle also invites you to her Free Masterclass: How to Build a Protected Birthwork Business (that feeds you as much as you feed others).

🎓 Join here: https://bloomingallover.myflodesk.com/protectedbusiness

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

What happens when a nurse practitioner, someone who knows the system from the inside, becomes the patient… and nearly dies because of medical bias?

In this episode, Tawana Passmore shares a raw, urgent testimony about “trust betrayed” in healthcare and how racism, rushed medicine, and a lack of empathy can turn routine care into a life-or-death situation for women of color. With 22 years in healthcare, Tawana Passmore breaks down what it means to advocate for yourself when providers dismiss your pain, make decisions without consent, and treat you like a “difficult patient” instead of a human being.

She walks us through two harrowing stories: an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis handled with delay and disregard, and a pregnancy complication that escalated into a placenta abruption, where one doctor’s decisive action changed everything. Along the way, she names what too many families already know: the healthcare system was not built with us in mind, and survival often requires knowledge, voice, faith, and fight.

This is a conversation for doulas, midwives, nurses, social workers, pregnant people, anyone supporting Black and brown families through birth and postpartum, and anyone who may ever need to navigate the medical system... because advocacy is not an attitude. It is a lifeline.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How medical bias shows up even when you’re educated, experienced, and “in the system”
• What it looks like when providers make care decisions without your consent
• A birth crisis story: severe pain dismissed, repeated hospital visits, and the moment everything changed
• Why knowledge can be one of your strongest protection in medical settings
• Practical language, mindset, and permission to advocate firmly—for yourself and your baby
• The spiritual grounding behind survival: trusting your gut, trusting God, and refusing to surrender your power

Listener note:

This episode includes discussion of medical trauma, cancer, pregnancy complications, and systemic racism in healthcare.

The Postpartum Liberation Podcast and content posted by Danielle Lyles Barton is presented solely for general informational, educational, and entertainment purposes. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast or website is at the user’s own risk. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical or mental health condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their healthcare professionals for any such conditions.

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing clips from a powerful panel conversation recorded with 1863FWD, moderated by Jataun Rollins. Together, we name what so many have lived but were taught to swallow: medical mistreatment, dismissal, and the long legacy of trust betrayed.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• Medical racism and obstetric violence in reproductive health care
• Historical betrayal: experimentation, consent violations, and forced sterilization
• Social determinants of health and why access, transportation, housing, and language matter
• The history of the Grand Midwives and how midwifery was pushed to the margins
• Birth advocacy, informed consent, and what it looks like to protect your body in the system

If you’ve ever felt small in a medical room (talked over, rushed, dismissed, bullied, etc.), you are not imagining it. You are not alone. And you deserve better care.

Listen now, and share this episode with a friend, a birthworker, a provider... anyone who needs language for what they’ve survived, and a path toward how we advocate from here.

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