We Are Now a Licensed Continuing Education Provider
Birth Monopoly is excited to announce we are now a licensed Continuing Education Provider approved through the State of California Board of Registered Nursing, able to provide nursing contact hours...
View ArticleExposing the Role of Labor and Delivery Nurses as Active Bystanders in...
Hot off the presses: The first paper published on obstetric violence in the U.S.’ #1 perinatal nursing journal, Nursing for Women’s Health. Out August 13, 2023, Exposing the Role of Labor and Delivery...
View ArticleFake Hospital Birth Centers: Sutter Health Bait & Switch?
Warning: parts of the following birth story may be very difficult to read, especially if you have experienced birth trauma or sexual trauma. For years, hospitals around the U.S. have co-opted the...
View ArticleAlabama Birth Centers: Action Call
Today, July 13, 2023, is the much-anticipated hearing in Montgomery, Alabama, about proposed birth center regulations in a state where there are currently zero. As folks flood the hearing in person,...
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Birth in Rape Culture
Join the waitlist for our new course, Obstetric Violence: What It Is and What Community Can Do About it, opening January 2022 Foreword I wrote this article to publish in 2017 and never got it out. Now...
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Secondary Trauma and Birth Advocacy
Please read our companion article to this piece, “Birth Trauma, Obstetric Violence, and the Human Cost of Caring,” on the Obstetric Violence Blog, Durham University (U.K.). Thank you to the brilliant...
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A Woman Provider Normalizes Obstetric Violence on Social Media
Today I came across this video post by Sarah Wild, CRNA, who says her intention on Instagram is to “set an example for young women, moms & wives to be the best version of themselves and enjoy...
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An Experience of Racism: As a Patient, Employee, and Advocate
As the world begins to find its way back to normalcy, it saddens me that the COVID-19 pandemic is still having devastating effects on the Black community. But as a Black woman who is a victim of...
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How to File a Complaint for Mistreatment During Childbirth: *Scholarships...
I know I’ve said this before but… This community rocks. Last week as we were rolling out the “How to File a Complaint” manual, the group Life After 4th Degree Tears (private Facebook support group is...
View ArticleWhy Don’t We Report Assault in Sex and Birth?
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and Cesarean Awareness Month. Content warning: sexual assault, sexualization of children, birth assault, and traumatic birth There are two traumas...
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5 Obstetric Violence Prevention Tips
5 Obstetric Violence Prevention Tips: 1. Don’t assault someone while they’re giving birth. 2. When you are attending someone giving birth and you don’t have permission to touch them, don’t touch them....
View ArticleEp. 38 – Filing Hospital Complaints | Dr. Tracey Vogel
“I’ve got to turn around and go back and dig in to make it better for others.” In this episode of Birth Allowed Radio, I speak with Dr. Tracey Vogel, an obstetric anesthesiologist from Pittsburgh who...
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Creating an Advocacy Plan for Hospital Birth: Free Webinar for Doulas
As a doula, it’s vital that you and your clients have clear and healthy expectations for each other in the birth room–especially when it comes to advocacy. It can be tricky when there is no common...
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You Already Have What You Need
The other day I remembered that when I was 18 or 19, I had an emotionally abusive boyfriend. It’s funny that I had forgotten, but there was so much going on at that age, it kind of got lost in the...
View ArticleEp. 37 –“Advocacy is putting the birthing person first”| Sabia Wade
* Recorded October 2019 * In this episode of Birth Allowed Radio I am honored to speak with Sabia Wade, a Black, queer, full-spectrum doula in San Diego. She is the owner of Birthing Advocacy Doula...
View ArticleBlack Lives Matter.
To those of you who are tired, traumatized, and grieving, we send out love from the Birth Monopoly team. The U.S. has had a reckoning coming for a long time. It is our hope that justice, healing, and...
View ArticleEp. 36 – Giving Birth in 1979 | Michelle Pascucci (Cristen’s Mom)
As I celebrated my birthday this month, I realized I had never really talked to my mother about my own birth story. Join me in reliving that experience with my mom, Michelle Pascucci, as she recalls...
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A Midwife Changed My Life
May 5 is International Day of the Midwife. I remember my very first visit to the obstetrician. I was young and naïve and alone, and a nurse laughed at me because I didn’t know I was supposed to get...
View ArticleEp. 35 – From the Doulas: Expert Advice for Birthing Families During the...
We are really in the midst of some major disruption for birthing families, in an already fragile healthcare system. In this episode of Birth Allowed Radio, I called on two seasoned doulas and members...
View ArticleEp. 34 –“I Love My Scar”| Melissa Pizzo on Why Cesarean Moms Need Doulas, Too!
Melissa Pizzo has had four babies by Cesarean, and four completely different experiences! With her last birth, a scheduled Cesarean, she knew what she wanted and she made sure she got it. That...
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