Unbiased & Representative Birth Education #034

Cheyenne Varner of The Educated Birth joins us this week to talk about fostering inclusion & autonomy in childbirth education materials.
She shares about the homogenous birth images & resources that didn't reflect her family & her community and led to her creation of The Educated Birth materials.
Cheyenne dives into the harm to both birthing people and birthworkers when we are faced with limited images & a limited mindset around the possibilities of birth.
She explains why representation of a variety of races, identities, family structures, and birth outcomes is crucial to changing the birth narrative, and how centering Black & Brown birthing bodies in birth education fits into the larger conversation of shifting perinatal care disparities.
We discuss the negative impact of one-sided birth education materials that present only one version of "ideal" birth.
We also explore how storytelling, like in Cheyenne's Everyday Birth Magazine, can change the future of birth & how we relate to others with our birth stories.

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