Supporting Midwives
And
Those Seeking Midwifery Care
Welcome to Mindful Midwifery! Home of the Mindful Midwifery Podcasts!
Listen to episodes on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Buzzsprout & more or see below for direct links for free listening!
Meet Katie
Hi, I am Katie O’Brien. I am a certified nurse midwife practicing in Dover, DE. I graduated from Georgetown University in 2007 and started delivering babies and caring for women and their families right away. Several very different practice models and hundreds (if not a 1000+) babies later I opened Mindful Midwifery. I have always loved teaching and empowering women in their healthcare journey and believe it is the heart of midwifery. I was a reluctant podcaster but after being “dragged” onto a couple of other podcasts realized how great podcasting is and I haven’t looked back!
The Podcasts
Mindful Midwifery Presents: The Labor Behind Labor
From an outsider’s perspective, midwifery sounds like a fascinating profession. But what does it feel like to juggle life’s demands in a career that doesn’t allow you to have a bad day? This is an insider’s view of the labor behind labor.
Join Katie O’Brien, Certified Nurse Midwife, for frank conversations with frontline midwives about the joys, challenges, and politics surrounding the work of midwifery while trying to maintain a quality life away from the job.
Mindful Midwifery Presents: Calm, Collected & Consented Childbirth
Coming Soon
Ten Reasons to Listen to a Podcast Episode
10. You want to learn about the field of Midwifery (The Labor Behind Labor)
9. You are thinking of becoming a midwife (The Labor Behind Labor)
8. You want to learn some strategies for pivoting in your career (The Labor Behind Labor)
7. You’re on a roadtrip, cleaning or organizing a room or exercising and you want to listen to something “different” (Both Podcasts!)
6. You want to learn about childbirth (Calm, Collected & Consented Childbirth)
5. Your pregnant S.O. said you must start learning about childbirth (Calm, Collected & Consented Childbirth)
4. You have a lot of anxiety regarding childbirth and you want education that focuses on reducing your anxiety through increasing your knowledge basis and ability to advocate for yourself (Calm, Collected & Consented Childbirth)
3. Your going through a divorce, considering a hysterectomy or considering becoming a gestational carrier (The Labor Behind Labor)
2. You’re feeling burn out or compassion fatigue and you want to hear how others have dealth with similar feelings and symptoms (The Labor Behind Labor)
1. You are sick of social media and you want to engage in a form of media that isn’t driven by clickbait (Both Podcasts!)