Pregnancy & Birth Made Easy Reclaim Your Birth: Sovereignty, Intuition & the Dad's Surprising Role with Midwife, Catalina Clark
What if the most powerful voice in your birth room isn't the doctor's — it's your husband's?
In this episode, I sit down with Catalina Clark, a licensed home birth midwife in Sonoma, California, who has spent 11 years at the crossroads of spiritual midwifery, birth sovereignty, and the sacred side of birth that nobody in the hospital is talking about. From the father's role in the birth room to why Pitocin may be affecting us on a cultural level, we talk about it all — and I think you're going to want to listen to it more than once.
I loved every minute of this conversation with Catalina. She has this incredible way of meeting you exactly where you are — whether you're planning a hospital birth, a home birth, or you're not even sure yet — and reminding you that you have far more power than you've been told. This is the kind of episode that makes you think differently, breathe a little deeper, and trust yourself a whole lot more.
Here's some highlights from the episode:
- What spiritual midwifery actually means and why it matters for every birth, in every setting
- The 3 pillars of authentic midwifery: authenticity, transparency, and integrity
- Why the father's voice may be the most powerful one in the birth room — and exactly what to say
- What birth sovereignty really means (hint: it has nothing to do with where you give birth)
- How to balance your intuition with medical advice when both are pulling at you
- The surprising history of midwifery and why most of us have never heard of it
- What Pitocin is doing to the brain — and possibly to our culture at large
- How to bring intention, ritual, and sacredness into your birth space
- Why birth is not designed to be as painful as we've been told
- The one thing Catalina wants every single mama to know: "What if this is not a problem?"
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