Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy
Free Birth Society
Emilee Saldaya
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child.
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| 0:00.0 | Into the wild I'll go and into the wild I am. |
| 0:10.0 | It's been a wild freedom child since I left my roots back home. |
| 0:19.0 | Into the wild I'll go go into the wild I am. |
| 0:23.6 | It's been a while freedom child since I let my roots back home. |
| 0:30.6 | Welcome to the Free Birth Society podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | This is a radical space for women who are ready to celebrate their autonomous choices in birth, motherhood, and beyond. |
| 0:41.3 | Together, we'll learn about wild birth through personal narrative, |
| 0:45.3 | we'll explore the politics of birth, and we'll analyze everything that relates to our lives as women from a feminist perspective. |
| 0:52.3 | Here's your host, Emily Saldaia. It's been a wild freedom child. |
| 0:58.0 | Since I've left my rules back home. Hi there. Hi, Emily. Come. |
| 1:12.6 | Hi there. Hi, I am. |
| 1:13.6 | Hey, happy to have you today. |
| 1:15.6 | Today's going to be a little bit of a pivot from our normal free birth stories. |
| 1:20.6 | Today we're going to be tackling a really intense subject, a really important subject. |
| 1:26.6 | We're going to be talking about loss in a sovereign |
| 1:30.2 | birth context and to some degree how it interacts with the system. My intention for this episode and |
| 1:38.0 | having, do you want to go by Ivy or Dr. Margulies or what? Dr. Ivy. It's good. Dr. Ivy. Okay, cool. My intention of having |
| 1:48.6 | Dr. Ivy on is to help shine some light in some areas of ignorance. I think for most people, |
| 1:54.9 | when loss does occur, you know, most of the time. I think the story goes understandably that |
| 2:00.7 | families are quite sideswiped, you know, most of the time. I think the story goes understandably that families are quite sideswiped, |
| 2:04.4 | you know, quite shocked, of course, a very natural response to unexpected loss. |
| 2:09.7 | And when there is no provider there, I want you all considering, you know, this path to feel armored with some information and |
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