Episode 11: Khye Tyson

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qpbjV0SH7iqpXElyw9A9o3L2BcgXDI8VASx6G2BFP0/edit

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Our prayer at Sessions With Symba is that we are honoring the ancestral birthworkers that have come before us, and the paths they've laid out for each and everyone of us individually and collectively.

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Sista Midwife Productions in New Orleans, Louisiana www.sistamidwife.com

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Schlossberg Transition Theory is an adult development theory focused on the transitions that adults experience throughout life and the means by which they cope and adjust.

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Keep Birth Sacred by Khye Tyson

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A sitz bath is a warm, soothing soak for your perineal or bottom area (area between your legs including your anus, vagina, or scrotums). The herbs in a sitz bath are safe and helpful for tissue healing and pain reduction in the postpartum period.

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“From Mothers to Mothers: A Collection of Traditional Asian Postpartum Recipes” by the Asian American Pacific Islander Health Research Group at UC Berkeley

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Feminist Women’s Health Center, Atlanta, GA

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Reporductive justice is “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities,” according to SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, the first organization founded to build a reproductive justice movement. www.sistersong.net

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Romper’s Doula Diaries on Facebook

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Ask your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins of your generation and before, “do you know your birth story?” “Do you know anyone that came before me, their birth story?” Record, write down, and keep for the future generations.

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Gentle parenting is a parenting approach that encourages a partnership between you and you to make choices based on an internal willingness instead of external pressures.