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Podcast: The Birth Lounge Podcast
Episode: Ep. 414: Re-Air of hospital culture or cult behavior? with Billie Harrigan
Description: This is one of those conversations that pulls the curtain all the way back.
In this powerful episode of The Birth Lounge, HeHe sits down with traditional birth companion and educator Billie Harrigan for an honest, unfiltered look at the modern medicalized birth system and how it impacts families. Together, they explore how maternity care has shifted away from physiology and toward control, efficiency, and liability, often at the expense of autonomy, trust, and emotional safety.
Billie brings decades of lived experience and deep systems-level insight to this conversation, naming the ways many parents feel...