Michel Odent, MD, is a French obstetrician trained as a general surgeon known for his tireless research on how environmental factors present during pregnancy and birth affect babies, children, and our communities. He is the founder of the Primal Health Research Centre and authored the first articles on the initiation of lactation and the use of birthing pools. He has authored 15 books and continues to publish cutting edge research.

What He Shares:

Why birth is an important subject not only for birth workers, but for all people interested in the future of our species.
Why the period of birth is a critical period in a person's life
The inability to study the long-term, non-specific affect of modern pregnancy and birth practices
Exploring the changes in Homo sapiens resulting from birthing practices

What You'll Hear:

How birthing hormones affect our biological programing
Understanding the needs of a laboring person
Why the microbiome of a newborn baby affects a their lifelong health
How the future of our species is being modified based on birth environments
Discovering the correlation between birth choices and children's behavior
Developing appropriate questions around new pregnancy and birth practices
Improving research ability to answer unknowns
The difficulty of understanding the long term risk factors of birthing choices
Prioritizing the development of new research questions
Why pregnancy is not the best time to educate yourself on these issues
Expanding our view beyond the individual choices to the medical establishment
Becoming bilingual in the languages of intuitive knowledge and scientific research
Exploring how making birth a social event altered the fetal ejection reflex
How technological advancements have altered birth

EP85: Michel Odent on Becoming Bilingual in Intuition and Science, Learning to Phrase New Questions, and the Socialization of Birth