In this episode, Catherine Ellis speaks with Sarah Logan about paternalism and trauma in obstetrics, particularly the labor and delivery process, and how nurse-midwives, birthing people, and their communities can rebuild the current culture of birth in America.

Catherine Ellis
Catherine Ellis is a junior nursing student at the University of Pennsylvania from Walnut Creek, CA. She has had a keen interest in obstetrics since she was a preteen and has carried that passion with her into doula training and externships in the NICU and labor and delivery unit. She volunteers as a doula with Philadelphia Alliance for Labor Support and plans to get her master's in nurse-midwifery upon graduation in 2026. (photo is attached)
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