Using an Animal Based diet to optimize fertility and pregnancy with Lindsey Meehleis

Lindsey Meehleis, LM, CPM offers wisdom that has been passed down through many different lineages of midwives. Midwifery is not a job to Lindsey, it is her passion. She trusts & has deep reverence for the pregnancy & birth process. Everything else she offers are different modalities of things that help with the process of pregnancy, birth and parenthood. In addition to being a midwife and graduating from the only California State accredited midwifery school, Nizhoni Institute of Midwifery, Lindsey is a Doula, Lactation Consultant, Prenatal Yoga Instructor, CPR Instructor and a Emergency Medical Technician who is a provider in Neonatal Resuscitation.

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00:08:58 Podcast begins

00:10:17 Placental health and placental abruption

00:21:40 Delivery of placenta and delayed cord clamping

00:25:10 Placental stem cells

00:30:00 The medicalization of birth versus the roots of birth

00:33:00 Birthing positions

00:34:45 Thoughts on epidurals

00:37:35 Animal based diets during pregnancy and pre-conception

00:41:00 Optimal prenatal vitamin

00:48:08 Pregnant women eating raw food

00:53:08 Liver dosage during pregnancy