EPI 109: Holistic OB-GYN Shares His Experience From Witnessing Over 1,000 Child Births. Plus Why He Left Traditional Medicine And Why He Is An Advocate Of At Home Births. With Nathan Riley, MD

Show notes: [1:37] How did he shift from his medical background to what he does now? [6:47] What are the differences between home and hospital births? [14:32] What exactly are midwives? [18:45] What are the most important things to having successful births? [23:41] What is a good postpartum support? [28:30] How long should a breastfeeding duration be? [35:37] When to consider having a C-section? [41:29] What's his advice for women's health in general? [44:15] Where to find Nathan [47:06] Outro Who is Dr. Nathan Riley? Nathan Riley, MD, is a board-certified OB-GYN and fellow of ACOG who left the medical industrial complex due to his disillusionment with the "standard of care" within the conventional maternity care model. This was hard because "going with the flow" of hospital-based practice was providing him with financial security. On the other hand, standing in his truth from having sat with over 1,000 births and connecting with women and their families has provided him a lifestyle more in alignment with fatherhood, deepening his connection with his wife and caring for people in the way that he had anticipated long before stepping into practice. Dr. Riley now focuses his time on upholding the traditional practice of midwifery. He supports midwives as a collaborative physician for midwives of all varieties in over twenty states. He is an advocate for home births and still attends births for those in need. He boasts a c-section rate of His mission is to uphold midwifery as the art that it is and to honor birth as a sacred process and the transition to parenthood as a spiritual transformation. Dr. Riley empowers women to have babies on their own terms, using nature as our guide. He helps fathers embrace the opportunity to connect with birth and their partners through pregnancy and birth, encouraging them to go deeper versus distancing themselves from this stigmatized but magical rite of passage. Dr. Riley is the father of two, the second of whom was born at home, and he is proudly married to his high school sweetheart. In his spare time, he walks in the woods, makes Dad jokes, paints, and drinks coffee with amazing people. Connect with Dr. Riley Website: https://www.belovedholistics.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/nathanrileyobgyn/ Listen to his podcast: https://www.belovedholistics.com/podcast Join the Born Free Method Mastermind: https://www.bornfreemethod.com/ Links and Resources: Peak Performance Life Peak Performance on Facebook Peak Performance on Instagram