Healthy Births, Happy Babies | Prenatal Care | Natural Birth | Pregnancy | Pediatrics

Guest: Anna Verwaal, a maternal-child health nurse, conscious conception & birth consultant, and birth & postpartum doula instructor from the Netherlands who has worked in the US for the last 25 years. In this episode, we will cover: how the mother's stress hormones cross the placenta and affect the baby's physical development the research that shows how babies can remember their birth how these "womb imprints" and "birth imprints" can affect the baby's psychological expression as children and as adults Resources mentioned in the conversation: Anna's website: www.FromWombToWorld.com Anna's TED Talk on the psychological impact of birth: TEDTalk the Association of Pre and Perinatal Psychology & Health - www.Birthpsychology.com Anna Verwaal's BIO Anna is a maternal-child health nurse, conscious conception & birth consultant, birth & postpartum doula instructor, UCLA certified lactation educator, and birth photographer from the Netherlands who has worked in the US for the last 25 years. Af