Interviews

The Mom Feed Podcast: Everything You Need to Know About Home Births, Unmedicated Births & More with Midwife Hayley Oakes

Have you ever considered a home birth? Or perhaps you’re not quite down for a home birth but you’re definitely open to giving birth either in a birth center or a hospital without an epidural. Whatever the case, my guest today is going. to walk you through both scenarios so that by the time you’re done listening, you’ll be equipped with enough information to decide if you’d like to explore things further.

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MammaEase Motherhood Chats Unfiltered: Hayley Oakes LM, CPM

Hi Mamma! Welcome to this weeks Motherhood Chats Unfiltered. We are so glad you're here! This week, we had the pleasure of interviewing Hayley Oakes, a Los Angeles based midwife. She offers home birth and consultative care for planned hospital births in the area. Keep reading to hear what Hayley had to say!

BuzzFeed: Moms Are Speaking Up About The Trauma Of Childbirth

CUUP BodyTalk: Q&A with Midwife Hayley Oakes

Hayley Oakes, LM CPM – a midwife and a new mother – answers all of our big questions around the realities, anxieties and empowered silver-linings of pregnancy and birthing during a pandemic.

Great Job Mama Podcast: A Discussion On Birth Centers, Home Births & Midwifery Care

I am so thrilled to welcome Hayley Oakes, LM, CPM to the Great Job Mama podcast this week! Hayley is a midwife, educator and new mother. She had attended 300 births from home, birth center and hospital and has had the opportunity to train with Ina May Gaskin and the midwives at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. She is committed to supporting women in having a safe and satisfying pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience and to help grow healthy, happy babies. She is also our midwife! We worked with Hayley when I was pregnant with Ella. If you’re interested in learning more about midwifery prenatal and postnatal care, what an out of hospital birth experience can look like, the benefits plus common concerns or questions – Hayley shares her wealth of knowledge with us in today’s episode. As a new mother Hayley also shares more about her own birth experience and how being a midwife impacted her birth!

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Informed Pregnancy Podcast: Out-Of-Hospital Birth Centers

In addition to hospital birth and home birth, there is the growing option to give birth at out-of-hospital birth centers. Birth center midwife Hayley Oakes shares details about the birth center setting and what its like to be under the care of birth center midwives for pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum. We also discuss pros and cons of birth center in relation to both hospital birth and home birth. Listen through to the end for a sweet surprise!

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Yumi: A Licensed Midwife on the Transformative Power of Birth

Birth is transformative. Not just for the baby, but for the mother who goes through her own transformative “birth” in the process. Hayley Oakes, a licensed midwife based in Los Angeles, has had a front row seat in hundreds of births. Her experiences inspired her to start a blog, which has become a kind of “Humans of New York” for childbirth. At home, at a birthing center, or at the hospital, her stories reveal how unique the birth process can be— and also the universal threads that bind mothers. According to Hayley, she began documenting these stories to lift the veil on childbirth, to make it feel less scary and mysterious to expectant mothers. “My hope is that these stories can better prepare a woman for her own birth experience– in any setting,” she says.

Speaking Engagements

HATCH Collection July 21, 2022 Virtual Community Event: How To Prep Mind + Body For Birth (click to view)

University of Southern California March 24, 2022 Dept. of Anthropology: Intro to Childbirth and the Midwifery Model of Care

University of Southern California March 4, 2020 Dept. of Anthropology: Intro to Childbirth and the Midwifery Model of Care

Westridge School For Girls February 27, 2018 Human Development: Q&A Childbirth With A Midwife