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Ep 299 - Kristen Nagle | Reclaiming Birth: A Former NICU Nurse's Reckoning

Episode 299 Published 1 month, 2 weeks ago

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In this episode, we sit down with Kristen Nagle: former NICU nurse turned whistleblower and founder of Reclaiming Birth. Her story is the arc of a system insider who couldn't unsee what she was a part of — a hospital culture that worships intervention, a profession that pathologizes the female body, and a machine that punishes the nurses who name it. We trace her hero's journey from the injections she administered that she now warns against, through public termination and media smears, to a betrayal letter from inside her own family. We explore the pivot from fighting freedom to creating it, the home birth that rewrote her relationship to her body, and a vulnerable, never-before-shared reckoning with her role in routine circumcision. The foundation of the world begins in the womb — and every act of self-trust flows from whether we claimed that moment or handed it away.

(00:00) Slandered in the Media

(00:32) Opening Conversation

(01:42) Meet Kristen

(02:42) Motherhood Sparks Awakening

(06:44) Seeing Vaccine Harm in NICU

(16:01) COVID Hospital Restrictions

(20:39) Betrayal Becomes Calling

(31:33) Reclaiming Birth at Home

(37:31) How Hospitals Took Over

(42:15) Peace Begins At Birth

(45:34) Fathers In The Birth Space

(52:47) Fear Culture Around Babies