What The Fuck Is Happening?

The Truth About The NICU & Male Circumcision with Aliza Mendiola

Sammy & Rick Sniegowski Season 3 Episode 33

Sammy’s dear friend,  Aliza Mendiola, sits down to chat all things birth, NICU & circumcision. She shares her personal journey from working in hospitals, to being a birth assistant and now going back to nursing school to become a home birth midwife. She discusses the circumcision process in depth, medical kidnapping, and the dark side of the NICU.


In this episode:

  • Different kinds of birth work: doulas, birth assistants, CNM’s & direct entry midwives
  • Group B Strep: should we worry about it?
  • Nurses & the savior complex
  • Aliza’s experience working in the NICU & assisting with circumcisions
  • The heroism complex of NICU nurses


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