The EngagED Midwife
Empowered, knowledgeable, and engaging. Cara and Missi provide insightful, relevant conversations on midwifery topics that will enhance student knowledge and improve confidence for certification. Featuring current research and evidence based practice guidelines, the EngagED midwife podcast hopes to engage practicing midwives to enhance their robust knowledge base and elevate their clinical practice.
Episodes
107 episodes
Sparklers & Squiggles: Demystifying Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring
Ever feel like fetal heart rate tracings are speaking a language you don't quite understand? In this episode, Missi and Cara are here to translate--they are diving deep into the world of FHR tracings, breaking down the physiology and naming tho...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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1:02:39
Nourishing New Beginnings: Growth, Feeding, and When to Worry
In this episode, Missi and Cara dive deep into the world of infant growth curves, normal feeding patterns, and how to identify potential concerns. Newborn feeding and growth can be a source of anxiety for many parents (and midwives). They'll em...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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42:39
Drop It Like It's Hot
To kick off season 11 of The EngagED Midwife podcast, Cara and Missi dive into the high-stakes world of umbilical cord prolapse—because sometimes, the cord just can’t wait for its grand entrance. They break down risk factors, recognition, and r...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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41:14
Cheers to 10 Seasons: Celebrating You, Our Listeners!
Cheers to ten incredible seasons! In this special episode, Missi and Cara are celebrating 10 seasons of bringing you engaging and informative conversations about midwifery. They share their gratitude for your continued support and exploring som...
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Season 10
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Episode 10
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32:16
High Stakes: Marijuana and Pregnancy
In this episode, Cara and Missi take a look at the high stakes surrounding marijuana, THC, and cannabis use during pregnancy, including the complex risks and potential effects on both mother and child. They also iscuss the importance of drug sc...
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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54:33
From Gut to Great: Supporting Patients with GI Issues
For the first episode of 2025, Missi and Cara delve into the importance of gut health, the differences between IBS and IBD, and the management of gastrointestinal symptoms. Their conversation touched on the importance of gut health and its impa...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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1:02:05
Fight or Flight? Uh....Flight, Please!
In episode, Cara and Missi take us on a tour around the body to see what the effects of chronic stress can be on health. From identifying types of stress, reviewing risk factors, listing signs and symptoms, and explaining long-term effects, the...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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48:14
We're Getting Midwives--Now What?
What's it like to work with midwives when you never have before? What's it like to be a new midwife in a facility that has never had one? In this episode, Missi and Cara share some advice for nurses and midwives that encounter change in their w...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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43:25
Picking the Right Tool from the Toolbox: Weight Management and Obesity in Women's Health
Missi and Cara get real in this episode, with both sharing personal stories about weight loss, taking control of their health, and the medical implications of being overweight or obese. They share guidelines for the medical management of weight...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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1:00:14
Baby, baby...Are you okay?
In this episode, Missi and Cara are discussing birth injuries--what is common? what is rare? what are the risk factors? While we can't always anticipate which babies might have birth injuries, we can use good assessment skills, identify birth i...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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39:31
Training up the Next Generation: Teaching Roles for Midwives in Medical Education
In this episode, Cara and Missi talk with Dr. Christy Evers, a midwifery educator that is experienced in working with OB/GYN residents in a large community-based hospital. Christy and Missi compare and contrast the various teaching roles that t...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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53:47
More than Just the Blues: How to Identify, Evaluate, and Manage Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
**Trigger: This episode covers mental health disorders and discussion of suicide.* In this episode, Missi and Cara discuss perinatal mental health, including mood and anxiety disorders. These PMADs include OCD, posttraumatic stress disorder, an...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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41:20
No GOMERs Here: Rolling Out the Midwifery Welcome Mat for Triage
In this episode, Cara and Missi are joined by Dr. Krsyta Ramirez Henry, a Certified Nurse-Midwife that works in a recently developed OB emergency department at a high-volume community hospital. Krysta and Missi compare and contrast the various ...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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36:50
Cut it Out (but, actually, DON'T): Perineal Integrity, Obstetric Lacerations, and Episiotomy
This episode has Cara and Missi reminiscing about the old days of learning, in which episiotomies were more common...unfortunately! Thankful for changes in practice and a focus on improving patient outcomes and satisfaction, Missi and Cara disc...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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40:11
Keeping Calm in A Bind
In this episode, Missi and Cara review one of a midwife's least favorite things to encounter in labor and birth--shoulder dystocia. They will provide helpful information on assessing risk, identification, management, and liability reduction whe...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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49:36
We Belong To Each Other: Benefits and Best Practices for Group Prenatal Care
In this episode, Cara and Missi discuss the benefits of group prenatal care, as well as some history, logistics of running a program, and who may benefit the most from this type of care. They are joined by Jessica Shattuck, CNM, a group care mi...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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47:19
Pregnancy Gamechangers: Tests Every Midwife Should Know About
In this episode, Missi calls an audible and forces Cara to scramble because there are new things on the playing field! Our hosts share information about a couple of new tests available during pregnancy care to identify risk for hemolytic diseas...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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28:26
Personal Detour: Breast Cancer Screening Revisited
For this episode, Cara and Missi take a little detour into personal territory while also reviewing new breast cancer screening guidelines from the United States Preventive Services Task Force. They discuss the emotional toll of abnormal screeni...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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47:17
Added Value
In this episode, Cara and Missi discuss nutrition and vitamin supplements during pregnancy. They cover what is important in a prenatal vitamin, vitamin excess, supplements to avoid, and disciss ways to get the nutrition that pregnant people and...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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28:29
Help from Below: Phone a Friend
Cara and Missi are joined for this episode by Dr. Sam Bleull to discuss the use of forceps or vacuum when needed for operative vaginal birth. While midwives may have expanded scope to use vacuum and/or forceps, they often rely on physician coll...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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41:15
Going Viral Isn't Always a Good Thing
In this episode, Missi and Cara talk about viral illness in pregnancy and how to protect against some of the most common and most harmful respiratory infections. Influenza, COVID, and RSV are reviewed in detail (with a small shoutout to pertuss...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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39:08
AFE is not A-Okay!
For this episode, Cara and Missi are joined by Certified Nurse-Midwife Linda Johnson. Linda is an experienced clinician with over 30 years of practice--she not only shares key management decisions in the care of patients with amniotic fluid emb...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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50:06
We're Beyond Basic: Expanding Midwifery Scope
To kick off the 9th season of The EngagED Midwife, Missi and Cara describe the process that midwives can take to expand their practice beyond that of the beginning CNM/CM with core competencies for basic midwifery practice. They provide example...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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48:22
Did we ARRIVE too early?
In this episode, Cara and Missi review the implications of the 2018 ARRIVE study on patient outcomes and practice changes. They provide a midwifery-focused perspective on rapid application of research findings and how analysis of study design, ...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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40:53
What's In a Name? Cervical Cancer Screening & Management Updates
In this episode, Cara and Missi discuss recent updates to cervical cancer screening and management of results. They give a brief history of cervical cancer screening, incidence and mortality for cervical cancer in the US, and recommendations fo...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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45:08