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Jessica Chapnik Kahn

Jessica Chapnik Kahn

Australian poet and singer-songwriter

Jul 7, 2026

6:52
This is really fun.
6:57
The playlist is like, when's the baby coming? Anyway, I know how proud you all are of her, so thank you.
7:08
It's special that you're here.
7:12
Okay, I'm gonna start with the bio, which is always weird, but let's just do that.
7:18
For over 20 years Doula Nadine Richardson has supported tens of thousands of mothers and partners with the insights and information needed to reclaim their birth experience.
7:34
Nadine Richardson is a pioneer in childbirth education and the leading authority in birth preparation.
7:41
SheBirths is endorsed by obstetricians, midwives, and families across Australia and internationally.
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8:57
Yeah,
8:50
What was different?
8:51
Um, well, because I was lying down and I couldn't see, and I couldn't lift my head, and I couldn't move my body.
8:59
I, I only had a tiny slit of eyesight, but what became really important for me was my ears.
9:06
My ears is actually where everything happened.
9:11
Um, and since, I'm in this interesting relationship with sound, and it's funny having, you know, being a person that's been in music and, you know, sound has been a part of my life.
9:23
Um, but I'm just starting to enter this new understanding of, of sound for myself.
9:30
I mean, obviously there's lots of theory around sound and, um, but just on a personal, personal level, I just hear things differently now since that experience.

44 MINS LATER

53:19
And these women, the ones who screamed, they're screaming the truth of that moment.

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