Oct 9, 2026 · 1 hr · 11 segments
How do you prepare for birth and postpartum care? Do you know how to advocate for yourself in these times of motherhood? How do you reach out and create it? What support aligns you into deeper self…
Kelly MeehanHostUrsula Sabia SukinikGuest
I'm thinking here, and I'm connecting with what you're saying, and I question, you know, how, why, why do you feel...

Is the lack of, like, so... 'Cause you've seen so many different decades of, like, people changing-

Do you feel like it is... 'Cause someone once said to me, "It's not about changing the system, it's about creating a new system." Uh, versus, like, where are we bringing...

'Cause I know from my work, I'm trying to bring in more, at this point, advocacy for the individual.

But maybe you work with, like, clinicians or more, more outside and, and how do you, how do you, how do you see that? Like, how do you, how can you explain that?
So the first thing I probably should just bring forth is that I've got wind that the billing system for 2027 is changing, and what that means is historically providers, let's just call them OBGYNs, for example, the doc, would do the delivery, and the person who did the delivery got 85% of the client's total fee.
And what that created, in many cases, is providers trying to do the deliveries, because hospitals are business facilities, and you have quotas that you have to maintain.
They want to do as many births as possible because that's how they get their paycheck, right? What that sometimes could cause is a provider pushing a client-
... to have an artificially faster labor, or not be as patient, or want to meet their quotas.

I'm thinking here, and I'm connecting with what you're saying, and I question, you know, how, why, why do you feel...

Is the lack of, like, so... 'Cause you've seen so many different decades of, like, people changing-

Do you feel like it is... 'Cause someone once said to me, "It's not about changing the system, it's about creating a new system." Uh, versus, like, where are we bringing...

'Cause I know from my work, I'm trying to bring in more, at this point, advocacy for the individual.

But maybe you work with, like, clinicians or more, more outside and, and how do you, how do you, how do you see that? Like, how do you, how can you explain that?
So the first thing I probably should just bring forth is that I've got wind that the billing system for 2027 is changing, and what that means is historically providers, let's just call them OBGYNs, for example, the doc, would do the delivery, and the person who did the delivery got 85% of the client's total fee.
And what that created, in many cases, is providers trying to do the deliveries, because hospitals are business facilities, and you have quotas that you have to maintain.
They want to do as many births as possible because that's how they get their paycheck, right? What that sometimes could cause is a provider pushing a client-
... to have an artificially faster labor, or not be as patient, or want to meet their quotas.
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