How a Midwife Transformed Maternal Wellness Worldwide
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What personal experiences led Corina Fitch to redefine maternal wellness?
I went through a major journey through postpartum depression and anxiety that completely changed the nature of my work. So I went from being a midwife in the traditional sense to becoming more like a midwife of transformation for mothers and really discovered firsthand through my own experience how important maternal wellness is because ultimately, if moms aren't well, Carina Fitch is a maternal wellness advocate, midwife, and the founder of Motherfly. Drawing from decades of experience supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, she empowers mothers to reclaim their identity, embrace personal growth, and thrive beyond the pressures of modern motherhood. one in five women will experience maternal mental illness that's 20 of the birthing population we need to let go of this perfect mother myth where mothers are held to this never-ending list of superhuman standards it's a patriarchal construction of motherhood i think we need to redefine motherhood on our own terms and what that looks like for me is motherfly
It spans the globe like a super high school internet. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. It's not over until I win. The Living Your Legacy podcast. For those who live to leave a legacy. That's extraordinary. The impossible. Oh, that is sensational. Welcome to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast.
For Inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining me today is another powerful woman fresh off the filming conveyor belt. Karina Fitch is joining me today. Karina, welcome to the show. Thank you. How did your session go filming? You literally just finished filming your episode. How did it go?
Yeah, it went really well despite, you know, I told you I was getting over a cold and so I was nervous about coughing. Sure, sure. It went really well.
What will we learn about you? Kind of give us a preview.
Well, you'll learn about my origins on a hippie commune in Tennessee where I was born on a bus and my experience growing up around birth and midwives and then deciding when I was 12 that I was going to be a midwife myself. And then I did become a midwife. And after I had one daughter and then another daughter, after the birth of my third daughter, I went through a major journey through postpartum depression and anxiety that completely changed the nature of my work and the direction of my work. And that was when I founded Motherfly. So I went from being a midwife in the traditional sense to To becoming more like a midwife of the spirit, a midwife of transformation for mothers and really discovered firsthand through my own experience how much mothers are struggling and how much support they need and how important maternal wellness is.
Because ultimately, if moms aren't well, nobody's well.
Yeah, yeah. Let's talk about that wellness. I myself have experienced, you know, the different stages of the experience through family and friends. So I'm always curious about the subject. Why does the system kind of just shift? There's like almost like a... a switch that flips off. And I'm only asking because I'm obviously a male that is still kind of curious about the mysteries of what happens to a woman, the vessel that is carrying the child and the transformations, not just psychologically and physically, but spiritually. What is happening? Educate me here first.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when women get pregnant, they go through massive changes. Their body literally changes form. Their hormones change. Their social role changes. Their spirituality changes. Now they're holding a new life. The brain changes. And that's something that often just gets referred to as like baby brain or mommy brain. And it gets this bad rap of just making mom spacey and forgetful. But it's actually very purposeful. The changes that happen in the brain make us more capable of reading nonverbal cues, more empathetic, more able to multitask, more tolerant of monotony, and more ambitious, which are hugely important when you're caring for a tiny human.
What do you tell someone that goes, you've lived your way a certain way.
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