I met Alexa when she was newly pregnant as part of a Birth Tribe consult. As we sat in that first interview she told me a traumatic story about her first sons birth. It was filled with provider bullying, lack of consent, disrespect, and the worst part was so many unanswered questions about why things happened the way that they did. Based on everything that I could piece together, Alexa had been put under general anesthesia, for a non-emergent cesarean, and neither her or her