The Home Birth After Cesarean Podcast
Kids & Family:Parenting
In today's episode we meet Dana and she shares her three birth stories. During her first pregnancy, Dana was given a membrane sweep without her consent at 41 weeks and her water broke later in the evening. After immediately going into the hospital, Dana’s labor was augmented with pitocin, she got an epidural, and when she spiked a fever the OB on call suggested a cesarean. With her next pregnancy, Dana stayed with the same OB/midwife practice and had an unmedicated labor where she fully dilated and after trying many different pushing positions for 3 hours, had another cesarean. Dana then had a miscarriage and conceived again a couple of weeks afterwards. This time, Dana sought the care of a homebirth midwife when the hospital’s policies changed and her original OB left, and she gave birth to her 10lb 8oz baby girl in the comfort of her own home.
Join us as Dana shares her birth stories, how having cesareans and the recovery associated with them has affected how she does day-to-day tasks to this day, and how the lack of support in women’s postpartum care made her want to become a doula. We also discuss how validation from others can help us cope with our own trauma and feel confident in our choices, the importance of asking for what you need postpartum and not feeling guilty about needing help, how our intuition can really tell us if something is wrong, and how important it is to try not to look back and wish things had gone differently because then we wouldn’t have the knowledge we now do and be where we currently are.
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This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to replace advice from qualified medical professionals.
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