Did you know that you could be so intimately aware of what's going on in your labor that you could be the one to reach down and catch your own baby?
I sure didn't with my first daughter, and there's absolutely no way I would have been able to take the death grip off of my husband to do any such thing.
But Emily... Emily planned and prepared for a mindful homebirth, and her goal was to catch her own baby (her first birth!). She was a founding member of Happy Homebirth Academy, and I'm so excited to say that darn it, she did it! Listen in to hear just how she achieved her goal.
Show Notes:
Emily's start to motherhood was different from the traditional route: She and her husband were called to foster-to-adopt immediately after Emily met her son at work. She knew he was hers, and she would do anything for him.
After a long and stressful road, their son finally legally became a part of the family. At this point, he was 3 years old. Emily was suddenly hit with baby fever!
Emily began looking into homebirth. She had had a traumatic time in the hospital at 19 and did not feel that it would be a healing place to have a baby.
After watching Katelyn's birth video of her second baby, Lillian, Emily decided she wanted to have the same type of empowering birth. She joined Happy Homebirth Academy and put in all of the effort required to achieve her goal.
Emily woke up at 2:30 am in active labor. She labored on her side for several hours, knowing that this was the position she was comfortable in.
Once she moved to the tub, she stayed in the same kneeling position for the remainder of her labor... except when she did her best to switch positions for just a moment. Although she decided to return back to her previous spot, this movement was enough to dislodge her baby's head (turns out she way asynclitic!) and begin the process of crowning.
Emily reached down and caught her own baby--triumphantly!
If you're interested in having a similar birthing experience, make sure you join Happy Homebirth Academy for your childbirth education program. This program is the first of its kind- geared specifically towards homebirth mothers!
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Ep 222: A Honeymoon Baby and Homebirth with Kelly Benner
Ep 221: Exploring Matrescence with Anisha Patel
Ep 220: Aimee Uses Homebirth to Reclaim Her Motherhood Journey
Ep 219: Katelyn’s Third Trimester Update
Ep 218: Surprise Pregnancy Brings Healing to Old Traumas with Amanda Lopez
Ep 217: Michelle’s Very Similar, Very Different Births!
Ep 216: Made for This Birth with Mary Haseltine
Ep 215: An Unpredictable Homebirth with Miriam Kleynerman
Ep 214: Managing Gestational Diabetes and Achieving Homebirth with Cassidy Lilly
Ep 213: First Time Peaceful Homebirth as a First Time Foster Mom with Alexis Meisenholder
Ep 212: From Mothering Struggle to Success with Blythe Hoerr
Ep 211: Becoming the Decision-Maker of Your Birth Experience with Courtney Paba
Ep 210: Opting Out of the Hospital and into Homebirth with Jamie Murphy
Ep 209: I Wanted to be the BEST Mother. Here’s How Homebirth Prep Helped!
Ep 208: ”But What If I Fail?” - 3 Ways to Overcome Your Homebirth Fears
Ep 207: From Addiction and Homelessness to Hope and Homebirth with Gabrielle Manier
Ep 206: Raising Children While Healing Your Inner Child with Greta Zukoff
Ep 205: Free Your Family From Harmful EMFs (and 2 freebirths!) With Courtney Taylor
Ep 204: Conscious Conception and Conscious Protection of Our Families
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