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 162: Homebirth and Chiropractic Wisdom from Dr. Courtney Kahla
Ep 161: How to Process a Homebirth Cesarean and a Negligent Provider
Ep 160: Advocating for what you need when the mainstream says “NO”
Ep 159: When Your Midwife Choices are Limited
Ep 158: Farmhouse on Boone: Lisa’s Homebirth Journey
Ep 157: Communicating With Your Birth Team About Expectations and Desires
Ep 156: A ”Stale Crunchy” Homebirth
Ep 155: Healing Birth Trauma: 4 Places to Start
Ep 154: What Does Birth Feel Like?
Ep 153: How to Keep Your Birth Space Sacred
Ep 152: Tough Births Can Be Empowering, Too!
Ep 151: A Labor Nurse Has a Freebirth
Ep 150: Birth in the Church...Bathroom?!
Ep 149: Conscious Conception with Loren de la Cruz
Ep 148: Hurricanes and Homebirths: The Calm After the Storm
Ep 147: Preparing for a Positive Birth, and Big Babies Born at Home
Ep 146: The Value of Homebirth and Unexpected Hospital Costs
Ep 145: Leslie and Kevin‘s Birthing Journey
Ep 144: Birth Uprising with Dr. Sarah Leahy
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