3 Unexpected C sections, 1 experience of Postpartum Depression and a Better Birth Project: Emily's Story

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Many women approach pregnancy, and especially the birth of their children, as a sacred moment, as something they’ve long contemplated before it arrives. And with these thoughts come expectations. Such was the case for my guest today. For all three of her children’s births, she’d imagined a natural birth, with both the pain and the sense of triumph that experience involves. But circumstance got in the way, once, twice, all three times.  Despite the challenges she faced, including peripartum depression, she found some significant ways to square the difference between expectation and reality, and when she couldn’t find them, she created them. Using her experience as inspiration, she co-founded the Omaha Better Birth Project, to help give women the birth experience they imagined. For more about her non profit, see: https://omahabetterbirth.org/

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