A Birth Visited by Too Many Medical Interventions: Nicole's Story, Part I
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
English - November 18, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Education pregnancy birth post partum depression placenta motherhood birth stories Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Becoming a Mother Without my Mother: Melissa's story, Part II
Today's guest walked into pregnancy with an expectation that the process would be as smooth for her as it had been for her mother, as it was for the farm animals she'd been surrounded by for her whole life, as it was from 50,000 feet: civilization depends on this process and women's bodies were made for this project. Although the pregnancy part was relatively straightforward, the ways in which her first birth unfolded deviated profoundly from her expectation. In this first part of our conversation we'll hear how she processed that first experience, and how she used what she learned in this experience to alter the births that followed.
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