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What Happens when an OB hands off your birth to a Midwife? Janis's Birth Story + Midwife Insights
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
English - September 14, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 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
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Everyone faces some kind of challenge in the process of becoming a parent. Today's guest took an unanticipated tour of possible approaches to labor and delivery. Once contractions were confirmed she arrived at the hospital to find her midwife busy with another birthing mother. So in the first half of her birth she was attended to by an OB, and the second half was overseen by a midwife, with very different approaches to labor. And because she was a single parent, she braved postpartum without a partner, which turned out to be a real challenge when colic arrived.
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