What Happens when you Let Go of the Birth Plan (& Other Expectations)? Katie's Birth Story

We all come to pregnancy and birth with ideas about what these transformative events will be like. Some ideas come from our own family experience and some from broader cultural influences. But discussions around the more challenging details of these experiences rarely get articulated, leaving a space for our own imagination to conjure pretty much whatever it wants.  And this expectation will be matched to the actual experience in real time, coloring how we step into parenthood. Like most of us, today’s guest had some surprises at birth, which were trickier to manage in part because they contradicted her closely held expectations around what birth would be...but with time and more experience, and the opportunity to have the birth she’d once dreamed about, she ultimately learned to appreciate each birth in it’s own right. 

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