Amanda‘s Cearean & HBAC Stories - Part One

In today's episode we meet Amanda, who is a mother of four and an advocate for pregnant and birthing women. Amanda wanted a natural birth with her first child, but was pressured into an unnecessary cesarean by her provider. Knowing that she didn’t want to experience that type of coercion and manipulation again, Amanda advocated for herself and switched providers multiple times leading up to her next birth, which was an HBAC. 

Join us as Amanda shares her birth stories, how she dealt with the constant negativity and harassment to have a cesarean with her first child, how the system failed her, and how she sought out to learn everything that she could about pregnancy and birth. We also discuss how deeply our past traumas can impact us, the many problems within the modern medical system and how so much of it is set up for provider convenience, and that giving birth in a hospital setting is a new trend, whereas home birth is the way that women have been giving birth to their babies for all of eternity.

Today’s episode is Part One of a two part series, so tune in next week to hear Amanda’s other two HBAC stories. If you want to get in contact with Amanda, she can be found in her group on Facebook (click here) and at www.findingamanda.com.

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