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Due to the rate of unnecessary c-sections, the lack of support and limited options for VBAC moms in the hospital, more and more women are choosing to have their VBAC babies at home. This podcast was created for women to share and listen to stories of Home Birth After Cesarean. This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to replace advice from qualified medical professionals.
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Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
In today's episode we meet Dana and she shares her three birth stories. During her first pregnancy, Dana was given a membrane sweep without her consent at 41 weeks and her water broke later in the evening. After immediately going into the hospital, Dana’s labor was augmented with pitocin, she got an epidural, and when she spiked a fever the OB on call suggested a cesarean. With her next pregnancy, Dana stayed with the same OB/midwife practice and had an unmedicated labor where she fully dilated and after trying many different pushing positions for 3 hours, had another cesarean. Dana then had a miscarriage and conceived again a couple of weeks afterwards. This time, Dana sought the care of a homebirth midwife when the hospital’s policies changed and her original OB left, and she gave birth to her 10lb 8oz baby girl in the comfort of her own home.
Join us as Dana shares her birth stories, how having cesareans and the recovery associated with them has affected how she does day-to-day tasks to this day, and how the lack of support in women’s postpartum care made her want to become a doula. We also discuss how validation from others can help us cope with our own trauma and feel confident in our choices, the importance of asking for what you need postpartum and not feeling guilty about needing help, how our intuition can really tell us if something is wrong, and how important it is to try not to look back and wish things had gone differently because then we wouldn’t have the knowledge we now do and be where we currently are.
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Want to share your Home Birth After Cesarean (HBAC) story? Send us an e-mail at hbacpodcast@gmail.com to get in touch.
This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not intended to replace advice from qualified medical professionals.
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