Month: March 2024

In today’s episode I speak with a MINDSET COACH about her experience with pregnancy and with fostering and then adopting a child. She talks about what she learned with respect to colic and tongue tie and some of the challenges she met in this process and how she, someone trained in early interventions from birth to three, ultimately had to change the way she approached parenting. What follows is the first part of our conversation. 

Trends in home and birth center births, 2004-2017
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8827343/#:~:text=(AABC%2C%202021)
Definitions of Preterm Birth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11386/
Tongue Tie
https://www.healthline.com/health/dental-and-oral-health/tongue-tie-in-adults#9

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167863/

his week I finish my conversation with Suzzie. She shares:
* how the second birth felt like a redemption of the first one
* all the things she did between the first and second births to make that outcome more likely, including:
* more birth education
* facing her fears
*managing her expectations.

 We pick up where we left off last week. Suzzie has spent hours contracting and waiting and ultimately her stalled labor leads to a C section. She’s now been left in the recovery room by herself, with little sense of where her husband and new baby are.

You can find Suzzie’s contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learn

What Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz:  https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/

This week’s episode features that story of a woman who had two nearly opposite experiences of birth.
 Like many of us, the FIRST one was ROUGH–including anything but gentle treatment at the hospital and an unpleasant C section;

The SECOND was a vast improvement, which started her on a journey to learn more about birth and to become what she needed that first time around: an excellent DOULA;

 what follows is the first part of our conversation
Molar Pregnancy

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17889-molar-pregnancy

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/molar-pregnancy/symptoms-causes/syc-20375175
Connection between Psychological State and Labor Progress
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4027004/

https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/giving-birth/labor-and-delivery/when-labor-stalls/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595201/

ACOG: infection after PROM

https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/02/approaches-to-limit-intervention-during-labor-and-birth

To find Suzzie’ s contacts:
Childbirth Class: https://shebirthsbravely.com/learn

What Does Your Birth Plan Say About Your Personality Quiz:  https://shebirthsbravely.com/quiz

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebirthsbravely/

In todays episode we hear the end of Tanya’s story.

To remind everyone, last week we left Tanya:

*She’s spent the whole pregnancy on a boat with her 4 other children & husband
*the boat is docked in Sarasota Florida for the birth
*Although it’s her 5th birth, it doesn’t go quickly
*The midwife sends her to see an acupuncturist during her stalled labor
*Tanya is terrified of needles

Listen to how this birth unfolds….

Castor oil and labor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7138266/

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/ebb-128-inducing-labor-with-castor-oil-and-dates/