Episode #009 - Gemma’s Birth Stories, A Hospital Birth + A Home-birth

The Midwife Memos with Lauretta Hamilton - Podcast

In this episode, I’m joined by Gemma — a mum of two — who shares her two birth stories: her first in an MGP program & a hospital, assisted birth during Melbourne’s 2020 lockdown, and a slower, calm, home-birth in a publicly funded home birth program with her second.

We talk about;

  • What she would go back and tell her first time birthing self

  • Dealing with a posterior labour, her experience with an epidural and staying ‘in’ labour with one

  • Dealing with Birth trauma & how it can be stored in the body

  • Navigating getting on the same page with your partner around birth choices

  • The difference between her hospital and home-birth

  • Why expectations can be the enemy

  • Gemma’s Memo moment & key takeaway for other birthing women

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Ep #006: The Memo on: Birth Plans