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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