Lala's Story - Part 2 - Remarkable Home Birth & a Healing Cesarean

If you haven't already listened to episode 24 - part 1 of Lala's story, I suggest you do so before cracking into this one.

In part 2 of my interview with Lala, we learn about the surprising circumstances surrounding the home birth of her 4th baby, about her traumatic ectopic pregnancy loss and about her last birth experience - a healing home birth-esque cesarean with her fifth child. After two previous traumatic cesareans, Lala’s third was described by her, as being ‘home birth like’ and an important source of healing for her. Lala also talks in this episode about what she discovered about birth trauma when she sat in a sharing circle, and about her foray into becoming a home birth advocate in her current role as co-chair on the Home Birth Aotearoa Trust.

Discussed in this episode...

• Brow presentation, posterior birth, big baby
• Home birth
• Pregnancy & post-birth bleeding, & retained membranes
• Power of woman-midwife trust
• Ectopic pregnancy loss & surgery
• Contemplating abortion
• Premature rupture of membranes (33 weeks)
• Healing cesarean birth at 34 weeks
• SCBU
• Milk sharing

Here is the link to the Home Birth Aotearoa website:

https://homebirth.org.nz/

And here is the link to the Home Birth Aotearoa Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/homebirthaotearoa/

And the Home Birth Aotearoa Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/homebirthaotearoa

Here is the link to Carla's Healing Birth website:

https://www.healingbirth.co.nz/

Carla's Healing Birth Instagram page:

https://www.instagram.com/healing.birth/

Carla's Healing Birth Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/healingbirthwithcarla