Middee | Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum Education
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In today’s Episode our host Mon speaks with Sian Healy, mama and founder of Her Keeper about her two contrast birthing experiences of an emergency caesarean & a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC).
Sian shares with us how she went into her first pregnancy unprepared and uneducated allowing herself to be swept up in the medicalised pathway of labour & birth - resulting in an induction at 37 weeks on the dot, an epidural & emergency CS at 9cm. This left Sian confused as to why things happened the way they did and she knew she wanted her next birth to be different.
After investing in education & support from a doula Sian strived for a vaginal birth & that's exactly what she did - But with this came overcoming the challenge of believing in her body to birth naturally & overriding the suggestions placed on her from the medical maternity system.
Sian also shares with us her breastfeeding journey struggles as she had insufficient glandular tissue which prevented her from producing the amount of milk her baby required.
Please welcome the lovely Sian.
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