Holden's Birth Story - Home Birth to Hospital Transfer

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Mama Brown and I deep dive into the ins and outs of my birth story! We start with discussing how incredible my prenatal care was with my team of midwives and then go into detail about the natural induction protocol I started at 41w5d. While a home birth was the goal there were some hiccups along the way and I made the decision around hour 27 to transfer to the hospital Finally, after 36.5 hours of active labor, baby Holden came into this world!

P.S. I promiseee this is the last LONG podcast lolol.

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Time stamps:

(2:35) disclaimer -- this podcast is not to bash on any woman who's birth has had medical intervention. my goal was to simply avoid any unnecessary medical intervention

(4:30) frustration on insurance companies that are making money off of births

(6:45) what encouraged me to hire a midwife

(8:30) my mom explains how she was against me using a midwife instead of an OBGYN

(22:45) they're hired!!

(23:44) high blood pressure, what we did to bring it down with homeopathic remedies

(27:32) feeling the first Braxton hicks

(30:00) failed NST 40+ weeks pregnant

(33:00) 41+4 - lost part of my mucus plug

(33:25) 3cm dilated -- natural induction protocol w/ castor oil

(37:25) feeling my first real contraction

(38:22) back to back contractions -- contraction timer yelling at me to get to the hospital LOL

(40:15) "we're having a baby today!!!" - mama brown

(43:47) difficulty finding babies heart beat at home

(55:00) 9cm dilated, waters broke-- being told I needed to relax to get baby out

(59:52) regressed cervix

(1:03:00) making the decision to transfer to the hospital for an epidural to let my body rest

(1:16:42) now I need Pitocin???

(1:24:30) the room flooded with extra doctors and NICU staff

(1:27:00) it's a boy!!! mama brown gets emotional explaining how Holden looked when he came out

(1:29:00) LONGEST 5 minutes ever -- tubes down his throat with meconium in his lungs

(1:33:45) brief NICU transfer

(1:41:20) cleared before 24 hours to go home

(1:45:00) would I plan for a home birth again??? do I really want 5 more kids? what about surrogacy?