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For those of you who have been following me on my journey, I finally gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Harper, 7lbs and 10 ounces born on November 15 after she spent 40 weeks and 3 days in my belly. I was flooded with questions in my DM’s about my experience of giving birth and I wanted to sit down and answer as many questions as I could.
During this week’s Deats with Deanna, I talked about my birth story with my husband Zack! I have always been open with you guys and sharing my experience with pregnancy and giving birth is definitely something I wanted to do. I covered everything from having to schedule an induction (which does NOT make you a failure) and allowing my body to do what it needed to do, what my hospital experience was like, and why it felt nice to labor while I was sitting on the toilet.
I honestly had no idea what to expect going into labor (despite reading some things online), however, I hope you find this podcast episode as well as blog post a source of education that will help you learn more about what you might expect during pregnancy. For me my contractions happened so quickly, it felt like one second I was checking into the hospital and the next moment I was in a lot of pain (it was worth it though). Everyone’s birth story is different and at the end of the day, you are a rockstar for giving birth no matter your birth story!
In this episode, we covered:
- Leading up to the birth: dealing with a scheduled induction and trying to listen to my body
- Checking into the hospital, preparing my body for birth and taking Pitocin
- Dilation, dealing with contractions and getting an epidural: everything moves really quickly
- What labour actually feels like and getting ready for the actual birthing part
- Time to start pushing: trying to remain calm, feeling scared and baby’s heart rate dropping
- Answers to your questions in my DMs
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Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast platform to hear my Birth Story on Deats with Deanna. This episode is sponsored by Food Freedom Breakthrough, my three-month transformative online group coaching program. Enroll here.
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