What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
Creating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests.
Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves many women feeling like they are broken or failing when their actual experience doesn’t match their expectation.
I tripped over every step of this process: getting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth on my way to having two kids.
This podcast showcases the really, really of people’s experiences:
* what they didn’t expect when they were expecting
* what they wish they’d known.
You’ll hear shareable insights gleaned from time in the IVF gauntlet, ways to manage the flattening nausea and fatigue of pregnancy, 40 hour labors and much more including expert medical insights to remake our expectations, making them more real, more human and more useful.
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
REBROADCAST: What One Woman Did to Turn Birth Trauma into a Movement for Resilience and Awareness: Gil's Birth Story + OB insights, Part I
Today's guest overcame all the challenges that met her in birth, including a premature birth, a fourth degree tear and a misdiagnosis and a fistula and a stoma. Despite that list, this is an amazing story of resilience. Having had so many elements of her life overturned by her experience of birth, she was reborn in a way she could never have predicted.
She's challenging all the ideas that had created limits on her life and in the process, raising awareness and money for others who've experienced birth trauma and are living with a stoma.