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
What Inspired this Mother to Do an Iron Man & Swim Solo Across the English Channel: Gil's birth story + OB insights, Part II
This is the second half of my rebroadcast conversation with Gill, a mother from England who experienced lots of physical challenges with her premature birth, which changed her life. The birth gave her a beloved son, but it also dramatically shifted her life: away from the job she'd had and the life she'd imagined into something entirely different and ultimately completely inspiring. Now: she's an advocate for women who encounter birth trauma and a full time source of inspiration. Today we pick up where we left off last week. Gill has finally met with a consultant who accurately diagnoses the tear she sustained in birth.
Chameleon Buddies: https://chameleonbuddies.org.uk/
Beyond Fistula: https://beyondfistula.org/