This is a delightful birth story episode. Today Heidi joins me to share the story of her vaginal birth. In her own words “Nothing went as planned for my birth but it was still beautiful.”
Heidi endured many scares in her first trimester including an episode of heavy bleeding and alcohol exposure before she realized she was pregnant. She also discovered that she had something called a velamentous cord insertion which would go on to affect her birth. Despite the complications Heidi and her baby wound up healthy and happy.
In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:
- How difficult the first trimester was both physically and emotionally
- What a velamentous cord insertion is
- What complications the velamentous cord insertion caused during birth
- How Heidi didn’t find a doula as helpful as she thought she would
- How a vacuum assisted delivery helped her to have the vaginal birth she had hoped for
- How Heidi was able to overcome difficulties with breastfeeding
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