Lauren is a wife, mom of two, and writer living in Nashville, TN. After her first pregnancy ended in miscarriage, Lauren was determined to learn everything she could about the female body and how it creates and births babies. She has since had two healthy pregnancies and two (very different) pain medication free births where she used nitrous oxide to manage pain in different ways. Lauren hopes that by sharing her stories she can help other women feel empowered to walk into birth with every ounce of confidence in the choices they will make along the way.
Lauren and I have a great conversation about both of her unmedicated births so this episode is a little longer; I wanted to discuss both so you can see how birth can unfold differently even for the same person. She had a lot of challenges to overcome during pregnancy and birth (including a tornado!) and it’s important to see what can happen when you’re really intentional about preparing for your birth.
In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:
- How Lauren’s two births differed greatly despite both being unmedicated and both being so close in proximity
- How Lauren’s grief for her miscarriage intersected with the joy of a new pregnancy
- How she overcame myriad crises by focusing on celebrating her pregnancy
- Why even an unmedicated birth requires thorough planning
- How nitrous oxide helped Lauren in different ways during both births
- How Lauren worked with her healthcare team to be home for as much of her labor as possible
- How a tub helped her feel more comfortable during both births
- What an “asynclitic” birth is and how it may have caused prodromal labor in her second birth
- What made both births fulfilling even though they were so different
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