Today’s guest Hannah wants you to know how healing, beautiful and sacred cesarean births can be. I know that many of you may also feel this way, or know this on some level. 

There is a general understanding that our cesarean birth rate in Western Australia is too high for optimal health and wellbeing, and also that women can be left traumatised afterwards, and for this reason there can be a lot of stigma and unhealed stories surrounding surgical birth. And as Hannah shares, going into her first birth, she hadn’t heard any positive cesarean experiences, perhaps reflecting a reluctance to share the positive sensitively. 

Those stories are out there, absolutely, but as first time birthers, there is a tendency to only focus on the type of birth that’s wanted, and less so, on the depths and variations and inner growth that comes from all birth experiences.

For Hannah, it was her second cesarean birth, following a VBAC attempt, that transformed and healed her first cesarean birth.