This week, I’m joined by my friend Emma, who prepared for an unmedicated birth that actually didn’t come to fruition because her baby was breech. After trying everything in the Spinning Babies handbook, she decided to pivot and use the very same mental coping techniques that she had learned for her natural birth to prepare for an ultimately positive C-section birth. 

She shares beautiful memories of the love she felt the first time she saw her son, the joy of skin-to-skin, and the bonding experiences her little family shared together afterwards. Even with a spinal block headache and a painful start to breastfeeding, she was able to stay grounded in her postpartum experience by remembering that things can be difficult and sweet at the same time, but that with motherhood, it always comes out worth it in the end. 

Chapters:

00:00 - Meet Emma

07:59 - Pregnancy: Positive Pregnancy, Natural Labor Prep, & Failed ECV

20:51 - Labor: Leaking Water, Working Through Early Labor, & Peaceful C-Section

29:09 - Postpartum: Skin-to-Skin, Instant Love, & Breastfeeding Challenges

52:02 - To My Pre-Mom Self…