On this week's listener series episode, we welcome Annie. Annie and her husband live in California at the wedding venue they own and operate. A few weeks before their due date, they experienced a wildfire that damaged a large part of their wedding venue. Annie experienced a lot of stress and started to feel the effects of it in her pregnancy. Around the same time, the nurses at their hospital went on strike which brought in travel nurses and a change of normal care to her delivery. Annie's story is a prime example that trauma can occur even when there is no physical danger to the birthing parent or the baby.

What you will hear on this episode:
- environmental stressors affecting their home and business
- nurses strike
- posterior position/sunny side up baby
- epidural turned off without being asked
- daughter born with bleeding blister and bruise from friction
- postpartum with environmental stressors still at play
- long-term impact on confidence in parenting
- hope in healing

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