Birth Story 4: Mackenzie's Birth Story: Breech, ECV, and Prenatal Transfer of Care from a Freestanding Birth Center to Hospital Birth

Join us as Mackenzie shares her birth story! Mackenzie was planning a birth at a freestanding birth center, but found out that her baby was breech! The birth center could not support a breech vaginal birth, so Mackenzie transferred care to a local hospital in hopes that an ECV would flip baby head down. And it worked! Mackenzie transferred back to her birth center, but after her water broke without labor progressing, she found herself back at the hospital to have her unmedicated vaginal birth!

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Episode 13: Breastfeeding Journeys: Exclusive Breastfeeding, Pumping, and Struggles with Nursing with Gina, Roxanne, and guests Casey and Jordan!

In this episode, we share our personal breastfeeding journeys, both the joy and struggles as we learned how to nurse our babies. All four of us exclusively breastfed for at least the first year of life (and for three of us over 2+ years), but each had our own struggles and approaches.

Gina, Roxanne, and Casey breastfeed beyond the first year, and all struggled with initial latches, clogged ducts, and even mastitis! Jordan pumped with an oversupply for the first year for each of her babies and dealt with lots of latch issues related to tongue ties. As a functional airway dentist, Jordan's breastfeeding journey and struggles sparked her passion to support other moms in their breastfeeding journey as a tongue-tie expert in our area.

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Birth Story 3: Laura's Birth Stories: Unmedicated Hospital Births with PROM and an OP Baby

Join us as Laura shares her two birth stories, that Gina luckily was able to support as a doula! Laura and Gina met through mutual friends after Laura started doing the MamasteFit Prenatal Programming. Laura hired Gina as her birth doula for both of her births, and discusses how MamasteFit has positively shaped her perinatal journey. Laura's first birth was a fast unmedicated hospital birth, and we anticipated that her second would be just as fast. But spoiler alert, it was a much different experience! Laura's water broke before labor (PROM) and her baby was OP. But once baby rotated, labor progressed very quickly!

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Episode 12: Postpartum Return to Fitness: Birth to Return to Lifting Progression

In this episode, we will be discussing how to approach your postpartum recovery from day 1 after birth to getting back to lifting weights. We share how to approach your early postpartum recovery, and how important it is to take it slow and honor the process. When we do TOO much too soon, we could prolong our healing process. We break down how to begin to return to lifting weights and progressions to consider as you return to the gym after birth.

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Birth Story 2: Jordan's Birth Story: Breech, Successful ECV, and Labored C-Section Birth

In this episode, Jordan shares her birth story of her first baby! Jordan discovered her baby was breech during the third trimester, after planning an unmedicated hospital birth. She did ALL the things, but baby did not flip headdown, so opted to try for ECV! The ECV was successful and she went into spontaneous labor! After laboring for several hours, stalling at 8cm, she decided to meet her baby with a cesarean birth. Jordan reflects on her pregnancy and birth experience with us, and we are thankful for her taking the time to share her story with you all!

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Episode 11: Casey's Birth Stories: Unplanned C-Sections and Healing After Birth. Join us as Casey Backus, one of our founding members

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Birth Story 1: Danielle's Two Birth Stories: Unmedicated Hospital Birth and Home Birth to Scheduled Cesarean with Placenta Previa

Danielle, one of the founding members of MamasteFit gym and doula client, shares her two birth stories that have inspired her to enter birth work after retiring from the US Air Force. Danielle shares how she advocated for her care and birth during her first pregnancy when she was considered a "geriatric pregnancy" and had an unmedicated hospital birth after being pressured to schedule a c-section due to her age. Danielle then shares how she had to navigate a placenta previa diagnosis after planning a home birth, and how she still had a positive experience with a scheduled c-section for her second birth.

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Episode 10: Gina’s Third Birth: Home Birth of Sophie During Hurricane Ian

Listen as Gina shares about her third birth, second home birth, during Hurricane Ian in October 2022! Gina shares about her pregnancy, and being “overdue,” finally going into labor at 41+2. Third births are commonly considered to be the “wild card” birth, where anything can happen! Gina also shares about the emotions in early postpartum, and navigating the possibility of Sophie being her final baby.

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Episode 9: Pelvic Floor Prep for Birth with Hayley Kava, Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist

In this episode, we are chatting with Hayley Kava, pelvic floor physical therapist, about how we can prepare our pelvic floor for birth! Spoiler alert, doing kegels are not included in our recommended birth preparation exercises. We can learn how to RELAX and RELEASE the pelvic floor as we prepare for birth and ensure we can open each level of our pelvis.

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Episode 8: Roxanne's Second Birth Story: The Birth of Colin in a Freestanding Birth Center. Roxanne shares her second birth story, where she gave birth in a freestanding birth center in Monterey California. Roxanne's second pregnancy started out eventful with bleeding towards the end of her first trimester, which resolved in the second trimester with no further complications! Roxanne and her family moved across the country in her third trimester, and she transferred care to a local freestanding birth center for the birth of her son!

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