Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of prenatal suicidal thoughts, birth trauma, and addiction within a family. Please take care while listening.

In this episode, I sit with Chana Leah Bleznik for a real and layered conversation about her VBAC journey and everything that surrounded it: the fear, the pressure, the unexpected turns, and the experiences that stayed with her long after birth.

We talk about her first birth and the trauma that followed, what it was like going into future pregnancies carrying that with her, and how her relationship to her body and herself shifted over time.

Chana Leah also shares about experiencing suicidal thoughts during pregnancy, growing up around addiction, and what it looked like to navigate all of that while becoming a mother.

This conversation moves through a lot. Quietly, honestly, and in her own words. 

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