This is a quiet, personal conversation about being the 1% - the outcome you don’t expect, don’t plan for, and hope won’t be yours.

Shaina shares her experience moving through an unexpected C-section, a postpartum infection that became life-threatening, and a second birth where everything pointed toward one outcome… until it didn’t.

We talk about what it feels like to try so hard for a certain kind of birth, to carry the voices of what it “should” look like, and to slowly come to terms with a body and a story that unfolds differently.

There’s no fixing or reframing here, just sitting with what happened, and holding it together.

If this meets you in any way, I hope it feels like a little bit of company.

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