81: Breech Belly Birth & Embracing Your Weird

Birth Matters

Liza & Jon are surprised when they conceive much more quickly than expected. Toward the end of an uneventful, happy pregnancy, they learn their son is breech. They try almost everything to get their breech baby to flip, but baby was happy as a clam sitting on her bladder. With cesarean scheduled, Liza goes into labor spontaneously a week early and labors for a day and a half before heading to the hospital for the cesarean surgery. She shares about the beautifully respectful care they received throughout, ways that it felt like the beautiful birth it should feel like including holding hands during the surgery, playing music they wanted to hear and getting to hold their son almost immediately. Finally, Liza reflects on how grateful she is to have been able to nurse her son for a solid 2 months even though she had breast reduction surgery on one side and an implant on the other as a teen, and also describes how difficult a decision it was around 2 months to stop breastfeeding and shift to formula feeding. Liza & Jon are both quite charismatic; I think you’ll love hearing the entertaining way they share their story and encourage expectant parents to go with the flow and embrace their unique weird.
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