In this episode, we speak to our very first international guests, Úna and Andreas, who share their story of navigating their pregnancy and birth choices as expats having their first baby in Portugal. We hear about their experience of initially choosing a private obstetrician based on word of mouth, before changing care providers late in the third trimester once it became clear that there was a misalignment between their birth preferences, the evidence, and the practices of their chosen care p...
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In this episode, we speak to our very first international guests, Úna and Andreas, who share their story of navigating their pregnancy and birth choices as expats having their first baby in Portugal. We hear about their experience of initially choosing a private obstetrician based on word of mouth, before changing care providers late in the third trimester once it became clear that there was a misalignment between their birth preferences, the evidence, and the practices of their chosen care p...
04: Birth story — choosing VBAC and advocating for your preferences with postpartum doula, Jules Meyer @flo.to.grow
Birth Choices
1 hour 48 minutes
1 year ago
04: Birth story — choosing VBAC and advocating for your preferences with postpartum doula, Jules Meyer @flo.to.grow
In this episode we speak with postpartum doula, Jules Meyer of @flo.to.grow, about her experience of the “cascade of intervention” in her first birth following induction, her journey of preparing for a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC), the ongoing advocacy required through her pregnancy, and birth, and how it felt to birth her second baby vaginally, both in those minutes and hours post-birth, and now, weeks into her postpartum. She reflects beautifully on the shift from being what she tho...
Birth Choices
In this episode, we speak to our very first international guests, Úna and Andreas, who share their story of navigating their pregnancy and birth choices as expats having their first baby in Portugal. We hear about their experience of initially choosing a private obstetrician based on word of mouth, before changing care providers late in the third trimester once it became clear that there was a misalignment between their birth preferences, the evidence, and the practices of their chosen care p...
