This podcast is a place for women to share their challenges and successes of adapting to life and sleep after a new baby. Each episode features a different mom sharing her story. The discussions cover a wide range of topics: birth experiences, physical recovery, feeding challenges, sleep training methods, mental health, infant illness, impacts on relationships, work/life balance and more.
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This podcast is a place for women to share their challenges and successes of adapting to life and sleep after a new baby. Each episode features a different mom sharing her story. The discussions cover a wide range of topics: birth experiences, physical recovery, feeding challenges, sleep training methods, mental health, infant illness, impacts on relationships, work/life balance and more.
Savannah’s Story: home water birth, retained placenta, postpartum depression, breastfeeding
The Sleep Sessions
33 minutes 43 seconds
5 years ago
Savannah’s Story: home water birth, retained placenta, postpartum depression, breastfeeding
On today’s episode, Savannah shares her moving and inspiring account of her postpartum journey. Eight weeks after her home water birth, she discovered that she had retained placenta and underwent a D&C procedure to have it removed. Prior to the surgery, she faced tremendous challenges with breastfeeding and postpartum depression. Savannah also shares about the impacts having a baby has had on the relationships in her life and how often times she feels like she is now a burden to family and friends.
The Sleep Sessions
This podcast is a place for women to share their challenges and successes of adapting to life and sleep after a new baby. Each episode features a different mom sharing her story. The discussions cover a wide range of topics: birth experiences, physical recovery, feeding challenges, sleep training methods, mental health, infant illness, impacts on relationships, work/life balance and more.