#164 | Kendra's Story: A Traumatic Birth Due To Hospital Policy and Poor Training

Down to Birth

Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

Pregnancy, Childbirth, Postpartum, Midwives, Alternative Health, Home Birth, Society & Culture, Newborn, Documentary, Hypnobirthing, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Breastfeeding, Pregnant, Birth, Maternity, Motherhood

4.8 • 589 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Kendra grew up around physiologic birth and was a VBAC, breech baby herself. She was planning a birth center birth when she went into labor unexpectedly at 35 weeks. Her physiologic birth plans quickly went out the window as she was continuously monitored, poorly treated, stalled around 7 cm, got an epidural and ended up with a C-section when her baby's heart rate dropped. Despite being born with excellent APGAR scores, her baby was whisked away from her and sent to the NICU for five da...

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0:00.0	So C-section went along and he was big.
0:05.7	He was seven pounds at 35 weeks.
0:08.9	They showed him to me for about two seconds and then he was gone.
0:12.4	I have never felt more helpless in my life.
0:15.8	Like I just grew that baby.
0:18.9	He was with me for nine months and then he was just good that baby. He was with me for nine months.
0:22.8	And then he was just gone.
0:27.4	Yeah, he was gone and my husband was gone. And they were just sewing me up, doing their business as usual.
0:33.3	And I was just, you know, wondering when I was going to get to see my baby and hold him.
0:40.5	Kendra, when he was born, was there any true reason that they needed to take your baby away from you other than the fact that he was 35 weeks?
0:48.7	No, there was not. He had abguards of 8 and 9.
0:52.5	He was completely fine. There was zero reason other than hospital
0:57.3	policy. I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypniburthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and
1:04.5	postpartum support specialist. And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international
1:10.6	board certified lactation consultant.
1:12.8	And this is the Down to Birth podcast.
1:17.4	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?
1:24.6	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:35.3	Music medical culture. Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. Hi, my name's Kendra Toole, and I am going to be sharing the story of my first birth with my son
1:41.2	Sawyer. So I have always loved childbirth. My mom had two homebirth. I am a V-back
1:48.7	homebirth breach baby, actually. And a few of my sisters have had home births. I was present for some of them.
1:55.8	And so I've been around it a lot and I love it. I really do. I think it's miraculous and magical.
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