193. Preparing for Baby #8: Pregnancy, Home Birth, Postpartum Q&A

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

As I am anticipating the birth of our eighth child any day now, I sat down to answer some of your questions about how my pregnancy has been going, my plans for birth, and how we are preparing for baby number eight!

In this episode, I’m answering:

Will we have more kids after this?
What were my previous births like?
How am I planning for this home birth?
Did we find out the gender this time?
Has this pregnancy been different from the rest?
Am I taking iron?
How do I handle afterbirth pains?
Were my girl and boy pregnancies different?
Do I nurse on demand or on a schedule?
Where will my older kids be when the baby is born?
What would I tell my first-time pregnant self?
What kinds of tests do I have while pregnant?
Do we have a list of names for this baby?
How long do I nurse my babies and how do I wean?
What do I love so much about the Bradley method?
How do I survive the first trimester with so much on my plate?
What do I do with my placenta after birth?
Do I drink raw milk while pregnant?
Have I ever been close to having a C-section?
How do I space my babies?
What do I eat when experiencing food aversions?
Do I still use cloth diapers?
Do I get stretch marks?
Why do I choose home birth over hospital birth?

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RESOURCES MENTIONED

My previous baby/pregnancy videos

Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way by Susan McCutcheon

AfterEase tincture

Baby podcast episode with Ariel Tyson

Kinderpack carrier

Childbirth without Fear by Grantly Dick-Read

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0:00.0	My name is Lisa, mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone.
0:06.1	Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch cooking and a
0:11.0	little mom and entrepreneur life along the way.
0:19.5	All right, welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast.
0:23.4	Today, I'm going to be doing a pregnancy, birth, and baby Q&A.
0:29.1	I am currently at the end of my pregnancy with baby number eight.
0:33.9	So I'm 37 weeks as I'm recording this, but I believe I'm more like 39-ish whenever this comes out.
0:41.6	And I haven't really created a whole lot of pregnancy content throughout this pregnancy.
0:46.0	Actually, I haven't created any at all.
0:47.3	I get lots of questions and I feel like I've already done it.
0:51.5	You know, in past pregnancies, I've made Q&As.
0:54.6	I've done a couple of updates or like what I'm buying for the baby minimalist,
0:58.6	baby essentials and all this stuff.
1:00.8	And I pretty much parent the exact same way that I did whenever I first came on YouTube,
1:06.1	which was when I was pregnant with my fifth.
1:08.7	So we have been through what four pregnancies together now.
1:13.0	And I just have kind of avoided the subject other than like there'll be a birth story.
1:18.5	And for every baby, I do a birth story because we have our babies at home.
1:22.4	But I thought that here on the podcast would be a good place to just answer some Q&A.
1:28.7	So I have a little list of questions that I asked over on Instagram a couple of weeks ago.
1:33.4	And I'm just going to dive into the ones that seem interesting or hopefully what you want to know.
1:39.2	And I was debating on going back in the house because I just recorded an episode with Abbey from Emma's for Mama.
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