I go downstairs and I'm nursing my son on the couch and all of a sudden I felt like I was

peeing myself. So I was a little alarmed. I go to the bathroom and I'm just bleeding so heavily.

I bled through my pants onto the couch and I look up in my husband and he's just like the blood drains

from his face and I'm like, we need to go to the hospital right now. And then I passed out again. And I just remember I kept like coming to and not really knowing what was going on. But I knew it was bad at one point because I could hear my mom start praying out loud. And she was saying like, please Lord, let her be okay. Let her be okay. They're like screaming at me trying to get me to keep my eyes open. My she was saying, like, please, Lord, let her be okay. Let her be okay. They're like

screaming at me, trying to get me to keep my eyes open. My mom was just like, look at your baby. Look

at your baby. You got to stay here for your baby. Sorry, this part always gets me a little bit.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist.

And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant.

And this is the down-to-birth podcast.

Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture?

Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.

My name's Chelsea Hollis. I live in Wilmington, North Carolina, with my husband and our two

little ones. I have a six-month-old girl and a two-and-a-half-year-old little boy, and my main

gig is out on the motherhood and family photographer. So I am lucky enough to get to work with

pregnant mamas and new mamas and babies all the time. And you're here to tell us your birth

story. You have your first postpartum story, right? Correct. I had my son in the peak of 2020 COVID era.

So that brought along its own challenges with it.

But his postpartum, my postpartum with him was really what shifted my entire rest of my life, honestly.

It made me want to share this story. It made me want to get my

dualist certification. It made me want to pour into mothers even more. So that's why I'm here to

really share that side of things today. So it sounds like your postpartum was not exactly

what you were anticipating. So tell us, tell us kind of what you envisioned it to be and what the

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