There's four causes of postpartum hemorrhage, right?

It's tone, tissue, thrombin, or blood clotting ability, and trauma, like, lacerations.

You can bleed from that.

I was obsessed with having my babies at home, and I knew I didn't want to have them in the hospital.

And so I just decided we're going to do this, and we're going to do all the research on preventing hemorrhage. So that's what we did. And I actually was able to prevent hemorrhage. I did not hemorrhage with my third baby. And my sister, who had hemorrhaged with her first two at home as well, prevented hemorrhage six months after I had my third. She had her third, and she also

prevented hemorrhage, the same protocol that I took. And so it's, you know, we kind of have it

under our belts now like, okay, well, we're good for birthing at home. We know what we're doing now.

It only took three times. I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypniburthing 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.

All right. My name is Allie. I am a 29-year-old mama. I have three kiddos. I was a former nurse. I quit in 2021 with all the madness that was happening. It wasn't actually planned. I planned to quit way before the

madness happened. But it just so happened that I got out right in time. I was a NICU nurse and a

mother baby nurse. I didn't actually ever work labor and delivery, even though that was my dream.

I got into nursing because I loved birth and I loved babies and I wanted to be a part of it. And then I saw the way birth was handled in the hospital and decided I actually didn't want to be a barbed of this. So that kind of led to my decision to birth. All three of my kids at home. I was the black sheep. I could have

had my babies for free in the hospital and I chose to pay out of pocket to have them at home. So

definitely was an out-of-the-box thinker. Kind of started my trajectory down the rabbit hole when

I had a brother diagnosed with cancer while I was in nursing school.

And, you know, my mom really didn't want to do chemo with him.

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