Just to be clear, the OB told you you had a pre-cancerous lesion on your cervix and said nothing of the fact that HPV spontaneously clears up at a very high rate, especially in young women.

Was there any mention of that?

No mention of that.

And quite frankly, the conversation was like this, this canon will turn to cancer.

You know, we've been keeping an eye on it and things are going like the wrong direction.

And again, I had no knowledge of like what that would even look like.

Like how high was my risk or

anything. I just heard pre-cancer and was, of course, out of fear, just backed into this

corner of like, let's do the leap procedure. And I just went ahead with it without even knowing

other options.

I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoberthing 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. Hi, I'm Kelsey Scott.

I am a mama of a rainbow baby who is now eight months old.

I am a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and doula mentor. My dula partner is Aurora Sullivan,

and we have a business called Solshine Birth here in Southern California. So it's been a very

beautiful and unique experience to merge the two, motherhood, and being able to support mothers

over the last for me four years as a doula.

And I'm excited to be here today with both of you.

Thank you for having me as we talk about my birth story of my son Henley.

Well, terrific.

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