#303 | Car Birth to Premature Baby with Megan @wilsonfamilyhomestead

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 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today we dive deep into an incredibly empowering and unique birth story. Megan Wilson of @wilsonfamilyhomestead shares her journey of unexpectedly giving birth to her 33-week baby in a car and the powerful decision she made to trust her instincts, rather than following the traditional hospital protocol. She purposefully broke her own water in the car to expedite the birth once they were parked in the hospital parking lot. In an inspiring twist, Megan reveals her decision to have her baby stay...

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0:00.0	As we got close to the hospital, I just got this, like, incredibly strong feeling that she needed to come out before we got there.
0:12.3	I was like, she cannot be born in the hospital.
0:15.4	She's going to get stuck in the NICU.
0:17.1	I just, like, had this overwhelming feeling like she is fine.
0:20.3	Like, she's a fighter.
0:21.5	She is not going to need any help.
0:23.2	And I have got to get her out.
0:25.1	And so I actually reached in and broke my water with my nail so that she'd be born faster.
0:31.4	So she ended up coming out the next contraction after I broke my water.
0:35.7	Her head came out.
0:36.8	And then I kind of kept pushing and her head came out, and then I kind of
0:38.5	kept pushing, and her body came out, and I picked her up, and she started crying, and right
0:43.4	at that moment, we pulled into the ER parking lot.
0:48.5	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of Hypnoborthing of Connecticut, Childbirth Advocate, and Postpartum
0:53.6	Support Specialist.
0:55.3	And I'm Trescia Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board-certified lactation consultant.
1:01.4	And this is the Down to Birth podcast.
1:06.1	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in
1:11.6	today's medical culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:22.9	I'm Megan Wilson. I'm a mom of four, and we live on a homestead in Texas, and I'm here to tell you about the birth of my fourth child, who was unexpectedly born in the car at 33 weeks and six days.
1:37.5	33 weeks and six days. So just under 34 weeks in the car, that's a very preterm baby. Yes. Yeah, it was kind of
1:48.5	scary, but yeah. The other thing I don't envision is you have a homestead. So to me, you don't have
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