#326 | Trisha's Three Home Births

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

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Finally, after all these years, Trisha tells the stories of her three home births. Pregnancy, birth, & midwifery are woven into her life story, from her early obsession with pregnancy to her decision to pursue a career in midwifery, allowing her to understand every aspect of birth from a physiological and intellectual perspective. Hear how she became a midwife, how she got herself into labor with her first, grueling, long birth, to her wildly different second birth, and her unintentionall...

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0:00.0	I wanted Norse birth to be on film, so I remember telling Paul, like, you really should go get the video camera because I think the baby is coming.
0:11.9	Midwife was not there yet. She was still about 30 minutes away.
0:15.4	And he left the room to go get the video camera and wake up my mom because she was just on the hole. And as they both came into the room, Paul flipped on the camera and I was receiving
0:26.5	North. So there was this period of a few minutes where I was alone in the room and I knew he was
0:32.7	coming. And I just remember thinking to myself, you're on your own.
0:44.5	I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board-certified
0:50.9	lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Podcast.
0:57.0	Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying
1:01.7	experience in today's medical culture?
1:04.0	Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth.
1:17.4	Okay. You ready to tell your birth stories?
1:19.5	I guess.
1:21.7	It's been a long time coming.
1:26.1	One extra woman tipped you over the edge by asking you to finally share these.
1:26.9	I know.
1:44.1	Okay, here we go. How did you prepare? I didn't. The only thing I did do was I did look for a few photos that I could share since this will be video. That would be kind of fun. Oh, that will be fun. So everyone can catch this episode on YouTube. I don't think we're recording. Oh, we are. We are.
1:45.1	Oh, we've already started?
1:46.4	We started.
1:47.2	I didn't tell you.
1:47.7	Nope.
1:48.5	Okay.
1:49.1	Yeah, so everyone can catch this on YouTube or Patreon either place.
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